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This week we take a look at road trips. From nonfiction road trips, hikes and other travels to fictional trips and magical quests, you are sure to find a journey to join!
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Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous thousand-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal
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On the road
by Jack Kerouac
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. Reissue.
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Travels with Charley : in search of America
by John Steinbeck
The acclaimed author records his emotions and experiences during a journey of rediscovery in his native land, accompanied by his French poodle named Charley
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce
Jolted out of emotional numbness by a letter from an old friend who wants to say goodbye before she dies, Harold Fry embarks on a 600-mile hiking journey to his friend's side without supplies, an endeavor that stirs up memories of his unhappy marital and parenting experiences.
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One plus one
by Jojo Moyes
A single mom trying to raise a bullied stepson and a mathlete daughter finds an unexpected rescue in the form of an obnoxious tech millionaire named Geeky Ed in this new novel from the internationally best-selling author of Me Before You.
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James
by Emma Hooper
Embarking on a walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory, and reality
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The English major
by Jim Harrison
Robbed of his farm by his ex-wife following their divorce, sixty-something Cliff embarks on a road trip across America on a mission to rename all the states and their state birds to overcome the boring names that they have been given
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A turn in the road
by Debbie Macomber
Three women--Bethanne Hamlin, her daughter Annie and her former mother-in-law Ruth--go on a road trip across the country, in an adventure that changes all of their lives as they each contemplate taking different paths in their romantic lives.
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Last bus to wisdom
by Ivan Doig
Rejected by his domineering great-aunt during the summer of 1951, imaginative eleven-year-old Donal travels back to his ailing grandmother's home accompanied by his German great-uncle while experiencing haphazard adventures along the way
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The hike
by Drew Magary
Becoming lost on a surreal wilderness path during a business trip in rural Pennsylvania, a suburban family man is confronted by otherworldly predators and overwhelming flashbacks of terrifying moments of his life before finding unexpected magical help.
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The buried giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro
A tale of lost memories, vengeance and war by the award-winning author of The Remains of the Day follows the experiences of a couple who journeys across a troubled land of mist and rain the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.
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The gunslinger
by Stephen King
Roland, the world's last gunslinger, tracks an enigmatic man in black toward a forbidding Dark Tower, fighting forces both mortal and other-worldly on his quest
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On such a full sea
by Chang-rae Lee
In a class-divided future America where urban neighborhoods function as labor colonies for elite charter villages, Fan, a female fish-tank diver, embarks on what becomes a legendary quest to find the man she loves in a region overcome by anarchic forces
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The quest : a novel
by Nelson DeMille
After receiving a tip from a dying priest four unlikely partners begin a quest to find the Holy Grail in the jungles of Ethiopia in this new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Panther.
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