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Geneva Lake Shore Path Guides Geneva Lake Shore Path Guide - 101 Historical & Contemporary Points of Interest by Nei Turner Media Group Item #: 79450 $8.00 Details: A full-color, pocket-sized booklet with trail information, estate history, and beautiful shoreline photography on Geneva Lake's shore path. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text:

Great Books Distinctive Homes of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL by Glenn Hettinger Item #: 63778 $44.00 Details: This book celebrates a special community and the creativity of the architects and home owners who appreciate excellent design. It features sixty-six distinctive homes located throughout Ponte Verdra Beach, FL. Inside it features distinctive homes in a wide diversity of styles: Mediterranean, Shingle Style, Key West, French Country, Low Country, Plantation, Contemporary and even a distinguished Florida Cracker. Whether searching for remodeling, designing, or purchasing ideas, or to simply appreciate the beauty of fine residential photography, this book is sure to be a treasure for any connoisseur of fine home design. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text:

Lake Geneva Books & Authors A Grand Tale: The History of Grand Geneva Resort & Spa by Nei-Turner Media Group Item #: 97328 $24.00 Details: Most know Grand Geneva Resort for its world class accommodations, fabulous dining, luxurious spa, meticulously maintained golf courses, and so much more. But do you know about the resort’s interesting backstory? The recently published hardcover book chronicles the resort’s rich past with historic and new photography illustrating its humble beginnings as picturesque farmland, its years as the famed Playboy Club-Hotel, the resort’s period of decline, its eccentric recording studio days, and its transformation by the Marcus Corporation to the AAA Four Diamond Grand Geneva Resort & Spa. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: Black Point by Patti Burke Item #: 99433 $17.00 Details: Details: On a spring day in 1895, Lora Lockerby, fresh from Eugene Debs' Pullman Strike trial and troubled over her relationship with Clarence Darrow, arrives in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Thrust backward in time by a bicycle accident, present-day lawyer Jeremy Sloan lands in Lake Geneva on the same day. Jeremy must contend with being marooned in time and must find a way to rescue Lora from lake Geneva's worst boating disaster of which he has foreknowledge. All this while dealing with his own feelings of love for a woman from a hundred years in the past! Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: Distinctive Homes of Lake Geneva, WI - Revised 2nd Edition by Glenn Hettinger Item #: 62779 $54.00 Details: This book celebrates a special community and the creativity of the architects, homeowners and builders who appreciate excellent design. It features 56 distinctive homes on the shores of Geneva Lake, and is illustrated with over 700 color pictures. It is bountiful with remodeling, designing or purchasing ideas. Or, if you simply appreciate the beauty of fine residential photography, this book is sure to be a treasure for any connoisseur of fine homes. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: Geneva Lake Reflections by Nei-Turner Media Item #: 27832 $34.95 Details: "Geneva Lake Reflections: More Stories from the Shore" continues the story of life around Geneva Lake. Delve further into the grand estates and charming camps, the quaint cottages and short-lived, yet popular hotels built beside the waters. Learn how major and minor events in history impacted this area as well as its characters through an illustrated timeline, maps, brief biographies and personal anecdotes. Enjoy all this and more accompanied by remarkable imagery from private collections, as well as a wonderful array of archival and new photos. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: Mail Jumper! The Story of the First Mail Girl by Elaine Kanelos Item #: 78939 $11.99 Details: Familiar, funny, and full of heart, this personal narrative provides a one-of-a-kind glimpse into the world of the mail jumpers from the girl who did it first. It draws back the curtain on the US mail boat, Lake Geneva’s history, and life in its inner circle, as Kanelos remembers becoming the first girl to break a sixty-year tradition by jumping the US mail. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: Mailboat: The Silver Helm by Danielle Lincoln Hanna Item #: 129670 $16.95 Details: Bailey Johnson's sixteenth summer isn't going well. Three murders in one week is overkill - especially when she is the one who keeps finding the bodies. She just wants to be a normal teen with a fun summer job: mail jumping on the Lake Geneva Mailboat. But Detective Monica Steele and Officer Ryan Brandt are catching glimpses of a far bigger plot than anyone realized. A shadow is growing over the idyllic summer town, and the killings are far from over. Now Bailey stands on the verge of losing the one person she thought she could always lean on. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: Mailboat: The End of the Pier by Danielle Lincoln Hanna Item #: 103281 $16.95 Details: Bailey Johnson landed the coolest summer job ever: mail jumper on the historic Lake Geneva Mailboat. Falling into the lake is pretty much a hazard of the job. Finding a dead body underwater is pretty much not. One mistimed jump restarts a manhunt, unsolved since before she was born, and reopens old wounds that were only half healed. As if that weren’t bad enough, she’s stuck in the most epically abysmal foster home ever, since she first entered “the system” eleven years ago. Abuse at home, bullets flying in the street … and she thought prom was bad. All she wants is a family of her own. Is that so much to ask for? A forever family–provided she survives the summer. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: Man Inn Trouble by Clyde Deighton Item #: 120602 $16.00 Details: NOW AVAILABLE! 'Man Inn Trouble'... a sequel of the novel 'Murder at the French Country Inn' by author Clyde Deighton. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: Miracle Path by Carolyn Gable Item #: 29409 $18.95 Details: In 2008, Carolyn Gable, the owner of the mansion at 700 S. Lake Shore Drive, hired a muralist to paint a collection of quotations that have touched her heart and inspired her. In 2009, she added a simple podium that held a notebook and allowed visitors to the path to write anything they desired. Also added to the walkway was a brass bell with one very simple instruction - ring the bell to expect a miracle. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: Murder at the French Country Inn by Clyde Deighton Item #: 43313 $16.00 Details: "Murder at the French Country Inn" is a tale of modern crime in a town filled with echoes of the Roaring Twenties. The fictional plot that mirrors local gangster history at the Inn. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: Mystery at Black Point by Saro Trading Company Item #: 2495 $14.95 Details: It seems too good to be true when realtor John Benedict finally manages to sell the lakeside property that has been on his books for too long. Are the buyers, Cameron and Morgan Fossberg, as genuine as they appear? It isn't long before life changes for the Benedict family. Rumors of a mystery at Black Point quickly turn into a nightmare as what seem to be forces of darkness scare the Benedicts' daughter Molly, who is now working for the purchasers as a temporary cleaner and decorator. With the help of his local pastor, John Benedict comes to understand his family better, but at a price. A return of some characters from the "The Renegade's Wine" - plus some new ones - makes for a genuine mystery at Black Point. For new readers or old, this story has twists and turn to keep everyone happy." Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: STONE MANOR: Otto Young, the Younglands & Stone Manor 1844-2015 by Ed Schwinn & Jim Davis Item #: 107195 $17.99 Details: Authors Ed Schwinn and Jim Davis share the story of Otto Young and his family, who built the largest home on Geneva Lake, in "STONE MANOR, Otto Young, the Younglands & Stone Manor, 1844-2015." This title chronicles the building and history of the iconic Stone Manor. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text:

