Cultural Region/French
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The Song at the Scaffold
$12.95 Add to cart“The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compi?ne but the figure of the young Blanche. . . . Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by
- Author: Von Le Fort, Gertrud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 07 2011
- ISBN10: 1586175254
- Language: English
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HHhH
$19.00 Add to cart“Captivating . . . [HHhH] has a vitality very different from that of most historical fiction.” –James Wood, The New Yorker
The basis for the major motion picture, “The Man with the Iron Heart ” availa- Author: Binet, Laurent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 327
- Publish Date: July 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1250033349
- Language: English
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Class Trip & the Mustache
$23.99 Add to cartLa Moustache–now a film directed by Emmanuel Carr?e
“What would you say if I shaved off my mustache?” asks The Mustache‘s hero of his wife. Once removed, his wife and friends not only fail to recogni- Author: Carrhre, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422334
- Language: English
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Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
$13.95 Add to cartDeceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld’s shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust,… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: La Rochefoucauld, François de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540004
- Language: English
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A Bitter Truth: A Bess Crawford Mystery
$19.99 Add to cart“Highly recommended–well-rounded, believable characters, a multi-layered plot solidly based on human nature, all authentically set in the England of 1917…an outstanding and riveting read.”
—New Yor- Series: Bess Crawford Mysteries #3
- Author: Todd, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0062015710
- Language: English
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The Planetarium
$16.95 Read moreA young writer has his heart set on his aunt’s large apartment. With this seemingly simple conceit, the characters of The Planetarium are set in orbit and a galaxy of argument, resentment, and bittern
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Sarraute, Nathalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1628973897
- Language: English
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Thirty Days in Paris: The Gorgeously Escapist, Romantic and Uplifting New Novel from the Sunday Times Bestselling Author
$17.99 Read more‘Magical, romantic, fantastique’ MILLY JOHNSON
‘A perfect Parisian fantasy every woman will love‘ KATIE FFORDE
‘Wow, wow, WOW. Her best and most perfect book yet. I adored every word. Sublime, as always- Author: Henry, Veronica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 139870315X
- Language: English
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Tender Is the Night
$30.00 Add to cartF. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend’s copy of Tender Is the Night, “If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God’s sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith.” Set in t… [more below]
- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0684830507
- Language: English
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Writing Degree Zero
$16.00 Add to cartIs there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses in Writing Degree Zero, his first published book and
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0374532354
- Language: English
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Half-Blood Blues
$23.99 Add to cartWinner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011
An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time- Author: Edugyan, Esi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250012708
- Language: English
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The Man Who Laughs
$10.99 Add to cartThe Man Who Laughs (1869) is a novel by Victor Hugo. Written while Hugo was living in exile on the island of Guernsey, The Man Who Laughs is set between the 17th and 18th centuries in England, a time
- Series: Mint Editions (Literary Fiction)
- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1513211935
- Language: English
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Scapegoat
$29.95 Add to cart“Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, ‘Je vous demande pardon, ‘ and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fea
- Author: Maurier, Daphne Du
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2000
- ISBN10: 081221725X
- Language: English
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Nine Coaches Waiting: Volume 4
$16.95 Add to cartA governess in a French ch?eau encounters an apparent plot against her young charge’s life in this unforgettably haunting and beautifully written suspense novel. When lovely Linda Martin first arrives… [more below]
- Series: Rediscovered Classics
- Author: Stewart, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1556526180
- Language: English
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The Monet Cookbook: Recipes from Giverny
$40.00 Add to cartThis beautiful book presents 60 of Claude Monet’s original recipes alongside glorious reproductions of his paintings, scenes from his life in Giverny, and stunning photographs of the dishes. It’s well… [more below]
- Author: Gentner, Florence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3791382888
- Language: English
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The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
$17.99 Add to cart“I’m drenched in cream, marinated in wine, basted in cognac, and thoroughly buttered by the end of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.” –Eula Biss, New York Times bestselling author of Having and Being Ha
- Author: Toklas, Alice B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0063043807
- Language: English
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Agent Stitch: A Study in Slime
$12.99 Add to cartFans of Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man and Aaron Blabey’s The Bad Guys will be excited to joinAgent Stitch, the world’s greatest alien detective, on his first hilarious mission to stop the evil Snailien invader… [more below]
- Series: Stitch P.I.
- Author: Beheling, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1368067107
- Language: English
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Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art
$19.99 Add to cart“Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of that word.”
–Carl Hiassen” Moore’s novels] deftly blend surreal, occult, and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Moore, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 09 2012
- ISBN10: 006177975X
- Language: English
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Atelier Crenn: Metamorphosis of Taste
$60.00 Add to cartThe debut cookbook from the first female chef in America to earn two Michelin stars
Atelier Crenn is the debut cookbook of Dominique Crenn, the first female chef in America to be awarded two Michelin- Author: Crenn, Dominique
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0544444671
- Language: English
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Exercises in Style
$16.95 Add to cartOn a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man appropriates it. Later, in another part of town, Quene
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Queneau, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 31 2013
- ISBN10: 0811220354
- Language: English
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The D-Day Visitor’s Handbook: Your Guide to the Normandy Battlefields and WWII Paris
$14.99 Add to cartFor families of the heroes who fought on the beaches of Normandy during World War II, for fans of Saving Private Ryan, or for traveler interested in history, here is the complete guide to visiting one… [more below]
- Author: Dennehy, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1510749497
- Language: English
