Gypsy Bags & Traveling Jackets

Gypsy Bags & Traveling Jackets
Author: Mica Rath
Publisher: WestBowPress
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-07-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1449799213

Gypsy Bags & Traveling Jackets is a journey of faith chronicled in journals spanning twenty-three years. A miniseries of periods, question marks, and exclamation points arranged in patterns of reflections, answers and awestruck moments that reflect not just collections of recorded events but jumbled thoughts in a soul-searching exercise of discovery. These are stories tailored in transparency; stories of faith rewarded, hope rekindled and love poured out in ways unimaginable.

Junk Gypsy

Junk Gypsy
Author: Jolie Sikes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1501135694

New York Times bestseller In their first book, the Junk Gypsies—sisters and stars of the popular Texas-born brand and HGTV show—combine big dreams, stories of roadside treasures found, and down-home design projects inspired by epic makeovers for friends like Miranda Lambert, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Sadie Robertson. Amie and Jolie Sikes, the Thelma and Louise of the design world, are the Junk Gypsies: a family with an addiction to flea markets, wanderlust, and Americana inspired design. In their world, cowgirls are heroes, road trips last forever, and junk is treasured. Beginning with a little bit of faith and a whole lot of heart and soul, the sisters travelled the back roads of America like gypsies, collecting roadside trinkets and tattered treasures while meeting kindred spirits and lively characters along the way. With a mix of hippie, rock n’ roll, southern charm, and big dreams, these small-town Texas girls became restless wanderers and owners and operators of their dream business and bohemian brand, Junk Gypsy. Filled with stories from their unique journey as well as DIY projects and bohemian inspired designs, Junk Gypsy is a tribute to all the rowdy gypsies, crafty junkers, free-spirited romantics, and true-blue rebels who have ever dared to dream big.

A Magic Carpet Ride

A Magic Carpet Ride
Author: Gina Kingsley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-07-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692713938

A Magic Carpet Ride is more than just a travel memoir. It is a story within a story about personal journeys as well as travel journeys. Of the many themes, the strongest is the author's rediscovery of her mother's spirit while traveling "Mother Earth." A cosmic theme unfolds, as well as a theme of preparing for the empty nest. The first generation Greek American author describes what it is like to take her own children back to her ancestral homeland to discover the essence of their roots, much like the author did in her childhood trips to Greece. Over 20 countries are described in A Magic Carpet Ride, as well as an educational unit that the author and her three sons designed to build their own trip itineraries and research components. This book is about travel, history, love, pain, goals, fears, risk, adventure, humor, understanding, letting go and faith. Come take a magic carpet ride!

No Baggage

No Baggage
Author: Clara Bensen
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0762457252

"An engaging memoir of travel, love, and finding oneself." -- Kirkus Reviews Newly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expected to meet Jeff, a wildly energetic university professor with a reputation for bucking convention. They barely know each other's last names when they agree to set out on a risky travel experiment spanning eight countries and three weeks. The catch? No hotel reservations, no plans, and best of all, no baggage. No Baggage is at once a romance, a travelogue, and a bright modern take on the age-old questions: How do you find the courage to explore beyond your comfort zone? Can you love someone without the need for labels or commitment? Is it possible to truly leave your baggage behind?

The Ministry of Pain

The Ministry of Pain
Author: Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher: Saqi Books
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005
Genre: Amsterdam (Netherlands)
ISBN:

Tanja Luciae teaches at the University of Amsterdam and lives on the edge of the city's red light district. She and her pupils, fleeing the violent break-up of their homeland Yugoslavia, have found temporary refuge in the Department of Slavonic Languages. Desperate to make ends meet, many of the students find work at the 'Ministry' - a fetish-wear factory in North Amsterdam. Meanwhile, Tanja and her student Igor form a dangerously close relationship that threatens to unleash all the tensions of life in exile ... with savage compassion our shared human homelessness.