Other Great Books Distinctive Homes of Naples, FL by Glenn Hettinger Item #: 89125 $68.00 Details: This 224-page title is lavishly illustrated with over 700 full-color photographs of distinctive home exteriors and interiors. It features Fifty distinctive homes all located in Naples, FL, and celebrates a special gulf shore community and the creativity of the architects, designers, homeowners, builders and craftsmen who appreciate and pursue excellent design. The homes range from quaint to bold, cozy to grand, historic to futuristic, and urban to country. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: Joyce, Queen of the Mountain by Joyce Selander Item #: 43216 $16.95 Details: "At barely five foot five 110 pounds dripping wet, she ventured into the hand-to-hand, financial combat every day for thirteen years as the first woman to physically trade financial futures in the pits at the Chicago Board of Trade. In this memoir, she tells of standing toe-to-toe with five hundred shouting, sweating, testosterone-hyped male traders all trying to reach the top of the financial mountain. Through her work, Selander met diplomats and US presidents; dated secret service agents; and saw murder, mayhem, and a personal plot of overthrow the Taliban, and 9/11." Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: Kathi's Cookie Chronicles by Kathi Frelk Item #: 83360 $24.99 Details: The book features stories of her cookies, faith and family, including Mary Perkins Bradbury, a 70-year-old mother of 11 who was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang as a witch in Salem, MA in 1692! Kathi also shares over 40 favorite recipes and photos of her decorated cookies that are sure to inspire you. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: Make It Beautiful by Monica Pedersen Item #: 56149 $35.00 Details: Lavishly illustrated and full of practical home-entertaining know-how, this book will appeal to everyone from first-time hosts to seasoned party-throwers. Author, designer, and HGTV host Monica Pederson will inspire and teach readers how to entertain at home with her exclusive insider tips. Her book shows readers how to create beautiful, innovative parties for a range of occasions and budgets. Qty: Gift Wrap Item: Note Card Text: