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• Census

  Ball, Jesse, 1978-

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  A widower with only a short time to live worries about the son he loves deeply, who has Down syndrome, and hopes he can give them more time together by signing up as a census taker for a mysterious governmental bureau. The road trip that results…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Walk in the Woods

  Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

  Bryson, Bill

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  The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you'll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wangs Vs. the World

  Chang, Jade, 1975-

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  A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent--and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together.

• The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

  Jaswal, Balli Kaur

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  A story about three Punjabi sisters embarking on a pilgrimage to their homeland to lay their mother to rest. Arriving in India, these sisters will make unexpected discoveries about themselves, their mother, and their lives—and learn the real story…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• From Scratch

  a Memoir of Love, Loss and Finding Home in the Sicilian Countryside

  Locke, Tembi, 1970-

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  Actress and TEDx speaker Locke movingly describes the process of grieving and finding solace during three summers in Italy after the death of her husband.

• Lost Children Archive

  a Novel

  Luiselli, Valeria, 1983-

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  Literary star Luiselli does a road trip novel, sending a family from New York to Arizona in a used Volvo. The father wants to gather an "inventory of echoes" in the legendary land of the Apaches, the mother attends obsessively to radio reports about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Year in Provence

  Mayle, Peter

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  In this witty account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. A Year in Provence transports us…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Price of Salt

  Morgan, Claire, 1921-1995,

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  The story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Arid, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce. They fall in love and set out across the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Way to the Tigers

  a Memoir

  Morris, Mary, 1947-

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  Mary Morris, author of the solo travel memoir Nothing to Declare, documents her trek to India to get up-close-and-personal with striped felines.

• The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

  Patrick, Phaedra

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  69-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. On the one-year anniversary of his wife's death, something changes. Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before and embarks on an unforgettable odyssey that takes him from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Year of Living Danishly

  Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

  Russell, Helen,

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  When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark. What is the secret to their success? Are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for Transwonderland

  Travels in Nigeria

  Saro-Wiwa, Noo

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  Noo Saro-Wiwa has a complicated relationship with Nigeria, her birth country where her father was executed by the police. Growing up in Britain, she dreaded returning and readjusting to the country's quirks. Looking for Transwonderland is the story…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lake Success

  a Novel

  Shteyngart, Gary, 1972-

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  When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth.

• Wild

  From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

  Strayed, Cheryl, 1968-

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  A powerful, honest memoir: the story of an 1,100-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.

• Beautiful Ruins

  Walter, Jess, 1965-

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  The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman approaching him on a boat. She is an actress,…Read moreRead more of this annotation