Ethnic Orientation/French

  • Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 2: A Cookbook

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    The beloved sequel to the bestselling classic, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume II presents more fantastic step-by-step French recipes for home cooks.

    Working from the principle that “mast

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  • The French Women Don’t Get Fat Cookbook

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    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of French Women Don’t Get Fat offers a collection of delicious, healthy recipes and advice on eating well without gaining weight.

    With French Women Don’t Get F

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    • Author: Guiliano, Mireille
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 13 2011
    • ISBN10: 143914897X
    • Language: English
  • The Girl & the Fig Cookbook: More Than 100 Recipes from the Acclaimed California Wine Country Restaurant

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    In 1997, Sondra Bernstein opened the doors to the first girl & the fig restaurant, showcasing her love of locally grown ingredients and her passion for French food. She named her restaurant for the fr[more below]

    • Author: Bernstein, Sondra
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 12 2004
    • ISBN10: 0743255216
    • Language: English
  • Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes

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    Cairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father’s Egyptian-Jewish relatives. From the moment she arrives at her grandparents’ belle é§±oque mansion by the Nile, t… [more below]

    • Author: Rossant, Colette
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: April 20 2004
    • ISBN10: 0743475615
    • Language: English
  • Talleyrand

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    Unique 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
  • Candy

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    Originally banned in Paris and published by the Olympia Press under the pseudonym Maxwell Kenton, Candy is the scandalous 1958 novel cowritten by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, now reissued with… [more below]

    • Author: Southern, Terry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: July 17 2018
    • ISBN10: 0802127479
    • Language: English
  • Four Novels: The Square, Moderato Cantabile, 10:30 on a Summer Night, the Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas

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    Long acknowledged as one of the most important literary figures in France, Marguerite Duras has garnered worldwide praise for her work, from the acclaimed screenplay Hiroshima Mon Amour to the best-se… [more below]

    • Series: Duras, Marguerite
    • Author: Duras, Marguerite
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 254
    • Publish Date: January 13 1994
    • ISBN10: 0802151116
    • Language: English
  • The Battle

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    The winner of the Prix Goncourt and Grand Prix du Roman de l’Academie Francaise, The Battle is a brilliant, compelling novelization of the battle of Essling, Napoleon’s first major defeat. The battle … [more below]

    • Author: Rambaud, Patrick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 17 2001
    • ISBN10: 0802138101
    • Language: English
  • Under the Roofs of Paris

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    In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs of Paris (originally published as Opus… [more below]

    • Series: Miller, Henry
    • Author: Miller, Henry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: January 18 1994
    • ISBN10: 0802131832
    • Language: English
  • Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil

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    “Evocative . . . A paean to the life, cities and food of the Mediterranean . . . His essays . . . reveal a man of deep feeling and humanity” (The Guardian).

    A short sublime book on the three things de

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    • Author: Izzo, Jean-Claude
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: July 14 2020
    • ISBN10: 1609456033
    • Language: English
  • Destroy, She Said

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    In this classic novel by the best-selling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness. Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets … [more below]

    • Series: Duras, Marguerite
    • Author: Duras, Marguerite
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: January 18 1994
    • ISBN10: 080215154X
    • Language: English
  • Black Spring

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    Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth … [more below]

    • Series: Miller, Henry
    • Author: Miller, Henry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 243
    • Publish Date: February 11 1994
    • ISBN10: 0802131824
    • Language: English
  • The Malady of Death

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    A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a “she,” a warm, moist body with a beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex… [more below]

    • Series: Duras, Marguerite
    • Author: Duras, Marguerite
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: January 13 1994
    • ISBN10: 0802130364
    • Language: English
  • Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings

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    No other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas… [more below]

    • Author: de Sade, Marquis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 784
    • Publish Date: January 11 1994
    • ISBN10: 0802132189
    • Language: English
  • The Committed

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    The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of “the man of two minds” as he comes as

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    • Series: The Sympathizer #2
    • Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: March 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 0802157068
    • Language: English
  • Querelle

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    “It is awesome, perhaps the finest novel I have ever read in my life. It literally sent shivers through me, the sheer beauty of the language, the exquisite perversity of the imagination, the incredibl

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    • Series: Genet, Jean
    • Author: Genet, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: January 13 1994
    • ISBN10: 0802151574
    • Language: English
  • Jealousy & in the Labyrinth

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    Here, in one volume, are two remarkable novels by the chief spokesman of the so-called “new novel” which has caused such discussion and aroused such controversy.

    This volume, which offers incisive ess

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    • Author: Robbe-Grillet, Alain
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 17 2018
    • ISBN10: 0802128750
    • Language: English
  • The Monet Cookbook: Recipes from Giverny

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    This 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
  • The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

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    “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

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    • Author: Toklas, Alice B.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: May 18 2021
    • ISBN10: 0063043807
    • Language: English
  • Atelier Crenn: Metamorphosis of Taste

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    The 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

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    • Author: Crenn, Dominique
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 376
    • Publish Date: November 03 2015
    • ISBN10: 0544444671
    • Language: English
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