Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him...
Voyages and travels
- Author:DiCamillo, KateSummary:
- Author:Tidbeck, KarinSummary:
***One of Buzzfeed's 21 Fantasy Books to Get Excited About This Winter***
***One of Tor's 30 Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2021***From the award-winning author of Amatka and Jagannath—a fantastical tour de force about...
- Author:Peart, NeilSummary:
Neil Peart’s travel memoir of thoughts, observations, and experiences as he cycles through West Africa, reveals the subtle, yet powerful writing style that has made him one of rock’s greatest lyricists. As he describes his extraordinary...
- Author:Levoy, MyronSummary:
In 1890s South Dakota, Amy and Joshua escape from their mean aunt Vootch. They plan to find their grandparents in New York and manage to team up with a traveling magician, Mortimer Wintergreen, who owns a magic hat with a temperamental...
- Author:Acevedo, ChantelSummary:
A novel based on the true story of the Spanish princess Eulalia, an outspoken firebrand at the Bourbon court during the troubled and decadent final years of her family's reign, and her journey to see her scandalous, incendiary...
- Author:Iyer, PicoSummary:
When Pico Iyer visited Japan, he met the vivacious, attractive Sachiko. The result of that meeting is this ironic and heartfelt portrait of cross-cultural infatuation and a view of both the old Japan and the very new.
- Author:Lambdin, DeweySummary:
The year 1807 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy. In The King's Marauder, his frigate HMS Reliant has a new captain, he's living at his father's estate at Anglesgreen, among spiteful neighbors and family, and he's...
- Author:Foon, DennisSummary:
Two years have passed since Roan fled the destruction of his village. He has survived the polluted wilds of the Devastation, escaped the lethal mind traps of the Dreamfield, and infiltrated the heart of the sinister City. Through it all...
- Author:Peck, Michael AllenSummary:
"Paul Reid died in the snow at seventeen. The day of his death, he told a lie— and for the rest of his life, he wondered if that was what killed him." And so begins the battle for the afterlife, known as The Commons. It's been taken...
- Author:Stilton, TheaSummary:
The Thea Sisters investigate a mystery involving a blue-skinned boy found unconscious on the beach by Paulina.
- 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:Enright, AnneSummary:
Spanning thirty years, this novel tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, and her four children, who grow up and leave Ireland for lives they could have never imagined. When they are all called back to the house a last...
- Author:Aitken, Ben.Summary:
When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, sixteen pints of lager and luxury return coach travel, all for...
- Author:Lester, TobySummary:
Lester spotlights Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map and recounts the epic tale of the mariners and scholars who facilitated this watershed of Western history.
- Author:Moriarty, JaclynSummary:
Bronte Mettlestone is ten years old when her parents are killed by pirates. This does not bother her particularly: her parents ran away to have adventures when she was a baby. She has been raised by her Aunt Isabelle, with assistance...
- Author:Adams, Robert J.Summary:
National Best Selling author Robert J. Adams takes you with him on his humorous real life journeys to exotic and not so exotic places in the world. Join Adams riding horseback with Shorty the rip snorten'est pack horse in the Canadian...
- Author:BOWDEN, TimSummary:
On a mission to rediscover his home state, Tim Bowden and his wife Ros, travel to some of the quirkier outposts of island civilisation.
- Author:Farmer, Philip JoséSummary:
Much has transpired since Earth's denizens found themselves resurrected along the shores of a river 22 million miles long. With the truth of this strange river's creators, the Ethicals, still shrouded in mystery, Sir Richard Francis...
- Author:NATUSCH, SheilaSummary:
The story of the survey voyage of H.M.S.V. Acheron in New Zealand Waters, 1848 - 1851.
- Author:Pullman, PhilipSummary:
The much-anticipated new work from the author of The Golden Compass is coming at last! Renowned storyteller Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of Lyra Belacqua and His Dark Materials for a thrilling and epic adventure in which...