Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 – Enchanted Tea Party (2005)

In a beautiful palace garden, under a shining sapphire sky, the most delightful celebration in all the land is about to begin. It’s an enchanted royal tea party, and your little princess is the guest of honor! On the wings of music and magic, your child will discover a lovely kingdom of happiness, harmony, and dreams come true. There, she can sing along with all her favorite Disney Princesses as they perform their best-loved songs from Disney’s award-winning classics. Plus, she’ll be the belle of the ball as she learns wonderful dance moves and sings karaoke-style too! So give your little girl the crown jewels of Disney’s musical library, and let the enchantment reign forever and a day.

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The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (The Best American Series) (Paperback)

From Booklist
Great travel writing feeds our hunger for armchair journeys while somehow making the armchair less comfortable. Series editor Wilson searched for the rare pieces that weren’t “aggressively positive”; Kincaid chose finalists that she says “underline my sense of my displacement.” True enough, whether discussing suburban Florida or the bullet-riddled border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, these essays and articles show us the overlooked and never-seen with curiosity, insight, engagement, and humility; none of these writers brags about being at home in the world. Standouts are many: in “Into the Land of bin Laden,” Robert Young Pelton finds a soldier who says, “I have no idea who we are fighting”; in “Tight-Assed River,” John McPhee sails with the men who pilot aircraft carrier-length barges down Illinois’ narrow waterways; and in “Trying Really Hard to Like India,” Seth Stevenson serves a stern rebuke to travelers who return with praise for a country simply be (more…)

Mobil Travel Guide Florida, 2005 (Mobil Travel Guides (Includes All 16 Regional Guides)) (Paperback)

Review”Food & Wine magazine has given Mobil Travel Guide’s Regional Planners an A+ for Usefulness, making the top grade over both Fodor’s and Frommers versions.”– Food & Wine “Overall, these guides are the winners in this group, combining attractive maps and graphics, comprehensive listings and a few suggestions for itineraries.” — Joseph Siano, New York Times “Mobil, the guidebook publisher oversees what many consider the Oscars of the travel industry.”– Gene Sloan, USA Today

The Mobil Travel Guide star ratings are a 45-year-old consumer advocacy concept originally developed following the introduction of the interstate highway system. The goal of the Guide is not to identify and rate every property in the country, but to recommend only the best in each category, ones that we would send our customers to. We look at the stars from a consumer’s point of view, rating lodgings and restaurants across North America from the perspective of the “average traveler.”The Gui (more…)

Mobil Travel Guide New York, 2005 (Mobil Travel Guides (Includes All 16 Regional Guides)) (Paperback)

Review”Food & Wine magazine has given Mobil Travel Guide’s Regional Planners an A+ for Usefulness, making the top grade over both Fodor’s and Frommers versions.”– Food & Wine “Overall, these guides are the winners in this group, combining attractive maps and graphics, comprehensive listings and a few suggestions for itineraries.” — Joseph Siano, New York Times “Mobil, the guidebook publisher oversees what many consider the Oscars of the travel industry.”– Gene Sloan, USA Today

The Mobil Travel Guide star ratings are a 45-year-old consumer advocacy concept originally developed following the introduction of the interstate highway system. The goal of the Guide is not to identify and rate every property in the country, but to recommend only the best in each category, ones that we would send our customers to. We look at the stars from a consumer’s point of view, rating lodgings and restaurants across North America from the perspective of the “average traveler.”The Gui (more…)

Mobil Travel Guide Mid Atlantic, 2005: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington DC, and West Virginia (Mobil Travel Guides (Includes All 16 Regional Guides)) (Paperback)

Review”Food & Wine magazine has given Mobil Travel Guide’s Regional Planners an A+ for Usefulness, making the top grade over both Fodor’s and Frommers versions.”– Food & Wine “Overall, these guides are the winners in this group, combining attractive maps and graphics, comprehensive listings and a few suggestions for itineraries.” — Joseph Siano, New York Times “Mobil, the guidebook publisher oversees what many consider the Oscars of the travel industry.”– Gene Sloan, USA Today

The Mobil Travel Guide star ratings are a 45-year-old consumer advocacy concept originally developed following the introduction of the interstate highway system. The goal of the Guide is not to identify and rate every property in the country, but to recommend only the best in each category, ones that we would send our customers to. We look at the stars from a consumer’s point of view, rating lodgings and restaurants across North America from the perspective of the “average traveler.”The Gui (more…)