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Emmy Award-winning comedian and Travel Channel host Mark DeCarlo and his wife Yeni Alvarez, the Traveling Diva, talk to celebrities, chefs, performers, and anyone who eats and travels for a living. Each week they seek out the best new trips, recipes, and characters, meeting and interviewing the most interesting and entertaining people in America. Contents:Summer Festivals: Mark and Yeni talk to Joe Mantegna, Competitive Eating Guru George Shea, "Wing King" Drew Cerza, and foodie filmmaker Mark KleebeckEurope: Mark and Yeni discuss traveling in Europe with Alain Bulow in Venice, Claudio Meli in Florence, Samantha Brown in ... her very own house, and dish about Robert DeNiro, Tommy Lee Jones, and Michelle Pfeiffer with Jimmy PalumboRoad Trip USA: Mark tries to explain to Yeni why road trips are fun with the help of Cow Chip Throwing organizer Tammy Klein, Route 66 expert Carolyn Graham, Sturgis Motorcycle Rally poobah Christina Steele, and Janelle Wood from Got-RV.comSports, Shows & Food: Yeni and Mark explain how best to visit bucket list locales at the perfect time of year, with Spring Training experts Graham Knight and Nick Gandy, Grammy-winning musician Derek Trucks, and founder of Border Grill and Food Channel host Susan FenigerAdventure Travel: Mark and Yeni get off their poolside chaises and seek the best adventure travel aroundOut of This World Travel: Yeni and Mark blast off to infinity and beyond with guests Steven Attenborough of Virgin Galactic, Dame Helen Mirren, "Mile High" Captain Dave, and NASA's planet hunter Dr. Sara SeagarJazzfest: Yeni and Mark give you everything you need to know about 'Festing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival like a pro.Comic-Con: Mark and Yeni discuss insider hacks to make your trip to San Diego's massive Comic-Con cost-effective and exciting, with guests Emmy-winning animation icon Rob Paulsen and Ms. Senior America, Carolyn Corlew

Mark DeCarlo, Yeni Álvarez (Author), Mark DeCarlo, Yeni Álvarez (Narrator)

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A Fork on the Road, Vol. 2

Mark Decarlo, Yeni Alvarez, Yeni Álvarez, Yeni álvarez (Author), Mark Decarlo, Yeni Alvarez (Narrator)

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A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America

In this passionate, playful, and indispensable guide, oyster aficionado Rowan Jacobsen takes listeners on a delectable tour of the oysters of North America. Region by region, he describes each oyster's appearance, flavor, origin, and availability, as well as explaining how oysters grow, how to shuck them without losing a finger, how to pair them with wine (not to mention beer), and why they're one of the few farmed seafoods that are good for the earth as well as good for you. Packed with fabulous recipes, plus lists of top oyster restaurants, producers, and festivals, A Geography of Oysters is the guide that oyster lovers of all kinds have been waiting for.

Rowan Jacobsen (Author), Paul Boehmer (Narrator)

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A Girls' Guide to the Islands

Suzanne Kamata lived in Japan for more than half of her life, yet she had never explored the small nearby islands of the Inland Sea. The islands are noted for displaying artwork created by prominent, and sometimes curious, international artists and sculptors: Naoshima’s wealth of museums, including one devoted to 007, Yayoi Kusama’s polka dot pumpkins, Kazuo Katase’s blue teacup, and a monster rising out of a well on the hour in Sakate, called “Anger at the Bottom of the Sea”—to name a few. Spurred by her teen-aged daughter Lilia’s interest in art and adventure, Kamata sets out to show her the islands’ treasures. Mother and daughter must confront several barriers on their adventure. Lilia is deaf and uses a wheelchair. It is not always easy to get onto — or off of — the islands, not to mention the challenges of language, culture, and a generation gap.

Suzanne Kamata (Author), Suzie Athens (Narrator)

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A Grand Tour of Italy

Joseph Luzzi (Author), Joseph Luzzi (Narrator)

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A Handful of Honey: Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and Algeria

Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and sets off along the south coast of the Mediterranean. Travelling through Morocco and Algeria she eats pigeon pie with a family of cannabis farmers, and learns about the habits of djinns; she encounters citizens whose protest against the tyrannical King Hassan takes the form of attaching colanders to their television aerials - a practice he soon outlaws - and comes across a stone-age method of making olive-oil, still going strong. She allows a ten-year-old to lead her into the fundamentalist strongholds of the suburbs of Algiers - where she makes a good friend. Plunging southwards, regardless, into the desert, she at last shares a lunch of salt-cured Saharan haggis with her old friends, in a green and pleasant palm grove perfumed by flowering henna: once, it seems, the favourite scent of the Prophet Mohammed. She discovers at journey's end that life in a date-farming oasis, haunting though its songs may be, is not so simple and uncomplicated as she has imagined. Annie Hawes has legions of fans. Her writing has the well-built flow of fiction and the self-effacing honesty of a journal.

