Category: Stories and Experiences

Europe, Stories and Experiences

The New Parisienne: The women & ideas shaping Paris

Author: Lindsey Tramuta

Language: English

Summary: The New Parisienne focuses on one of the city’s most prominent features, its women. Lifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman—white, lithe, ever fashionable—Lindsey Tramuta demystifies this oversimplified archetype and recasts the women of Paris as they truly are, in all their complexity. Featuring 50 activists, creators, educators, visionaries, and disruptors—like Leïla Slimani, Lauren Bastide, and Mayor Anne Hidalgo—the book reveals Paris as a blossoming cultural center of feminine power. Both the featured women and Tramuta herself offer up favorite destinations and women-owned businesses, including beloved shops, artistic venues, bistros, and more. The New Parisienne showcases “Parisianness” in all its multiplicity, highlighting those who are bucking tradition, making names for themselves, and transforming the city (Amazon).

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English, Stories and Experiences

The twisted soul cookbook: Modern soul food with global flavors

Author: Deborah VanTrece

Language: English

Summary: Deborah VanTrece’s Kansas City roots, wide travel, and celebrated career in Atlanta have gifted her with a uniquely rich way with food–keeping soulful recipes fresh and fun while honoring cultures, ingredients, and tradition. In her first cookbook, the Twisted Soul chef makes clear that soul cooking has always been as seasonally driven as la cucina povera, as versatile as California cuisine, and as impressive as French technique. In VanTrece’s hands, familiar components become dramatic and dynamic dishes, and classic recipes reveal surprising twists.

Across bountiful chapters studded with vibrant photography, The Twisted Soul Cookbook offers almost 100 fresh salads and side dishes, generous main courses, exciting seafood, rich desserts, and brilliant pantry staples to enhance everyday cooking, including dressings, relishes, and sauces. VanTrece is an able teacher and storyteller, guiding the reader through techniques both simple and sophisticated (Amazon).

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Children, Children and Young Adults, Italiano, Stories and Experiences

Cosa c’è nella tua valigia?

Author: Chris Naylor-Ballestreros

Language: Italiano

Summary: Un giorno arriva uno strano animale, impolverato e stanco, con una grossa valigia.
La volpe, il coniglio e la gallina sono curiosi: cosa ci sarà dentro? Secondo lo “straniero”, tutta la sua casa.

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English, Stories and Experiences

The Travelling Vet: from pets to pandas, my life in animals

Author: Jonathan Cranston

Language: English

Summary: Jonathan Cranston is no ordinary vet. In addition to his day job in the Gloucestershire countryside treating cows, dogs, pigs and cats, he’s also worked with an astonishing range of species around the world, including crocodiles, rhinos and pandas.

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English, Europe, Stories and Experiences

The Corfu Trilogy

Author: Gerald Durrell

Language: English

Summary: The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentric English family who moved there.

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