French By Heart: An American Family's Adventures in La Belle France
10 best books like French By Heart: An American Family's Adventures in La Belle France (Rebecca S. Ramsey): Blame It on Paris, C'est la Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French, All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women, Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light, French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France, A Yank Back to England: The Prodigal Tourist Returns, Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own, A Writer's House in Wales, From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant, Solo: On Her Own Adventure
| Author | Laura Florand |
| ISBN | 0765315084 |
Can an insecure American woman find happiness with a sexy Parisian waiter---
even if she doesn't like the French?
Laura has spent most of her adult life avoiding serious relationships, flitting around the world, and keeping her romantic expectations comfortably low. The last thing...
C'est la Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French
| Author | Suzy Gershman |
| ISBN | 0143035509 |
Bestselling writer Suzy Gershman (dubbed “Super Shopper Suzy” by Oprah) is our answer to Peter Mayle in this heartfelt, breezy, and funny story of starting over in Paris. Suzy had always fantasized about moving to Paris with her husband, but when he dies unexpectedly, she decides to fulfill their...
All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women
| Author | Helena Frith Powell |
| ISBN | 0452287782 |
The allure of the Frenchwoman—sexy, sophisticated, flirtatious, and glamorous—is legendary. More than an eye for fashion or a taste for elegance, the French je ne sais quoi embodies the essential ingredients for looking and feeling beautiful.With wit, whimsy, and wonder, British expatriate...
Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light
| Author | David Downie |
| ISBN | 0307886085 |
“Beautifully written and refreshingly original… makes us see [Paris] in a different light.” -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of...
French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France
| Author | Polly Platt |
| ISBN | 0964668424 |
Polly Platt's title French or Foe? is more timely than ever, as the Franco. American alliance frays a little more with each day, the exchanges more vitriolic than ever before. Her book has long been the reference for what it is about the French that rubs Americans the wrong way, why the Franco-American...
A Yank Back to England: The Prodigal Tourist Returns
| Author | Denis Lipman |
| ISBN | 1934848247 |
Denis Lipman left London’s East End for Washington, DC more than 20 years ago, but made an annual pilgrimage year after year to visit aging parents, a pair of cantankerous, real-life Cockneys. He endured the visits as best he could. Enter an American wife. Not content with a grin-and-bear-it attitude,...
| Author | Polly Evans |
| ISBN | 0385339933 |
Polly Evans’s itinerary for China was simple: travel by luxurious high-speed train and long-distance bus, glide along the Grand Canal and hike up scenic mountains. Instead, the linguistically impaired adventurer found herself on a primitive sleeper-minibus where sleep was out of the question;...
A Writer's House in Wales
| Author | Jan Morris |
| ISBN | 0792265238 |
Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner of Wales, is the 18th-century stable block of...
| Author | Michael S. Sanders |
| ISBN | 0060959207 |
From Here,You Can't See Paris is a sweet, leisurely exploration of the life of Les Arques (population 159), a hilltop village in a remote corner of France, untouched by the modern era. It is a story of a dying village's struggle to survive, of a dead artist whose legacy began its rebirth, and of chef Jacques...
| Author | Susan Fox Rogers |
| ISBN | 1580051375 |
Back by popular demand, this second edition of Solo adds new stories to the ones readers already lovewomen pedaling across New Zealand, hiking in the Adirondacks, bodyboarding with dolphins off the California Coast, and driving through the northwestern United States. With plenty of alone-time...
| Author | Mark Greenside |
| ISBN | 1416586873 |
Tired of Provence in books, cuisine, and tablecloths? Exhausted from your armchair travels to Paris? Despairing of ever finding a place that speaks to you beyond reason? You are ripe for a journey to Brittany, where author Mark Greenside reluctantly travels, eats of the crêpes, and finds a second...
| Author | Kristin Espinasse |
| ISBN | 0743287282 |
Based on the popular blog (french-word-a-day.com) and newsletter with thousands of subscribers -- a heart-winning collection from an American woman raising two very French children with her French husband in Provence, carrying on a lifelong love affair with the language. Imagine a former French...
Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor
| Author | Josh Wolk |
| ISBN | 1401302602 |
What happens when a grown man returns to the site of his fondest childhood memories? A wry, clear-eyed, and laugh-out-loud look at the transition to adulthoodThree months before getting married at age thirty-four, Josh Wolk decides to treat himself to a "farewell to childhood" extravaganza: one...
| Author | Vicki Archer |
| ISBN | 1920989455 |
A beautifully photographed romantic book about French style and culture?and making a new home in Provence
In 1999, Vicki Archer, with her husband and three children, made a lifelong dream a reality when she bought a seventeenth-century property in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. She spent three...
Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris
| Author | Clotilde Dusoulier |
| ISBN | 0767926137 |
Clotilde Dusoulier, a native Parisian and passionate explorer of the city’s food scene, has won a tremendous following online with her insider reports and wonderful recipes on her blog, www.chocolateandzucchini.com. Her book, Chocolate and Zucchini, introduced her to a wider, equally enthusiastic...
At Home in France: Tales of an American and Her House Abroad
| Author | Ann Barry |
| ISBN | 0345407873 |
Ann Barry was a single woman, working and living in New York, when she fell in love with a charming house in Carennac in southwestern France. Even though she knew it was the stuff of fantasy, even though she knew she would rarely be able to spend more than four weeks a year there, she was hooked. This spirited,...
French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French
| Author | Harriet Welty Rochefort |
| ISBN | 0312199783 |
Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty years living among the French. From a small town in Iowa to the City of Light, Harriet has done what so many of dream of one day doing-she picked up and moved to France....
A Town Like Paris: Falling in Love in the City of Light
| Author | Bryce Corbett |
| ISBN | 0767928172 |
At the age of twenty-eight, stuck in a dead-end job in London, and on the run from a broken heart, Bryce Corbett takes a job in Paris, home of l’amour and la vie boheme; he is determined to make the city his own—no matter how many bottles of Bordeaux it takes. He rents an apartment in Le Marais, the heart...
Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train
| Author | Ina Caro |
| ISBN | 0393078949 |
In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history. Whether taking us to Orléans to evoke the miraculous visions of Joan of Arc, to Versailles to experience...
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
| Author | Alice Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0226424383 |
A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women.
All...
Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything
| Author | Simon Majumdar |
| ISBN | 1416576029 |
When Simon Majumdar hit forty, he realized there had to be more to life than his stable but uninspiring desk job. As he wondered how to escape his career, he rediscovered a list of goals he had scrawled out years before, the last of which said: Go everywhere, eat everything. With that, he had found his mission...
Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters
| Author | Jennifer Wilson |
| ISBN | 0312598955 |
A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia
"We can look at this in two ways," Jim wrote, always the pragmatist. "We can panic and scrap the whole idea. Or we can take this as a sign. They're saying the economy is going...
A Corner in the Marais: Memoir of a Paris Neighborhood
| Author | Alex Karmel |
| ISBN | 1567921981 |
or anyone who loves Paris and the mysterious allure of old houses, this charming, personal and informed memoir makes for perfect reading. In a knowledgeable, literate style that conveys (and makes contagious) Karmel's love of his subject, A Corner in the Marais traces the architectural and social...
| Author | Tim Moore |
| ISBN | 0349114196 |
They stuck their coaches on ride-on, ride off ferries, whisked through France and Italy moaning about garlic and rudeness, then bored the neighbours to death by having them all round to look at their holiday watercolours. Most people associate the Grand Tour with the baggy shirted Byrons of its 19th-century...
| Author | Colin McPhee |
| ISBN | 9625936297 |
This is a book about passion, obsession and discovery in an amazing land, but also about the voyage of a highly talented composer and writer.
A House in Bali remains one of the most remarkable books ever written about the fabled island of Bali. This classic book tells the story of Balinese culture...
