Cultural Region/French
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The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Zunz, Olivier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254141
- Language: English
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The Jerusalem Files: The Secret Journey of the Menorah to Oak Island
$22.95 Read moreA non-fiction Da Vinci Code for the 21st century, this thrilling treasure hunt traces the voyage of the legendary Jewish Menorah from the Jerusalem of the Knights Templar through France, Portugal and … [more below]
- Author: Mol, Corjan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1786788365
- Language: English
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Talleyrand
$19.00 Add to cartUnique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high … [more below]
- Series: Grove Great Lives
- Author: Cooper, Duff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0802137679
- Language: English
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Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
$26.99 Add to cartWith his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways.
In eighteenth-century France, c
- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351807
- Language: English
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Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
$20.00 Add to cartWandering through Paris’s Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited hi… [more below]
- Author: Mercer, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0312347405
- Language: English
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Rick Steves Snapshot Normandy
$9.99 Read moreWith Rick Steves, Normandy is yours to discover! This slim guide excerpted from Rick Steves France includes:
- Rick’s firsthand, up-to-date advice on Normandy’s best sights, restaurants, hotels, and mor
- Series: Rick Steves Snapshot
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1641715014
- Language: English
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The Way of the Wild Goose: Three Pilgrimages Following Geese, Stars, and Hunches on the Camino de Santiago
$24.00 Add to cart- The author is a noted authority on the Camino pilgrimage. She has dedicated three decades to unearthing the mysteries, lore, and many-sensory experiences of this massive and ancient network of roads t
- Author: Bahrami, Beebe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1948626632
- Language: English
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French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris
$16.99 Add to cartA Midwest Indie Bestseller
When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors, police denunciations, surly demonstrators, cooking disa
- Author: Carpenter, Scott Dominic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1609521838
- Language: English
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Don’t Be a Tourist in Paris: The Messy Nessy Chic Guide
$39.95 Add to cartThe latest in the Don’t be a Tourist series, this is the ultimate bible to Paris unknown. Updated Third Edition.
- Author: Grall, Vanessa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1916430937
- Language: English
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Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire
$29.95 Add to cartTo coincide with the release of Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix, in November 2023.
Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of this extraordinary man
- Author: Papot, Emmanuelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0233005730
- Language: English
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The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World’s Most Famous Perfume
$18.99 Add to cart“Who knew that such a tiny bottle housed so many secrets?” — Michael Tonello, author of Bringing Home the Birkin
“Here is the life of one of the 20th century’s most interesting and deeply complicated
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 61791032
- Language: English
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The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times perfume critic, a stylish, fascinating, unprecedented insider’s view of the global perfume industry, told through two creators working on two very different scents.
No journali- Author: Burr, Chandler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0312425775
- Language: English
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Masters of the Nefarious: Mollusk Rampage
$24.95 Read moreTwo supernatural crime fighters and their Rorschach-blotted best friend stumble into a plot involving UFOs, giant mollusks, and the Maluku Islands in this vivid, madcap adventure by a contemporary Fre… [more below]
- Author: La Police, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378345
- Language: English
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French Milk
$18.99 Add to cartThrough delightful drawings, photographs, and musings, twenty-three-year-old Lucy Knisley documents a six-week trip she and her mother took to Paris when each was facing a milestone birthday. With a q… [more below]
- Author: Knisley, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1416575340
- Language: English
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The Elusive Pimpernel
$11.99 Add to cartSpy-catcher Chauvelin travels to England to find Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and take him back to France where he’ll be put to death. With help from a struggling actress, Chauvelin atte
- Series: Mint Editions (Grand Adventures)
- Author: Orczy, Emmuska
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1513272179
- Language: English
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The 6:41 to Paris
$15.95 Add to cartBrilliant psychological thriller constructed like an intensely intimate theater performance, a high-wire act of emotions on rails.
- Author: Blondel, Jean-Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1939931266
- Language: English
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The Charterhouse of Parma
$12.95 Add to cartThe Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring. Set at the beginning of the 19th-century in northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a han… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Stendhal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555346
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary
$20.95 Read moreObjeto de esc?ndalo en su momento, la novela hubo de sortear la censura del r?gimen de Napole?n III y sent? las bases del realismo literario. Emma Bovary representa la rebeli?n contra el encorsetamien… [more below]
- Series: Cl?sicos Ilustrados
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 8418395168
- Language: Spanish
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The Dance Tree
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Hargrave, Kiran Millwood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063274787
- Language: English
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Mad Love
$18.95 Add to cartMad Love has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the mos… [more below]
- Series: French Modernist Library
- Author: Breton, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 131
- Publish Date: October 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0803260725
- Language: English
