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A Midwest Indie Bestseller When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors, police denunciations, surly demonstrators, cooking disasters, medical mishaps--not to mention all those lectures about cheese It turns out that nothing i... Read More about French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

In eighteen hilarious accounts, prize-winning humorist Scott Carpenter lifts the curtain on what passes for normal in Europe's most glorious capital, measuring it by the yardstick of the American Midwest.... Read More about French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

After his hilarious introduction to Paris in French Like Moi, Scott Dominic Carpenter returns to the scene of the crime with more tales of intrigue. This time, though, the story takes a surprising turn as his wife struggles with dementia. Humor may be the best medicine, but even the antics of a van... Read More about Paris Lost and Found: A Memoir of Love

At fifty-two, psychiatrist Philip Adler is divorced, alone, and gutted of passion. When a funeral draws him back to his ex-wife's homeland of France, the trip reunites him with a trauma he has struggled to forget: the brutal death of his teenage daughter fifteen years earlier. Prodded by his former ... Read More about Theory of Remainders