Wanderlust: A Book Club Sampler from Simon & Schuster

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Wanderlust: A Book Club Sampler from Simon & Schuster
is your boarding pass to the beautiful, the mysterious, and the unknown. This book club sampler was created to pay homage to a book’s unique ability to transport your imagination around the world, taking you on journeys across distance and time. Whether you’re in the mood for a historical love story set on a sheep station in rural Australia or an illuminating memoir of life in the war-torn Middle East, these are books you and your reading group won’t want to miss:
Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
by Annia Ciezadlo,
Wildflower Hill
by Kimberley Freeman,
The Dovekeepers
by Alice Hoffman,
Amaryllis in Blueberry
by Christina Meldrum,
The Hundred-Foot Journey
by Richard C. Morais,
The Distant Hours
by Kate Morton,
This Burns My Heart
by Samuel Park,
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
by Anuradha Roy.

Each excerpt in
Wanderlust
is accompanied by a collection of bonus materials intended to enrich your reading experience, including discussion questions, suggestions for enhancing your book club meeting, and author interviews. In the spirit of looking to the horizon, we also asked each author featured in this sampler one question: “What is your favorite travel memory?” Their answers are fittingly diverse—from Christina Meldrum’s summers spent at a family cottage in Lake Margrethe, Michigan, to Alice Hoffman’s inspirational first trip to Masada, the setting of her epic new novel
The Dovekeepers
. Anuradha Roy, the author of
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
, describes the lure of armchair travel best: “All readers…carry within themselves sediments of the places they have traveled to in books, the people they’ve met on the way. Therefore the strange déjà vu is when you land in a foreign country and wonder if you’ve been there before.”

So, sit back, relax, and get ready for the trip of a lifetime.

Bon Voyage!