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A tale set against the backdrop of Ireland’s tumultuous 1932 election finds eighteen-year-old Ben MacCarthy joining a traveling performer’s show as he attempts to retrieve his father, who has abandoned the family for a beautiful, young actress.

What would you do if you lost everything – job, home, love – all at the same time? When this happens to Alan Christoffersen, of Seattle, he’s tempted by suicide. Instead, he decides to take a walk to the farthest point on his map – Key West, Florida. The people he meets and the lessons he learns along the way inspires him, and it will inspire you!

After losing his twin in a drowning accident and his wife to divorce, Zeke Cooper leaves his mother and two daughters behind in Tennessee and travels to Virginia horse country, where he considers his responsibility to repair his fractured family.

“Are we there yet?” it’s the time-honored question of kids on a long family car trip – and Emil Czabek’s children are no exception. Yet, Emil wonders the same thing as the family travels to celebrate his parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. Family secrets and mysteries surface during this celebration, and Emil and his family will never be the same again.

A wise and involving book about feminine thresholds, spiritual growth, and renewal, “Traveling with Pomegranates” is a revealing self-portrait by the author of “Secret Life of Bees”, and her daughter, a writer in the making

This true story of Alexander Gordon Laing and the race to discover Timbuktu during the early part of the 19th century – a time when the African continent was still largely uncharted.

In 1348, as the Black Plaque holds England in its grip, nine strangers attempt to outrun death and each has their own story to tell and their own secrets to share.

Visiting his childhood home in Rhode Island after learning that his first girlfriend has passed away, actor Jono Riley remembers his coming of age at the side of three best friends, a period marked by a mysterious shooting.

After years of traveling in Europe with her musician husband, all that widow Mara Hoffman wants is security for her son.   As they settle into a farmhouse in Maine, Mara tries dealing with her resentful step-mother while forging a relationship with neighbor Gideon Jakeman and his teenage daughter.

The residents of Ebb, Nebraska are hoping for a miracle in the shape of a well-dressed traveling salesman by the name of Vernon Moore. However, not all are excited by his presence, as tempers flare and neighbors are pitted against each other.

Twelve-year-old Louise Lambert accepts an invitation to a private sale of vintage clothing but upon donning an evening gown, she finds herself in 1912 aboard the Titanic as the gown’s original owner, silent film star Alice Baxter.

A well-published, numerous-times-divorced woman leaves her lover to embark on a personal journey that begins on the Colorado River and traverses through her past and into her future, while her lover begins his own parallel voyage.

The library tours have been very successful for Delilah, and the latest package tour, a leisurely steamboat trip down the Mississippi River, starts out the same. However, leisure quickly turns to mayhem, as first, one murder is committed, then another! Delilah dons her detective hat and gets busy trying to solve this crime, before she loses all her customers!

When you’ve been dumped at the altar and forced to share a series of honeymoon suites with your brother, it’s fair to say you could learn a thing or two about love. Follow the author as he travels to far flung locales spanning across four continents to glean the planet’s most important love lessons.