Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan
- Location(s): The Sudan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
One of thousands of children who fled strife in southern Sudan, John Bul Dau survived hunger, exhaustion, and violence. His wife, Martha, endured similar hardships. In this memorable book, the two convey the best of African values while relating...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1982
Based on historical events, this unforgettable and inspiring tale for middle-grade readers is about a young boy torn from the only life he’s ever known and held captive as a prisoner of war. In 1982, twelve-year-old Reza has no...
- Location(s): Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Four people on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada find more adventure than they ever imagined. When they start up a pristine mountain trail that hasn’t been travelled in years, all they have to guide them is a...
- Location(s): United States (USA), South America
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporay
A family in New York packs the car and sets out on a road trip. A mother, a father, a boy and a girl, they head south west, to the Apacheria, the regions of the US which used to...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Sorrento
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
They came to Italy for a wedding. What they found was a second chance. Best friends since college reunite in Sorrento for a sun-soaked celebration of love—but behind the breathtaking views and carefully planned festivities, nothing is quite as...
- Location(s): York
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
This bookshop keeps many secrets . . . Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
- Era(s): Contemporary
f you choose to live life in the Hollywood fast lane, there’s a chance you could get run over! “Fun and comical, a complete page turner!” Jonathan Welford, Amazon reader. “Another Robert Bryndza bonanza, his books are light, lovely and...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
Why does news of the discovery of a Minoan earring turn Diane’s world on its head? And what is her daughter Catherine, single parent to Ellie, to make of the holiday break that is suddenly announced for all three?...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): early 2000s
Global traveller Lydia Laube had out her map again. Where could she go next? Her eye fell on one place she hadn’t visited – Laos, the Land of a Million Elephants. After enduring a close call with Thai immigration...
Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World’s Last Unchallenged River
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and...
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