Catalog Search Results
1) The bad girl
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Language
English
Description
A collection of writings from Paul Theroux's fifty years of travel. Included are writings from other travelers such as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway and many others.
Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, the Tao of Travel contains excerpts from the best of Theroux own work interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected.
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A wartime tragedy sparks a British teenager's dream of moving to Australia: a dream that turns into a reality when at age 18 he becomes a participant in the largest planned migration of the 20th century. With little money, a questionable education and nothing in the way of marketable skills, he steps ashore from the SS Australis onto Terra Australis and soon finds the mythical place of his imagination is far-removed from the reality. His journey from...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On a London street in broad daylight, world traveler Amity Doncaster is trapped in a carriage with a blade-wielding man in a black silk mask who whispers the most vile taunts and threats into her ear. Thanks to quick thinking and her secret weapon, Amity escapes with her life. But the monster known as the Bridegroom, who has left a trail of female victims in his wake, has survived the wounds she inflicted and will soon be on his feet again.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate -- bossy,...
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 8
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of travelers who are stranded by a blizzard in a decrepit hotel where one of their number begins killing off the rest.
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
"Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland--and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit is a testament both to the wonderful strangeness of the human species and to the surprising sympathies that bind us all."--www.Amazon.com....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn. Society darling Elinor Glyn shocked her English peers with the 1907 publication of Three Weeks, an intensely erotic novel that launched her to international fame and infamy. Historian Hilary A. Hallett traces Glyn's meteoric rise for the first time, beginning where most romance novels end: with her...
Series
Publisher
Travelers' Tales Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"This newly designed edition of Travelers' Tales France celebrates the culture, history, and joie de vivre of one of the most beloved -- and most visited -- countries on Earth. Acclaimed writers, including Peter Mayle, M.F.K. Fisher, Jon Krakauer, Mort Rosenblum, Alice Kaplan, and Jan Morris, who have fallen in love with France -- with the food, the land, the irrepressible French people -- provide a mesmerizing literary tour of this special place."--www.Amazon.com....
Publisher
Big Idea
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In a distant corner of the galaxy, Luntar the Looter is menacing passing ships and stealing their power sources. When a dark shadow falls on the sunny, beach-filled planet of Tootanny, the USS Applepies fleet is deployed to put a stop to this space pirate.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The @1bike1world Instagram sensation shares the full story of his life-changing relationship with his rescue cat, Nala, and their inspiring bicycle journeys through the refugee camps, remarkable terrains and animal shelters of the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to the ultimate guidebook for LGBTQ+ travelers! Whether you're looking for relaxation, romance, or adventure, The Pride Atlas will help you plan your next gaycation. This colorful catalog spans the globe, taking you from metropolitan must-sees, like the birthplace of Pride in New York, or the world's first gayborhood in Berlin, to lesser-known gems, like a trans designer's clothing store in Sao Paulo or the first LGBTQ+ bar in Nepal. Maartje...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Shai is a young woman in modern India. Lost and drifting, she travels to her country’s Northeast and rediscovers, through her encounters with indigenous communities, ways of being that realign and renew her. Evelyn is a student of science in Edwardian England. Inspired by Goethe’s botanical writings, she leaves Cambridge on a quest to wander the sacred forests of the Lower Himalayas. Linnaeus, a botanist and taxonomist who famously declared 'God...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Santa Barbara Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try suggesting a title. Submit Request