"An award-winning author charts the poignant journeys of African Americans abroad as she explores her own transatlantic family odyssey in this powerful global history of traveling while Black. Part historical exploration, part travel memoir, Beyond the Shores reveals poignant histories of a diverse group of African Americans who have left the United States over the course of the past century. Tying these tales together is Dr. Tamara J. Walker's personal...

After moving to Southeast Asia with his unfaithful girlfriend, hoping to give their relationship a second chance, Boyd Darrow relates his adventures via a series of letters to a mysterious recipient.

The members of the Kriegstein family deal with their tumultuous existence as their patriarch, Chris, accepts jobs around the world that bring them across North America, Europe, and Asia, until an unimaginable loss adds a permanence they never experienced before.

Four retired CIA agents team up when one of their own goes missing in this spy thriller by the bestselling author of The Tears of Autumn.
Welcome to the world of Charles McCarry's legendary character, Paul Christopher, the crack intelligence agent who is as skilled at choosing a fine wine as he is at tradecraft, at once elegant and dangerous, sophisticated and rough-and-ready . . .
Paul Christopher, now an aging but remarkably...

A comprehensive guide to emigrating out of the United States, providing suggestions and information on where Americans can most easily gain residency and citizenship, and discussing which countries are best suited for lifestyles, genders, ages, or political beliefs.

Two undercover agents are cut off from their own government and are set loose on a crucial mission that may cost them their lives. Jimmy Nash has already lived two lives--and he can't talk about either of them. Formerly an operative of a top secret government agency, he has found a new job with a shadowy company called Troubleshooters Inc. Created by a former Navy SEAL, Troubleshooters Inc. helps anyone in desperate need--which provides a perfect...

An “entertaining and profoundly original” (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. •  From the bestselling author of The Circle.
“Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.” —The New York...

"No husbands allowed. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend brings pulsating discos,...

Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Jim take a balloon trip around the world.

In this fascinating memoir, one of the Lone Star State's literary icons reflects on the European travels that shaped him as a writer.