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A Year in Provence

Peter Mayle

divMore than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who's ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CDPeter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence ...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2004

The Mansion of Happiness: A History o...

Jill Lepore

Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the gr...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Mar 2013

The Making of Home: The 500-Year Stor...

Judith Flanders

Originally published: Great Britain: Atlantic Books, 2014.

Paperback
Published: Sep 2016

Nan Domi: An Initiate's Journey into ...

Mimerose Beaubrun

"This new and valuable book delves into the 'interior' experience of voodoo, as opposed to the usual outsider focus on ritual and cosmology. In telling the story of her own initiation and painstaking education in voodoo, Beaubrun...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2013

Connecting to Our Ancestral Past: Fam...

Francesca Mason Boring

Connecting to Our Ancestral Past is a pragmatic, spiritual journey that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversations in connection with Constellations work, an experiential process that explores one's history and powerfu...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2012

Sorry!: The English and Their Manners...

Henry Hitchings

A humorous and charming investigation into what it really means to have proper mannersMost of us know a bit about what passes for good manners—holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table—and we certainly kn...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2014

The Amish of Lancaster County

Donald B. Kraybill

More than 8.5 million people visit Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, every year to experience the culture of the oldest Amish community in the world. This book by the leading scholar of the Amish explains the uncommon lifestyle of these...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2019

The Mansion of Happiness: A History o...

Jill Lepore

Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the gra...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2013

Little Things Long Remembered: Making...

Phd Susan Newman

Second Edition "Little Things... promises-and delivers-a treasure chest of ideas to build cherished memories and strong family connections. Keep this book close by." - Judy BlumeLittle Things Long Remembered, updated for to...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2014

The Naughty Little Book of Gaelic

Michael Newton

Scottish Highlanders, and their descendants all over the world, are no better and no worse than any other people where "sinful" behaviour is concerned. Standards of morality and social conventions changed dramatically during...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2014

When My Name Was Keoko

Linda Sue Park

Sun-hee and her older brother, Tae-yul, live in Korea with their parents. Because Korea is under Japanese occupation, the children study Japanese and speak it at school. Their own language, their flag, the folktales Uncle tells themâ€...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2012

Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and ...

Richard Sennett

Living with people who differ—racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically—is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encoura...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2013

Resurrection (Complete): Translated B...

Leo Tolstoy

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1...

Paperback
Published: May 2019

Resurrection (Volume I): Translated B...

Leo Tolstoy

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1...

Paperback
Published: May 2019

Resurrection (Volume II): Translated ...

Leo Tolstoy

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1...

Paperback
Published: May 2019

Resurrection (Volume III): Translated...

Leo Tolstoy

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1...

Paperback
Published: May 2019
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