Cultural Region/French
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Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair
$26.00 Add to cartAn insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innoc- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Samuels, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300254008
- Language: English
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Antigone: A New Translation
$12.99 Add to cartThe most celebrated plays of ancient Athens–Sophocles’s seven surviving works–in vivid and dynamic new translations. ANTIGONE, translated by award-winning poet Robert Bagg, is one of seven plays Har
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0062132121
- Language: English
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“A haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance.” –Marie Claire
The riveting and little-known story of a group of female members of the French resistance who were dep
- Series: P.S. #1
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0061650714
- Language: English
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Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
$46.58 Add to cartA compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy
We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless.- Series: New Forum Books #70
- Author: Storey, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0691211124
- Language: English
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Paris: A Love Story
$18.00 Add to cartThis New York Times bestseller is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris or with Paris.
This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris. PARIS: A LOV- Author: Marton, Kati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1451691556
- Language: English
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Learn Canadian French: 2nd Edition
$22.47 Add to cartLearn Canadian French and speak with a beautiful aged accent of colonial France that has stood the test of time, exceeding 400 years in North America. This book provides countless expressions, idioms,… [more below]
- Author: L?vesque, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: March 20 2024
- ISBN10: 136637357X
- Language: English
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Paris Picnic Club: More Than 100 Recipes to Savor and Share
$30.00 Read moreEvery Friday for a year, Shaheen Peerbhai and Jennie Levitt made a delicious picnic-style meal for their friends. This small tradition soon grew into a clandestine pop-up restaurant, serving much-anti… [more below]
- Author: Peerbhai, Shaheen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1454951680
- Language: English
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Selected Writings of Blaise Cendrars
$18.00 Add to cartA collection of the best of Blaise Cendrars poetry. Includes three short prose pieces.
- Author: Cendrars, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 16 1966
- ISBN10: 0811218880
- Language: English
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
$30.99 Add to cart“Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.” –Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books
Since his- Author: Scurr, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082611
- Language: English
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Agent Garbo
$15.95 Add to cartThe little-known World War II espionage story of Spaniard Juan Pujol, who convinced Hitler’s Abwehr that he had a ring of spies in Britain, only to pull off one of the greatest feats of any double age… [more below]
- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0544035011
- Language: English
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Paris Journal, 1944-1955
$17.99 Add to cartHere is a continuation of selections from Flanner’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature ” Gen黎.” With clarity and authority,… [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0156709481
- Language: English
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Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and self-discovery by Sue Monk Kidd, the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings, and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor
Sue Monk Kid- Author: Kidd, Sue Monk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0143117971
- Language: English
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Say It Right in French, Third Edition
$16.00 Add to cartSpeak a new language with confidence with this accessible guide to correct pronunciation
Fear of mispronunciation prevents many people from daring to speak a new language. Don’t let that fear hold you… [more below]- Author: Epls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1260116328
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartFrom 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
