Cultural Region/French
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War and Peace
$19.99 Add to cart‘…not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle’
Striking a balance between philosophical discussion and compelling story-telling, War and Peace transcends
– Leo Tolstoy- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1788886526
- Language: English
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Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking
$40.00 Read moreBestselling author, TV host, and chef Anthony Bourdain reveals the hearty, delicious recipes of Les Halles, the classic New York City French bistro where he got his start.
Before stunning the world w- Author: Bourdain, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 19 2004
- ISBN10: 158234180X
- Language: English
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Prettycityparis: Discovering Paris’s Beautiful Places
$42.99 Add to cartUp next in the Pretty City series – a stunning photography, lifestyle and travel guide to Paris
Go beyond the French capital’s famous landmarks and discover the hidden gems. From secluded mews and un- Series: The Pretty Cities
- Author: Ferguson, Siobhan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 075099522X
- Language: English
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
$6.95 Add to cartThe complete and unabridged translation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
The setting of this extraordinary historical novel is medieval Paris: a city of vividly intermingle- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531515
- Language: English
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What Do I Know?: Essential Essays
$24.00 Read moreA fresh new translation of Michel de Montaigne’s most profound, searching essays, with an introduction from Yiyun Li, author of The Book of Goose
This gift-worthy collection of 16 essays by “the fathe- Author: de Montaigne, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1782278818
- Language: English
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Paris: Secret Gardens, Hidden Places, and Stories of the City of Light
$26.95 Read moreFollow in the footsteps of history to discover the hidden places, extraordinary people, and captivating stories of Paris.
Paris: Secret Gardens, Hidden Places, and Stories of the City of Light, Mary Mc
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1538173336
- Language: English
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Julieta and the Diamond Enigma
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Merci Suarez in this smart young middle-grade mystery about a diamond gone missing from the Louvre and the sweet and spunky girl who cracks t
- Author: Duarte Armendáriz, Luisana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1643790463
- Language: English
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
$25.00 Add to cartA “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August
*Lawrence Wright, author o- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: July 12 1987
- ISBN10: 0345349571
- Language: English
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Claris: Palace Party: The Chicest Mouse in Paris
$19.99 Add to cartIn the fifth installment of the beloved Claris children’s book series, join Claris and her friends for a party at the prettiest palace of all – the Ch teau de Versailles
- Author: Hess, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1760504971
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cities
$6.95 Add to cartDickens’ second historical novel, which he considered “the best story I have written,” provides a highly-charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice. Private experience and public histo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536236
- Language: English
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Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau (Jacques Cousteau Book for Kids, Children’s Ocean Book, Underwater Picture Book for Kids)
$9.99 Add to cartOnce upon a time in France, a baby was born under the summer sun. His parents named him Jacques. As he grew, Jacques fell in love with the sea. He dreamed of breathing beneath the waves and swimming a… [more below]
- Author: Berne, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 38
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1452141231
- Language: English
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The Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck
$16.99 Read more“Intoxicating . . . it will be hard for young readers to put down.”—New York Times Book Review
“A grand, giddy, and, at times, literally soaring tale.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“An amusing, fas
- Author: Phelan, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062911007
- Language: English
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Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821
$22.00 Add to cartAn accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor’s life–from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile–as the world Napo… [more below]
- Author: Broers, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 163936465X
- Language: English
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A Leopard-Skin Hat
$14.95 Add to cartA Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a “masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance,” it is the story of an intense friendship betw… [more below]
- Author: Serre, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 811234517
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$24.95 Add to cartTolstoy’s epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkons… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics Hardback Collection
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1392
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0198800541
- Language: English
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A Discourse on the Method
$8.94 Add to cartDescartes’ Discourse marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a proof of the existence of the self (the famous “cogito e… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Descartes, Ren?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540071
- Language: English
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Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
$18.95 Add to cartIn freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the lik
- Author: Braude, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065958
- Language: English
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The Song of Roland
$12.95 Add to cartCharles the king, our emperor great,
Charlemagne (768-814) was cr
Has been a full seven years in Spain.
As far as the sea he conquered this haughty land.
Not a single castle remains standing in his path- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Gaunt, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0199655545
- Language: English
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Shakespeare and Company, New Edition
$24.95 Add to cartSylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighte
- Author: Beach, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0803260970
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Collections: French Interiors – Flea Markets – Ateliers
$45.00 Add to cartThe art of collecting–from artist’s palettes still freckled with oil paint, to sculpted picture frames, to a menagerie of wooden toy animals–associating an accumulation of kindred objects is at the … [more below]
- Author: Montagut, Marin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 2080421980
- Language: English
