The Best American Travel Writing 2010
10 best books like The Best American Travel Writing 2010 (Bill Buford): Entwined with You, Gabriel's Inferno, You Think It, I'll Say It, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, Gift from the Sea, Idaho, Because You Are Mine, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50, Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings, Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things
Author | Sylvia Day |
ISBN | 0425263924 |
From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. Something I couldn't resist. I saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside--so much like my own. I was drawn to it. I needed him as surely as I needed my heart to beat.
No one knows how much he risked for me. How much...
Author | Sylvain Reynard |
ISBN | 1936305623 |
Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by...
You Think It, I'll Say It
Author | Curtis Sittenfeld |
ISBN | 1473552621 |
A suburban mother of two fantasizes about the downfall of an old friend whose wholesome lifestyle empire may or may not be built on a lie. A high-powered lawyer honeymooning with her husband is caught off guard by the appearance of the girl who tormented her in high school. A shy Ivy League student learns...
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Author | Casey Cep |
ISBN | 1101947861 |
The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.
Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help...
Author | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
ISBN | 0394724550 |
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s...
Author | Emily Ruskovich |
ISBN | 0701189096 |
One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, bicker,...
Author | Beth Kery |
ISBN | 0425266451 |
NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling Author Beth Kery presents Because You Are Mine, an exciting tale of erotic obsession.
When they met, the instant attraction was unmistakable…a purely, exquisitely physical charge. Succumbing to their desires is the easy part. But when passion...
I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50
Author | Annabelle Gurwitch |
ISBN | 0399166181 |
Annabelle Gurwitch the humorist The Washington Post calls hilarious and O, The Oprah Magazine slyly subversive returns with a wickedly funny new book chronicling the vicissitudes of turning 50.
The panic began to set in when Annabelle Gurwitch turned 49. Suddenly, new and pernicious health...
Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings
Author | Paul Theroux |
ISBN | 0618126937 |
Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, with the incomparable Paul Theroux as a guide. From the crisp quiet...
Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things
Author | Courtenay Hameister |
ISBN | 0316395706 |
The "hilarious and poignant" story of one chronically anxious woman's quest to become braver by seeking out the kinds of experiences she's spent her life avoiding.
(Cheryl Strayed)
For most of her life (and even during her years as the host of a popular radio show), Courtenay...
Good Things Happen to People You Hate: Essays
Author | Rebecca Fishbein |
ISBN | 0062889982 |
For lovers of Sloane Crosley and Samantha Irby, this hilarious and raw essay collection paints a recognizable and relatable portrait of life in the early aughts.
Former Senior Editor for Gothamist Rebecca Fishbein’s adult life has been a dramatic reflection of New York media itself—constantly...
Eat Pretty Everyday: 365 Daily Inspirations for Nourishing Beauty, Inside and Out (Nutrition Books, Health Journal, Books about Food, Daily Inspiration, Beauty Cookbooks)
Author | Jolene Hart |
ISBN | 1452151628 |
"Eat Pretty Every Day is a wonderful way to jumpstart a year of beautiful choices, from meals to mindset to self-care." —Frank Lipman, MD, author of 10 Reasons You Feel Old and Get Fat
365 days' worth of radiance-boosting guidance that will help you be your most beautiful self: Breakout hit...
Author | Elizabeth Birkelund |
ISBN | 0062431757 |
Three beautiful French sisters entrust an American hiker with the mission of rescuing their mother high in the Alps.
But what if she doesn’t want to be found?
Recently fired from his high-power finance job and dumped by his fiancée, Jim Olsen has come to the Swiss Alps to clear his...
Josslyn found perfection once, and she knows she’ll never find it again. Now widowed, she seeks the one thing her beloved husband couldn’t give her. Dominance. Lonely and searching for an outlet for her grief and wanting only a brief taste of the perfection she once enjoyed, she seeks what she’s...
Author | Beth Kery |
ISBN | 0425269353 |
Out-of-control party girl and wealthy socialite Elise Martin has come to Chicago to prove to herself and the rest of the world that her life is truly worthwhile. But she never dreamed she’d find herself at the erotic mercy of the dynamic and wealthy Lucien Lenault, her girlhood crush, an irresistible...
Author | Lauren Jameson |
ISBN | 0451466632 |
Two people learn what it really means to give up control in the sizzling new novel from the author of Blush and Surrender to Temptation.…
When business mogul Elijah Masterson travels to the Mexican coast for his chain of luxury resorts, he purchases an emerald green glass sculpture for one...