Family Travel

When the Widdershins sisters and Granny are called away in deepest winter to look after cousin Clarissa, it doesn’t take long for adventure—or trouble—to find them. The town of Little Nipping has plenty to explore with its frozen lake and winter market, as well as being haunted by a doomed highwayman, searching for lost treasure. But the legends are true, and seeing a ghostly figure one night, the girls realise that Granny is in terrible danger.

On an unlikely backpacking trip, Rhik and his mother find themselves speaking openly for the first time in years. Afterwards, the depression that has weighed down on Rhik begins to loosen its grip for a moment - so he seizes the opportunity: to own it, to understand it and to find out where it came from. Through this begins a journey of investigation, healing and recovery. Along the way Rhik learns some shocking truths about his family and realises that, in turn, he will need to confront the secrets he has long buried.

For the last 15 years, Ed Cox has perfected the art of traveling internationally with his kids. Now he shares that knowledge to help other families to travel better.

27-year-old Carmen Santos thought she had the perfect life until the question “what do you want?” transports her ten years in to the past to relive the worst year of her life. She must navigate her senior year of high school all over again, complete with bad wardrobe, a dysfunctional Filipino family, and a best friend who’s still in the closet. Yet, the knowledge of the future is on her side, right? But her knowledge isn’t guaranteed to help her get the guy, fix her parent’s marriage, or even save someone’s life.

Breathe Together takes its title from the Latin root words of the word “conspiracy,” which also gives the central poem its title. It is both deeply personal and universally relatable, and it speaks to the resilience and humanity of those who lived through complex losses and betrayals during these traumatic times. The language is both mystical and cerebral, with a strong sense of imagery, reflection, and raw emotion. The collection is not only a meditation of the pandemic, familial lineage, insanity, and infidelity, but also the emotional journey of the poet. The reader can feel the pain...

Soldier and Spouse and Their Traveling House puts a witty spin on the dynamic of newlywed husband and wife trekking across two continents during their first three years of marriage. Who heads this household? The thrill-seeking soldier? Or the sensible spouse? Come along with this twenty-something military couple on their off-duty weekends as they dash in and out of trouble from the Emerald Isle to cruising down the Nile and many places in between-Western Europe, the Baltic, North Africa, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean.

Summer 1975: Helena is bored out of her mind - there's absolutely nothing to do and her supposed 'best friends' Gwen and Elaine are holidaying in the South of France without her. Summer 2021: New to the north, Hermione's mum has moved her away from London and all her friends to start a new life with new boyfriend Paul, who resembles a slab of meat from the butchers. By some miracle, the girls meet.

Wangersky’s great-great-grandfather crossed the continent in search of gold in 1849. William Castle Dodge was his name, and he was 22 years old. He wrote a diary of that eventful journey that comes into the author’s hands 160 years later. And typically, quixotically, Wangersky decides to follow Dodge’s westward trail across the great bulging middle of America, not in search of gold but something even less likely: that elusive thing called family.

Like many eight-year-old boys, Jack’s favorite thing in the world is dinosaurs. One day, he comes across an unusual object, which turns out to be a time machine! Jack and his Grandma embark on an exciting journey back in time, in search of different species of dinosaur. But their trip is not without its dangers: It will take the combined skills and knowledge of this multi-generational pair to escape a scary encounter and make it safely home.

Nicholas Sparks’ persönlichstes Buch. Als sich Nicholas Sparks und sein Bruder Micah im Januar 2003 auf eine Weltreise machen, blicken sie voller Erwartung auf einmalige Eindrücke und Erlebnisse. Nicholas und Micah sind die beiden einzigen lebenden Mitglieder ihrer Familie. Und so wird ihre Reise zu den Wundern der Welt auch eine Reise in die Erinnerung. Aus einem Reisebericht wird die bewegende Geschichte ihrer Familie, die durch den tragischen Tod der Eltern und der Schwester allzu früh zerrissen wurde.

