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Naples declared : a walk around the Bay
by Benjamin Taylor
A personal tour through the beauty and squalor of Naples profiles the city's natural and human-made characteristics around its bay while sharing passionate, lighthearted insights into the ancient city and its culture. By the editor of Saul Bellows: Letters.
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Frommer's 500 places to see before they disappear
by Holly Hughes
Surveys destinations around the world in danger of being permanently altered or disappearing altogether, including Mosquito Bay, the Valley of the Kings, and the oldest operating McDonald's in Downey, California
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Ice Island : Expedition to Antarctica's Largest Iceberg
by Gregory S. Stone
When the world's largest iceberg calved off Antarctica in early 2000, marine biologist Greg S. Stone and photographer Wes Skiles saw it as an invitation. Assembling a team of scientists, explorers, sailors and a helicopter pilot, they set off on the intrepid little Braveheart for the Southern Ocean to find and study this anomaly. Through amazing photographs, this book takes readers on their journey to make contact with this huge piece of ice.
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Rough Magic : Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
by Lara Prior-Palmer
Taking off on a horse into the Mongolian Steppe sounds like the bracing inverse to an overpopulated, busy urban life, but having the skills and grit to pull it off is another thing entirely. . . . Lara Prior–Palmer attempted the Mongol Derby not really knowing what she was getting into; she ended it knowing much more about herself, and a race champion besides.
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Cutting back : my apprenticeship in the gardens of Kyoto
by Leslie Buck
A garden designer and aesthetic pruner who specializes in natural design in the San Francisco Bay area presents a story of personal growth in which she recounts her apprenticeship with the most prestigious gardening firm in Kyoto, Japan, where she was taught many valuable lessons in both gardening and life.
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In the kitchen : a novel
by Monica Ali
Struggling to maintain his culinary integrity in a hotel restaurant surrounded by an unruly if talented staff of cooks, executive chef Gabriel Lightfoot finds his secret ambition to become the hotel's owner compromised by the murder of a porter, his father's cancer diagnosis, and pressure from his girlfriend and investors. By the author of Brick Lane.
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Traveling with ghosts : a memoir
by Shannon Leone Fowler
A marine biologist traces the solo journey she took through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, Israel and beyond to find peace after her fiancé's jellyfish-attack death, a journey marked by poignant echoes of their relationship and her efforts to make peace with the ocean.
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The night tiger
by Yangsze Choo
"From New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo, a novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia that pulls the reader into a world of servants and masters, age-old superstition and modern idealism, sibling rivalry and forbidden love, and a child and a youngwoman searching for their place in a society that would rather they stay invisible"
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The South
by Colm Tóibín
Katherine Proctor flees Ireland in 1950 in search of independence, but is forced to reexamine her career as a painter and her relationships with her lover and her homeland when she meets a fellow Irishman in Barcelona
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Aleph
by Paulo Coelho
A U.S. release of an internationally best-selling title by the author of The Alchemist follows Paulo's world-spanning effort to achieve spiritual renewal and human connection, a journey during which he reconnects with a woman from an earlier life while transcending time and space.
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Cutting back : my apprenticeship in the gardens of Kyoto
by Leslie Buck
A garden designer and aesthetic pruner who specializes in natural design in the San Francisco Bay area presents a story of personal growth in which she recounts her apprenticeship with the most prestigious gardening firm in Kyoto, Japan, where she was taught many valuable lessons in both gardening and life.
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Bowing to elephants : tales of a travel junkie
by Mag Dimond
In Bowing to Elephants, a woman seeking love and authenticity comes to understand herself as a citizen of the world through decades of wandering the globe. During her travels she sees herself more clearly as she gazes into the feathery eyes of a 14,000-pound African elephant and looks for answers to old questions in Vietnam and the tragically ravaged landscape of Cambodia.
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Go Your Own Way
by Ben Groundwater
Hacks, tip and tricks to travel the world solo.
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A room with a view
by E. M. Forster
The love of a young British woman named Lucy Honeychurch for a British expatriate living in Italy is condemned by her stuffy, middle-class guardians, who prefer an eligible man of their own choosing
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Memoirs of a geisha : a novel
by Arthur Golden
The "memoirs" of one of Japan's most celebrated geishas describes how, as a little girl in 1929, she is sold into slavery; her efforts to learn the arts of the geisha; the impact of World War II; and her struggle to reinvent herself to win the man she loves
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Lands of lost borders : a journey on the Silk Road
by Kate Harris
An Oxford-trained scientist and award-winning writer presents an evocative travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road and how it became synonymous with humanity's exploration of boundaries. A first book. 75,000 first printing.
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Paris for one and other stories
by Jojo Moyes
An anthology by the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Me Before You and After You includes the title story, in which a girl abandoned during a romantic mini-vacation gathers the courage to embark on an independent tour of Paris.
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