A Piano In The Pyrenees

Author : Tony Hawks
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-08
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781407025551

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A Piano In The Pyrenees by Tony Hawks Pdf

'If you had to pick two things you wanted - if you had to - what would you pick?' I hesitated. This was a bigger question than usually got asked at these post-match debriefs. 'I suppose the honest answer would be,' I said, still accessing the last pieces of required data from a jumbled mind, 'meeting my soul mate, and finding an idyllic house abroad somewhere.' Inspired by breathtaking views and romantic dreams of finding love in the mountains, Tony Hawks impulsively buys a house in the French Pyrenees. Here, he plans to finally fulfil his childhood fantasy of mastering the piano, untroubled by the problems of the world. In reality, the chaotic story of Tony's hopelessly ill-conceived house purchase reads like the definitive guide to how not to buy a house in France. It finds him flirting with the removal business in a disastrous attempt to transport his piano to France in a dodgy white van; foolishly electing to build a swimming pool himself; and expanding his relationship repertoire when he starts co-habiting, not with an exquisite French beauty, but with a middle-aged builder from West London. As Tony and his friends haplessly attempt to fit into village life, they learn more about themselves and each other than they ever imagined.

Author : Tony Hawks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Pyrenees
ISBN : 0091912377

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Piano in the Pyrenees by Tony Hawks Pdf

Inspired by breathtaking views and romantically dreaming of finding love in the mountains, Tony Hawks buys a house in the Pyrenees. And here, he imagines, he will finally fulfill his childhood fantasy of mastering the piano, all the while overlooking spectacular views as the troubles of the world pass by unnoticed.

Author : T Hawks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407025570

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Piano in the Pyrenees, a the Ups and Downs of an Englishman in the French Mountains by T Hawks Pdf

Author : Robert Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216091059

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Going Places by Robert Burgin Pdf

Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

Author : Melissa Brackney Stoeger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610693769

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Food Lit by Melissa Brackney Stoeger Pdf

An essential tool for assisting leisure readers interested in topics surrounding food, this unique book contains annotations and read-alikes for hundreds of nonfiction titles about the joys of comestibles and cooking. Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction provides a much-needed resource for librarians assisting adult readers interested in the topic of food—a group that is continuing to grow rapidly. Containing annotations of hundreds of nonfiction titles about food that are arranged into genre and subject interest categories for easy reference, the book addresses a diversity of reading experiences by covering everything from foodie memoirs and histories of food to extreme cuisine and food exposés. Author Melissa Stoeger has organized and described hundreds of nonfiction titles centered on the themes of food and eating, including life stories, history, science, and investigative nonfiction. The work emphasizes titles published in the past decade without overlooking significant benchmark and classic titles. It also provides lists of suggested read-alikes for those titles, and includes several helpful appendices of fiction titles featuring food, food magazines, and food blogs.

Author : Tony Hawks
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781407026404

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One Hit Wonderland by Tony Hawks Pdf

It's 1988 and radios across the land blast out the Top Ten hit 'Stutter Rap' by Morris Minor and the Majors. The man behind the fake moustache is Tony Hawks. Fast forward to the 21st century and those heady days of pop stardom are a distant memory. That is, until it is suggested that Tony is just another One Hit Wonder. Really? We'll have to see about that ... For two years Tony struggles to have a hit somewhere, anywhere, in the world, changing acts and styles with a bewildering lack of integrity. From Nashville to Amsterdam, from Eastern Europe to Africa, he travels the globe in search of that elusive hit. But it's only after a chance encounter with Norman Wisdom that things get really strange. Is it really possible that together they could storm the Albanian charts? In One Hit Wonderland anything can happen ...

Author : Natalie MacLean
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780385668491

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Unquenchable by Natalie MacLean Pdf

From the author of the bestselling Red, White and Drunk All Over, this book will amuse and enthrall with its character sketches of obsessive personalities, travel to lovely settings, mouth-watering descriptions, of food and wine, "hidden" wine education and neurotic humor. Standing firmly against wine snobbery by insisting that good wine doesn't have to be expensive, award-winning wine writer Natalie MacLean travels the globe on an uncompromising quest to find fabulous wine bargains.

