EAST: A Woman on the Road to Kathmandu. Inspired by a book purchased at Fred and Pat Cody's legendary bookstore on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, Shelley Buck took off alone in 1972 on a journey she hoped would take her overland to India and Nepal by public transit. East chronicles that journey and Shelley's emergence into adulthood along the way.

Imagine running away to sea without giving up your day job In Floating Point, the author and her family seek to shorten a daunting commute to Silicon Valley by moving to a boat. This travel memoir chronicles an experiment in simplicity lived beneath the radar of suburban life as the new owners of the Egret learn the ropes and are transformed by their life on the water. JOIN THE ADVENTURE