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It's beach-read season! While you might prefer to read *on* a beach, the next best thing is reading *about* a beach. Pick one of these up to explore the shores. This is an all-ages list of books.

Forever too far : a Rosemary Beach novel

Scooby-Doo!. Blowout beach bash : original story

Ten years a nomad : a traveler's journey home

Joy hunter : messy faceplants, radical love, and the journey that changed everything

Adriatic : a concert of civilizations at the end of the modern age

Leave only footprints : my Acadia-to-Zion journey through every national park

South to America : a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation

Water, wood, and wild things : learning craft and cultivation in a Japanese mountain town

Pirate enlightenment, or the real Libertalia

Lands of lost borders : a journey on the Silk Road

Hell's traces : one murder, two families, thirty-three Holocaust memorials

In the kingdom of ice : the grand and terrible polar voyage of the U.S.S. Jeannette

The traveling feast : on the road and at the table with my heroes

Old world Italian : recipes & secrets from our travels in Italy

Imagine a city : a pilot's journey across the urban world

Super sushi ramen express : one family's journey through the belly of Japan

The long way home : detours and discoveries

Hausfrau Honeymoon : Love, Language, and Other Misadventures in Germany

River of the gods : genius, courage, and betrayal in the search for the source of the Nile

Sun after dark : flights into the foreign

Pirates of Barbary : corsairs, conquests, and captivity in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean

South toward home : adventures and misadventures in my native land

Outlaws of the Atlantic : sailors, pirates, and motley crews in the Age of Sail

Nein, nein, nein! : one man's tale of depression, psychic torment, and a bus tour of the holocaust

Becoming Forrest : one man's epic run across America

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Visit the catalog record for The stardust grail

Visit the catalog record for Look away : a true story of murders, bombings, and a far-right campaign to rid Germany of immigrants

Visit the catalog record for Kissing girls on Shabbat : a memoir

Visit the catalog record for Don't let the devil ride : a novel

Visit the catalog record for Water on fire : a memoir of war

Visit the catalog record for The ritual effect : from habit to ritual, harness the surprising power of everyday actions

Visit the catalog record for The seminarian

Visit the catalog record for The summer escape : a novel

Visit the catalog record for On gaslighting

Visit the catalog record for The animal mind : profiles of intelligence and emotion

Visit the catalog record for The Klansman's son : my journey from white nationalism to antiracism : a memoir

Visit the catalog record for Shadow men : the tangled story of murder, media, and privilege that scandalized jazz age America

Visit the catalog record for Cursed crochet : create unhinged versions of your favorite cartoons, characters, and animals with amigurumi patterns crafted by chatgpt.

Visit the catalog record for All you need is rhythm & grit : how to run now -- for health, joy, and a body that loves you back

Visit the catalog record for The art of dying : writings, 2019-2022

Visit the catalog record for Renewable and alternative energy

Visit the catalog record for Dog day afternoon

Visit the catalog record for Feeding toddlers : the complete guide to maintaining nutrition and variety with easy family meals

Visit the catalog record for Dog smart : life-changing lessons in canine intelligence

Visit the catalog record for The duke has done it again

Visit the catalog record for The god of the woods

Visit the catalog record for Treasures in the dark : 90 reflections on finding bright hope hidden in the hurting

Visit the catalog record for Some murders in Berlin

Visit the catalog record for "Are you calling me a racist?" : why we need to stop talking about race and start making real antiracist change

Visit the catalog record for Storm child

Visit the catalog record for Cultural appropriation

Visit the catalog record for Motorhome prophecies : a journey of healing and forgiveness

Visit the catalog record for Churchill's D-Day : the British bulldog's fateful hours during the Normandy invasion

Visit the catalog record for Winter lost

Visit the catalog record for The super bloom handbook

Visit the catalog record for T-shirt swim club : stories from being fat in a world of thin people

Visit the catalog record for The universe explained with a cookie : what baking cookies can teach us about quantum mechanics, cosmology, evolution, chaos, complexity, and more

Visit the catalog record for Playing from the rough : a personal journey through America's 100 greatest golf courses

Visit the catalog record for Patton's prayer : a true story of courage, faith, and victory in World War II

Visit the catalog record for Spider-Man. Reign

Visit the catalog record for American Academy of Pediatrics new mother's guide to breastfeeding

Visit the catalog record for One last summer

Visit the catalog record for The death of truth : how social media and the internet gave snake oil salesmen and demagogues the weapons to destroy trust and polarize the world--and what we can do about it

Visit the catalog record for King on screen

Visit the catalog record for In the land of saints and sinners

Visit the catalog record for The chosen. Season four

Visit the catalog record for Destroy all neighbors

Visit the catalog record for The boy and the heron

Visit the catalog record for True detective. Night country. [Season 4]

Visit the catalog record for Human desire

Visit the catalog record for Io capitano

Visit the catalog record for Sleeping dogs

Visit the catalog record for The man with the golden gun

Visit the catalog record for Found heaven

Visit the catalog record for Eternal sunshine

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