Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author and her strong-willed mother embark on a month-long road trip. "As the two zip along the winding Amalfi Coast, traverse St. Peter's Square in Rome, bounce over the wavves to Sicily, and pad around a rented trullo in Alberobello --walker, biscuits, shawls, and medications in tow -- the bickering and bitterness of years past bubble to the surface."-- Cover, p.4.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her mother's death, Cheryl Strayed's family scattered and her marriage was destroyed. Four years later, twenty-six years old with nothing to lose, Cheryl made the decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert to Washington State - alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker and the trail was little more than an idea. But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.
Author
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Sydney has the perfect summer mapped out. She's spending the next four and a half weeks traveling through Europe with her childhood best friend Leela. Their plans include Eiffel Tower selfies, eating cocco gelato, and making out with hot strangers. Her plans do not include Leela's cheating ex-boyfriend showing up on the flight to London, falling for the cheating ex-boyfriend's hot friend, monitoring her mother's spiraling mental...
Author
Language
English
Description
A young man's quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and violence
These are hearing aids. They take the sounds of the world and amplify them." Josh Swiller recited this speech to himself on the day he arrived in Mununga, a dusty village on the shores of Lake Mweru. Deaf since a young age, Swiller spent his formative years in frustrated
8) England
Author
Language
English
Description
Simple text and full-color photographs illustrate the land, animals, and people of England.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a child growing up in the wild beauty of the Ozarks, Barbara often spent her days exploring outside and daydreaming of faraway places to escape the realities of poverty. She longed to trade her homemade clothes and outdoor toilet for spectacular adventures around the world. That chance came in the form of a young wild-eyed, long-haired "viking" man named Peter. After an exciting courtship and a wedding on a dime, the young couple departed on...
12) India
Author
Language
English
Description
Simple text and full-color photographs illustrate the land, animals, and people of India.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Explore Antarctica--the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth--in this adventure-filled title in the Who HQ series. Antarctica, the earth's southernmost continent, was virtually untouched by humans until the nineteenth century. Many famous explorers journeyed (and often died) there in the hope of discovering a land that always seemed out of reach. This book introduces readers to this desert--yes, desert!--continent that holds about 90...