travel

In graphic novel format, presents a guidebook to Japan, focusing on shopping, food, the world's biggest manga, anime, and cosplay festivals, and other topics.

Examines the birdsongs of the robin and how listening to robins and studying them and a variety of song birds can help a human better integrate in his or her natural environment.

"The memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List, Amon Goeth"--Provided by publisher.

A man from the United States, visiting India, is impressed by the nobility and kindness of the people he meets during his travels.

"Readers decide if they would sail with Christopher Columbus, and then find out what really happened"--Provided by publisher.

In 2011, Glenn Kurtz's aunt re-discovered a postcard from her parents from their European vacation in the summer of 1938. They had gone to Europe for a six-week vacation with friends. They visited England, France, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, passed through Germany, and made a side trip to their birthplace, the thriving, predominantly Jewish town of Nasielsk, Poland. They had no clue that their town would soon almost cease to exist. Fewer than one hundred of three thousand Jewish inhabitants would survive the destruction of Nasielsk by the Nazis in 1939. Unknowingly, Glenn Kurtz's grandfather had caught on 16mm film the only known moving images of these people. When the film was found, and then restored, Glenn Kurtz donated it to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and began an odyssey to find out as much as he could about Nasielsk's lost Jewish population. When he met eighty-six year old Maurice Chandler, a thirteen-year-old boy in the film, Glenn realized he had created a bridge between the two worlds. Eventually Maurice helped him locate seven other survivors and their memories, together with the film, have become a lasting memorial to a vibrant town and its inhabitants who did not know they were on the brink of extinction.

Descended from an ancient Lithuanian family, the author's forebears were princes in their native Lithuania. Born in what is now Belarus, his family was ousted in 1939 as the Germans and Russians carved up Poland, and the area round it, between them. His family, along with thousands of others, was deported to Soviet Siberia to work and die. Before all hope was gone, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, and Stalin needed help wherever he could get it. An army of Polish ex-prisoners, and part of the deported male civilian Polish population, fought the Germans. The rest of the deported civilians had to fend for themselves and Michal's mother and her children set off on a second grueling journey that would eventually take them to England.

Contains unabridged editions of two memorials presented to the Illinois legislature in 1846-47 by humanitarian and reformer Dorothea Dix, in which she pleaded her case for the humane care and effective treatment of the mentally ill in Illinois; and includes a selection of newspaper articles she wrote detailing conditions in the jails and poorhouses of Illinois communities.

Cartoonist Lucy Knisley recalls her tour of Europe.