In her inimitably funny and feel-good way, social media star Kacie Rose offers a refreshingly honest take on navigating a new life abroad in You Deserve Good Gelato, covering everything from travel fails and homesickness to the joy of culture shocks and the power of doing the s*** that scares you. Because life is too short not to.
Kacie decided to leave her life as a pro dancer in New York City and move to Italy in 2021 - and she never looked back. Okay, that isn''t strictly true...
In You Deserve Good Gelato, Kacie reflects on the pure terror of driving on Italian roads, the trials of speaking a new language (and getting it horribly, horribly wrong), and the genuine beauty of a slower pace of life, all with humour and heart. And by sharing her personal stories of life under the Tuscan sun, Kacie explains how travel is a privilege, why cultural differences are the coolest things in the world, and how there''s a positive you can take away from literally any situation.
You Deserve Good Gelato will have you buying that ticket and embracing this big beautiful world that we all call home.
The history, landscape and personalities encountered throughout rural France are reported on following the author's quarter century as an English transplant to the Cévennes, addressed directly here having long inspired Thorpe's literary output.
Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop.
In a quaint neighbourhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married coffee roaster, and the writer who sees something special in Yeongju - they all have disappointments in their past. The Hyunam-dong Bookshop becomes the place where they all learn how to truly live.
A heart-warming story about finding comfort and acceptance in your life - and the healing power of books.
''An incredibly exciting debut novel. At once gentle and invigorating. I devoured it'' Sarah Crossan
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''A love letter to books, bookshops and all who love them''
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''A heart-warming cosy read that makes you think about how important it is to be happy, and that we can all find a place to call ''home''.''
Les Poèmes pour affronter le beau temps & profiter du mauvais sont des considérations humoristiques sur le temps qui passe et la scansion des saisons. La forme répond au fonds du texte : ainsi, le mot tunnel devient graphique grâce à ses deux -nn- agrandis. Le mauvais temps, quant à lui, s'écrit en gouttes de pluies. Les illustrations sont des gravures rehaussées à l'encre. Ces poèmes peuvent être lus par tous les temps, en toutes saisons et à partir de 7 ans.
A heady historical drama about a British family who open an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the Roaring 20s. Hotel Portofino has been open for only a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its owner Bella Ainsworth. Her high-class guests are demanding and hard to please. And shes being targeted by a scheming and corrupt local politician, who threatens to drag her into the red-hot cauldron of Mussolinis Italy. To make matters worse, her marriage is in trouble, and her children are still struggling to recover from the repercussions of the Great War. All eyes are on the arrival of a potential love match for her son Lucian, but events dont go to plan, which will have far reaching consequences for the whole family. Set in the breathtakingly beautiful Italian Riviera, Hotel Portofino is a story of personal awakening at a time of global upheaval and of the liberating influence of Italys enchanting culture, climate and cuisine on British innocents abroad, perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and The Crown .
It''s a beautiful day, and the Royal Family are sunning themselves in the Palace Gardens. The royal babies'' grandad is even having a bit of a snooze - what bliss! When all of a sudden -- BEEP BEEP! BEEP BEEP!
It''s the Big Red Bus, and it''s come to take the Royal Family on a tour of London! With so much to see, the city is their oyster, with the Royal Family hopping off at the Natural History Museum, London Zoo, the London Eye and Tower Bridge. They even ride a water taxi to Greenwich, before it''s finally time for - you''ve guessed it - a spot of shopping!
The Royal Baby''s Big Red Bus Tour of London is the next installment in the brilliantly bonkers and fabulously funny Royal Baby series that''s perfect for fans of London, the Royal Family and crackingly good stories.>
I disappeared on the night before my twelfth birthday.Washed up on an island in the Pacific, Michael struggles to survive on his own. With no food and no water, he curls up to die. When he wakes, there is a plate beside him of fish, of fruit, and a bowl of fresh water. He is not alone ...From the author of the internationally acclaimed War Horse, this is a spellbinding adventure story about friendship and survival.Kensuke''s Kingdom was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and won the FCB Award.''A dazzling adventure'' - The Times
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITS In 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Walden is his personal account of the experience, in which he documents the beauty and fulfilment to be found in the wilderness, and his philosophical and political motivations for rejecting the materialism which continues to define our modern world.