Die Zwillinge Henriette und Hannes Tempus ziehen mit ihren Eltern von der Großstadt Berlin nach Weimar. Die Kinder sind von dem Umzug so gar nicht begeistert. Doch das Haus, in das sie einziehen, birgt etwas Mysteriöses. Schon am ersten Tag machen die Zwillinge im Keller des Hauses eine spannende Entdeckung. Sie finden eine Zeitmaschine. Herr Tempus offenbart allen ein altes Familiengeheimnis. Daraufhin begibt sich die Familie auf eine Zeitreise in das Jahr 1965. Zu dieser Zeit ist Deutschland in Ost und West geteilt. Die Familie Tempus erlebt den kuriosen Alltag in der ehemaligen DDR.

Book Three in the steampunk Land of Twilight Trilogy. How can the most colorful world in the universe turn hapless and gray?! That's what mystifies Sam and Lorna. Falling from the Land of Twilight, their friend Trix shows up at the discarded camper shell where Sam and Lorna are making secret plans. The Arizona desert is no place to hide. Trix and Melvin focus on reviving the Land of Realtime. Both Lorna and Sam's lives depend on it. Twilight and Earth, now interwoven, are crumbling together. How can the four friends unravel themselves and save their worlds? Things take a bad turn when a ...

They were married with a small family. They were happy. They knew their present and worked hard for their future. The God of this reality or the makers of this simulation pulled them 24 years in the past. Now they must relive their adult lives and attempt to get back the children they have lost.

When a billion dollar diamond deal cut by one of New York's heaviest crime families goes sour, and the consignment of rare gems is lost overseas, a crew of wise guys straight out of Brooklyn is ordered to get it back -- any way they can. This is an international caper novel to end all caper novels, a nonstop page-turner jam-packed with action from start to finish and one of Alexander's boldest books ever. This edition has been newly reformatted for the Kindle reader.

Summer Darling is a not so typical American teenager, longing to return to Spain and walk another route of the famed Camino de Santiago, but when Covid hits and locks down the world, Summer’s Camino plans screech to a halt. As Summer waits in frustration, she convinces her cousin Lou to join her when the world does reopen. Problem is Lou’s Mom, Tilly, who seems fixated on making Summer’s life a waking nightmare, and is convinced if they go, the sky will fall and crush Lou underneath. But the girls are persuasive and in the Fall of 2022 they’re off for Portugal to have the adventure ...

Buddy is a happy dog. He lives with a loving family in Sydney Australia. But one day they pack their bags and go away. Buddy isn't sure what has happened to them. He doesn't know it, but Buddy is about to go on a big adventure to be reunited with his family.

At the age of 42, his father not long dead and his young sons growing fast, Toby Ferris set off on a seemingly quixotic mission to track down each of the 42 surviving paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, who, at the age of 42, had been approaching the end of his own short life. Over the next five years Ferris would travel to 22 galleries in 19 cities in 12 countries across 2 continents: Budapest to San Diego, Detroit to Naples, Berlin to Madrid, ticking off his Bruegels as he went. The results of his journeying are a revelation....

Hi! My name is Saleh, and I'm 10 years old. I talk about my real-life vacation to Istanbul, Turkey. From fast driving taxis to the jewel of Istanbul, the Blue Mosque, I'll tell you how it all went. Join me through the amazing adventures that could literally be yours one day or not! Either way, this is my first book, so I hope you like my nonfiction depiction of my Turkish reality.

A science fiction fantasy of a family of intergalactic explorers that are telepathic and are endowed with supernatural powers. Due to their interactions with intergalactic space-faring dragons. Wayne, the paranoid leader, uses a spaceship named Hugo. He leads a mixed-species family and sentient computers on an adventure through the galaxy. In hopes of finding planets to colonize.

The Evil Nanasis has gone really bananas this time and wants her stuff back or the world is doomed (again). Worst of all, she's holding Nan's beloved pet ferret hostage! This time the POO-NAMI is really going to hit the wind farm! Against all the odds, it's up to the Listies to save the day.... Next stop in the interdimensional plumbing of time and space is The Maul, a sinister shopping centre that's surprisingly difficult to leave. Let's hope they don't shop till they drop!