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Not-for-profit Road Scholar was founded in 1975. Our mission is to inspire adults to learn, discover and travel on educational adventures around the world.  

 

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Asian Pacific American Heritage

River Sing Me Home
This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
The Mother-In-Law
The School for Good Mothers
In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home
Lessons in Chemistry
Things I Wish I Told My Mother: The Perfect Mother's Day Gift
Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind
The Best Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly about Motherhood
Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood
One Question a Day for Moms: A Five-Year Journal: Daily Reflections on Motherhood
Teacher Man
It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids
Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education
Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators
The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future
A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori
Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year (Expanded)
My Life with Lifers: Lessons for a Teacher: Humanity Has No Bars
Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking: Traditional Family Recipes from Italy's Best Home Cooks
My Two Italies: A Personal and Cultural History
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition: A Cookbook
The Eight Mountains
The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond
An Italian Holiday
The City of Falling Angels
Under the Tuscan Sun: 20th-Anniversary Edition
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
Ratking
The Name of the Rose
The Enchanted April
My Brilliant Friend: A Novel (Neapolitan Novels, 1)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
One-Hit Wonders: An Oblique History of Popular Music
Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music
A History of Film Music
Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
A Little History of Music
Amadeus: Construction, History and Music
Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History
Hidden History of Music Row
The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop Music: A History
All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release
Prince: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Year of Food Life
The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling
Composting: Nature's Recyclers
Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth
The Man Who Planted Trees (Anniversary)
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World
The Kinfolk Garden: How to Live with Nature
The Complete Gardener: A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening
Sitopia
Working with Nature
The Little Gardener: Helping Children Connect with the Natural World
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
Silent Spring (Anniversary)
Native Defenders of the Environment
Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission
The Story of Ireland: A History of the Irish People
In the Woods
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Lion of Ireland
Mythical Ireland: New Light on the Ancient Past
Ireland: A History
Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice
On Celtic Tides: One Man's Journey Around Ireland by Sea Kayak
The Twelve Apostles: Michael Collins, the Squad, and Ireland's Fight for Freedom
Coast: Recipes from Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way
Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland
Great Trees of Britain and Ireland: 60 of the Best Ancient Avenues, Forests and Trees to Visit
I Never Knew That about Ireland
A Brief History of Ireland
Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959
Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
Viola Desmond: Her Life and Times
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
The American Women's Movement: A Brief History with Documents
Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue
First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women
Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Sally Ride: Life on a Mission
Red Bird, Red Power, Volume 67: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Sa
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
A Disability History of the United States
Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education
Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen and Other Photographic Rhetoric
What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement
Disability and Human Rights: Global Perspectives (2015)
No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s
No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
We Want to Go to School!: The Fight for Disability Rights
Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959 James Baldwin: A Biography Rosa Parks: My Story
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Black History