Cultural Region/French
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Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed
$23.00 Read moreThe first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire
“[A] handsome new book . . . all this inchoate material is given context by Sieburth’s learned,- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Baudelaire, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270496
- Language: English
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Bébé Gourmet: 100 French-Inspired Baby Food Recipes for Raising an Adventurous Eater
$18.95 Read moreMove over mushy carrots and peas: The French teach their children to appreciate new flavors, ingredients, and textures from the first spoonful. No one knows this better than Jenny Carenco, mother of t
- Author: Carenco, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1615190708
- Language: English
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Les Miserables
$6.99 Read moreThe classic novel–and hit Broadway show–about escaped convict Jean Valjean has been adapted with easy-to-read text, large type, and short chapters.This engaging adaptation of the timeless tale is id… [more below]
- Series: Stepping Stone Book(tm)
- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 14 1995
- ISBN10: 067986668X
- Language: English
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Seven Ages of Paris
$23.00 Add to cartIn this luminous portrait of Paris, the celebrated historian gives us the history, culture, disasters, and triumphs of one of the world’s truly great cities. While Paris may be many things, it is neve… [more below]
- Author: Horne, Alistair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 1400034469
- Language: English
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Monet Paints a Day
$16.99 Read moreIn November 1885, impressionist painter Claude Monet vacationed in tretat, France, where he spent his days outside, painting scenes of the seaside village. One morning he rose early and carried all o… [more below]
- Author: Danneberg, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 01 2012
- ISBN10: 158089240X
- Language: English
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Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
$18.00 Add to cart“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. I was on the edge of tears. Someth… [more below]
- Author: Follett, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 198488025X
- Language: English
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The Flowers of Evil: (Les Fleurs Du Mal)
$27.95 Add to cartKnown to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often
- Author: Baudelaire, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498592
- Language: English
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Common Life
$17.95 Read moreA wry, cinematic tour through multiple forms: the poem, the vignette, the play–all set in our laughably lamentable contemporary world.
In three poems, one play, and three short stories, St駱hane Bouq
- Author: Bouquet, Stéphane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 164362153X
- Language: English
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Home Cooking with Jean-Georges: My Favorite Simple Recipes: A Cookbook
$40.00 Read moreJoin one of the world’s greatest chefs in his most personal book yet, as Jean-Georges Vongerichten shares his favorite casual recipes in Home Cooking with Jean-Georges.
Though he helms a worldwide res- Author: Vongerichten, Jean-Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 030771795X
- Language: English
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The Parasite: Volume 1
$19.95 Read moreInfluential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pe
- Series: PostHumanities (Paperback) #1
- Author: Serres, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0816648816
- Language: English
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Allied Warships Vs the Atlantic Wall: Normandy 1944
$23.00 Read moreA fascinating exploration of the often-overlooked gunnery duels between the formidable artillery weapons in the Atlantic Wall defences and the mighty US and Royal Navy battleships.
Amphibious landings- Series: Duel #128
- Author: Zaloga, Steven J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854152
- Language: English
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Summer at the Chateau
$19.99 Read more‘A Provencal sun drenched read that conjures up the scent of summer in France.’ Julie Caplin
A newly single woman. A tall, dark and handsome stranger. A chateau that keeps bringing them together. What
- Series: Chateau #1
- Author: French, Annabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0008558213
- Language: English
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Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family and the Stew That Saved My Soul
$24.99 Read moreCassoulet Confessions is an enthralling memoir by award-winning food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar that reveals how a simple journalistic assignment sparked a culinary obsession and transcended into … [more below]
- Author: Bigar, Sylvie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1743797966
- Language: English
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States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic
$20.00 Read moreStates of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis.
As one of the most discussed b- Author: Kaplan, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0226815536
- Language: English
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French Cooking in Ten Minutes: Adapting to the Rhythm of Modern Life (1930)
$16.00 Read moreA beautiful reprint of Edouard de Pomiane’s classic collection of recipes for simply prepared meals is more useful now than ever before. Illustrated with period pen and ink drawings, French Cooking in
- Author: de Pomiane, Edouard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 1994
- ISBN10: 086547480X
- Language: English
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A History of the Barricade
$17.95 Read more- Author: Hazan, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1784781282
- Language: English
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France – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$16.99 Read moreDon’t just see the sights–get to know the people.
The French are “different.” You’ll often hear this in conversations among the “Anglo-Saxons,” as the French like to call English-speakers. “Differen- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Culture Smart!
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1787022684
- Language: English
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Sprinting Through No Man’s Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France
$14.95 Read moreThe inspiring, heart-pumping true story of soldiers turned cyclists and the historic 1919 Tour de France that helped to restore a war-torn country and its people.
On June 29, 1919, one day after the Tr
- Author: Dobkin, Adin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1542018838
- Language: English
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Framed in France
$6.99 Read moreFlat Stanley is taking over the world, one city at a time In this electrifying eleventh installment in the renowned Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures chapter book series, the Lambchop family is hea
- Series: Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #11
- Author: Brown, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0062189840
- Language: English
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Who Was Jules Verne?
$6.99 Read moreMeet the father of science fiction, Jule Verne.
Born in France in 1829, Jules Verne always dreamed of adventure. At age 11, he snuck onboard a ship headed for the Indies only to be discovered by his f- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Buckley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0448488507
- Language: English
