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We often use rental cars as a tool. Transportation on a vacation, a short-term vehicle while getting your car repaired, or saving wear and tear on a personal vehicle. Most are dismissed and never remembered as soon as they are dropped off. No second thoughts given about them.
Rental cars are exposed to so many things in the short lifespan before being retired and sold. Often overlooked and easily forgotten, what if rental cars had a voice? What...
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259 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the most outrageous, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts) into bizarre situations around the globe ...Halliday offers bemused, self-deprecating narration of events from guerilla theater in Romania to drug-induced Apocalypse Now reenactments in Vietnam to a perhaps even more surreal collagen-implant demonstration at a Paris fashion...
10) Holidays in heck
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xvii, 265 pages ; 24 cm
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A follow-up to "Holidays in hell" collects classic travel pieces written throughout the author's post-retirement years, a period marked by his haphazard journeys with and without family to such regions as China, Kyrgyzstan, and America.
11) An idiot abroad
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2 videodiscs (347 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
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In this hilarious series, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, co-creators of The Office and Extras, send their friend Karl Pilkington around the world. Karl thinks he's visiting the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World but along the way the 'Little Englander' must endure camel rides, jungle treks, tribal customs, and local oddballs while dining on toads and testicles, and searching for a clean bathroom.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 345 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, co-creators of The Office and Extras help their friend, Karl Pilkington complete tasks from his bucket list, except the experience is never as easy or as fun as it seems. Gervais and Merchant find ways to arrange a few surprises along the way to keep things interesting. In the end, Pilkington ends up visiting more places and suffering more detours than he did in the first season. Find out what happens when an idiot...
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"Jim Gaffigan meets Cheryl Strayed in this blisteringly funny memoir about the call of the wild, from one of Scandinavia's biggest comedians. Sometime around his forties, Are Kalvø starts losing his friends ... to the mountains. Friends who used to meet him at the pub are now hiking and skiing every weekend, and when they do show up, all they talk about is feeling at one with nature (without a hint of irony). When Are realizes he's the only person...
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