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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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAYES, FRANCES MAYBarr, Luke.
Summary: Presents a dramatic account of the 1970 gathering in Provence where such culinary luminaries as James Beard and Julia Child debated and inadvertently launched the modern food movement in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5973 BARSciolino, Elaine
Summary: "Part memoir, part travelogue, part love letter to the people who live and work on a magical street in Paris. Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. 'I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs,' Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2016
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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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.5 MAYLebovitz, David
Summary: "Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes dozens of new recipes. When David Lebovitz began the project of updating his apartment in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 LEBBard, Elizabeth.
Summary: This a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs--one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine. Bard packs her bags to begin a new life in the most romantic of cities. She finds that the deeper she immerses herself in French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to translate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 944.361 BARDPeterson, Dale.
Summary: Dale Peterson describes the experiences he had, the people he met, and the places he saw as he traveled across the United States in search of small towns with interesting stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 PETJelly-Schapiro, Joshua
Summary: "From the coauthor of the award-winning Nonstop Metropolis--a short, fascinating journey into the past, present, and future of New York City through its place names and the stories they contain. Drawing on his background in cultural geography, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro excavates the wealth of stories that are embedded in New York City's place names and uses them to illuminate the power of naming to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 JELMayes, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAYES, FRANCES MAYMayes, Frances.
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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1 available in Adult, Call number: 914.04 MAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.04 MAYHazan, Éric
Summary: "Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, takes us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, more or less following the dividing line between the east and west of Paris, or what you could call the "Paris meridian." He chose this itinerary without much consideration, but later on it became clear to him that it was no accident, that this line followed the meanders of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 HAZMayes, Frances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 914.04 MAYMayes, Frances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BDD Audio 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 945.5 MAYMayes, Frances.
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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 945.5 MAYMayes, Frances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.5 MAYMayes, Frances.
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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1 available in Adult, Call number: 945.5 MAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.5 MAYES, FRANCES MAYMayes, Frances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1996
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: B MAYES MAYMayes, Frances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.5 MAYCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.5 MAYCohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
Summary: Brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history--the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government in response to the Crash of 1929 and its consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 CohBlume, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.36 BLUBetts, Kate
Summary: As a young woman, Kate Betts nursed a dream of striking out on her own in a faraway place and becoming a glamorous foreign correspondent. After college--and not without trepidation--she took off for Paris, renting a room in the apartment of a young BCBG (bon chic, bon genre) family and throwing herself into the local culture. She was determined to master French slang, style, and savoir faire,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BETTS, KATE BETWebster, Christine.
Summary: Discusses the history and meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance, which was first published in The Youth's Companion in 1892 as part of a campaign to promote patriotism led by James B. Upham and Francis Bellamy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.65 WEBHenry, Patrick (Patrick Gerard)
Contents: Rescuing Jews in the south of France -- Daniel's choice -- Madeleine Dreyfus : righteous Jew -- Albert Camus' The plague -- The rescuers of Jews.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catholic University of America Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HENDe Courcy, Anne
Summary: "In this captivating narrative, Chanel's Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d'Azur during a period that saw the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the twentieth century. The Cote d'Azur in 1938 was a world of wealth, luxury, and extravagance, inhabited by a sparkling cast of characters including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Joseph P. Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Colette,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020