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  • Beyond the Pasta

    Language and Life with an Italian Family

    Several years ago, on a break between theatrical gigs in Alabama, Mark traveled to Italy and fell in love with the people, food and culture. Armed with just enough courage, minimal Italian language skills, and a certain proficiency in the kitchen, he enrolled in a full-immersion cooking and language program. He would travel to Viterbo, Italy and live with an Italian family.His teachers were beyond ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Writing National Histories

    Western Europe Since 1800

    This book examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists has been used to "legitimate" the nation-state agianst socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era. Covering the whole of Western Europe, the book includes discussion of: * history as legitimation in post-revolutionary France * unity and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • At Least You're in Tuscany

    A Somewhat Disastrous Quest for the Sweet Life

    When dream meets reality. . . Endless fields of flame-like poppies. Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. The sweet, rhythmic chime of church bells. Months upon months of unemployment? Struggling to communicate with locals? Duvets frozen on the clothesline? Jennifer Criswell's move from New York City to Tuscany was not supposed to go like this. She had envisioned lazy mornings sipping espresso while ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • An Italian Village: a perspective on life beside Lake Como (Italian Trilogy Series Volume Two)

    by Paul Wright ...
    "An insightful and often funny depiction of Italian Life" Hannah McIntyre, The Italian Insider MagazineIn this, the follow up to his successful debut book, 'An Italian Home', artist Paul Wright describes Italian village life and his regular dialogue with a group of retired men who are mostly from the catering trade. Punctuated with work adventures beyond the village boundaries for all manner of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club

    'If you loved Under the Tuscan Sun, you’ll love this' Red MagazineEvery week on a Thursday evening, a group of four rural Italian women gather in an old stone house in the hills above Italy’s Orvieto. There – along with their friend, Marlena – they cook together, sit down to a beautiful supper, drink their beloved local wines, and talk.Surrounded by candle light, good food and friendship, the four ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Italian Lessons

    by Joan Arndt ...
    Italian Lessons is the true story of Joan and Roger’s move to Italy. Selling everything and leaving behind the familiar, the former public relations executive (Joan) and retired airline captain (Roger) purchased and renovated Le Vigne, a centuries-old farmhouse in the heart of Italy. Through effort, grit, money, heavy doses of humor and strong servings of Italian pazienza, the couple navigated the ... Read more

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  • Chickens Eat Pasta

    Escape to Umbria

    by Clare Pedrick ...
    Chickens Eat Pasta is the tale of how a young Englishwoman starts a new life after watching a video showing a chicken eating spaghetti in a mediaeval hill village in central Italy. Unlike some recent bestsellers, this is not simply an account of a foreigner’s move to Italy, but a love story written from the unusual perspective of both within and outside of the story.As events unfold, the strong ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Free Gondola Ride

    Kathleen went to Venice with a goal and a plan. The goal was to write about the lives of a cliched group of men, the gondoliers. The plan included a camera, a notebook, and the perseverance of a serious journalist. But sometimes plans must change.She soon found that a journalist's attitude didn't fly, and a single woman alone in Venice didn't go unnoticed. Changing her approach, she fell in with ... Read more

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  • A Chestnut Barn in Tuscany

    The discovery subsequently steers a course to a very different way of life. A Tuscan wedding follows together with a glimpse into the everyday life of the local Italians encountered along the way. An unfortunate accident causes a life threatening illness but the warmth, generosity and kindness shown by the Italian people comes to the fore. All this is combined with an insight into some of the ... Read more

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  • A Chateau of One's Own

    Restoration Misadventures in France

    by Sam Juneau ...
    Sam and Bud were ordinary first-time homebuyers in their early thirties. Their intention, in moving to France, was to create a simple life in a place where they could spend time with their children. The home they actually bought was a 17th century chateau in the Loire valley with over thirty rooms.Chateau Du Bonchamps had been the seat of noble families as far back as 1507. With only modest ... Read more

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  • A Vineyard in Tuscany: A Wine Lover's Dream

    A Wine Lover's Dream

    by Ferenc Máté ...
    "A sun-drenched memoir with a fairy-tale ending."—Kirkus ReviewsIn this laugh-out-loud tale, two adventurers discover that rare combination: joy and success. Candace, a painter, and Ferenc, a writer, begin a new life near the hill town of Montalcino. They restore a thirteenth-century friary, plant fifteen acres of vines, build a winery, tame a runaway tractor, excavate an Etruscan village, and ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Misadventures in Tuscany

    The Casebook of an Accident-Prone Tourist

    David M. Addison provides a refreshing, alternative perspective in travel writing. A bit like Mr Bean on holiday, picking up the wrong piece of luggage at the airport is just the first in a series of misadventures which bedevil the author and his long-suffering wife on this ill-starred trip to Tuscany. From the lesser-known Lucca, which serves as the epicentre for his disasters, to Pisa and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD