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WILD
by Cheryl Strayed
Knopf
A woman’s account of the life-changing 1,100-mile solo hike she took along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995; now a movie.
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HUMANS OF NEW YORK
by Brandon Stanton
St. Martin's
Four hundred color photos of New Yorkers, with brief commentary by the author.
BENEATH THE SURFACE
by John Hargrove with Howard Chua-Eoan
Palgrave Macmillan
A former senior orca trainer for SeaWorld exposes the dark side of the multi-billion dollar marine park tourism industry; it is a life that can be fatal for whales and trainers.
PICNIC IN PROVENCE
by Elizabeth Bard
Little, Brown
Inspired by a romantic jaunt, a young American couple with a newborn son creates a new life and a new culinary livelihood in a tiny French village.
UGANDA BE KIDDING ME
by Chelsea Handler
Grand Central
Humorous travel stories.
WATER TO THE ANGELS
by Les Standiford
Ecco
The story of civil engineer William Mulholland, his monumental aqueduct, and the creation and evolution of Los Angeles from the Gilded Age to the present.
PHENOMENAL
by Leigh Ann Henion
Penguin Press
A memoir of the author's search for wonder in the sublimity and grandeur of the natural world.
AMAZING PLACE
edited by Marianne Gingher
University of North Carolina Press
A collection of twenty-one essays by writers who share what North Carolina means to them and to literature.
THE LOST WORLD OF THE OLD ONES
by David Roberts
Norton
A veteran mountain climber shares his discoveries in the ancient southwest and its earliest inhabitants.
COCKPIT CONFIDENTIAL
by Patrick Smith
Sourcebooks
Everything you need to know about air travel.
THE HOTEL ON PLACE VENDOME
by Tilar J. Mazzeo
HarperCollins
A history of Paris's world-famous cultural landmark, the Hotel Ritz.
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FOLLOWING ATTICUS
by Tom Ryan
Morrow/HarperCollins
An out-of-shape newspaperman decides to pay tribute to a deceased friend by climbing all 48 of New Hampshire's 4,000-foot peaks twice in one winter, accompanied by his miniature schnauzer, Atticus.
HOW TO BE PARISIAN WHEREVER YOU ARE
by Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret and Sophie Mas
Doubleday
Four Frenchwomen proffer insights on style, culture and romance.
A WALK IN THE WOODS
by Bill Bryson
Broadway Books
A journey to rediscover America by trekking the 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail. First published in 1998; a 2015 movie.
NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE
edited by Sari Botton
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Essays by luminaries in which each shares the sites that best capture their love for an often impossible city; from dive bars to subway cars and cinemas.

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