Annie Hawes (Author), Saskia Wickham (Narrator)

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A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life

“Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer…a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived.” —Melissa Febos, The New York Times “DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it’s her lushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to read.” —The Washington Post Restless to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home. Starting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and ending on a West Texas trail in 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells stories that span the globe and half a lifetime. With intimacy and depth, over quicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up a volcano in Rwanda, spinning through the eye of a snowstorm in Bismarck, and atop a dumpster in her own backyard, this New York Times bestselling author, award-winning essayist and journalist for Vogue and Travel + Leisure immerses us in places waiting to be experienced and some that may be more than we’re up for. She encounters spies, angels, leopards, shoes, the odd rattlesnake, a random head of state, and many times over, the ghosts of her past. Each subsequent voyage leads to revelations about her search for solitude, a capacity for adventure, and always, a longing for home.

Marcia Desanctis (Author), Marcia Desanctis (Narrator)

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A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco

When Suzanna Clarke and her husband bought a dilapidated house in the Moroccan town of Fez, their friends thought they were mad. Located in a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, the house - a traditional riad - was beautiful but in desperate need of repair. Walls were in danger of collapse, the plumbing non-existent. While neither Suzanna nor her husband spoke Arabic, and had only a smattering of French, they were determined to restore the building to its original splendour, using only traditional craftsmen and handmade materials. But they soon found that trying to do business in Fez was like being transported back several centuries in time and so began the remarkable experience that veered between frustration, hilarity and moments of pure exhilaration. But restoring the riad was only part of their immersion in the rich and colourful life of this ancient city. A House in Fez is a journey into Moroccan culture, revealing its day-to-day rhythms, its customs and festivals; its history, Islam, and Sufi rituals; the lore of djinns and spirits; the vibrant life-filled market places and the irresistible Moroccan cuisine. And above all, into the lives of the people - warm, friendly, and hospitable. Beautifully descriptive and infused with an extraordinary sense of place, this is a compelling account of one couple's adventures in ancient Morocco.

Suzanna Clarke (Author), Jacqueline Tong (Narrator)

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A Journey Through the Cycling Year

Random House presents the audiobook edition of A Journey Through the Cycling Year by The Cycling Podcast, read by Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe, plus contributions from special guests. Embark on a journey through the cycling year with The Cycling Podcast, which has been entertaining and informing fans since 2013. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe share their diaries from three incident-filled Grand Tours, the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España. These take listeners behind the scenes and explore the culture and landscape as well as the racing, while the 'Lionel of Flanders', complete with beer recommendations, does the same for the Classics in Belgium. There are appearances, too, by leading journalists and podcast favourites François Thomazeau, who takes responsiblity for the French Tour de France jinx, Ciro Scognamiglio, with a heartfelt love letter to cult favourite Filippo Pozzato, Fran Reyes, who pens a farewell to El Pistolero, Alberto Contador, and Orla Chennaoui, who hits the road to cover La Course in a one-woman karaoke-booth-on-wheels. Further contributions from professional riders Ashleigh Moolman Pasio and Joe Dombrowski and the voice of the Tour de France, Sebastien Piquet, make this the perfect celebration of a year in cycling.

The Cycling Podcast (Author), Alexander Capon, Ciro Scognamiglio, Daniel Friebe, Fracnois Thomazeau, Lionel Birnie, Michelene Heine, Orla Chennaoui, Richard Moore, Sebastien Piquet, Vidal Sancho (Narrator)

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A Journey to Consciousness

Hitchhiking from London to the extreme desert of Southern India, Alan Lithman followed his calling, merging his 1960s activism with his spiritual hunger, to join the international community of Auroville. Letting his old spiritual beliefs of 'transcendence' go, Lithman embraced 'transformation', which is described by Sri Aurobindo as an evolution of consciousness that continually reveals itself in matter and the body.

Alan Lithman (Author), Michael Toms (Narrator)

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A Kilo of String

“Fabulously funny - a real must for lovers of all things Greek.” After living in Greece for thirteen years, writer and reluctant olive farmer Rob Johnson has got used to most of the things that he and his wife Penny found so bizarre at the beginning. Most, but not all. A Kilo of String is the story-so-far of this not-particularly-plucky couple’s often bewildering experiences among the descendants of Sophocles, Plato and Nana Mouskouri with occasional digressions into total irrelevances. This is a book which is almost guaranteed not to change your life, but what it will do is answer many of the fundamental questions about life in Greece, such as: How do you avoid ordering a double tomato for your pine marten when booking a hotel room? Should olive harvesting be registered with the Dangerous Sports Association? Why are chicken livers useful (other than to the chickens themselves)? “A brilliant book, very funny and a great insight into Greece and its people.” “Left me laughing so hard I would have spat out my dentures, if I wore them.” A Kilo of String is loosely based on Rob Johnson’s podcast series of the same name, which is free to listen to and download at https://rob-johnson.org.uk/podcasts/a-kilo-of-string/.

Rob Johnson (Author), Rob Johnson (Narrator)

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A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains

From sickly child to pioneering Victorian explorer, Isabella Bird defied convention. After back surgery in 1850 and the recommendation of life in the open air, she finally looked her malaise and her pain in the eye and set off across the world completely alone. In Colorado she covered 800 miles on horseback, climbing mountains, wrangling cattle, sleeping in snow and finding herself drawn to a violent, one-eyed outlaw with a soft spot for poetry, known as ‘Mountain Jim’. With the writing skills to match her spirit of adventure, she documented her journey in these letters to her sister, which were published as a collection in 1879. She was a true trailblazer – a Victorian woman of 4’11” with debilitating pain who chose to blow open life’s limits.

Isabella Bird (Author), Clare Wille (Narrator)

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