Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul, Minnesota, complete with a big front porch, a...
Road fiction
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Author:Berg, ElizabethSummary: - Author:Twain, MarkSummary:
Tom Sawyer is a high-spirited but basically good kid growing up on the Mississippi River, pining for Becky Thatcher and getting into run-of-the-mill trouble. But when Huck Finn appears on the scene, boyish misadventure gets taken up a...
- Author:Kingsolver, BarbaraSummary:
When Taylor Greer hits the road she has no real destination, only to get as far from Kentucky as possible. By the time she ends up in Arizona, she has inherited a three-year-old Cherokee girl from an Indian woman she met in a bar.
- Author:Younts, Elizabeth BylerSummary:
Two young friends embark upon an epic journey across 1940s middle America in search of answers, a family, and a place to call home. The only kind of life Brighton Turner understands is the one she has endured within the dreary walls of...
- Author:Doane, MichaelSummary:
The Debut Novel From Michael Doane Written in the same tradition as On the Road and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Michael Doane’s The Crossing explores what it means to exist in 21st century America. She’s out on a pier,...
- Author:McCammon, Robert R.Summary:
A struggling rock band on the verge of breaking up is touring in the American Southwest when they are noticed by a damaged Iraq War veteran. This crossing of paths changes all their lives.
- Author:de Souza, AdamSummary:
Staring down the final days of high school, a group of friends run away from home in order to join a commune in this YA graphic novel for ages 14 and up. Stand by Me meets Catcher in the Rye by way of Skim . Ever since Oli found a...
- Author:Odor, JasminaSummary:
Set in Paris, an offbeat and sweet novel about family, loss and recovery, and the magic of memory. When Mira takes a trip to Paris with her nephew, Bernard, she expects to ride bicycles through the picturesque streets and admire the...
- Author:Johnson, SamuelSummary:
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. Their journey takes them to Egypt, where they study the various...
- Author:Myers, ChristinaSummary:
At thirty-eight years old, Ruthie finds herself newly unemployed, freshly single, sleeping on a friend's couch and downing a bottle of wine each night. Having overstayed her welcome and desperate for a job, Ruthie responds to David's ad...
- Author:Horack, SkipSummary:
A masterful depiction of a life driven off the rails by tragedy and sin — a man now summoned by the legacy of a beloved, lost brother to embark on a journey in search of understanding, happiness, and redemption. Haunted by the...
- Author:Adamson, Gil, Spalding, EstaSummary:
In 1903 a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one quick step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow by her own hand. Two vengeful brothers and a pack of bloodhounds track her across the western...
- Author:Larkin, AllieSummary:
Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. But when April realizes she's finally had enough-enough of her selfish, absent father...
- Author:Poschmann, MarionSummary:
"Gilbert Silvester, eminent scholar of beard fashions in film, wakes up one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him. Certain the dream is a message, and unable to even look at her, he flees - immediately, irrationally,...
- Author:Whetter, DarrylSummary:
Andrew Day embarks on a bicycle trip from Halifax to Kingston, his childhood home. As he goes, the dual narratives of Andrew's life emerge: the slow, painful death of his father and the disappearance of Betty, who may be lost to him...
- Author:Bill, Frank, Reedus, NormanSummary:
Three different personal quests with eerily parallel outcomes. Jack spent his life amassing wealth, but after losing his family, he has no one to share it with. Alone with his demons and a backpack, he heads to South America. After...
- Author:Panhuyzen, BrianSummary:
A dark and riveting journey of one man in a broken world
With nothing left to lose, Nathan Soderquist is moving west; his wife is dead, his infant daughter too, all because of a kiss and a snowstorm and his failure to...
- Author:Mcwatt, TessaSummary:
Tessa McWatt's breathtaking new novel explores love and endurance in the face of change and violence, and how people find wholeness and belonging when their own identities feel shattered. Northern India, 2009. Four travellers...
- Author:Dore, PaulSummary:
The Walking Man begins in the deserts of Jordan and explores a year in the life of the main character - someone very similar to the author - and his attempts to make sense of a tumultuous year. Based on many of the author's experiences...
- Author:Stratton, AllanSummary:
When her parents want to put Granny in a home, Zoe decides now is the time to break free. She smuggles Granny out and together they hit the tracks on a cross-country trip to find Zoe's long-lost uncle.
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