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Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter

by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Published: 2005-09-01

Paperback: 219 pages

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Over 50 million people in America knit. The average knitter spends between $500 and $1,700 a year on yarn, patterns, needles, and books. No longer just a fad or a hobby, knitting has advanced to a lifestyle. Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter moves beyond instructions and patterns i...

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Yarn: Remembering the Way Home

by Kyoko Mori

Published: 2009-11-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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A memoir of crossing cultures, losing love, and finding home by a New York Times notable author. As steadily and quietly as her marriage falls apart, so Kyoko Mori's understanding of knitting deepens. From flawed school mittens to beautiful unmatched patterns of cardigans, hats and shawls...

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* * * * Insightful,
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A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

by Joan Anderson

Published: 2000-08-15

Paperback: 208 pages

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A Year Down Yonder

by Richard Peck

Published: 2002-12-30

Paperback: 160 pages

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Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary...

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The Year Everything Changed: A Novel

by Georgia Bockoven

Published: 2011-08-23

Paperback: 432 pages

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As Jessie Patrick Reed's attorney, I?m writing to you on behalf of your father, Jessie Patrick Reed. I regret to inform you that Mr. Reed is dying. He has expressed a desire to see you . . . Elizabeth, even though sustained by a loving family, has suffered the most from her father's see...

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A YEAR IN PROVENCE

by MAYLE PETER

Published: 1992-01-01

Hardcover: 192 pages

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* * * * Fun,
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A Year in Provence

by Peter Mayle

Published: 1991-06-04

Paperback: 224 pages

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National Bestseller 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 January's frosty mistral...

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A Year in the Merde

by Stephen Clarke

Published: 2008-12-01

Kindle Edition: 300 pages

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A Year in the Merde is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an expat in Paris. Based on his own experiences and with names changed to "avoid embarrassment, possible legal action-and to prevent the author's legs being broken by someone in a Yves Saint Laurent suit", the boo...

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A Year in the Province

by Christopher Marsh

Published: 2009-06-18

Paperback: 354 pages

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This work is a gloriously funny pastiche of a very familiar genre, in which Jesus Sanchez Ventura tells of his departure from his beloved homeland of Andalusia to settle in...Belfast! It is a wickedly hilarious melange of magic realism and farce.

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A Year in the Village of Eternity: The Lifestyle of Longevity in Campodimele, Italy

by Tracey Lawson

Published: 2011-08-16

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Welcome to the Village of Eternity. Campodimele, Italy, has for some time attracted the interest of the medical community: the people here lead extraordinarily long lives, enjoy low blood pressure and low cholesterol, and stay active and healthy to their last years.What is it about this pl...