Author : Ben Stubbs
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031561887

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Re-thinking Travel Writing by Ben Stubbs Pdf

Author : Charles Packe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Pyrenees
ISBN : BL:A0026243419

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A Guide to the Pyrenees by Charles Packe Pdf

Author : Roger Grenier
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803270879

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Piano Music for Four Hands by Roger Grenier Pdf

Piano Music for Four Hands is a novel about music and love set against three generations of French history. At its center is a charming but melancholy pianist named Michel Mailhoc. Having survived a series of bungled love affairs and professional disappointments, he retreats to his family house in the Pyrenees. The bright spot in his life is his grandniece Emma, who becomes his prizewinning student. Struggling with his fervent desire for her success and the fear of losing her, Michel sends Emma into the world of international musical stardom that he has renounced for himself. The Mailhoc family saga, stretching from World War I to the turbulent 1960s, is full of sorrow, but the underlying melody remains tender and humorous. From the first sentence we feel curiously at home in Roger Grenier's intimate, precise, and musical writing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781409338000

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The Pyrenees Rough Guides Snapshot France (includes Pays Basque, Pau, Lourdes, Parc National des Pyrénées and Perpignan) by Anonim Pdf

The Rough Guide Snapshot to the Pyrenees is the ultimate travel guide to this craggy mountainous region, and also includes coverage of the beguiling Basque country. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive accounts of all the sights and attractions, from surfing big waves in Biarritz and inspecting pre-historic paintings in the Ariège valley to taking a trip on the charming Petit Train Jaune and exploring dramatic Cathar castles in the Corbières. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you have the most memorable possible, whether passing through, staying for the weekend or longer. Also included is the Basics section from The Rough Guide to France, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around the country, including transport, food, drink, costs, health and festivals. Also published as part of The Rough Guide to France. Full coverage: Bayonne, Biarritz, St Jean-de-Luz, Parc National des Pyrénées, Pau, Lourdes, Tarbes, Vallée d'Aspe, Vallée d'Ossau, Gave de Pau, Cauterets, Gavarnie and its cirque, Barèges, Luchon, Vallée de l'Ariege, Montségur, Vallée de l'Aude, Cathar castles, Perpignan, The Têt valley (Equivalent printed page extent 102 pages).Now available in ePub format.

Author : Sébastien Erpicum,Frédéric Laugier,Jean-Louis Boillat,Michel Pirotton,Bernard Reverchon,Anton J. Schleiss
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203804063

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Labyrinth and Piano Key Weirs by Sébastien Erpicum,Frédéric Laugier,Jean-Louis Boillat,Michel Pirotton,Bernard Reverchon,Anton J. Schleiss Pdf

Labyrinth spillways are almost as old as dam engineering. In spite of the fact that they appear as a very good technical-economical compromise, only 0.1% of large dams are equipped with such weirs. The main reason for this is that traditional labyrinth weirs usually cannot be installed on top of concrete gravity dams as they require a large foundat

Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350024793

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The Pyrenees in the Modern Era by Martyn Lyons Pdf

This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The book analyses the individual visions of the heroic Pyrenees which in turn fascinated 19th-century mountaineers and the racing cyclists of the early Tour de France. Martyn Lyons also investigates the role of the Pyrenees during the Second World War as an escape route from Nazi-occupied France, when for thousands of refugees these dangerous borderlands became 'the mountains of liberty', and considers the place of the Pyrenees in recent times right up to the present day. Drawing on travel writing, press reports and scientific texts in several languages, The Pyrenees in the Modern Era explores both the French and Spanish sides of the Pyrenees to provide a nuanced historical understanding of the cultural construction of one of Europe's most prominent border regions. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Europe's cultural history in a transnational context.

Author : Craig Newnes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137312969

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Inscription, Diagnosis, Deception and the Mental Health Industry by Craig Newnes Pdf

The Psy complex governs us all by inscribing, diagnosing and interfering in our lives. This volume takes historical, sociological and psychological perspectives in exploring the complicity of patients, professions and governments with Psy and attempts by all three to constrain the industry's activities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languedoc-Roussillon (France)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131966504

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Languedoc Roussillon, Tarn Gorges by Anonim Pdf