- Location(s): Multiple locations
- Genre(s): Children, Nonfiction
- Era(s): N/A
Picture a city. What do you see? Traffic and towering buildings? Or maybe you imagine something a little . . . wilder? These are the astonishing stories of the animals who are adapting to live in our urban world...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Take an unforgettable tour around the world to meet the creatures that share our city spaces – from bears to bats, penguins to opossums – and learn about how they have adapted and thrived in this gorgeously illustrated gift...
Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge
- Location(s): Guyana
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2012 Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guyana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are often tumbling out of the dark trees. Shunned by...
Wild Horses of the Summer Sun: A Memoir of Iceland
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
What if you could steal time out just for yourself each year, a brief reprieve from ordinary life and its responsibilities? Wild Horses of the Summer Sun is Tory Bilski’s witty, sometimes poignant, account of her annual ‘horse sabbaticals’...
- Location(s): Ballina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo’s fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. When the reclusive Dev...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
Floating across the sky in her hot air balloon, Cassi watches a little swift dive and swoop through the still air. In the rising sun the world seems to be holding its breath. Then a small breeze stirs the...
- Location(s): Taiwan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan’s most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Chang...
- Location(s): Botswana, Philadelphia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a “baboon camp” in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb. Keena Roberts split...
- Location(s): Lebanon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Wild Mulberries interweaves the coming of age tale of Sarah, a young woman growing up in a small Druze village in the Lebanese Shuf Mountains, and the story of this village itself, especially its role in the production of...
Wild Nights: Camping Britain’s Extremes
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
It’s not until we push ourselves past our perceived limits, till we feel so cold and so tired that we feel we can’t go on any further, that we discover what we are truly capable of… Britain’s most famous...
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