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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...

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A Year in the World

by Frances Mayes

Published: 2006

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A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller

by Frances Mayes

Published: 2006-03-14

Hardcover: 448 pages

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The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself?and her readers?in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes?a ce...

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A Year of Biblical Womanhood

by Rachel Held Evans

Published: 2012-10-30

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What is "biblical womanhood" . . . really? Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment--a year of biblical womanhood. Intrigued by the traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon ...

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The Year of Fog

by Michelle Richmond

Published: 2007-03-27

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Life changes in an instant. On a foggy beach. In the seconds when Abby Mason—photographer, fiancée soon-to-be-stepmother—looks into her camera and commits her greatest error. Heartbreaking, uplifting, and beautifully told, here is the riveting tale of a family torn apart, of the searc...

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The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War

by Howard Bahr

Published: 2001-05-04

Paperback: 376 pages

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On a spring day in 1865 Gawain Harper trudges toward his home in Cumberland, Mississippi, where three years earlier he had boarded a train carrying the latest enlistees in the Mississippi Infantry. Unmoved by the cause that motivated so many others, he had joined up only when Morgan Rhea's...

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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

by A. J. Jacobs

Published: 2007-10-09

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The Year Of Living Famously (Red Dress Ink)

by Laura Caldwell

Published: 2004-11-01

Paperback: 328 pages

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Some girls seek fame, others have it thrust upon them. . . Clothing designer Kyra Felis has never been one to worship celebrities--she'd rather read a good book or make a blouse out of a tablecloth. She marries Hollywood man-of-the-moment Declan McKenna for love, with no inkling of how h...