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One romantic getaway. Two friends. Seven days just pretending… When Nina Copeland’s mates try to match her with the guy next door, she needs a plan. Because Matthew’s just a friend, and Nina has a secret she doesn’t want him to discover – not until she’s tidied her messy life. After his divorce, physics teacher Matthew Gilchrist has kept his heart locked safely away. So why do people keep pushing him to date his chirpy neighbour? He and Nina are fine just as friends. Aren’t they?

What happens when “just friends” becomes a marriage—and one spontaneous decision changes the course of your entire life?In Just Friends: Love, Lessons, and a New Life Under the Spanish Sun, J.R. Hutt shares a warm, candid, and deeply personal account of love, cultural discovery, family...

1976. The ass end of the hippie era. Adrift in college, Mark Orwoll drops out in favor of the hitchhiker's road through Europe, the U. K., and Morocco. Along the way, he hangs out with Beat Generation poets, gets dosed on acid at an illegal rock festival, loses everything he owns to thieves, and decidedly does NOT learn how to ride a camel. He would also find his calling in life—at 4 p.m. on July 17, 1976, over a beer on the terrace of the Café Select in Montparnasse. Harps, trumpets, and cathedralesque sunbeams may have been involved.

Part sporting travelogue, part political history, (Just as Well) It's Not About the Bike follows journalist Chris Atkin's 1,300 km cycle from Valencia to Gibraltar. En route, he travels through Spain’s most picturesque towns. And Benidorm. Along the way, he learns about the region’s history, from the time four hydrogen bombs fell over Spain to the politician who shot General Franco’s daughter in the bottom yet rose to become one of the country’s most powerful men. While riding across Spain, Chris also meets an array of eccentric characters.

This Way Out! is an engaging, fast-paced, and humor-laced guide for Americans considering a life abroad. With a voice reminiscent of Bill Bryson, it feels like a letter from a close friend who has gone before you. Dave Wollert offers a candid, entertaining, and highly informative account of his personal journey relocating to Nice, France in his seventies. The result is part memoir and part practical handbook peppered with wit, seasoned insights, encouragement, and genuine emotional warmth.