Becoming Odyssa
by Jennifer Pharr Davis | 
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
by David Miller | 
Little Princes
by Conor Grennan | 
Hiking Through
by Paul Stutzman | 
Kabul Beauty School
by Deborah Rodriguez |
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
by Helene Hanff | 
Dispatches from Pluto
by Richard Grant |
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
by Roger Deakin | 
A Woman in the Polar Night
by Christiane Ritter |
Used and Rare
by Lawrence Goldstone | 
The Year of Living Danishly
by Helen Russell | 
At Home in the World
by Tsh Oxenreider | 
Stargazing
by Peter Hill | 
Sir Vidia's Shadow
by Paul Theroux |
The Tenth Island
by Diana Marcum |
Paris Letters
by Janice MacLeod | 
My Invented Country
by Isabel Allende | 
If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name
by Heather Lende | 
An African in Greenland
by Tete-Michel Kpomassie | 
Men of Salt
by Michael Benanav |
Like a well-crafted stage play, Just Passin' Thru delivers one suspenseful scene after another. But in this historic setting -- a store on the Appalachian Trail called Mountain Crossings -- the characters who show up are no fictional creations. They are the real-life stars of the author's new life as a backpack-purging, canteen-selling, hostel-running, bandage-taping, lost-child finding, argument-settling, romance-fixing, chili-making man of many faces. Like any good drama, there are the good guys (and gals) and the weirdos, too. Some show up once (and that's enough), and some appear again and again. Some are friends, and some dangerous. But all are united by two things: the author's story-capturing talent, and whatever it is that lures them to attempt (or conquer) a 2,200-mile path that climbs and plummets from Georgia to Maine.