Tricked by their parents into taking a trip to Italy together, two brothers--one in high school and the other recently graduated from college--reflect on the directions of their own lives and on the distance that has grown between them. Sixteen-year-old Elijah is completely mellow and his 23-year-old brother Danny is completely not, so it's no wonder they can barely tolerate one another. So what better way to repair their broken relationship than...

"He took everything so calmly; did he imagine that she always kissed the man sitting next to her on the night plane from Miami?"

-From Miami-New York by Martha Gellhorn

Actors read fabulous stories that take place in transit, about adventures that would not have been possible without modern transportation. This compilation proves that a lot can happen neither here nor there, but on the way from one place to another.

Stuart Dybek's Pet Milk

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"Alice Sullivan, a high-achieving architect and mom of two, is used to being in control. Until life rips the blueprints right out of her hands. While she's always strived for a picture perfect life, Alice's foundation is rocked when she discovers her daughter is failing reading at school, and worse, her son is a bully, having humiliated a classmate on stage in front of 500 of their peers. Alice feels desperate to make things right, but when she turns...

"Are we there yet?" The answer should always be "Yes!" because the stated destination is a small part of the trip. Wherever we are, there is much to see and do and learn. We are always "there." Such it is with life. The author has written about being "there" for almost nine exciting decades from 1930 to 2020.

Take the world's tiniest villain add two unlikely heroes and a sandwich on wheels, and what have you got? The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie!

On the outskirts of the pastoral Illinois town of Partonville, Illinois, eighty-seven-year-old Dorothy Wetstra lives on her farm, venturing out to drive around in her '76 Lincoln Continental-affectionately dubbed "The Tank"-play bunco with her pals, or grab a stool at Harry's counter, where she can stay on top of the town's latest shenanigans (most of which she is responsible for). But when a visitor comes to town with a proposition, Dorothy finds...

Reality is no respecter of delusions, except perhaps in Del Boca, a model American community, struggling to be heard above the din. The days are fully packed as the good people of Del Boca deal with such problems as elitism, education reform, celebrity culture, political correctness, free speech, science, and politics. A social satire about life in our times.

"Tech giants and automakers have been teaching robots to drive. In Are We There Yet?, Dan Albert combines historical scholarship with personal narrative to explore how car culture has suffused America's DNA. The plain, old-fashioned, human-driven car built our economy, won our wars, and shaped our democratic creed as it moved us about. Driver's ed made teenagers into citizens; auto repair made boys into men. Crusades against the automobile are nothing...