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Frances Mayes
With descriptions of the vibrant local markets, food, wine and the Italian landscape, this book intends to inspire readers to embark on their own journeys - whether that be flying…
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A great marriage is an elusive thing; only a few know the secret to making one.
Dara Willcox, in New York for a weekend, meets Austin Clarke at an art…
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When a perfect wedding is called off just days before the big event, it sends two people-and their families-reeling, in this poignant novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling…
A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the…
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The long awaited new travel memoir from the author of Under the Tuscan Sun. A celebration of the allure of travel, of unexpected pleasures found in unlikely places.
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Twenty years ago Frances Mayes, having ended a long marriage and begun a new relationship, was travelling in Italy and happened upon an abandoned, grand but dilapidated three-storey house called…
The bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun brings poetry out of the classroom and into the homes of everyday readers.
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A memoir of author Frances Mayes’s coming of age in the Deep South, and of the region’s powerful influence on her life. Mayes delves into the power of landscape, the…
Offers a passionate and lyrical account of the author’s continuing love affair with Italy. This title is also a memoir of a season of change, and of renewed possibility. It…
Continuing Mayes’s account of her enchanting, ever-evolving life in Italy, Bella Tuscany presents the author truly at home as she invites readers back to savor more friendship, festivity, and food…
Offers a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely places, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. This book…
By the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, and written with Frances Mayes’s trademark warmth, heart, and delicious descriptions of place, food, and friendship, Women in Sunlight is the…
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The bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisine.
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In this new memoir Frances Mayes offers her readers another deeply personal account of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since her previous memoirs…
Continuing Frances Mayes’s account of her love affair with Italy, Bella Tuscany presents the author now truly at home there, meeting the challenges of learning a new language and touring…
The night before Frances Mayes left Edinburgh to come to Greece for the first time, her old school comrades at their 30 year reunion named her ‘Shirley Valentine’. Frances fulfilled…
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The author, who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in her bestselling travel memoirs, expands her horizons to immerse herself–and her readers–in the sights, aromas…
Includes Extra libris section featuring a reader’s guide and a conversation with the author.
Applies a poet’s sensibility, a traveler’s eye, and a cook’s palate to the pleasures of the Tuscan countryside, where the author began restoring an abandoned villa.
"A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home."--Provided by publisher.
Bestselling and beloved author Frances Mayes discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisine
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Frances Mayes,Edward Mayes
For readers of Frances Mayes’s bestselling phenomenon Under the Tuscan Sun comes The Tuscan Sun Cookbook, in which Mayes and her husband Ed celebrate the ease of the Tuscan kitchen…
For millions of readers all over the world, Frances Mayes captures the essence of Tuscany like no other writer. Now the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella…
In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, Mayes lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-longlove affair with Tuscany’s people, art, cuisine, and…
Edward Mayes
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…
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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Lucius Q.C. Lamar: his life, times, and speeches. 1825-1893 (1896). This book, Lucius Q.C. Lamar: his life times and speeches, by Edward Mayes, is a replication of a book originally…
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The world’s most beloved expert on la dolce vita takes readers along on the ultimate insider’s tour across all 20 of Italy’s iconic regions.
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Women in Sunlight by Frances Mayes: Conversation Starters
Women in Sunlight is the tenth book authored by Frances Mayes. Famous for her warmth, heart and delicious descriptions of Tuscany, Mayes…
Though Frances Mayes is known for her wanderlust, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our…
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Four American women become unexpected friends during a magical year in Tuscany marked by a writer’s complicated relationship with the subject of her biography, long-postponed dreams, and shifting senses of…
The Roman Forum, the Leaning Tower, the Piazza San Marco: these are the sights synonymous with Italy. But such landmarks only scratch the surface of this magical country’s offerings. In…
