Summer is the best time to take a vacation. Or is it? The airports and highways are swarming with weary travelers and the hotels and restaurants are overflowing with guests. Living out of a suitcase has become tedious and your child has complained of boredom yet again. What if you did not pack, but instead curled up in your favorite spot with a book that takes you to a whole new place? Let the vacation begin.
The Paris Novel
by Ruth Reichl
Adult Fiction
Cautious Stella is bequeathed a one-way plane ticket and a last wish from her mother to “Go to Paris.” After encouragement from her boss to take some time, she finds herself on a plane heading towards a distressing adventure far from home and her rigid routines. One vintage Dior dress and briny oyster later, Stella embarks on a Parisian journey through art, food and culture with a side of self-discovery.
How to Get Away: Cabins, Cottages, Hideouts and the Design of Retreat
by Laura May Todd
Coffee Table Book
Through lavish photography and practical advice, creating the perfect escape is possible and can help make your own home a calming retreat. From forest cabins to colorful cottages, reimagined farmhouses to jungle hideouts, explore these ideas of design and comfort in a variety of unique dwellings to make your own home a tranquil getaway at the end of each day.
Cultures and Flavors: Around the World in 193 Dishes
by Vera Saudade
Cookbook
From the June solstice to the September equinox, summer lasts for 93.6 days. This cookbook offers enough recipes to allow you to experience a flavorful meal from another culture each day of the summer and continue into the fall. Expand your culinary journey with not only savory recipes, but also with information on each country’s background that will enhance the dining experiences. With a recipe from each country in the world, your global appreciation will certainly broaden.
Throw Your Tooth on the Roof
by Selby Beeler
Nonfiction, 5-8 years
Leave our bubble and take your child on a trip around the world visiting faraway places such as Botswana, Egypt and Korea. The tooth fairy may be overworked in our neck of the woods, but in other places children are throwing their lost teeth on roofs and dropping them in mouseholes. What a fun way to teach customs and geography and it all begins with a missing tooth.
Kisses From Space
by Astronaut Anna Menon
Picture Book, ages 3-8
If you really want to get away you leave the planet. This mom did just that. To relieve her anxiety about the distance her space travel would put between her and her children, Menon shares her love and connection through colorful illustrations and lyrical rhymes. The dragon mama and her dragon babies will tell the story of love and family bonding that is possible even from so far away.
The Longing in Between Sacred Poetry From Around the World
by Roger Housden
Poetry Anthology
For a deeper vacation within the heart and soul, travel through a collection of poems from around the globe. Included in Housden’s collection of spiritual and moving poetry selections are his own reflections and contemplations which further the reader’s understanding and depth of this lyrical and timeless writing style. This anthology takes readers on a journey through time and traditions throughout the world.