Born in New York, raised in Toronto, Jill Culiner has lived in several cars, one closet, a Hungarian mud house, a Bavarian castle, a Turkish cave dwelling, in a haunted house on the English moors, in the Sahara desert, on a Greek island, in several French villages and has worked as a go-go girl, belly dancer, fortune teller, translator, newspaper deliverer, radio broadcaster, contemporary artist, photographer, actress and writer. She has written two mysteries, Sad Summer in Biarritz, and Dea ...
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The Book Tour Episode Twenty-Five (Final): An Author Looking for a Story
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On the last night of my book tour, I look for an interesting story and end up in a tricky situationBy Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Twenty-Four: Driving to the U.S.A. for Pizza with Michael "Crash" Caplan
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In the early 1960s there was no place to eat pizza in Toronto (as far as we knew). The closest was across the border, in the U.S.A., but that wasn't too far away for "Crash" Caplan, a youth known for wrecking cars in terrible accidents.By Jill Culiner
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#2 Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain: Tarzan, Udo and the Russians
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#2 Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain: Tarzan, Udo and the Russians by Jill CulinerBy Jill Culiner
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#1 Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain: The Hungarian Count
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The Hungarian Count sells paintings in Toronto from the book Those Absent on the Great Hungarian PlainBy Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Twenty-Three: Romeo Invites Me To Breakfast
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The Book Tour, New York City, the Old Barrymore House, RomeoBy Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Twenty-Two: The Lady in the Green Hat
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People met while travelling by Greyhound bus across America on a book tourBy Jill Culiner
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Traveling through the USA by Greyhound, Strange characters,By Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Twenty: Those Met on Buses
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Travelling up from Florida: the people met on buses; ecology: the Old South; dreamers.By Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Nineteen: Traveller's Blues
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The Book Tour Episode Eighteen: Panama City, Pelicans, and Jim Bikeman
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I travel to Panama City Florida and meet the famous Jim BikemanBy Jill Culiner
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Traveling by bus in the south: Mobile, Alabama to FloridaBy Jill Culiner
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The beginning of my journey to find Velvel ZbarzherAvailable from Claret PressPaperback https://payhip.com/b/o7M23Ebook https://payhip.com/b/HmK5COr https://boook.link/A-Contrary-Journey-with-Velvel-Zbarzher-BardBy Jill Culiner
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A Contrary Journey with Velvel Zbarzher, Bard published by Claret Press
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Velvel Zbarzher, rebel, songster, and glittering star of fusty inns, spent his life singing his Enlightenment poems to loyal audiences of poor workers and craftsmen in Austrian-Galicia, Romania, Vienna and Istanbul. His attacks condemning the religious stronghold resulted in banishment and itinerancy, but for Velvel and the other like the other ref…
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The Book Tour Episode Sixteen: On to Oklahoma
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Strange characters on the bus, Oklahoma's unsavoury history, the KKK, the Sooners, a breakfast invitationBy Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Fifteen: Along the Road
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Looking for the Perfect Setting and the Perfect Place to LiveBy Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Fourteen: Looking for the Ideal Setting in Nevada
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I travel to Nevada to find the ideal place to set a story. Instead, I find Las Vegas, nuclear testing grounds, and assorted rubbish.By Jill Culiner
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Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers
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The Romanian Fusgeyers were the Jews who walked out of their country. One hundred and thirty years later, I crossed Romania in their footsteps before continuing on along the former immigrant trail across Europe, then to the gold and silver mining towns of Canada.By Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Thirteen: The ex-Husband
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A meeting with an ex thirty years laterBy Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Twelve: Traveling with Mr. Bleany
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The ups and downs of book talksBy Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Eleven: A Love Story...of sorts...
