http://www.bibliotravel.com The newest books at BiblioTravel.com - where you can find books based on where the story takes place en http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3701 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3701Subtitled An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, this book mainly takes place in New York City, with a great deal of background information about China. The title refers to a criminal mastermind named Sister Ping who ran a large portion of the Chinese underworld in NYC, and made a lot of money on the business of smuggling people into the US. Lots of detail about the Chinatown in the Big Apple - there's even a map at the front of the book of the handful of relevant stree Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3700 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3700This is an entertaining novel for young adults about a world where unicorns are deadly killers and only a certain group of young women can see or kill them. Shades of Buffy, with a whole virginity theme, typical of unicorn mythology. The main character is a girl named Astrid who grows up in Seattle, but goes to Rome once she gets caught up in the whole unicorn-hunter thing. Rome is the place where the unicorn hunters used to train, before unicorns apparently died out. There's a whole complicated Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3699 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3699This book is subtitled The Story of a Master Counterfeiter, and it's about a man named Art Williams who grew up poor in Chicago and discovered that he had a knack for counterfeiting money. That was both his ticket out of a life of grinding poverty and his destruction - the recurring theme in the book is that counterfeit money basically corrupts everyone around you. That's friends, family, yourself, anybody and everybody. At the time of writing, Williams was serving a short sentence in jail for h Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3698 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3698Quentin Clark, a young lawyer, investigates Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious and untimely death. Based on the actual facts of Poe's death in Baltimore. Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3697 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3697Epic tale of one family's live through the trauma 20th century in northeast China, from the Boxer uprising to the new capitalist era. Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3695 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3695This wonderful debut novel by Kathryn Stockett takes place in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s during the civil rights movement. It is the story of three women, two black maids and one white woman. Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3694 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3694Summary from the back cover: "Journey to dazzling seventeenth-century Hindustan, where the reigning emperor, consumed with grief over the tragic death of his beloved wife, commissioned the building of a grand mausoleum as a testament to the marvel of their love. This monument would soon become known as the Taj Mahal - a sight famous around the world for its beauty and the emotions it symbolizes. Princess Jahanara, the courageous daughter of the emperor and his wife, tells their mesmerizing t Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3693 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3693Through photographs and detailed case histories, Unni Wikan explores the strict segregation of women, the wearing of the burqa mask, the elaborate nuptial rituals, and the graceful quality of Oman's social relations. "Wikan does provide insights into the real position of these secluded and segregated women. . . . All this is interesting and valuable."—Ahdaf Soueif, Times Literary Supplement "The book is detailed, insightful, and . . . engrossing. Anyone interested in the day-to-day trium Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3692 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3692In this book----the result of years of researching the Harasiis, a tribe living in the Sultanate of Oman----Chatty examines how development efforts affected tribe members on a personal level, from pastoralism to full-time employment, formal education, and the changing role of women in this new environment. Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3691 http://www.bibliotravel.com/books.php?book=3691No one thought that Ubar, the most fabled city of ancient Arabia, would ever be found-if it even existed. Buried in the desert without a trace, it had become known as "the Altantis of the Sands." Many had searched for Ubar, including Lawrence of Arabia. Then in the 1980s, Nicholas Clapp, a documentary filmmaker and amateur archaeologist, stumbled on the legend of the lost city while poring over historical manuscripts. Filled with overwhelming curiosity, he led two expeditions to Arabia with a te Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500