Provided by the staff at the West University Branch Library.
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- Doris Betts. Heading West
- A spinster librarian is kidnapped and taken across the country. As time goes on, she stops trying to escape.
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- Sarah Bird. Virgin of the Rodeo
- A young woman in search of her father hits the rodeo trail.
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- Charles Dickinson. The Widows' Adventures
- Two widowed sisters take a car trip from Chicago to L.A. One of them is blind, and she does the driving.
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- Charles Frazier. Cold Mountain
- A wounded Confederate soldier walks 300 miles home through the Blue Ridge Mountains, hoping the woman he loved four years ago still waits for him.
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- Janice Galloway. Foreign Parts
- The adventures and misadventures of two middle-aged single Scotswomen traveling together through France.
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- Jaimy Gordon. She Drove Without Stopping
- Jane Turner, age 22, spends a risky year on the road and turns her life around.
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- Jack Kerouac. On the Road
- Narrator Sal Paradise and his bohemian friends hitchhike around America. A classic of the Beat generation.
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- Barbara Kingsolver. Bean Trees
- Taylor Greer buys and old car and heads west. Along the way she becomes the guardian of an abandoned baby girl.
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- Jim Lehrer. Kick the Can
- A state trooper’s son, One-Eyed-Mack, who wears a black patch over his eye, sets out on what becomes a picaresque journey.
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- Cormac McCarthy. The Crossing
- A young cowboy rides south of the border to Mexico on horseback several times, meeting life-changing events at every turn.
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- Larry McMurtry. Cadillac Jack
- A former rodeo cowboy roams the country in his Cadillac, scouting for antiques and falling in love.
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- Geoff Nicholson. Still Life with Volkswagens
- Various British eccentrics search for the meaning of life, and are obsessed with Volkswagens.
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- John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath
- The Pulitzer Prize winning novel about an Oklahoma farm family’s journey west to California in search of work as migrant fruit pickers.
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