Download or read book Umbria Outside My Window written by Nina Hansen Machotka and published by Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to do something crazy, so... We decided to sell everything in California, leave behind Silicon Valley and the University of California and move overseas to a small, isolated valley where time seems to stand still. We bought and reconstructed a ruined farmhouse, but rebuilding a farmhouse is only a small part of the bigger picture. The real stories and photos are about Umbria outside my window - the land, the seasons, the storms, the food and wine, the history, culture and art, the festivals and traditions, and above all, the people. Join one couple on their amazing journey to a new land as they learn that the small moments in life can change you forever. About the Author Nina Hansen Machotka has worked as a technical writer and marketing communications writer for 30 years. She published How Not to Kill the Woman You Love: Your Guide to Surviving Her Menopause in 2010, and she plans to write several novels. Nina resides in Umbria, Italy, with her husband, the painter and writer, Pavel Machotka. Cover design by Ideablast and P. Machotka Cover art by Whitney Triggs Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/NinaHansenMachotka

Download or read book Il Bel Centro written by Michelle Damiani and published by Rialto Press. This book was released on 2020-08-09 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty and warm-hearted memoir of abandoning fast-paced American days in favor of discovering the Italian secrets of food, community, and life. Moving across the globe meant Michelle Damiani soon found herself untangling Italian customs, delighting in glorious regional cuisine (recipes included), and creating lasting friendships. From grandmothers eager to teach the ancient art of pasta making, to bakers tossing bread into fiery ovens with a song, to butchers extolling the benefits of pork fat, Il Bel Centro is rich with captivating characters and cultural insights. Throw in clinking glasses of Umbrian red with the local communists and a village all-nighter decorating the cobblestone streets with flower petals; as well as embarrassing language minefields and a serious summons to the mayor’s office, and you have all the ingredients for a spellbinding travel tale. Exquisitely observed, Il Bel Centro is an intimate celebration of small town Italy, as well as a thoughtful look at raising a family in a new culture and a fascinating story of finding a home. Ultimately though, this is a story about how travel can change you when you’re ready to let it. With laugh-out-loud situations and wanderlust-inspiring storytelling, Il Bel Centro is a joyous and life-affirming read that will have readers rushing to renew their passports. “This is one of the most beautiful book I’ve ever read.” “I absolutely couldn’t get enough of this book.” “This book made me want to pack my bags.” “I loved, loved this book. Fabulously written, engaging, and entertaining.” “A magical read.”

Download or read book Umbrian Twilight written by Giovanna Piccozzi and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul seeking through memories of an island childhood, the author returns to her ancestral roots in Italy. An Umbrian village wraps its arms around this grieving mother as she rebuilds her soulan elderly Italian woman takes the author under her watchher old Italian family farmhouse and farm become the bridge for the author and her ancestral history. The maternal warmth of neighbors and village mirror the familial ties of her past, nurturing soul reparations and internal peace. Olive harvests overlap memories of family gardens and Sunday gatherings. The farm and village unite not only the author, but her children and friends to the beauty of life.

Download or read book Marcus of Umbria written by Justine van der Leun and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will delight in this tale of an urbanite who leaves her magazine job to move to Collelungo, Italy, population: 200. There, in the ancient city center of a historic Umbrian village, she sets up house with the enticing local gardener she met on vacation only weeks earlier. This impulsive decision launches an eye-opening series of misadventures when village life and romance turn out to be radically different from what she had imagined. Love lost with the gardener is found instead with Marcus, an abandoned English pointer that she rescues. With Marcus by her side, Justine discovers the bliss and hardship of living in the countryside: herding sheep, tending to wild horses, picking olives with her adopted Italian family, and trying her best to learn the regional dialect. The result is a rich, comic, and unconventional portrait about learning to live and love in the most unexpected ways.

Download or read book The Way of Peace written by Jeffrey David Meyers and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential social activists of the twentieth century, A. J. Muste is remembered by some as a pioneering labor leader, by others for his work helping lay the foundations of the civil rights movement, and by many others for his tireless work for peace, justice, economic equality, and the protection of civil liberties. As a pastor, Muste's life and work were shaped by his Christian theology. This collection of Muste's sermons, speeches, articles, and other works for religious audiences is a timely call for Christians to follow him in the way of peace.

