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Dream House in Europe
Do
you ever dream of moving into a rustic cottage in the
French countryside? Or a villa in Tuscany? The authors
of these memoirs share the joys, challenges, and humor
that come with fulfilling the dream of a home in Europe.
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FRANCE
French
Spirits: A House, a Village, and a Love Affair in Burgundy
by Jeffrey Greene
A prize-winning American poet and his wife-to-be move
into a stone presbytery in a village in the Puisaye region
of Burgundy.
944.41083 Greene 2002 NEW BOOKS
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Castle in the Backyard: The Dream of a House in France
by Betsy Draine
A married couple, both college professors, purchase
a summer home in the village of Castlenaud-la-Chapelle.
944.72 Draine 2002 NEW BOOKS
On
Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town
by Susan Loomis
An American attends a prestigious French cooking school,
then returns years later with her family to buy an old
monastery in Normandy.
641.59442 Loomis 2001
Paris
to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
A writer for The New Yorker and his wife and infant
son move to the City of Light.
944.36 Gopnik 2000
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Year in Provence, Toujours
Provence, and Encore
Provence
by Peter Mayle
In this popular series, Peter Mayle entertains readers
with tales of life in Provence with his wife and two
large dogs.
944.9 Mayle
ITALY
The
Hills of Tuscany: A New Life in an Old Land
by Ference Máté
A memoir of a New York couple's first year living in
an ancient farmhouse in the hills of Tuscany.
945.5 Mate 1998
In
Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany
by David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell
Leavitt and Mitchell buy an abandoned Tuscan farmhouse
and begin the process of making it habitable again.
945.57 Leavitt 2001
Italian
Neighbors: Or a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona
by Tim Parks
A British novelist and his wife move into a flat on
the aging and eccentric Via Colombare in Montecchio.
945.34 Parks
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Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby
Travel writer Newby describes life in a small farmhouse
in the foothills of the Apuan Alps in northern Tuscany.
945.54 Newby 1994
Under
the Tuscan Sun, Bella
Tuscany, and In
Tuscany by Frances Mayes
A college professor buys and restores an abandoned villa
in the Tuscan countryside in this popular memoir and
its sequels.
945.5 Mayes
SPAIN
Driving
over Lemons: An Optimist in Adalucia
by Chris Stewart
An Englishman and his wife buy an isolated farmhouse
in the mountains outside of Granada, Spain.
946.8 Stewart 2000
Spanish
Lessons: A New Life in Spain
by Derek Lambert
In search of a simpler life, a journalist and his family
move to a village on Spain's Costa Blanca.
946.765 Lambert 2000
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