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pen4hire on December 4th, 2009

Destination: Normandy, France
Books: A Journey into Flaubert’s Normandy by Susannah Patton and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
A GUEST POST BY Dr. Jessie Voigts

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pen4hire on November 23rd, 2009

Destination: The World

Books:

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

A GUEST POST by Shannon McKenna Schmidt, co-author of Novel Destinations.

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pen4hire on November 20th, 2009

France on Friday
Destination: Boston
Book: Walking Boston by Robert Todd Felton
A GUEST POST BY Robert Todd Felton
Bivalve Molluscs, French Royalty, and the Streets of Boston

One of the best parts of walking around Boston is that you are always bumping up against some surprising scrap of American history.  Around one corner is the house [...]

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pen4hire on November 18th, 2009

Cape Cod B & B owner, Alexandra Grabbe introduces us to a literary novel set in her home town of Wellfleet.

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pen4hire on October 28th, 2009

From Bert’s Skyline Photos

Destination: Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, USA
Book: Wish You Well by David Baldacci
A GUEST POST BY BERT LATAMORE

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pen4hire on October 27th, 2009

Destination: Barbados

Book: The Diplomatic Dog of Barbados by Winfred Peppinck
A MONTHLY GUEST POST
by JESSIE VOIGTS of  WANDERING EDUCATORS

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pen4hire on October 12th, 2009

The novel Heart of Darkness inspired Coppela to create the movie Apocalypse Now, and inspired Craig Martin to be more sensitive in his travels.

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pen4hire on October 6th, 2009

Destination: Belize
Book: The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman
UPDATE: LIBRARY THING INTERVIEW WITH HOPE EDELMAN

A Guest Blog by Julia Drake

“The Possibility of Everything — Search for a truer self”
In her recent memoir, The Possibility of Everything, acclaimed author Hope Edelman writes, “A person in the act of traveling from one place to another [...]

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pen4hire on October 5th, 2009

Travel writer review’s The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner. Which country is the happiest? And other assorted trivia.

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