Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah
- Location(s): Mali, Sahel
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
An intrepid journalist joins the planet’s largest group of nomads on an annual migration that, like them, has endured for centuries. Anna Badkhen has forged a career chronicling life in extremis around the world, from war-torn Afghanistan to the...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
Born at the end of the First World War, a young girl struggles to find her own identity in her big family and is pushed into a stormy marriage through a terrible misunderstanding from which her pride refuses to...
Walks in Venice: In the footsteps of 9 locals
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Discover Venice like an insider Venetian locals reveal their hidden gems and personal favorites, offering you insider tips to experience Venice beyond the usual tourist spots. Each walk has been thoughtfully curated based on their recommendations, guiding you through...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1980s
Are you ready to take a walk on the seriously wild side? In the early 1980s, John Pakenham walked a total of 1,500 miles, with a series of companions from the local Turkana and Samburu tribes and their long-suffering...
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
War was coming to Israel and Nate desperately wanted to be in the fight. As he watched the EL AL airliner that would be bringing him back to the States touch down on the runway of Ben Gurion International...
- Location(s): Great Smoky Mountains
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Volume 1 (Hesse Creek Series) Can broken hearts risk love again? India’s life has always gone according to plan. But when she decides to call off her high-profile wedding and take time off from her network television job, everything...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1989
Wallflower is four hours in the life of Molly Lenzfeld, sixteen-year-old New Yorker in Berlin. It’s Thanksgiving Day 1989, two weeks after the fall of the Wall. Molly, the daughter of a German-Jewish mother who fled the Nazis in...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult
- Era(s): early 21st century
After their father, a video-game inventor, strikes it rich, the Smithfork kids find they hate their new life. They move from their cozy Brooklyn neighborhood to a swanky apartment on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. They have no friends, a nanny...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Current, about a bushfire
Ideal for children transitioning from picture-books-only to text-only books.Wally, a young Australian water dragon, and his beloved friend, the little mouse called Pinky, are caught in an emergency. A terrible bushfire is raging and threatening to kill all in...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Current
Wally, a young Australian water dragon, meets Pinky, a little pink mouse. Will he eat her for dinner, or become her saviour, when a venomous red-bellied black snake slides into the billabong? What will happen when all of Pinky’s...
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