Kyoto Souvenir by Arturo Elias is a travel memoir about a favorite destination gradually turning into a second home. After years of returning to Japan with his wife Karen, Elias buys a centuries-old machiya in Kyoto’s Higashiyama district, beginning a restoration that reshapes every visit...

Paris, More Than a Fairytale by Arabella Dubois is a really useful guide for readers who want to grasp how French people live and manage their daily lives. In this book, the author writes about living in apartments on Rue St. Dominique and shares lessons...

In The Serra is Burning, American counselor Daral Boles shares her personal story of moving to the remote mountains of central Portugal to help build a prominent wellness project called the Real Change Retreat Center. What started as a plan for creating a genuine space...

Managing the Bucket List: The Journey Begins Volume I by Carol J. McIlwain is a self-help travel book with memoir elements about making long-held travel ambitions achievable through planning that fits the person taking the trip. After retiring from the Department of the Navy in...

Rizwan Haider’s It Began in Africa begins in 1979, when the twenty-two-year-old Pakistani banker leaves Pakistan for a posting in Gabon. Arriving in Libreville and uncertain what awaits him, Haider enters a career that will repeatedly return him to Africa for decades. His banking assignments...

Pale Pink Roads by Joe Tarantino is the personal history of a cyclist looking back at a lifetime spent exploring North American highways. The author uses his old-school hub odometers and travel receipts to reconstruct seventeen epic rides that shaped his adult years. Starting as...

Party Girl’s Guide to Paris by Vicki Lesage is a lively and personal tour of the city, built from eleven years of living there rather than a quick visit. Instead of listing sights by neighborhood, Vicki arranges Paris into moods, from the postcard classics to...

Sara Verrall’s Mexico Amiga! is a captivating memoir that describes four consecutive winter escapes to Mexico with her Swedish partner, Jan, whom she affectionately calls “My Viking.” The memoir takes readers on a journey that ignores the typical tourist trail and traverses the Pacific coast:...

In Elaina Kelly Smith’s Choice, the author shares her life journey from being raised in a very restrictive religious home to traveling all seven continents. It’s an honest look at how a person rebuilt self-trust after years of simply doing things for everyone else. Smith...

GMA On the Go is a lively travel memoir that follows author Donna Dee, a self-described “grandma on the go,” as she sets off on a series of ambitious, self-planned journeys across Europe. The first portion of the book chronicles a long-awaited trip to Italy,...