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22) Footsteps: from Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, literary pilgrimages around the world
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A curated collection of the New York Times' travel column, "Footsteps," exploring classic authors' relationships to landmarks and cities around the world Before The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway roamed the streets of Madrid, eager for the heady scent of blood emanating from the nearby bullrings. Before spunky, red-headed Anne Shirley stole readers' hearts in Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery was captivated by the sunset sky of Prince Edward...
23) The wayward bus
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The ambitions, dreams, failings, and innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the backroads of California.
24) Solo
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Evie Silverman is a semi-celebrity in the British tabloids, known as much for her fabulous sense of style as for her rising reputation as a "pop" classical musician. But Evie is getting restless, growing dissatisfied with both her stale marriage and her shallow career. An extended trip to New York seems to be just what she needs, but Evie's problems follow her: the demands of the media on an emerging pop starlet, the threats of a determined stalker,...
25) Space Mountain
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A family and some friends take a flight through space--via Space Mountain.
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Journey back in time with this collection of classic travel writing from great authors and adventurers. These extraordinary odysseys over land and sea captivated audiences and gave them a glimpse into countries, cities and cultures like never before. Tales include Robert Byron's ten-month journey through Persia to Afghanistan in the early 30s; Jack London's 1907 sailing adventure across the south Pacific; and Teddy Roosevelt's scientific exploration...
Author
Publisher
Tra Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sweet People Are Everywhere, an illustrated picture book featuring a poem by internationally renowned writer and activist Alice Walker, is a powerful celebration of humanity. The poem addresses a young boy getting his first passport, taking the boy--and the reader--on a journey through a series of countries around the globe where 'sweet people' can be found"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Flighty but good-hearted Victoria Jones craves love, intrigue, and adventure. She strikes gold in Edward, a handsome and mysterious traveler whom she's vowed to follow to the ends of the earth. Yet no whirlwind affair can prepare Victoria for what unfolds once she lands in Baghdad. Not a day in Edward's shadow, and she hears whispered warnings of danger and witnesses the murder of a secret agent in her hotel room. And when she discovers that a romantic...
31) Apes and Angels
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth's vicinity at the speed of light. Every world it touched was...
Author
Series
Sisterchicks novels volume 6
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
35) Bowl of heaven
Author
Series
Bowl of heaven volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by the discovery of an immense bowl-shaped structure in space that leads to hostile alien encounters and profound revelations about humanity's place in the universe.
Author
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When his great uncle dies, the young, rather arrogant, Jason must repeatedly return to the attorney's office for a series of videotaped life lessons in order to earn his million dollar inheritance.
38) Los errantes
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Al principio de Los errantes, la narradora esboza un autorretrato que es también una poética: A todas luces yo carecía de ese gen que hace que en cuanto se detiene uno en un lugar por un tiempo más o menos largo, enseguida eche raíces. (...) Mi energía es generada por el movimiento: el vaivén de los autobuses, el traqueteo de los trenes, el rugido de los motores de avión, el balanceo de los ferrys. Inquieta como ella, esta novela no se detiene...
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