Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Written by Cheryl Strayed
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $9.99
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed...
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A Walk in the Woods
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 8, 2010
Price: $7.99
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill...
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Into the Wild
Written by Jon Krakauer
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $11.99
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his...
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In a Sunburned Country
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2000
Price: $11.99
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller
A Walk in the Woods.
In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the...
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Here Is Where
Discovering America's Great Forgotten History
Written by Andrew Carroll
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $12.99
Here Is Where chronicles Andrew Carroll’s eye-opening – and at times hilarious -- journey across America to find and explore unmarked historic sites where extraordinary moments occurred and remarkable individuals once lived. Sparking the idea for this book was Carroll’s visit to the spot where Abraham Lincoln’s son was saved by...
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Under the Tuscan Sun
Written by Frances Mayes
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2003
Price: $11.99
Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In evocative language, she brings the reader along as she discovers the beauty and simplicity of life in Italy. Mayes also creates...
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A Year in Provence
Written by Peter Mayle
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2010
Price: $13.99
National Bestseller
In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down...
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Out of Africa
Written by Isak Dinesen
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $9.99
In this book, the author of
Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from...
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
A Memoir
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $11.99
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is “laugh-out-loud funny.”
Some say that...
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