Anderson shares the self-knowledge she found during her time of semi-isolation. In order to supplement her income, she finds a job in the fish market and begins making new friends. Through observations of the natural world, she makes clear her affinity for the ocean, its changing tides and burgeoning life.

Married just a few months, Butturini endures her foreign-correspondent husband’s shooting while he covered the collapse of Romania’s Communist regime. Although he survives, the trauma causes deep depression. The couple retreat to their beloved Italy, where good food and friends sustain them.

Dickinson brings to life all the struggles of raising a child as a single parent and the rewards of having a supportive extended family.

Fraser takes a look at her own wanderlust and examines the positive and negative effects it has had on her life.She worries that her desire to explore and her professional success have come at the expense of stability and family. She challenges the ideals of happiness and home as she travels through Italy, Provence, and Rwanda.

In alternating chapters, two childhood friends record their lives from their 20s through their 40s, with Mauney working in rural Africa and James in New York City. Their book pays tribute to the advances that feminism brought to a generation of women and to the enduring value of friendship.

Former U.S. Senate counsel Jourdan gives up her fast-paced life in Washington when her mother has a heart attack. She travels to rural Tennessee to help her parents keep their doctor’s office afloat. Missing Washington, she wrestles with questions of courage and loyalty,belonging and identity, and living with meaning and purpose.

Mayes and her husband follow an itinerary taking them across much of Western Europe with a brief touchdown in Africa. Wherever she goes, Mayes reflects on the cultural, historical, and literary highlights of the lands and peoples she visits.

When bestselling author Sparks receives a brochure offering a three-week trip around the world, he invites his brother Micah to join him touring Mayan ruins, Incan Temples, Easter Island,the killing fields in Cambodia, the Taj Mahal and Ethiopian rock cathedrals. At each stop, the brothers cover crucial moments in a life full of familial love and tragedy.

On a cross-country move, Stockton fell in love with the beauty of Wyoming and decided to settle there. She found new roots and a new boyfriend. When he finds an orphaned pup, he gives it to Stockton, beginning an adventure between human and wild animal.