Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


maria mclean

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “maria mclean
Skip side bar filters
  • Summers in Supino: Becoming Italian

    A Memoir

    by Maria McLean ...
    "A vivid memoir" of a time spent in Supino, Italy "quickly transports readers into the charm and richness of village life . . . a story of love and family." ( Publishers Weekly)Every summer Maria and her husband, Bob, went to their little house in the Italian village of Supino, and every year it was a new adventure. Only in Supino would you find a pizzeria in a sheep pasture, a seafood restaurant ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Privacy is a Foreign Word in Supino

    The village of Supino looks as sleepy as the opening shot of an old black and white Fellini film. At the newspaper office, Bianca stumbles into a job meant for someone else and a new advice column, Ask Minerva, is born. Soon everyone is engaged in trying to discover the mystery columnist's identity as well as the identity of her correspondents.Seven years have passed since Rosa's husband's ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Mum's the Word

    Everyone has a mother. What if that mother was wonderful? Good. What if that mother was not the mother shown on sweet Mother's Day cards, featured in ads, shown in Hallmark movies? What if a collection about mothers included more than just tributes? What if the collection was honest, inclusive, and thought-provoking? The editors set out to gather these kinds of stories from published authors who ... Read more

    $16.66 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Father Came From Italy

    After 64 years, Mezzabotte Coletta, a retired truck driver for a Toronto macaroni factory, is retuning to his native Italia. In his native village of Supino, is a rundown villa bought sight unseen by Mezzabotte Coletta 's daughter Maria - an olive branch after years of family struggle. While she and her husband breathe in the chatter of local tradesmen, the fragrant offerings of well-wishing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Way the Money Goes

    The Fiscal Constitution and Public Spending in the UK

    The Way the Money Goes traces out what happened to the UK's fiscal constitution - the framework for planning and controlling public spending - under three different governments (Conservative, Labour, Conservative/Liberal Democrat) from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s. The book tells the story of what happened under each government and combines narrative with vignettes that range from the funding ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The View From Here

    Eureka, Colorado, #1

    by Cindi Myers ...
    Series Book 1 - Eureka, Colorado
    When the father she never knew dies and leaves her a gold mine, recently divorced Maggie Stevens heads for the remote community of Eureka, Colorado to claim her inheritance and to solve the mystery of the man who abandoned the family when Maggie was only three days old.But the answers Maggie hopes to find aren't buried in her father's past or deep inside the mine. The real treasures in Eureka are ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Free Gondola Ride

    Kathleen went to Venice with a goal and a plan. The goal was to write about the lives of a cliched group of men, the gondoliers. The plan included a camera, a notebook, and the perseverance of a serious journalist. But sometimes plans must change.She soon found that a journalist's attitude didn't fly, and a single woman alone in Venice didn't go unnoticed. Changing her approach, she fell in with ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Change in Altitude

    Eureka, Colorado, #3

    by Cindi Myers ...
    Series Book 3 - Eureka, Colorado
    With a baby on the way and a wedding to plan, Maggie Stevens has her hands full as spring rolls into Eureka, Colorado. With the warming weather comes a movie crew to film in the town, and rumors that the Lucky Lady mine is haunted. While some chase stardom with the movie crew, others are chasing ghosts, real and imagined. New arrivals and long-buried secrets threaten to turn everyone upside down. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Amare

    A True Italian Love Story

    by Sheila Wright ...
    Award-winning author Sheila Wright weaves a sensuous tale of love and longing in southern Italy. Insightful, humorous, warm and confiding, Amare evokes a true portrait of life in a land both breathtaking and heartbreaking. Sheila Wright takes us beyond the tourist trails and describes in detail the natural beauty and chaos of Italy. Wright passionately illustrates that 'Amare' to love means ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • French Dirt

    The Story of a Garden in the South of France

    "One of the most charming, perceptive and subtle books ever written about the French by an American." — San Francisco ChronicleRichard Goodman saw the ad in the paper: "SOUTHERN FRANCE: Stone house in Village near Nimes/Avignon/Uzes. four BR, two baths, fireplace, books, desk, bikes. Perfect for writing, painting, exploring & experiencing la France profonde. $450 mo. plus utilities." And, with his ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Stella Mia

    Spanning from the islands of Sicily to the neighborhoods of New York, a tale of mothers, daughters, love, sacrifice—and choices—resounding through generations.Julia Parlatone doesn’t have much to remember her Italian mother by. A grapevine that Sarina planted still flourishes in the backyard of Julia’s childhood home in Astoria, Queens. And there’s a song, “Stella Mia,” she recalls her mother ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antonia and Her Daughters

    The renovations to 34 via del Duomo now complete, Marlena de Blasi, the bestselling international author and woman with the 'fairytale life', longs to find time and space to finish a book. Lured by a friend's offer of a simple stone cottage in a remote province of western Tuscany and distant from the distractions of everyday life in Orvieto, she sets off for a period of solitude. Enter Antonia. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus