Growing up, my parents never took me and my brother on spring break trips. While friends headed to a sunny beach or off on a camping excursion, my mom joked that for spring break "we're going to Woolworth's for breakfast." And we did, all week long. So I can relate hard to everyone who's had their travel plans upended this year, and for them I offer the below recommendations that will hopefully scratch their wanderlust itch.
The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white...
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. Now he has traveled around the world and all the way "Down Under" to Australia...
Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families....
Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson...
Writer for the New York Times and GQ, Mark Adams is also the acclaimed author of Mr. America.....
Addie is visiting Ireland for her aunt’s over-the-top destination wedding and hoping she can stop thinking about the one horrible thing she did that left her miserable and heartbroken....
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer....
When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from somewhere; she wants to run to somewhere - to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and preferably elegant...
