Cultural Region/French
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The Last Musketeer
$9.99 Add to cartThe first book in the thrilling time travel adventure trilogy from New York Times bestselling Charlie Thorne and Spy School author Stuart Gibbs–now with a brand-new look!
Before they were legends, the
- Author: Gibbs, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0062852159
- Language: English
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A Place of Greater Safety
$26.00 Add to cartIt is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden–and hugely but erotically ugly. M
- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0312426399
- Language: English
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Forgetting
$16.95 Add to cartForgetting is a brief but searing sojourn inside the mind of Alma as she navigates the complexity of the past and future within her identity.
On her nighttime wanderings through a Paris saturated with
- Author: Finkelstein, Frederika Amalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052269
- Language: English
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Coco Chanel
$15.99 Add to cartIn this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the inspiring story of this international style icon.
Following the death of her mother, Coco- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #1
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1847807844
- Language: English
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The Paris Wife
$28.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A deeply evocative novel of ambition and betrayal that captures the love affair between two unforgettable people, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley–from the author of L… [more below]
- Author: McLain, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0345521307
- Language: English
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The Heptameron
$22.00 Add to cartIn the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, t… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Marguerite de Navarre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 05 1984
- ISBN10: 014044355X
- Language: English
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Ban En Banlieue
$15.95 Read moreAn evocative exploration of body and politics by one of our most exciting innovative writers. Bhanu Kapil’s Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first mome… [more below]
- Author: Kapil, Bhanu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1937658244
- Language: English
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Vernon Subutex 2
$17.00 Read morePart social epic, part punk-rock thriller, writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex trilogy continues the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted sprawling tale of an ex-record shop cle
- Series: Vernon Subutex #2
- Author: Despentes, Virginie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0374283257
- Language: English
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What I Loved
$20.99 Read moreSiri Hustvedt’s What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the
- Author: Hustvedt, Siri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312421192
- Language: English
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Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride
$19.99 Add to cartThe first “manned” hot-air balloon is about to take off! But what are those noises coming from the basket?
Based on the (POSSIBLY) true report of a day in 1783, this si the story of (PERHAPS) the bra… [more below]- Author: Priceman, Marjorie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0689826427
- Language: English
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Dark Triumph
$15.99 Add to cartSybella’s duty as Death’s assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped. Love and romance, history and magic, vengeance and salvation converg… [more below]
- Series: His Fair Assassin #2
- Author: Lafevers, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1328567664
- Language: English
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Le Cordon Bleu Bakery School: 80 Step-By-Step Recipes for Bread and Viennoiseries
$59.95 Read moreAvailable in English for the first time, a step by step guide to baking from the world renowned culinary school
Le Cordon Bleu is the highly renowned, world famous culinary school noted for the quality… [more below]
- Series: Le Cordon Bleu
- Author: Le Cordon Bleu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1911667424
- Language: English
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The Belly of Paris
$12.95 Add to cartUnjustly deported to Devil’s Island following Louis-Napoleon’s coup-d’?tat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old March? de… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555842
- Language: English
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The Kill: La Curee
$15.95 Add to cartThe Kill (La Cur馥) is the second volume in Zola’s great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris – the capital of modernity – as the centre of Zola’s narrative w… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, Émile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536929
- Language: English
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Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World
$24.95 Add to cart“Farmers like Charles and Perrine Herv?-Gruyer [are] beacons of light. Their work allows the rest of the world to see that there is another life, there is another way.”–Eliot Coleman
What began as a
- Author: Herv?-Gruyer, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1603586423
- Language: English
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King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV
$57.00 Add to cartLouis XIV was a man in pursuit of glory. Not content to be the ruler of a world power, he wanted the power to rule the world. And, for a time, he came tantalizingly close.
Philip Mansel’s King of the- Author: Mansel, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 022669089X
- Language: English
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A Storm of Horses
$19.95 Read moreAn inspiring picture book about Rosa Bonheur, the most famous female painter of her century, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the artist’s birth
In a stunning ode to underrepresente- Author: Sanderson, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1623718481
- Language: English
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Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain
$18.99 Add to cartThe true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream.
When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying ma- Author: Bardoe, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0316278203
- Language: English
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The Cook’s Atelier: Recipes, Techniques, and Stories from Our French Cooking School
$55.00 Add to cartAn IACP Cookbook Award winner for Design and for Food Photography & Styling, the debut cookbook from The Cook’s Atelier–the international culinary destination and cooking school in Burgundy—is a bea… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Marjorie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1419728954
- Language: English
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Nana
$12.95 Add to cart‘She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.’
Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic hig- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198814267
- Language: English
