Story of a 23-year old woman who went to Bhutan for 2 years to teach English to Bhutanese children, and how the experience changed her life.
Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman
About a Southern California woman who gave up her privileged life to travel the world, becoming a nomad to live amongst and learn other cultures.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
One man's account of the 1996 expedition to Everest that led to disaster and the loss of several lives.
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass
Journalistic account of the war in Bosnia during the early to mid-1990s.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Story told by the wife and four daughters of a Baptist preacher who takes his family to the Belgian Congo in 1959. Suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
The story of a journalist who temporarily leaves her upper middle class lifestyle, to take minimum wage jobs and live in low-income housing to determine how people in the United States living beneath the poverty line are able to survive.
The Gift of Travel: The Best of Traveler's Tales edited by Larry Habegger, James O'Reilly, and Sean O'Reilly
A collection of stories taken from the numerous experiential Traveler's Tales books.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Can one boy save the world from the third bugger invasion?
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Story of a woman who tries to cope with her unraveling marriage and eccentric Chinese sister Kwan.
My Year of Meat by Ruth L. Ozeki
Story of two women, one in America and one in Japan, whose lives are forever changed by a television show called My American Wife! intended to sell American beef to the Japanese market, and rather educating everyone on the true nature of the industry standards.
The Museum Guard by Howard Norman
A love triangle set in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the beginning of World War II in which a young woman, inspired by a painting, comes to believe that she is the Dutch Jewish wife of the painter and flees to Amsterdam to be with him.
Downsize This! - Random Threats From An Unarmed American by Michael Moore
Mike's suggestions for and discussions about a better America range from public relations to unemployment, from elections to Nafta, from Hillary Clinton to O.J. Simpson.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Story of a proud and beautiful mother Sethe who escaped slavery, and its profound ramifications on her life and the lives of her family.
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and It's All Small Stuff - Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life by Richard Carlson, Ph.D.
A book that shows you how to keep from letting the little things in your life drive you crazy, and guides you toward being a more loving and peaceful self.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
A book with several stories interwoven and integrated with history of Prague, discussing different aspects of human existence and fantasy; aspects are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed and experienced.
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
One woman discovers the beauty and simplicity of Tuscany, Italy and reflects on her Georgia roots and San Francisco lifestyle as she renovates, with her boyfriend, an old house in Tuscany over the course of five years. Beautiful language and lots of recipes included.
Survival Kit for Overseas Living - For Americans planning to live and work abroad, Third Edition by L. Robert Kohls
Ideas and perspectives on intercultural exchange, offering insights on cross-cultural adaptation and suggestions for Americans coping with the overseas experience.
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
A young couple with children move to a new town, Stepford, to discover that something is terribly wrong with the women in the town, and begin to suspect that the local mens' association might be behind it.
Dreams of Gold by Lewis Orde
Two young British cousin immigate to New Orleans in the 1850s; story spans four generations of their family from the slums of London to New Orleans and Atlanta chronicling an inspiring epic of love, racism, war, tragedy, and success.
House of Sand & Fog by Andre Dubus III
An American woman loses her home due to a bureaucratic mistake, and becomes entangled in a tragic web of misunderstanding involving a married policeman and an Iranian immigrant family.
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
In Peru an ancient Mayan manuscript is found containing 9 spiritual insights that each human being must read and grasp sequentially in order for human culture to evolve.
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
A Chilean orphan follows an elusive lover to California during the 1840's gold rush and becomes part of a new intriguing world.
The Dance of Anger: A Women's Guide to Changing Patterns in Intimate Relationships by Harriett Lerman, PhD.
Discusses blaming, overfunctioning, underfunctioning, and withdrawing patterns; discusses how we get stuck in patterns of using anger by ineffective fighting and blaming to protect the status quo in a relationship and actually avoid change; discusses circular dance of anger and entrenched triangle relationships.
Evolution - A Novel by Stephen Baxter
Stretching from the distant past of primordial Earth to the remote future, the dazzling epic traces the human lineage forward through time from a small mammal, a proto-primate of the species Purgotorius who lived during the age of dinosaurs.
Just Another Kid by Torey Hayden
An unexpected year as a temporary special education teacher turns out to be a life-altering experience for one woman; chronicle of one school year with six emotionally disturbed children.
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
A thirteen-year old girl tells the story of her own rape and murder from the other side, and watches her family back on Earth falling apart.
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
A journalist spends about 15 years chronicling a family in the Bronx; astonishing in its suffering and intimacy.
Strange but True by John Searles
Five years after a tragic accident, a deceased highschooler's girlfriend turns up pregnant and claims that the baby belongs to her dead boyfriend. Intertwines the stories of both families as well as a serial killer who befriends the young woman.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
An old man dies at an amusement park on his 83rd birthday trying to save a little girl from a manfunctioning ride and upon entering heaven has his life explained to him by 5 people from his earthly life.
The Miss Stone Affair � America�s First Modern Hostage Crisis! by Teresa Carpenter
In 1901 Miss Ellen Stone, a Protestant missionary and one of her Bulgarian students, Mrs. Katerina Tsilka are kidnapped by Macedonian revolutionaries in the hinterlands of Eastern Macedonia and held for ransom.
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The story of the deep bond and challenges faced by an accidental time-traveler and his wife; he travels unintentionally throughout their lives from his present as her husband back to her childhood and watches her grow up..