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The greasy-haired man is on his way to meet his new love...a woman he has never seen...By Jill Culiner
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In Episode Ten, as I travel through Montana, I meet Sherry and hear her story.By Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Nine: Livingstone, Montana
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Livingstone Montana, then and nowBy Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Eight: Travelling by Grehound— Grist for the Writer's Mill
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The rather strange people encountered on buses...By Jill Culiner
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Book Tour Episode Seven: Mitigated Success and Unmitigated Failure in Winnipeg and Regina
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I travel on to Winnipeg and Regina to talk about my books but, as usual in my life, nothing goes as planned. Still, tomorrow is another day...By Jill Culiner
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Priceless artifacts are disappearing from the ancient Hittite site of Karakuyu in Turkey, and the site director has vanished. Called in to solve the mystery, archaeologist Renaud Townsend is hindered by both his inability to speak the language and the knowledge that the local police are corrupt. His attraction to translator Anne Pierson is immediat…
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The Book Tour Episode Six: A Boomtown (Almost the Wild West)
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I go looking for the past in modern-day Thunder Bay and am directed to the mallBy Jill Culiner
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All about minimal success and many dull conversationsBy Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Four: From Montreal to Halifax
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The meeting with Ruben, Rivière du Loup, and odd conversationsBy Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Three: On the Road...finally
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The first talks in Ottawa...not at all what anyone would call success...By Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour Episode Two: An Interesting Encounter
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In Toronto, after arranging the book tour, I meet a homeless man and his dogsBy Jill Culiner
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The Book Tour— Episode One: How It All Began
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After winning the Tanenbaum prize for my non-fiction book, I began a book tour in Canada and the USA. Although this is not always a success story, it's an amusing one. This chapter is about how the idea for a tour was born.By Jill Culiner
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Fourteen: The End
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The last chapter in this series describes the last village 'bad boy' and the changes in the traditional French village.By Jill Culiner
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Men love Rose Badger, and if the other inhabitants of dead-end Blake’s Folly, Nevada, don’t approve, she couldn’t care less. With a disastrous marriage far behind her, settling down is the last thing she intends to do. Isn’t life for fun? Doesn’t a stable relationship always mean predictability and boredom? Well… perhaps things might be different w…
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Thirteen: Parents
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Middle class parents and their childrenVillage parents and their childrenBy Jill Culiner
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Twelve: The Evil Eye
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Local superstitions, the evil eye, a village sorcerer, incantationsBy Jill Culiner
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Eleven: Murder
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Changes in the village, a local murder, and a submarine carBy Jill Culiner
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Ten: Meatballs
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Mystery: Sad Summer in Biarritz Episode One
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A Canadian woman, hopes to change her life by moving to Biarritz. Having escaped a devastating relationship with the mentally unstable Dominique, she is determined to make new friends and find the perfect mate. But in this summer resort frequented by couples and families, available singles are lonely people, too often embittered by romantic failure…
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The instant Sherry and Carston meet, there’s desire and fascination in the air…but they’re complete opposites. Smart-talking Sherry fought her way up from poverty to stardom as a country music singer. Now, she’s ever in the limelight, ever surrounded by clamoring fans, male admirers, and paparazzi, and her spangled cowboy boots carry her all across…
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Nine: Marriage
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The evening Marek Sumner opened his door to the wild-looking Felicity Powers, he knew nothing would ever be the same again. But even love and passion couldn’t keep them together. Years later, having lived in the world’s most dangerous places as a foreign aid worker, Felicity is back, still offering love, passion, and adventure. But why would Marek …
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Eight- Neo-Rurals
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Seven: Madame Sawicki's Dream
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Sorcery and witchcraft in the villages and the modern manifestationsBy Jill Culiner
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Six: The Café
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Five: Roland
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Four: The Neighbours
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Four: The Neighbours by Jill CulinerBy Jill Culiner
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Three: Rocard
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Life in a Small French Village Episode One: Banane
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Life in a Small French Village Episode Two: Dracula
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Life in a small French village with a few strange local charactersBy Jill Culiner
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