Gringos in Paradise: An American Couple Builds Their Retirement Dream House in a Seaside Village in Mexico
10 best books like Gringos in Paradise: An American Couple Builds Their Retirement Dream House in a Seaside Village in Mexico (Barry Golson): A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean, One Souffle at a Time: A Memoir of Food and France, Marcus of Umbria: What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl about Love, Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile, Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia, Chosen Forever: a memoir, River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea, El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City, Greene on Capri, The Most Scenic Drives in America: 120 Spectacular Road Trips
This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise -- and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It's a story filled with calamities and comedy, culinary disasters and triumphs, and...
One Souffle at a Time: A Memoir of Food and France
Anne Willan demystified classic French culinary technique for regular people who love food. Her legendary La Varenne Cooking School-in its original location in Paris and later in its longtime home in Burgundy-trained chefs, food writers and home cooks. Under Willan's cheerful, no-nonsense instruction,...
| Author | Justine van der Leun |
Tired of laboring in city cubicles, Justine van der Leun sublets her studio apartment, leaves her magazine job, and moves to Collelungo, Italy, population: 200. There, in the ancient city center of a historic Umbrian village, she sets up house with the handsome local gardener she met on vacation only...
| Author | Sara Wheeler |
| ISBN | 0375753656 |
Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral...
| Author | Patrick Tracey |
| ISBN | 0553805258 |
Well . . . I am the author, so I'll simply say that this is the book I was born to write. And I'll finally exhale and give myself a pat on the book. Our family has been pulverized by schizophrenia, the most severe form of mental illness, which follows a hereditary line from Boston back to Ireland . . . two of my...
| Author | Susan Richards |
| ISBN | 1569474923 |
“Richards reflects on how rich life becomes when one travels her own best path. . . . Richards writes more courageously than she perhaps realizes, and each page of this uplifting book will touch a chord in everyone who enjoyed her first book.”-- Booklist
“Charismatic. . . Engaging writing...
| Author | Colin Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0375701826 |
At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare the fat off my soul...to make me grateful, again, for being alive." The 1,700 miles between the Colorado's...
| Author | John Ross |
| ISBN | 1568584245 |
John Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City’s days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated...
| Author | Shirley Hazzard |
| ISBN | 0374527776 |
When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him-not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well-on an island that was "not his kind of...
The Most Scenic Drives in America: 120 Spectacular Road Trips
| Author | Reader's Digest Association |
| ISBN | 0762105801 |
While roaming around the library looking for travel info on the Dakotas I blundered on this book. Reminded me what fun you can have wandering around the library.
Cherry picked a few of the drives for a soon to occur road trip to the Badlands, and while one usually thinks of the ‘cake-pan’ shaped...
Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico
| Author | Tony Cohan |
| ISBN | 0767920910 |
Tony Cohan’s On Mexican Time, his chronicle of discovering a new life in the small Mexican mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, has beguiled readers and become a travel classic. Now, in Mexican Days, point of arrival becomes point of departure as—faced with the invasion of the town by tourists...
Spanish Lessons: Beginning a New Life in Spain
| Author | Derek Lambert |
| ISBN | 0767904168 |
In the shrewd, comical spirit of Peter Mayle and Bill Bryson, Derek Lambert discovers the charms and idiosyncrasies of Spain as he experiences the rewards and frustrations of beginning a new life there. [set as a headline]
As Lambert and his wife set about restoring their moldering casita on Spain’s...
An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town
| Author | David Farley |
| ISBN | 1592404545 |
A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus Christ. In December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill town of Calcata shared shocking news with his congregation: The pride of their town, the foreskin of Jesus, had been stolen....
French Farmhouse Cookbook
| Author | Susan Herrmann Loomis |
| ISBN | 1563054884 |
As much a book of inspiration as a collection of over 250 uncommonly delicious recipes, French Farmhouse Cookbook captures the rustic and richly flavored farmhouse cooking that is the basis of French cuisine and a perennial inspiration of French chefs. The author visited and lived among farmers,...
Death on the Barrens: A True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic
| Author | George James Grinnell |
| ISBN | 1556438826 |
Set in the remote arctic region of Northern Canada, this book takes readers on a harrowing canoe voyage that results in tragedy, redemption, and, ultimately, transformation. George Grinnell was one of six young men who set off on the 1955 expedition led by experienced wilderness canoeist Art Moffatt....
Dream on: Livin' on the Edge With Steven Tyler and Aerosmith
When Cyrinda herself openly admits, multiple times throughout the book, that it was written purely for the money and that the publishers wanted all the dark, dirty details of her and Steven Tyler's marriage... well that should give you a good idea about the tone of the book. The first half, where she talks...
The Life and Times of Mexico
| Author | Earl Shorris |
| ISBN | 0393327671 |
The Life and Times of Mexico is a grand narrative driven by 3,000 years of history: the Indian world, the Spanish invasion, Independence, the 1910 Revolution, the tragic lives of workers in assembly plants along the border, and the experiences of millions of Mexicans who live in the United States. Mexico...
| Author | Arthur Grimble |
| ISBN | 0140095179 |
The funny, charming, and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert & Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated and tattooed according to local tradition, but not before he was severely tested, as when he was used as human bait for...
The Slaves Have Names: Ancestors of My Home
They lived with professors and waited on former presidents. They were masons and nurses, school teachers and field hands, 246 people owned by a man who struggled with the institution of slavery. Yet, almost no one knows their names.
When a white woman begins to study the history of the plantations...
The Summer of My Greek Taverna
The story of a man in love with a place, a woman, and a dream.
Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel -- and stayed twenty-two years. On Patmos, he fell in love with Danielle, a beautiful French painter. His novel completed and sold, he decided to stay a little longer.
Seven idyllic years...
| Author | Alma Guillermoprieto |
This is a great book about the culture and evolution of Samba. Set in Rio de Janeiro, this books follows the year long preparation for Carnival by the world-renowned Samba school, Manguiera. It's definitely a must read if you are trying to learn more about samba, carnival or Brazilian culture. It had...
| Author | Elliott Hester |
| ISBN | 0312310064 |
Make sure your seatbacks and tray tables are in their full upright and locked position for these shocking, bizarre, hilarious, and outrageous stories of airplane travel.
You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's ninety-two degrees in the cabin and someone...
Angels of Death: Inside the Biker Gangs' Crime Empire
| Author | Julian Sher |
| ISBN | 0786719311 |
Two of today's top investigative journalists discovered the reality of the world's most foremost biker gang — The Hells Angels. With an estimated 2,500 members in 25 countries, the Hells Angels have inspired a global subculture of violence and fear. Sher and Marsden unflinching look at how law enforcement...
Shut Up, I'm Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government--A Memoir
| Author | Gregory Levey |
| ISBN | 1416556133 |
When twenty-five-year-old law student Gregory Levey applied for an internship at the Israeli Consulate, he got more than he’d bargained for. The speechwriter for the Israeli delegation to the United Nations quit, and Levey was asked to fill the vacancy. The situation got even stranger when he was...
