Instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, Bill Bryson challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer....

A chronicle of the author's first four years in Italy, describing her purchase and restoration of an abandoned villa in the Tuscan countryside, her transformation of the overgrown gardens, and her discovery of the many links between the food and culture of the region.

Charlie and Louis are from Brooklyn. Charlie's stepfather, Sal, is a crime kingpin who has loaned Charlie a lot of money. Sal sends Charlie and Lewis to Australia, where they're to meet and deliver a large amount of cash to a mysterious Mr. Smith. En route to the outback, Charlie and Louis accidentally run over a kangaroo, and they decide to dress the marsupial in sunglasses and Louis' favorite jacket for snapshots. Since the animal wasn't dead, it...

Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.

When Charli and Leila score their first summer internships at a global fashion and entertainment company, whose headquarters are located in Rome, Italy, they can't wait to soak up the city's sights. But immediately they both get fired and become determined to find out why they are out of work. Experience the wonders as they find romance, excitement and intrigue.

The story of best friends who set out on a dangerous, but comedic journey that challenges the restrictions of a Jim Crow South to fulfill their dreams.

In 2004, we mourned the loss of one of America's true theatrical innovators. Spalding Gray took his own life by jumping from the Staten Island ferry into the waters of New York Harbor, finally succumbing to the impossible notion that he could in fact swim to Cambodia. At a memorial gathering for family, friends and fans at Lincoln Center in New York, his widow expressed the need to honor Gray's legacy as an artist and writer for his children, as well...

In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (later better known as Ernesto Che Guevara) just one semester away from graduation, decides to postpone his last semester to accompany his twenty-nine year old biochemist friend Alberto Granado on his four month, 8,000 km long dream motorcycle trip throughout South America starting from their home in Buenos Aires. Their quest is to see things they've only read about in books...

Kai-lan's aunt, Gu Nai Nai, invites her and her friends to visit China where they will meet a real baby panda and try new things ; When a super sunny day turns into a rainy day, Kai-lan thinks of exciting new ways to play in the rain, like jumping in puddles and sliding on lotus leaves ; Kai-lan and her friends help build a new swing for the ants' playground, but it is way too big for them.

With a couple of grand in the bank and a dream in their heart, Earl and Baby plan their escape from their hometown in Bennett, Texas. They are heading to Los Angeles. But Earl's dim-witted cousin, an ex-con and an angry drug lord are threatening to derail their plans. With just 48 hours to straighten out this mess, Earl finds himself smack dab in the middle of an even bigger mess.