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On the Hippie Trail
You know Rick Steves. Now discover the adventure that made him the travel writer he is today. Rick produces a best-selling guidebook series, a public television series, and a public radio show, and organizes small-group tours that take over 30,000 travelers to Europe annually. This book contains edited selections from Rick's journal and travel photos with a 45-years-later preface and postscript reflecting on how the journey changed his life. A 23-year old Rick Steves made the trek, and like a travel writer in training, he documented everything along the way: jumping off a moving train, making friends in Tehran, getting lost in Lahore, getting high for the first time in Herat, battling leeches in Pokhara, and much more.
All Aboard the Bedtime Bus
Karl Newson writes a sweet story to transition to Snoozyville for you and your little one. Children can join the bus driver and all his sleepy passengers as they go on a magical bus trip to bedtime. Watch them travel from stop to stop on the bedtime bus as they brush their teeth, put on their pajamas at Slumber Town, and read bedtime stories at Sleepy Land. And when the bedtime bus reaches its destination and the engine stops and the lights turn off, the adorable animal friends snuggle up to sleep.
Target Age Group: 4 to 8 years
The Briar Club
Kate Quinn (author of Rose Code and Diamond Eye) has done it again. She is a master at research and storytelling. Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test. Set in Washington, DC in 1950 at an all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. The mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room and draws her oddball collection of neighbors into an unlikely friendship with weekly dinner parties. When a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?
Catch of The Month!
Clare Leslie Hall is a novelist and journalist who lives in the wilds of Dorset, England. She’s the author of Broken Country, Pictures of Him, and Days You Were Mine.
A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.
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