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Brown Bag Books is a gathering of Librarians who meet quarterly at Main Library. Each meeting they share their favorite books, movies and audiobooks in a chosen genre and create a list of their favorites.

Travel The World By Book Or Movie

Books and Audiobooks (* = available on audio):

• Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: A Compendium edited by Elizabeth Peters
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• By the Seat of My Pants: Humorous Tales of Travel and Misadventure by Don George (Check Catalog)
• Crafts of Mexico edited by Margarita de Orellana (Check Catalog)
• Ella in Europe: An American Dog’s International Adventures by Michael Konik
  52 Ohio Weekends: Great Getaways and Adventures for Every Season by Mary Quinley (Check Catalog)
• Frontiers of Heaven: A Journey to the End of China by Stanley Stewart
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• Honeymoon With My Brother: A Memoir by Franz Wisner (Check Catalog)
• House in Corfu by Emma Tennant (Check Catalog)
• Lake Erie Journal: Guide to the Official Lake Erie Circle Tour by Scott Carpenter (Check Catalog)
• McCarthy’s Bar: A Journey of Discovery in the West of Ireland by Pete McCarthy
  Mexico City by Robert Payne (Check Catalog)
• Not So Funny When it Happened: The Best of Travel Humor...Tim Cahill
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• Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson   * (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)
• Ohio, Off the Beaten Path series by George Zimmerman (Check Catalog)
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• Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of France by Carol 
  Drinkwater   * (Check Catalog)
• On the Road with Charles Kuralt by Charles Kuralt (Check Catalog)
• One Tank Trips series by Neil Zurcher (Check Catalog)
• Our National Parks and Wildlife Refuges: Capturing the Rhythms of Light and Land by Jim Jamieson (Check Catalog)
• Reluctant Tuscan by Phil Doran (Check Catalog)
• Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family by Mike Leonard (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)
• State Capitals by Tracy Maurer (Check Catalog)
• Tales From the Edge: True Adventures in Alaska by Larry Kaniut (Check Catalog)
• Three Weeks With My Brother by Nicholas Sparks   * (Check Catalog)
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• Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)
• Trip to the Beach by Melinda and Robert Blanchard (Check Catalog)
• Trouble-free Travel With Children by Vicky Lansky (Check Catalog)
• Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes   * (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)
• Unforgettable Things to Do Before You Die by Steve Watkins (Check Catalog)
• Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson   * (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)
• Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke   * (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)
• Year in the World by Frances Mayes  (Check Catalog)   (Check Catalog)
• Yes Man by Danny Wallace (Check Catalog)

Teen Books

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen   * (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)
• North by Donna Jo Napoli   * (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)
• Playing for Keeps by Joan Lowery Nixon (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)
• S.A.S.S. – Students Across the Seven Seas series by various authors
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• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares   * (Check Catalog)

Video and DVD

• Peewee’s Big Adventure
• Sideways (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)
• Summertime (Check Catalog)
• Under the Tuscan Sun (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)
• Wild America (Check Catalog) (Check Catalog)
• Year in Provence: Summer/Fall and Winter/Spring (Check Catalog)