Cultural Region/French
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Napoleon: A Life
$24.00 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
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As You Like It
$5.95 Read moreThe Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare’s comedic play about two enduring human illusions–the dream of a simple life and the ideal of romantic love.
Banished from her uncle’s court, young- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0451526783
- Language: English
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington’s trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teen
- Author: Vowell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0399573100
- Language: English
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A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948
$33.99 Add to cartIn the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the first agreement to divide the region … [more below]
- Author: Barr, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0393344258
- Language: English
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
$18.99 Add to cartThe spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris.
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and- Author: Rosbottom, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0316217433
- Language: English
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Versailles: A Biography of a Palace
$22.99 Add to cartCalled “fast-paced” (Kirkus Reviews) and “highly engrossing” (Publishers Weekly), this is the behind-the-scenes story of the world’s most famous palace.
The story of Versailles is one of high historic- Author: Spawforth, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312603460
- Language: English
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The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Napoleonic Wars have an all-important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries, they provided the stimulu… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0199590966
- Language: English
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Collected Poems
$13.95 Add to cartRimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rimbaud, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199538956
- Language: English