Download or read book The Dazzling Darkness written by Paula Cappa and published by Paula Cappa. This book was released on 2013 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cemetery. A lost child. An ancient secret. Do you believe in ghosts? In Old Willow Cemetery, Elias Hatch protects the secret power buried inside his cemetery, and he knows five-year-old Henry Brooke has managed to get inside the locked gates. Who let him inside? Where is he now? Antonia Brooke and her husband Adam frantically search the woods and all of Concord to find their little boy. Not until Detective Mike Balducci discovers the crystal sculpture buried in Old Willow, not until he discovers the apparitions hiding within the woods, not until he discovers the dazzling faces inside the darkened air, does he find the clues to what happened to little Henry Brooke in Concord, Massachusetts. This is a supernatural mystery about a family who confronts long-buried secrets of the dead. Do you believe in ghosts?The Dazzling Darkness is an award-winning novel: Gothic Readers Choice Award for Outstanding Fiction 2012, and, Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal Award 2014.GOTHIC READERS BOOK CLUB CHOICE AWARD WINNER8́58́58́58́58́5 Outstanding Fiction "Dazzling sums up Paula Cappa's paranormal/supernatural novel ... an elegance and grace that seduces you."BRONZE MEDAL WINNER, Readers' Favorite Book Award for Supernatural Fiction, 2014 "Beautiful and high standard writing style from start to finish ... a superb and classy supernatural novel." Readers' Favorite ReviewsMidwest Book Review"Paula Cappa is a master of the metaphysical mystery genre. "The Dazzling Darkness" documents her as an extraordinary and original storyteller of the first rank. Very highly recommended. Also strongly recommended is Cappa's previous metaphysical novel "Night Sea Journey: A Tale of the Supernatural."

Download or read book My House in Umbria written by William Trevor and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2003-03-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking. Mrs. Emily Delahunty-a mysterious and not entirely trustworthy former madam-quietly runs a pensione in the Italian countryside and writes romance novels while she muses on her checkered past. Then one day her world is changed forever as the train she is riding in is blown up by terrorists. Taken to a local hospital to recuperate, she befriends the other survivors-an elderly English general, an American child, and a German boy-and takes them all to convalesce at her villa, with unforeseen results.

Download or read book Chickens Eat Pasta written by Clare Pedrick and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chickens Eat Pasta is the tale of how a young Englishwoman starts a new life after watching a video showing a chicken eating spaghetti in a mediaeval hill village in central Italy.

Download or read book The Numerati written by Stephen Baker and published by HMH. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how the crisis over digital privacy and manipulation evolved in this “utterly fascinating” look at the growth of data mining and analysis (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Award-winning journalist Stephen Baker traces the rise of the “global math elite”: computer scientists who invent ways to not only record our behavior, but also to predict and alter it. Nowadays, we don’t need to be online to create a digital trail; we do it simply by driving through an automated tollbooth or shopping with a credit card. As massive amounts of information are collected, sifted, and analyzed, we all become targets of those who want to influence everything from what we buy to how we vote. Clear and “highly readable,” The Numerati is a look at the origins of our present-day world, the possibilities of the future, and those who—whether with good or bad intentions—profile us as workers, consumers, citizens, or potential terrorists (The Wall Street Journal).

Download or read book Umbria written by Ian Campbell Ross and published by Viking Canada. This book was released on 1996 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cultural history of Umbria begins with its early settlement by the Etruscans and Romans. It then describes the region through the Middle Ages right up to the present day.

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Download or read book The Seven Storey Mountain written by Thomas Merton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of Merton's spiritual autobiography is accompanied by an introduction from the editor and a note from Merton's biographer.

Download or read book Umbria Outside My Window written by Nina Hansen Machotka and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of a couple who left California, retired from their work in Silicon Valley and the University of California, and moved to a small, isolated valley where time seemed to stand still. They bought and reconstructed a ruined farmhouse in the Italian countryside, but rebuilding the farmhouse is just one part of their adventure. The real story is about the lure of Italy-the food and wine, the seasons and storms, the history, culture, and art, the festivals and traditions, the land and its field stones and above all, the people.In addition to recounting the finding and reconstru.

Download or read book Shadows in Umbria written by Jacqueline La Tourrette and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1979 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A romantic suspense, a superstitious Italian village transforms a young girl's summer in Italy into a dangerous adventure that ends in romance.

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Download or read book Two Lives written by William Trevor and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-11-04 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria - two novels by William Trevor 'Evocative and haunting. Trevor writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart' Daily Mail 'Marvellous, superb. As rich and moving as anything I have read in years. When I reach the end . . . I wanted to start right again at the beginning' Guardian In Reading Turgenev an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels. My House in Umbria tells of Emily Delahunty, a writer of romantic novels, who helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a train to convalesce, inventing colourful pasts for her patients. Two novels, two women who retreat further into the realm of the imagination until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred . . . 'One of the most beautiful and memorable things Trevor has written' Independent on Sunday Reading Turgenev was shortlisted for the Booker Prize Readers of Love and Summer and Felicia's Journey will adore Two Lives. It will also be cherished by readers of Colm Toibin and William Boyd. William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. His books in Penguin are: After Rain; A Bit on the Side; Bodily Secrets; Cheating at Canasta; The Children of Dynmouth; The Collected Stories (Volumes One and Two); Death in Summer; Felicia's Journey; Fools of Fortune; The Hill Bachelors; Love and Summer; The Mark-2 Wife; Selected Stories; The Story of Lucy Gault and Two Lives.

Download or read book Frommer s Tuscany Umbria written by Reid Bramblett and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For travelers who have already seen the major tourist centers and are now interested in soaking up the flavor of a smaller region in the countryside, this guide to Tuscany and Umbria features information on villages, Renaissance architecture, wineries and terrific shopping.