voyages and travels

In a series of letters to her relatives and friends, Kate describes her trip through Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona with her best friend, Lucy, and Lucy's parents.

Seven hamster brothers, having outgrown their hole, begin an adventure-filled quest that takes them across seas and deserts, up a mountain, and through a labyrinth as they seek a new home.

"After spending an amazing day and night with a nameless girl in Paris, Willem embarks on his own transformative journey to find her once again"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of true travel stories and anedotes told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, and more.

The author relates the experiences she had after she bought a ticket to Ireland and met a free-spirited Australian girl who encouraged her to continue her travels for an entire year, during which time she found her passion for adventure and made discoveries about herself.

Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.

Sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, family ties severed with the violent death of her father, takes to the Stark River in a rowboat left to her by her grandfather and sets out to find her runaway mother, using her knowledge of the natural world and ability to see into the hearts of men and women to survive.

Michael, now an adult, recalls the three-week long sea voyage he took as a boy in the early 1950s to meet his mother. During the trip across the Indian Ocean the boy meets a variety of characters on board.

A memoir in which photographer, skier, and skateboarder Kevin Connolly tells what it was like to grow up without legs, discussing his loving parents, his dad's continuing efforts to invent devices to make his life easier, his participation in sports, and his habit of taking pictures of people who stare at him--a project that became a traveling exhibit.