1. If you enjoyed Eat,Pray, Love you'll like Walking Back to Happiness by Christine Palmer. Palmer is a bit overweight and discontented with her life. She decides to walk from southern France to northern Spain following the Santiago de Compostela trail. Her stated goal is to fit into a skimpy, silk Bellino top but she achieves much more than that. Funny, insightful and inspiring.
You might also like Wild:from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed.
2. Have you read A Discovery of Witches by Harkness? The main character is a witch although she denies it. She finds herself attracted to a vampire. Romance without the angst set in Oxford, U.K.
Other authors you might like are Anne Rice and Laurel K. Hamilton.
3. If you are looking for a heroic presidential adventure you can't go wrong with PT-109 by Robert Donovan. It's the story of John F. Kennedy's survival after his boat is hit by a Japanese destroyer during WW11. He spends 30 hours in the water towing the disabled boat and saves all but 2 of his crew.
Unfortunately, BCPL no longer owns copies of this classic but it is available through ILL.
Another amazing survival story is Unbroken by Hillenbrand.
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