Cultural Region/French
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Barns of the St Croix Valley: An Architect’s Sketchbook
$24.95 Add to cartIllustrated with 200 barn sketches, diagrams, and maps, this book takes you on a journey through the St Croix River Valley.
It grounds you in the geography, geology and biology of the region and intro
- Author: Lammers, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1954081677
- Language: English
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Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador DalÃ, Simone de Beauvoir, André Gide, Sylvia Beach, Léon Blum, and Their Frie
$29.93 Add to cartParis on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s. The decade was marked by violence at home and the rise of Hitler abroad, even as glamour prevailed in fashion and Sur… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1538121794
- Language: English
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Pierre Hermé Macaron: The Ultimate Recipes from the Master Pâtissier
$50.00 Read moreFeaturing more than 60 elegantly photographed recipes, Pierre Herm? Macaron is the definitive guide to macarons.
“The Picasso of Pastries, Chef Pierre Herm? combines flavors with an artistic flair. .- Author: Hermé, Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1617691712
- Language: English
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How to Cook French Cuisine: 50 Traditional Recipes
$19.95 Add to cartYou never forget your first tartiflette. Likewise, moules marinire is sure to leave an impression. How to Cook French Cuisine collects these and forty-eight other classic recipes of arguably the world… [more below]
- Author: Soucail, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1584236655
- Language: English
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Napoleon
$28.00 Add to cartFrom Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend
On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Na- Author: Forrest, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1250038359
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Best Road Trips France
$27.99 Add to cartDiscover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet’s France’s Best Road Trips. This trusted travel companion features 38 amazing drives, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures. See Britanny’s s
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Waby, Tasmin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1838697810
- Language: English
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Cyrano de Bergerac
$13.00 Read morePoet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris. But there is one very large problem – he has a nose of stupendous size … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rostand, Edmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 014044968X
- Language: English
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Tour Du Mont Blanc (2022 Updated Version): Real Ign Maps 1:25,000 – No Need to Carry Separate Maps
$26.95 Add to cartThe only guidebook for the Tour du Mont Blanc with Real 1:25,000 Maps: proper mapping included for each stage. This makes navigation easy and saves you money: no need to buy additional maps.
Also incl… [more below]
- Series: The Great Treks of the Alps #2
- Author: McCluggage, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1912933012
- Language: English
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When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends
$29.93 Add to cartWhen Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them–one in which art and architecture… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1538121808
- Language: English
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Moon Paris Walks: See the City Like a Local
$14.99 Add to cartStroll along cobblestone alleys and grand boulevards, discover chic restaurants and trendy shops, and bask in la vie Parisienne like a local: on foot!
- Walk through the city’s coolest neighborhoods like
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Moon Travel Guides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9798886470222
- Language: English
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The Portal of the Mystery of Hope
$21.99 Read moreThe first critical edition of Peguy’s poetry to appear in English, this volume offers a comprehensive theology ordered around the often-neglected second theological virtue, which is incarnated in his … [more below]
- Series: Ressourcement: Retrieval & Renewal in Catholic Thought
- Author: Peguy, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 15 2005
- ISBN10: 0802808999
- Language: English
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
$12.95 Add to cartRousseau’s last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as the philosopher tries to come to terms with his isolation and to find happiness in solitude and na… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0199563276
- Language: English
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
$16.99 Add to cart“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”
–Miami Herald
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty an
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lagnado, Lucette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 006082218X
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Eat France
$17.99 Add to cartFor everybody excited about exploring the cuisine and food and wine culture of France, this book is the perfect primer. It introduces the key regions of France and the specialities of each, covering t
- Series: Lonely Planet Food
- Author: Food, Lonely Planet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1838695176
- Language: English
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de Lempicka
$20.00 Read moreTamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set abo
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 09 2016
- ISBN10: 3836532271
- Language: English
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Gauguin
$20.00 Add to cartPaul Gauguin (1848-1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen who did not speak Danish. He began painting in his
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Walther, Ingo F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 27 2017
- ISBN10: 3836532239
- Language: English
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Paris: A Color-Your-Own Travel Journal
$16.99 Read more“This gift combines two ways to help others practice self-care: through travel and coloring.” —Essence
Color your way around Paris
“A whole new take on travel guidebooks…and a great gift.” —Forbes- Series: Color Your World Travel Journal
- Author: Carrick, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1507221487
- Language: English
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The Art of French Pastry: A Cookbook
$45.00 Add to cartJAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER – Experience the magic of French baking and elevate your pastry skills to new heights with this invaluable guide from the award-winning pastry chef and co-founder of the renow… [more below]
- Author: Pfeiffer, Jacquy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 395
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 030795935X
- Language: English
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The Louvre: All the Paintings
$49.99 Add to cartImmerse yourself in the wonder and dazzling display of the 3,000 paintings in the permanent collection of the Louvre in this this elegant paperback edition of the New York Times bestselling book The L… [more below]
- Author: Grebe, Anja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 076247064X
- Language: English
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Dance Me to the End of Love
$19.95 Add to cart10 years ago, Welcome Books published the star of its Art & Poetry Series, Dance Me to the End of Love, a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen that was brilliantly visualized through the sensual… [more below]
- Series: Art & Poetry
- Author: Cohen, Leonard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 15 2006
- ISBN10: 1932183930
- Language: English
