Cultural Region/French
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Left Bank
$25.99 Add to cartAn incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris.
In this- Author: Poirier, Agn?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1250231469
- Language: English
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Diaghilev’s Empire
$20.00 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year at The New Yorker and The Telegraph
“Amusing and assertive . . . [Christiansen’s] delight is infectious.” –Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review Rupert Christiansen- Author: Christiansen, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872537
- Language: English
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A Long Way from Paris
$16.00 Add to cartIn this searing, authentic memoir, Elizabeth is hired to herd goats on a remote mountain farm in the South of France where she carves out a life for herself without heat, running water, or even a good
- Author: Murray, E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0990310213
- Language: English
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Bistro Cooking
$21.99 Add to cartBistro is warm. Bistro is family. Bistro is simple, hearty, generous cuisine-robust soups and country omelets, wine-scented stews and bubbling gratins, and desserts from a grandmother’s kitchen. Resea… [more below]
- Author: Wells, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 10 1989
- ISBN10: 0894806238
- Language: English
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Paris Spleen: 1869
$14.95 Read moreSet in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squ… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #294
- Author: Baudelaire, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: January 17 1970
- ISBN10: 0811200078
- Language: English
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The Man in the Red Coat
$35.00 Read moreFrom the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending–a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle ?poque Paris, told through the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0525658777
- Language: English
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The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
$24.00 Add to cartLouis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within
- Author: Cadbury, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312320299
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Life
$27.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Paul Johnson, “a very readable and entertaining biography” (The Washington Post) about one of the most important figures in modern European history: Napoleon Bon… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037455
- Language: English
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The Diary Keepers: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through It
$20.00 Add to cartA riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times
Based on select writings
- Author: Siegal, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063070669
- Language: English
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Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway’s First Wife
$18.99 Add to cart“A bittersweet modern love story that] reads as easily as a novel.” —Vogue
“Fascinating. . . . A detailed, grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left.” —Newsday
Hadley Richardson and Ern
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Diliberto, Gioia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0062108824
- Language: English
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French Bread Baking for Beginners: The Essential Guide to Baking Baguettes, Boules, Brioche, and More
$16.99 Add to cartBake delicious French breads at home with simple, authentic recipes
Crusty baguettes, tender brioche, and flaky croissants are some of the world’s most delicious and beloved breads–and now you can ma
- Author: Kuczynski, Katie Rosenhouse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1638781893
- Language: English
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The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings
$20.00 Read moreA new translation of the best and most provocative work by France’s infamous rebel poet, in a bilingual edition
Poet, prodigy, precursor, punk: the short, precocious, uncompromisingly rebellious caree- Author: Rimbaud, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376504
- Language: English
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Napoleon’s Glance: The Secret of Strategy
$21.99 Add to cartIn Napoleon’s Glance William Duggan discovers the secret of Napoleon’s success — coup d’oeil (pronounced koo-DOY) meaning a stroke of the eye, or “glance” a sudden insight that shows you what course … [more below]
- Series: Nation Books
- Author: Duggan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: March 19 2004
- ISBN10: 1560256028
- Language: English
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All Signs Point to Paris: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Destiny
$19.99 Add to cart“This one brims with magic… An absolute page-turner and joy to read!” — Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author
Propulsive, touching, and darkly funny, All Signs Point to Paris is the story of
- Author: Sizlo, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063268531
- Language: English
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Raising Olives in Provence: A Guide for Body and Soul
$18.99 Read moreA fun-filled portrait of Provence told by an American bestselling author who knows France intimately and unwraps people and places with devastating insight–and laugh-out-loud humor.
Americans have lo- Author: Timmerman, Kenneth R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888451601
- Language: English
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
$23.99 Add to cartThe Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France,
- Author: Zuckerman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0865475784
- Language: English
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Dining with Marcel Proust: A Practical Guide to French Cuisine of the Belle Epoque
$17.95 Add to cartMarcel Proust’s literary masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu overflows with brilliant, minutely described accounts of food and drink drawn from the author’s vivid memories. After all, it was th… [more below]
- Series: At Table
- Author: King, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 155
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803278268
- Language: English
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The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious–And Perplexing–City
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen and L’Appart, a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections.
Like so m… [more below]- Author: Lebovitz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 076792889X
- Language: English
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Return to Paris: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartParis, 1947: Colette Rossant returns to Paris after waiting out World War II in Cairo among her father’s Egyptian-Jewish relatives. Initially, the City of Light seems gray and forbidding to the teenag… [more below]
- Author: Rossant, Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0743439686
- Language: English
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The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
$19.99 Add to cart“A book to be plundered and raided.” — New York Times Book Review
“A portal into a world of timeless travel literature curated by one of the greatest travel writers of our day.” — USA Today Paul The- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0547737378
- Language: English
