In Love Abroad Best Sellers

Below we’ve included some of the best-selling books and movies about long-distance relationships, multicultural relationships and travel.  Clicking the titles or images will take you to Amazon.com where you can read detailed reviews and contemplate a purchase.  All of the books and movies below are hand picked and recommended by In Love Abroad.com.  We hope you find something of interest!

Last updated 03/11/2013. 

Gadgets

Kindle Fire w/ Wi-Fi

For anyone that travels often, like those of us in international relationships, the Kindle Fire is the perfect gift.  You can store all your books in one place and not worry about an overweight suitcase or stuffed carry-on bag.  With the Wi-Fi version, you can also browse the internet on the go.  Essentially, the new Kindle Fire is an e-book reader and a tablet.

Books

The Long-Distance Relationship Survival Guide by Chris Bell & Kate Brauer-Bell

Skyrocketing phone bills. Layovers and missed flights. Countless hours spent pining, worrying, and wondering, Why do we do this to ourselves? Long-distance love can be one challenge after another, but as most committed couples will tell you, the rewards well outweigh the stresses. In this sensitive yet sensible guide, long-distance veterans Chris and Kate provide strategies for making the distance seem shorter and outline eight essential skills for relationship success.

Committed: A Love Story by Elizabeth Gilbert

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who’d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which—after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing—gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again.

The Newlyweds by Neil Freudenberger

In The Newlyweds, you follow the story of Amina Mazid, who at age twenty-four moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, for love. A hundred years ago, Amina would have been called a mail-order bride. But this is an arranged marriage for the twenty-first century: Amina is wooed by—and woos—George Stillman online.  For Amina, George offers a chance for a new life and a different kind of happiness than she might find back home. For George, Amina is a woman who doesn’t play games. But each of them is hiding something: someone from the past they thought they could leave behind. It is only when they put an ocean between them that she and George find out if their secrets will tear them apart, or if they can build a future together.

Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris by Sarah Turnbull

This cute firsthand look at the hardships of settling into a city infamously chilly to outsiders gives a glimpse of the true nature of Parisians and daily life in their gorgeous city. Though Turnbull tells readers less about love than new life, it was in falling for a Frenchman that the journalist found herself moving to Paris, for a few months that stretched into years. The cultural relationship is challenging enough, leaving aside the more intimate personal story (though readers do learn enough about Turnbull’s now husband to understand her decision to stay), and she writes of finding work, making friends, surviving dinner parties and adapting to the rhythms and pace of life with a Parisian boyfriend with humor and a developing sense of wisdom.

Movies

Going the Distance (2010)

Erin (Drew Barrymore) and Garrett (Justin Long) strike sparks for a summer fling in New York City but neither expects it to last once Erin heads home to San Francisco and Garrett remains behind for his Big Apple job. But after six increasingly romantic weeks, neither is sure they want it to end. So despite the opposing coasts, naysaying friends and family and a few unexpected temptations, the couple just might have found something like love. And helped by a lot of texting and late-night phone calls, they might actually go the distance.

Like Crazy (2011)

Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is devastating. When a British college student (Felicity Jones) falls for her American classmate (Anton Yelchin), they embark on a passionate and life-changing journey only to be separated when she violates the terms of her visa. Like Crazy explores how a couple faces the real challenges of being together and of being apart.

Casablanca (1942)

A truly perfect movie, the 1942 Casablanca still wows viewers today, and for good reason. Its unique story of a love triangle set against terribly high stakes in the war against a monster is sophisticated instead of outlandish, intriguing instead of garish. Humphrey Bogart plays the allegedly apolitical club owner in unoccupied French territory that is nevertheless crawling with Nazis; Ingrid Bergman is the lover who mysteriously deserted him in Paris; and Paul Heinreid is her heroic, slightly bewildered husband.

Music

Soundtrack: Like Crazy

This album features music from the 2011 motion picture Like Crazy.  The movie featured a college students from the United States and United Kingdom in a long-distance relationships with so many trials and tribulations.  Like Crazy will be released on DVD soon, but for now you can enjoy the music from the emotional moments of the movie.