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Seeking Sicily: A Cultural Journey Through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean by John Keahey Publisher Comments “Keaheys exploration of this misunderstood island offers a much-needed look at a much-maligned land.”—Paul Paolicelli, author of Under the Southern Sun Sicily is the Mediterraneans largest and most mysterious island. Its people... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover 
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Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay by Benjamin Taylor Publisher Comments It is a city of seemingly irreconcilable opposites, simultaneously glorious and ghastly. And it is Ben Taylorandrsquo;s remarkable ability to meld these contradictions into a whole that makes this the exciting and original book it is. He takes his stroll... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Gelato Sisterhood on the Amalfi Shore by Chantal Kelly Publisher Comments When ten women set foot in the Campania region of Southern Italy, they become instantly mesmerized by the region. Is it the tranquil aqua blue waters of the Mediterranean . . . the spectacular vistas that offer views of a horizon that stretches on... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" (New York Times) lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany's people, art, cuisine, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 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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Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy by Michael Tucker Synopsis From actor Tucker comes this celebration of a good marriage and a careful study of the nature of home, written with an epicurean's delight in detail and a gourmand's appreciation for all things fine.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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City of the Soul: A Walk in Rome (Crown Journeys) by William Murray Publisher Comments “One lifetime is not enough for Rome,” the famous saying goes, and anyone whos ever been there knows these words to be true. In City of the Soul, William Murray begins to show us why. Growing up in Rome and spending much of his life in the... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr Publisher Comments The author describes the year he spent in Rome after winning the Rome Prize, including his adventures around the city, life in a foreign but welcoming country, and parenthood as it applies to his newborn twins.... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Venturing in Italy: Travels in Puglia, Land Between Two Seas by Barbara J Euser Synopsis Italy is the top tourist destination in Europe. But while the pleasures of Tuscany, Milan, Venice, Florence, and Rome are well known and well documented, Puglia remains relatively undiscovered. Venturing in Italy collects 30 true stories that explore... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr Publisher Comments Anthony Doerr has received many awards -- from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome Prize, one of the most prestigious awards from the American Academy of Arts and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance by Marlena De Blasi Publisher Comments When Fernando spots her in a Venice café and knows immediately that she is the One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. A divorced American woman traveling through Italy, she thought she was satisfied with her life. Yet within a few months, she... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair With Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language (09 Edition) by Dianne Hales Publisher Comments “Italians say that someone who acquires a new language ‘possesses it. In my case, Italian possesses me. With Italian racing like blood through my veins, I do indeed see with different eyes, hear with different ears, and drink in the world... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Spartacus Road: A Personal Journey Through Ancient Italy by Peter Stothard Publisher Comments The name of Spartacus resounds through history. In the final century of the first Roman Republic an army of slaves led by Spartacus rose up in Italy. Its success was something no one before had ever known. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby Synopsis In 1967, Eric Newby and his wife Wanda acquired "I Castagni" (The Chestnuts), a small and ruined farmhouse in the foothills of the Apuan Alps in Italy. For 25 years, they remained the only foreigners to live in the area. This book recounts the Newbys... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves by Gary Paul Nabhan Publisher Comments After two decades in the Southwest studying plant use and cultivation by the native hunter-gatherers and first farmers of the New World, Gary Nabhan, one of America's finest naturalists and nature writers, turns his attention to the Old World, walking... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites us back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Seasons of Rome: A Journal by Paul Hofmann Publisher Comments Delving into the daily life of a city that is in so many ways larger than life, Paul Hofmann steers us beyond the tourist board, revealing a fetish for Vatican gossip, the idiosyncrasies of the gattare (cat women who care for the city's stray cats), and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Traveller in Italy by H V Morton Publisher Comments The Tuscan landscape, writes H. V. Morton, "is embroidered everywhere by human living, and there is scarcely a hill, a stream, a grove of trees, without its story of God, of love or death." Morton's stories and observations of Tuscany, Lombardy, Emilia... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy by Rachel Cusk Publisher Comments Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Italy--to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, for a different path into the future. Their three-month journey around the Italy of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wish You Were Here: Travels Through Loss and Hope by Amy Welborn Publisher Comments Wish You Were Here: Travels Through Loss and Hope is the story of Amy Welborn’s trip to the island of Sicily with three of her children five months after her husband’s sudden death from a heart attack. Her journey through city and... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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