When you think ‘road trip’, you may not have in mind Brad Herzog’s interpretation. In Herzog’s original take on his trip across America, Turn Left at […]
Lions, Tigers and Bears, Oh yes!
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Thomas French’s Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives brings the world of zoo keeping to the public in this accessible […]
Think For Yourself!
September 25 – October 2 is officially Banned Books week 2010. Each year new books are challenged and/or banned across the country for reasons such […]
Travelling with The Lunatic Express
The title of Carl Hoffman’s The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes comes from an African railroad […]
From New York to a Harem
One might assume that Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren would be filled with descriptions of unbridled sex and promiscuity. While those […]
Celebrating the Worst of Travel-The Titanic Awards
Just the name of this book gives an inkling that this will not be your normal travel book: The Titanic Awards: Celebrating the Worst of […]
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time by Peter Lovenheim is based on an interesting and unusual […]
The Innocent Found Guilty
After reading two books this month dealing with unjustly convicted and incarcerated Americans,(one set in Nicaragua and the other in California) I found it disturbing to find that […]
More Than a Culinary & Travel Memoir
Paula Butturini’s culinary and travel memoir, Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy, is much different from the norm. She […]
