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The Olive Harvest: A Memoir of Love, Life and Olives in the South of France
by Carol Drinkwater  Publisher Comments The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras of light, appear and disappear....The silence is truly awesome. Not a bird, not a whisper of wind, not a breath of...
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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...
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Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner — in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans....
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Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy
by Sergio Esposito Publisher Comments As a young child in Naples, Italy, Sergio Esposito sat at his kitchen table observing the daily ritual of his large, loud family bonding over fresh local dishes and simple country wines. While devouring the rich bufala mozzarella, still sopping with milk...
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A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures...
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A Thousand Days in Venice
by Marlena De Blasi Synopsis When Marlena de Blasi traveled to Italy, she expected to fall in love with the country, not to be swept away by a Venetian man. Filled with the foods and flavors of Italy, "A Thousand Days in Venice" is an enchanting story....
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Merde Happens
by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments From Stephen Clarke, the internationally bestselling author of A Year in the Merde and In the Merde for Love, Merde Happens is the third installation of Paul West's hilarious mis-adventures in merde. This time around Paul finds himself in financial...
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The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt 
Powells.com Staff Pick Once again John Berendt proves he is a powerful magnet for eccentrics. With clever proficiency, Berendt depicts for readers a host of quirky characters, providing an exclusive glimpse into the Venice you won't see as a tourist. Gossipy yet wholly...
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Cest La Vie an American Woman Begins A
by Suzy Gershman Publisher Comments Bestselling writer Suzy Gershman (dubbed Super Shopper Suzy by Oprah) is our answer to Peter Mayle in this heartfelt, breezy, and funny story of starting over in Paris. Suzy had always fantasized about moving to Paris with her husband, but when he dies...
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
by Thad Carhart
Publisher Comments Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Pairs neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his...
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
by Edmund White Publisher Comments “One has the impression, reading The Flâneur, of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldn’t otherwise see…Edmund White tells such...
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Almost French
by Sarah Turnbull
Publisher Comments A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor. Sarah Turnbullas stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and FrA(c)dA(c...
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Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain
by Lori Tharps Publisher Comments Magazine writer and editor Lori Tharps was born and raised in the comfortable but mostly White suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she was often the only person of color in her school and neighborhood. At an early age, Lori decided that her destiny...
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No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice
by Judith Martin Publisher Comments "Add No Vulgar Hotel to the list of books you must read before you come to Venice."—Donna Leon This is the definitive book for managing an incurable passion for a decaying, water-logged village. Whether you already have a raging case of Venetophilia...
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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...
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A Time of Gifts (New York Review Books Classics)
by Patrick Leigh Fermor Publisher Comments At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey?to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich and sparkling account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water...
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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese (New York Review Books Classics)
by Patrick Leig Fermor Publisher Comments The Mani, at the tip of Greece' s- and Europe' s- southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a...
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. There were unexpected treasures at every turn: faded frescos beneath the whitewash in her dining room, a vineyard under wildly...
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Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
by Paul Collins
Publisher Comments Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside — to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants — and forty bookstores. Taking...
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Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light
by David Burke Publisher Comments No city has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris. From the 15th century through the 20th, poets, novelists, and playwrights, famed for both their work and their...
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