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61) The traveler
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Description
A charming fable that evokes a life lesson we would all do well to learn: living and loving are time well spent.
Once, there was a boy named Charlie. He had a pretty nice life ... but it wasn't perfect. So one day he packed up all his time-all his round, squishy years and square, mushy months, down to every itsy-bitsy second-in his suitcase and locked it up safe, said goodbye to his parents, and set off to find something better to spend his time...
64) Sea of poppies
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Indians and Westerners are thrown together on the Ibis, a former slave ship, that is crossing the Indian Ocean to join in China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars. Cooped up on the voyage, an unlikely bond forms among the crew and travelers and ultimately ties the races and generations together.
Author
Series
Sisterchicks novels volume 6
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Middle-aged divorcee Jenna has received an incredible offer. A friend who directs an international mission wants to send her to Venice for one week to cook for a mission leaders' retreat. Jenna isn't a great cook, so she brings along Sue, her culinary sister-in-law. When the two women see their lodgings--a 15th-century palazzo--and taste their first spoonful of chocolate gelato, they know that the following days will change their lives.
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Not all who wander are lost! Digital Nomads For Dummies answers all your questions about living and working away from home, short term or long term. Become a globetrotter or just trot around your home country, with the help of experienced digital nomad Kristin Wilson. Millions of people have already embraced the lifestyle, moving around as the spirit takes them, exploring new places while holding down a job and building a fantastic career. Learn the...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Born James Butler Hickok, Wild Bill Hickok made his reputation as a gunslinger extraordinaire, and his legend has titillated journalists, novelists, and historians ever since. Here is the story--crafted by a master novelist, of this complex hero, whose exploits have become part of the lore of the American frontier.
Nurtured by devout, staunchly Abolitionist parents, young Hickok quickly leaves their hardscrabble farm to homestead in Kansas. A true...
Author
Series
Sisterchicks novels volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Best friends Penny and Sharon, connected as young moms twenty years ago, take a "post-kids" trip to Findland to seek out Penny's only living relatives.
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Retired Maxie McNabb isn't sure how she'll like living on the go in her RV. But once she's on the Alaskan Highway with her mini-dachshund, Stretch, heading from her Alaska home to destinations in the Lower 48, she realizes that she loves the freedom of the road, and that she'll do just fine. Unfortunately, all is not well in her first destination, Colorado Springs. Maxie's terminally ill friend Sarah has a secret to tell her, but lapses into semi-conscious...
Publisher
Pygmalion Digital LTD
Description
A documentary that deals with the generation gap between the young Israeli travellers in India and the conformoties of society in Israel today . The film also takes a look at the new Israeli sub - culture , that has developed in India , as a result of this gap
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongo-the first documented Black woman to visit all 195 countries in the world-shares her journey around the globe with fascinating stories of adventure, culture, travel musts, and human connections"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Description
"In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Maiden Voyages explores how women's lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America. During the early twentieth century, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women, whose lives were transformed by their journeys between the Old World and the New. Some travelled for leisure, some...
78) The ravaged
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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Jack's dying mother told him, "Run and never look back." He spent his life amassing wealth, but after losing his family, he has no one to share it with. Alone with his demons and a backpack, he heads to South America, where people with nothing teach him what matters. After thrashing his dog-abusing boss, Hunter learns of his father's death in a mysterious fire. Biker buddies Nugget and Itch ride with him from North Carolina to California. Stories...
79) Ladies coupé
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Description
Meet Akhila: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider - until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car - the 'Ladies Coupe' - Akhila asks the five women the question that has been haunting her all her adult life: can a woman stay single...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
Description
"This novel is the finale of Ivan Doig's trilogy about the McCaskill family and their alluring Two Medicine country along the hem of the northern Rockies." "Jick McCaskill, the narrator of English Creek, returns as the witty and moving voice in this classic encounter with the American road and all the rewards and travails it can bring. Jick faces his family's - and his state's - legacy of loss and perseverance from the vantage point of Montana's centennial...
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