title: Lost Kidnapped Eaten Alive!: True Stories from a Curious Traveler
author:  Laurie McAndish King 
description: Part cultural tour, part prayer to the natural world ... circles the globe with lively adventures and intimate insights.<br /><b>--Publisher's Weekly</b><br /><br />An engaging ... journey that brings other cultures alive.<br /><b>--Kirkus Reviews</b><br /><br />"French Kiss" is sexy and funny--a great combination.<br /><b>--Jim Benning</b>, Co-founder and co-editor, World Hum<br /><br />King's description of eating figs in southern Italy is luscious. I included an excerpt fromher moment of 'gustatory ecstasy'in my book on writing as an example of succulence.<br /><b>--Laura Deutsch,</b> Author,<i>Writing from the Senses</i>
zlib_text: Mile High Curves
  Haunted and Bothered
  Curvy Librarians Book 3
  Anna Heskin
  
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  CONTENTS
  Prologue
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Epilogue 1
  Epilogue 2
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  PROLOGUE
  DAWN
  One week earlier
  THE AROMA OF FRIED CHICKEN SETTLED OVER THE ENTIRE FLOOR. MY MOUTH DROOLED AS THE MIX OF SPICES,
  salt, and warmth hit my nostrils. The only problem—it was in a public library, not a restaurant.
  Unfortunately for the offen