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Author
Publisher
Seven Stories
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"These letters, poetry, and journalism document young Ernesto Guevara's second Latin American journey following his graduation from medical school in 1953. Together, these writings reveal how the young Argentine is transformed into a militant revolutionary. After traveling through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Central America, Ernesto witnesses the 1954 U.S.-inspired coup in Guatemala, which has a profound effect on his political awareness. He flees...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the epic adventure tale The Emerald Mile comes the most dramatic and deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mile trek. The Grand Canyonis an American treasure, visited by more than 6 million people a year, many of whom are rendered speechless by its vast beauty, mystery, and complexity. Now, in A Walk in the Park, author Kevin Fedarko...
Author
Series
Rip through time volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since thenight both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in...
Author
Publisher
Worthy/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Angie Orth should have at least 2.5 kids by now-everyone else back home did. Despite a successful PR career in New York, Angie was failing at the role she was born to play: submissive wife and grandchild incubator. Without a photogenic family and Instagrammable spirituality, folks were starting to wonder if Jesus even liked her. With her 30th birthday looming, she was at a crossroads. Should she hightail it home to find a man like a good girl or...
Author
Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"If you've ever wanted to travel solo, founder of global women's travel community Wanderful, Beth Santos, is here to tell you that you're not alone. Travel isn't just about how many passport stamps you have-it's about your mindset. In Wander Woman, Santosbusts myths about who can travel, empowering women to uncover the confidence they need to see the world for themselves, by themselves, and giving them the lifelong tools to challenge your preconceptions,...
Author
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jooheon is back to doing what he does best--finding Relics...or stealing them! But as his collection grows, so does the list of enemies who'd spare no expense to pin down the crafty tomb raider. With entire governments and militaries out for his blood, Jooheon's team is in dire need of more fire power. The time has come to finally unleash Irene's true potential!"--
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 39
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie are whisked away to Mongolia to meet the near-extinct little horses and their caretakers, but can they help protect the last of the horses from predators?"--
Author
Series
Red's planet volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Convinced that her parents are still alive, Red and her friends embark on an out-of-this-world adventure to find them, but Red risks losing her friends along the way"--
10) CITY PALS
Author
Series
Isla of adventure volume 8
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Isla's newest adventure takes her on an airplane to the big city where she speaks to a pigeon in need of assistance.
Author
Series
Marya Khan volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Excited for spring break, third-graders Marya, Hanna, and Alexa plan their visit to Skye Adventure Park, determined to experience all the park has to offer, but when Marya becomes determined to beat Alexa on the park's obstacle course she loses sight of everything else the park has to offer.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this refreshingly honest take on navigating a new life abroad. Social media star Kacie Rose offers a funny, joyful, and searingly honest account of the highs and lows of living abroad and traveling the world.
Kacie decided to leave her life as a pro dancer in New York City and move to Italy in 2021, covering everything from travel fails and homesickness to the joy of culture shocks.
In this travel book, you will find:
-Personal...
Kacie decided to leave her life as a pro dancer in New York City and move to Italy in 2021, covering everything from travel fails and homesickness to the joy of culture shocks.
In this travel book, you will find:
-Personal...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A searing and deeply personal memoir that explores the institutions--family, society, country--that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself. Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned byher family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her search for identity as shaped by...
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