Great news! Wide World Books & Maps Reaches Fundraising Goals — from Shelf Awareness, April 25, 2016 Congratulations to Wide World Books & Maps, Seattle, Wash.: the store’s GoFundMe campaign has met its $30,000 fundraising goal. “This means we’ll be staying open and will be restocking the store with the latest travel books, maps, and gear …
“I’ve enjoyed Edward Rutherfurd’s books ever since he came out with Sarum back in 1987. What a great fictional history of Salisbury Cathedral! This year my early autumn beach bag may very well contain his latest book, Paris. This novel, like Sarum, spans hundreds of years, telling the story of the city through the lives of four families. …
“What begin as inconveniences—the minor hazards of getting her electricity turned on, acquiring furniture, of riding in a taxi, of getting food from the market—progressively become indications of a society in perpetual collapse. The Last Woro Woro to Treichville, a memoir of Sibyl James’ year in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire as a Fulbright scholar, reveals a …
“Did you get to see Pico Iyer when he was here for the Seattle Arts and Lectures program in January? I’m sorry to say that I missed his talk but, fortunately, I can grab a copy of his new book, The Man Within My Head, off the Front Table instead. Using his life-long fascination with …
“I have been a huge fan of Jonathan Raban since I first read Bad Land back in 1997 (still one of my favorite books about America). His smooth, elegant writing style combined with his talent for acute observation and his apparent interest in nearly every subject under the sun is just my cup of tea. …
“After twenty years of working in broadcast and Internet journalism, Napoli was deeply unsatisfied with her life. So when an encounter with a stranger brought her a chance to chuck everything and move halfway around the world, she decided that having a midlife crisis in the Himalayas made as much sense as doing it in …
