Mayes, Frances.
Summary: "A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life. The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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Summary: The author who captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany expands her horizons to immerse herself--and her readers--in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. This book is a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. She rents houses among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2006
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Summary: "Dara Willcox, up in New York for a weekend, meets Austin Clarke at an art gallery. If love at first sight can happen, it happens to them. These two vivid, ambitious people are on different trajectories - he's British, working temporarily in New York. She's set on law school. They don't care. They will make their lives together happen. At their engagement dinner at Dara's family home, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
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Summary: 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 See You in the Piazza, Frances Mayes introduces us to the Italy only the locals know, as she and her husband, Ed, eat and drink their way through thirteen regions--from Friuli to Sicily. Along the way, she seeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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Summary: 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 adventure and bravery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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Summary: Text and photographs celebrate Tuscany's feasts, festivals, food, wine, people, and culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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Summary: Presents a collection of recipes that celebrate Tuscany's rustic culinary tradition of simplicity while sharing stories about the people with whom the authors have enjoyed garden-fresh and sumptuous meals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2012
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Summary: From her years as a spirited, secretive child, through her university studies--a period of exquisite freedom that imbued her with a profound appreciation of friendship and a love of travel--to her escape to a new life in California, Frances Mayes exuberantly recreates the intense relationships of her past, recounting the bitter and sweet stories of her complicated family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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Summary: "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 comforts of home. While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on "home," from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: BDD Audio 1999
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Summary: Shares the essential elements and principles of the Tuscan lifestyle and furnishes suggestions, ideas, and creative projects designed to bring the spirit of Tuscany into one's own home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004
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Summary: The celebrated "bard of Tuscany " (New York Times) lyrically chronicles her continuing love affair with Tuscany's people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle. Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace College Publishers 1994
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Summary: In this sequel to her" New York Times" bestsellers" Under the Tuscan Sun" and" Bella Tuscany," the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" ("New York Times") Frances Mayes lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany's people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1997
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Summary: 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 she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. There were unexpected treasures at every turn: faded frescos...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While on vacation, a just-divorced writer buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim, hoping it will be the start of a change for the better in her life. Along the way she finds that sometimes what seems like a mistake is really a blessing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: TDK Mediactive 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011