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Wild Life

Wild Life
  • Author(s): Keena Roberts
  • 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...

Wild Mulberries

Wild Mulberries
  • Author(s): Iman Humaydan Younes
  • 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

Wild Nights: Camping Britain’s Extremes
  • Author(s): Phoebe Smith
  • 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...

Wild Spinning Girls

Wild Spinning Girls
  • Author(s): Carol Lovekin
  • Location(s): South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020

Ty’r Cwmwl held its breath for years after the previous owner died. The house made room for her ghost. She brought magic with her. Ida Llewellyn loses her job and her parents in the space of a few weeks...

Wild Woman

Wild Woman
  • Author(s): Marina Sur Puhlovski
  • Location(s): Zagreb, Pula, Rijeka (formerly Fiume)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Wild Woman is an anti-love story, set against a background of economic hardship. Told through the undiluted language of thought and mania, the twists and turns of internal dialogue are brought alive by a narrator determined to find her...

Wild Women and the Blues

Wild Women and the Blues
  • Author(s): Denny S Bryce
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1925, 2015

1925: Chicago is the jazz capital of the world, and the Dreamland Café is the ritziest black-and-tan club in town. Honoree Dalcour is a sharecropper’s daughter, willing to work hard and dance every night on her way to the...

Wildboy

Wildboy
  • Author(s): Brando Yelavich
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Fast going off the rails and hanging out with the wrong crowd, Brando Yelavich, a plucky 20-year-old from Auckland’s North Shore, decided he needed to change his life. He needed a mission. He was going to walk around New...

Wilder Girls

Wilder Girls
  • Author(s): Rory Power
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began...

Wilderness Wars

Wilderness Wars
  • Author(s): Barbara Henderson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if nature fights back? Still in a daze, I take it all in: the wind, the leaden skies, the churning moody sea. And, far in the distance, a misty outline. Skelsay. Wilderness haven. Building-site. Luxury-retreat-to-be. And now, home....

Wilderness Weekends: Wild adventures in Britain’s rugged corners

Wilderness Weekends: Wild adventures in Britain’s rugged corners
  • Author(s): Phoebe Smith
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Bed down among some of the most dramatic landscapes in the world and discover your own bolthole in one of Britain’s rugged corners. Wilderness Weekends reveals the 26 best places for wild camping from the south coast of England...

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