Los muchos miles de lectores de Luis Sepúlveda ya conocen su gran pasión: viajar,á deambular por el mundo, observar a sus gentes y escuchar sus historias. Pero Sepúlveda tiene también otra pasión, podría decirse que en simbiosis con la anterior, que es la de contar él mismo, a su modo, esas historias oídas y otras que, gracias a su desbordante capacidad de fabulación, enriquecen la realidad convirtiéndola en literatura. á Pues bien, esta vez Sepúlveda nos invita a acompañarle, codo con codo, en algunos de sus periplos por las solitarias tierras de Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego. Así, conocemos a Ladislao Eznaola, vagabundo del mar en busca de un nave fantasma, a su hermano Agustín, el bardo de Patagonia, a Jorge Díaz y La voz de Patagonia de Radio Ventisquero, la ternura de Panchito y su delfín, a aviadores enloquecidos que lo transportan todo, desde vino hasta muertos, por encima de la desolada inmensidad del paisaje... El libro se abre y se cierra con dos encuentros extraordinarios del autor con Bruce Chatwin y con Francisco Coloane, escritor chileno que alimentó la imaginación inquieta del niño Sepúlveda. á Apuntes de viajes, sí, pero también un aprendizaje de cómo viajar, de cómo conocer el mundo, de cómo mirarlo y quererlo. Luis Sepúlveda prolonga en cierto modo la tradición aprendida por él en los libros de su maestro Coloane y procura contagiarnos la inmensa felicidad de la verdera aventura. No en vano termina Patagonia Express con las siguientes palabras: á «Nunca más estaría solo. Coloane me había traspasado sus fantasmas, sus personajes, los indios y emigrantes de todas las latitudes que habitan La Patagonia y la Tierra del Fuego, sus marinos y sus vagabundos del mar. Todos ellos van conmigo y me permiten decir en voz alta que vivir es un magnífico ejercicio».
With beautiful illustrations and insightful stories, this uniqueÿbook will instantly transport you to literary destinations aroundÿthe globe.The places collected here are not just backdrops to the talesÿtold, they are characters in their own right - so delve into thisÿbook to discover some of the world's most fascinating literaryÿplaces and the novels that celebrate them.
Partons visiter Berlin avec Felix, un jeune Allemand de 8 ans ! Chaque double-page nous fais découvrir sa famille, son école, ses amis, le parc du Tiergarten, les Currywurst et les vacances à la plage à Warnemunde...
It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer - tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk - but Stella really, really didn't want that to happen, just the same. Join Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands and come face-to-face with frost fairies, snow queens, outlaw hideouts, unicorns, pygmy dinosaurs and carnivorous cabbages . . . When Stella and three other junior explorers get separated from their expedition can they cross the frozen wilderness and live to tell the tale?
Ramona Badescu et Benoît Guillaume se sont mis à l'heure égyptienne alors que le monde entier entrait dans un nouveau confinement, en octobre 2020. Ensemble, l'une écrivant l'autre dessinant aux mêmes endroits aux mêmes moments, ils ont parcouru les quatre voies qui relient le Caire à Alexandrie, les corniches des ces deux grandes villes et leurs rues, étonnamment pleines de vie. Ramona Badescu s'est beaucoup intéressée au temps, au rythme lent, à la couleur du musée rose, à la voix de la chanteuse Najat al-Saghira dont elle découvre le nom, aux passants bras dessus bras dessous, de long en long, de long en large, sur ce bord de Méditerranée, sur ce bord de Nil... Benoît Guillaume s'est beaucoup intéressé aux antennes de télévision, aux marchés et aux gens qui marchent, aux enfants qui se baignent, aux passants charrettes voitures ânes cafés et vitrines entremêlés, entassés...
Le livre est composé en suivant une courbe :
- de dessins colorés à l'extérieur vers des dessins monochromes à l'intérieur ;
- d'Alexandrie au Caire ou inversement, selon de sens de lecture ;
- de la ville à la corniche à l'autoroute à la corniche à la ville ;
- et dans chaque poème revient cette "heure égyptienne", dont la temporalité et la définition se précisent de poème en poème.
"L'heure égyptienne" est le premier livre d'une trilogie, car outre le Caire et Alexandrie, Ramona Badescu et Benoît Guillaume ont gambadé dans le Fayoum et en Haute-Égypte... une autre Égypte reste à découvrir dans deux autres recueils à venir.
Beyrouth, Beyrouth Bye Bye, Beyrouth Rewind : les trois chapitres de cette trilogie disent l'attachement de Barrack Rima pour son Liban natal. Mêlant documentaire et science-fiction, Rima nous invite à le suivre dans le labyrinthe de sa mémoire et de sa ville, rongée par les promoteurs immobiliers, envahie par les déchets et leur puanteur, où chauffeurs de taxi, marchands ambulants et conteurs côtoient « tortues ninja » et « crocodiles », exilés et réfugiés, où règnent miséreux et débrouillards, mais aussi l'argent roi, le béton, la corruption et la censure. Ainsi se côtoient l'endroit et l'envers de Beyrouth, le présent et le passé, les rêves et la réalité... Des mouvements de contestation des années 60 à ceux d'aujourd'hui, des idéaux qui animaient autrefois la jeunesse au désenchantement présent, Rima nous propose un retour intime sur l'histoire récente du Liban et nous interpelle : que sont devenus nos rêves, nos espérances et nos révoltes ?
Des comptines bilingues pour faire chanter les langues aux oreilles des petits...
Des pédagogues ont sélectionné des comptines très connues dans chaque langue et leurs équivalents français. Ainsi vont se répondre avec humour Picnicdouille et Ambaraba cici coco, A beli bela roi des papillons et Farfallina bella Bianca... Et l'on retrouve avec bonheur les personnages phares de l'imaginaire italien : la Befana, Polichinelle, la Zia di Forl... dans un livre-disque aux accents chauds et toniques !
In this work for armchair and actual travellers alike, the author records the events of a year in Provence, from foie gras and burst pipes in January, through the Tour de France preparations, the grape "vendange" and the mushroom season, to the Christmas gastronomic splurge.
