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Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach Publisher Comments In many ways, I was an independent woman, writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbach. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow. But somehow she had become dependent in quite another way. I had fallen into... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In evocative language, she brings the reader... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems (Harvest Original) by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Long before she fell in love with Tuscany, Frances Mayes fell in love with poetry. The author of five poetry collections, she was also a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. In this accessible field guide, Mayes invites... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Travel Writing 2002 (Best American Travel Writing) by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments This third volume in the series presents more exemplars of armchair reading (in this case, armchair listening), taking people away from daily routine to exotic, often remote settings.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Italian Affair by Laura Fraser Publisher Comments When Fraser's husband leaves her for a high school sweetheart, she sets off for southern Italy where she meets M, an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. This intimate, sensuous travelogue is wrapped around their unlikely but... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Italian Days by Barbara Gr Harrison Publisher Comments "Italian Days" is one of the richest and most absorbing travel books written--a journey that traverses the Italian peninsula and immerses readers in a culture which provides the reader with a definition of the good life. "Harrison's wonderful journal... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Italian Neighbors Or a Lapsed Anglo Saxo by Tim Parks Publisher Comments Tim Parks and his wife, Rita, came to their flat on the aging, eccentric Via Colombare in Montecchio twelve years ago for a short stay. There was trouble from the moment they moved in--under cover of night--and it has gone delightfully up and down hill... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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North of Naples, south of Rome by Paolo Tullio Publisher Comments Since childhood, Paolo Tullio has returned each year to his hometown of Gallinaro, to the labyrinthine nest of his relations and to the passionate people of his valley. North of Naples, South of Rome describes a hysterically chaotic wine competition... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Swan: A Novel from the Author of Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments By the #1 bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany and In Tuscany, Swan is a haunting novel set in the deep South -- a resonant tale of long-buried family secrets and mysteries brought suddenly to light. In her celebrated memoirs of life... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Italian Education by Tim Parks Publisher Comments Tim Parks' first bestseller, Italian Neighbors, chronicled his initiation into Italian society and cultural life. Reviewers everywhere hailed it as a bravissimo performance. Now he turns to his children -- born and bred in Italy -- and their milieu in a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the #1 San Francisco Chronicle bestseller that is an enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany, in the spirit of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence. Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Garden in Lucca: Finding Paradise in Tuscany by Paul Gervais Publisher Comments Now available in paperback, this delightful memoir, written by critically acclaimed novelist Paul Gervais, recounts the challenges, elations, setbacks, and revelations that accompanied the process of making an acclaimed garden out of the sprawling... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Within Tuscany: Reflections on a Time and Place by Matthew Spender List Price $16.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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