Cultural Region/French
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The Devil’s Cloth: A History of Stripes
$17.99 Add to cartTo stripe a surface serves to distinguish it, to point it out, to oppose it or associate it with another surface, and thus to classify it, to keep an eye on it, to verify it, even to censor it.
Throu… [more below]- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0743453263
- Language: English
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Massacre at Oradour-Sur-Glane: Nazi Gold and the Murder of an Entire French Town by SS Division Das Reich
$29.95 Add to cartThe massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States. The Oradour
- Author: Lupiano, Vincent Depaul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1493073745
- Language: English
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The Day the World Stopped Turning
$9.99 Add to cartMichael Morpurgo’s The Day the World Stopped Turning is a middle-grade novel about an extraordinary boy who sees the world differently.
In the unique landscape of the Camargue (France) during World Wa- Author: Morpurgo, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1250250609
- Language: English
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The Girl and the Bombardier: A True Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied France
$22.00 Add to cartA downed B-17 bombardier’s unfinished World War II memoir and a box of letters from the French girl who saved him sets a veteran’s daughter on a journey, sixty-five years later, to craft their interse… [more below]
- Author: Ankeny, Susan Tate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1635767172
- Language: English
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French Grammar for Beginners Textbook + Workbook Included: Supercharge Your French With Essential Lessons and Exercises
$20.90 Add to cartLearn beginner French grammar painlessly with step-by-step lessons that focus on the essentials and help you build a learning habit.
Inside “French Grammar for Beginners” you’ll find:
- 30 beginner-level
- Author: Bibard, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: December 10 2021
- ISBN10: 9798885262132
- Language: English
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French Kids Eat Everything: How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy,
$18.99 Add to cartFrench Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North American eating habits while they were all living
- Author: Le Billon, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 006210330X
- Language: English
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The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
$21.99 Add to cartIn this captivating memoir, the man whom Julia Child has called “the best chef in America” tells the story of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an exacting Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award-wi… [more below]
- Author: Pépin, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0544657497
- Language: English
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The French Bakery Cookbook: Over 85 Authentic Recipes That Bring the Boulangerie Into Your Home
$27.99 Add to cartFeaturing 85+ exceptional baked goods from acclaimed French bakeries around the world, this cookbook gives you everything you need to master the art of French baking right at home.
Flaky, fluffy, warm,
- Author: Zerkel, Kimberly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1646434463
- Language: English
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Patisserie at Home
$50.00 Add to cartThe ultimate French pastry and dessert cookbook, featuring 100 sumptuous, easy-to-master recipes, stunning full-color illustrations, and a breathtaking design that helps home cooks create the perfect
- Author: Dupuis, Melanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0062445316
- Language: English
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The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception
$20.00 Add to cartThe Adversary–now a major motion picture starring Daniel Auteuil (Sade, Girl on the Bridge, Jean de Florette) directed by Nicole Garcia (Place Vendome).
Acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emm- Author: Carrere, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420609
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Life
$45.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Napoleon — hailed as “magnificent” by The Economist.
“What a novel my life has been!” Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by- Author: Zamoyski, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0465055931
- Language: English
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Ariane, a Russian Girl
$15.95 Read more“Men speak freely of the women they’ve had, and we’re condemned to silence. Why? Aren’t we as free as you? Don’t we, like you, have the right to take pleasure wherever we find it? . . . They praise se… [more below]
- Author: Anet, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377101
- Language: English
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The Vagabond
$19.99 Add to cartThirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Ren e N r has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich and idle bachelor, intrudes on her independent exist… [more below]
- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: September 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0374528047
- Language: English
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Paris Stories
$18.95 Add to cartA NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL
Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, “radically resha- Author: Gallant, Mavis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 31 2002
- ISBN10: 1590170229
- Language: English
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London Cocktails: Over 100 Recipes Inspired by the Heart of Britannia
$22.99 Add to cartLondon Cocktails is a stunning collection of over 100 recipes inspired by the heart of Britannia.
Forget pouring a cuppa, fill your glass with unique drinks from the heart of Britain and explore some o
- Series: City Cocktails
- Author: Schrieberg, Felipe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 160433956X
- Language: English
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Rustic French Cooking Made Easy: Authentic, Regional Flavors from Provence, Brittany, Alsace and Beyond
$25.00 Read moreCook Your Way Through France with Simple, Delicious Recipes
Real French home cooking is easier than you think Leave haute cuisine to fussy restaurants, and dive into these uncomplicated classics from- Author: Le Goff, Audrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1624148638
- Language: English
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City of Immortals: Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
$24.95 Read moreThis first-person account of a legendary necropolis will delight Francophiles, tourists and armchair travelers, while enriching the experience of taphophiles (cemetery lovers) and aficionados of art a… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 194353229X
- Language: English
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Joan of Arc
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world–as never told before.
Helen Castor tells afresh the g
- Author: Castor, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062384406
- Language: English
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About Uncle
$16.95 Add to cartA freaky tale of isolation and the porous membranes between us, Rebecca Gisler’s slim novel renders a collapsing world with equal parts aversion, fascination, and tenderness–for readers of Ottessa Mo
- Author: Gisler, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1949641554
- Language: English
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A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment
$19.99 Add to cartA “delicious” (Dorie Greenspan), “genial” (Kirkus Reviews), “very cool book about the intersections of food and history” (Michael Pollan)–as featured in the New York Times
“The complex political, his
- Author: H?naut, St?phane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975475
- Language: English
