A reluctant mother to four young geese, grumpy Bruce the bear loses his temper when he migrates home in the spring only to discover that mice have converted his den into a hotel.

The crumbling country pile of Button House is home to numerous restless spirits who have died there over the centuries, each ghost very much a product of their time, resigned to squabbling with each other for eternity over the most inane of daily gripes. But their lives, or, rather, afterlives, are thrown into turmoil when a young couple, Alison and Mike, surprisingly inherit the peaceful derelict house and make plans to turn it into a bustling family...

Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard. After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano. The Bird Hotel tells the story of this young American who, after suffering tragedy, restores and runs La Llorona. Along the...

One favor deserves another, or does it? Against their better judgment, Ann and Rhonda agree to help a young girl in distress at the request of the vice-president of the United States, Amelia Swanson. After almost losing their lives because of an earlier request of hers, they plan on being more careful. Amanda Rogers was an intern for Senator Worthington's office when she was drugged at a staff party and got pregnant. Now, alone without parental support,...

Los hoteles son lugares de paso, muchos de los cuales permanecen en nuestra memoria porque evocan momentos especiales vividos en su interior. Igualmente en el imaginario novelesco están presentes los hoteles, lujosos o miserables, donde han trabajado grandes escritores y donde se han redactado páginas memorables. La propia biografía de muchos hoteles, sobre todo en Europa, está llena de avatares que son parte viva de nuestra historia colectiva. Es...

En turismo y hotelería, el producto es la experiencia. La satisfacción de las expectativas y necesidades reales del pasajero es clave para el éxito del negocio. La postura paxcentrista en negocios turísticos y hoteleros logrará más clientes más felices y, consecuentemente, equipos de trabajo más grandes y también más felices. En este libro se abordará como tema principal la satisfacción del pasajero y cómo convertirla en un beneficio...

When her gram passes away, Melanie Simpson feels utterly lost. But her grandmother's will gives her a purpose: an inheritance to buy a crumbling house in Rosemary Bay. They used to visit the village every summer, sit by the sparkling water on a beach the color of pearl, and daydream about turning the place on the corner into a bed and breakfast. On her first night in her new hometown, Melanie meets local contractor and landowner Josh Claiborne,...

Stranded at the Wildwood Motel while on their spring break road trip, Mira and Layla discover eight people died in their room and set out to find the connection between the deaths and the unexplainable things that keep happening inside Room 9.

When Amy Price took a temporary design job at an art deco hotel in Los Angeles to help a friend, she had no idea the path it would lead her down. Before long, she would become manager of the Cecil Hotel, seeking to make it more welcoming and correct its notoriety, not helped by sitting at the foot of Skid Row, or the fact that since its opening in 1927, there had been any number of deaths by suicide, and residents such as serial killers Richard Ramirez...

Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with “Day Trips from Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff”. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive of these popular Arizona cities. With full trip-planning information, “Day Trips from Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff”. helps makes the most of a brief getaway.