Le Road Trip

Vivian Swift - nice sketchy account of trip through western France. Cute water color sketches and chatty dialog.

Evel Knievel Days

Pauls Toutonghi - nice story of Egyptian in Butte, MT, growing up with the challenge of being abandoned by his Egyptian father and living with American mother next to the huge copper pits. Goes to Cairo to find and meet father. Explores cultures of both locales in nice way.

The Violinist's Thumb

Sam Kean - survey of DNA, genes, the history of the discoveries, the association of genes to specific characteristics, and trace of the mutations back through the millennia. Lot of stuff covered bit superficially. Like how do they really know this stuff - can't really say that it was answered.