Kiratiana Freelon If you enjoy travel and love black music, culture and history, then this is the book to take with you to Paris. Kiratiana's honest, fun approach will not...

Diane Johnson   Johnson is more droll than Henry James, to whom she's been compared, and she's as witty as a modern-day Voltaire. Vraiment, L'Affaire, c'est irresistible!"-- Publishers WeeklyAmy Hawkins,...

Mark TwainA stirring account of America's vanished past...The book that earned Mark Twain his first recognition as a serious writer...Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi.At once a romantic...

Robert M Pirsig In this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant...

Benjamin Orbach On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Pittsburgh native and graduate student Ben Orbach traveled to the Middle East to experience the region first-hand. Despite having...

Lois Pryce Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming...

Lonely Planet - Nepal

Ewan McGreggor and Charley BoormanIt started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor - actor and self-confessed bike nut...

J Maarten TroostLost on Planet China: Or How I Learned to Love Live SquidThe bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of...

Angelo Maria RipellinoAttempting to go beyond the tourist cliche of Prague as the golden city, this book seeks to bring out all the mystery, ambiguity, gloom, lethargy and hidden fascination...

Tania Aebi Tania Aebe was an eighteen-year-old dropout and barfly. She was going nowhere until her father offered her a challenge. He would offer her either a college education or...

Yigael Yadin The excavation from 1963 to 1965 of the Judean desert rock-fortress of Masada, has taken its place as one of the most exciting and significant archaeological events of...