France
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Perfume: The Story of Murder
$30.00 Add to cartThe year is 1738; the place, Paris. A baby is born under a fish-monger’s bloody table in a marketplace, and abandoned. Orphaned, passed over to the monks as a charity case, already there is something … [more below]
- Author: Suskind, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0394550846
- Language: English
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Do What They Say or Else
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature
Originally published in 1977, Do What They Say or Else is the second novel by French author Annie Ernaux. Set in a small town in Normandy, France, the nov- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496228006
- Language: English
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Bruno’s Challenge: And Other Stories of the French Countryside
$18.00 Add to cartMartin Walker’s first collection of stories featuring all the familiar characters from his Bruno novels and the glories of the P?rigord region of France, with ample helpings of food and wine.
“Whether- Series: Bruno, Chief of Police
- Author: Walker, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0593467361
- Language: English
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Rooftoppers
$8.99 Add to cart“The beauty of sky, music, and the belief in ‘extraordinary things’ triumph in this whimsical and magical tale” (Publishers Weekly) about a girl in search of her past who discovers a secret rooftop wo… [more below]
- Author: Rundell, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1442490594
- Language: English
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Anna and the French Kiss
$13.99 Add to cart“Stephanie Perkins’s characters fall in love the way we all want to, in real time and for good.” -Rainbow Rowell, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Anna can’t wait for her senior year in Atlanta, w- Author: Perkins, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0142419400
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Says No: Françoise Gilot on Her Life with and Without Picasso
$17.95 Add to cartAn intimate, revealing biography of a talented artist who lived life on her own terms.
Pablo Picasso called Françoise Gilot “The Woman Who Says No.” Talented, and feisty, and an accomplished artist in
- Author: Herwig, Malte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: March 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1771646527
- Language: English
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And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
$19.95 Add to cartThe book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See
An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century,- Author: Lusseyran, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1608682692
- Language: English
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Forgetting
$16.95 Add to cartForgetting is a brief but searing sojourn inside the mind of Alma as she navigates the complexity of the past and future within her identity.
On her nighttime wanderings through a Paris saturated with
- Author: Finkelstein, Frederika Amalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052269
- Language: English
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Monsieur Teste
$15.95 Add to cartA defining work of twentieth-century modernism, now newly translated–a philosophical novel about the nature of consciousness, all centered around a character who is composed of absolute brain and int… [more below]
- Author: Val?ry, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378922
- Language: English
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The War Memoirs
$34.99 Add to cartThe complete war memoirs of the resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who led France out of its darkest hour during the Nazi occupation during World War II.
“Faced with the political disaster, I had to- Author: de Gaulle, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1668061201
- Language: English
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Fragments of a Paradise
$19.00 Read more“Giono’s prose is a singularly fine blend of realism and poetic sensibility.” — The Washington Post
Giono’s very own Moby-Dick, a sensational maritime journey that follows a crew inwards on a spiritu- Author: Giono, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 215
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1962770001
- Language: English
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Inside Paris
$85.00 Add to cartAn exclusive view inside the beautiful houses of Parisian interior and fashion designers, artists and influencers, expertly curated by photographer and author Ricardo Labougle.
Celebrated photographe- Author: Labougle, Ricardo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0865654409
- Language: English
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Speak / Stop
$18.95 Add to cartAn irreverent semiotic fever dream that weighs meaning and meaning-making against idea and ideology.
–We have read Proust but we’re not sure
–Who has really read Proust
–Besides a few Proustians
–We a… [more below]
- Author: Lefebvre, No?mi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1945492996
- Language: English
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Eleanore of Avignon
$29.00 Add to cartRich with unforgettable characters, gorgeously drawn, and full of captivating historical drama, Eleanore of Avignon is the story of a healer who risks her life, her freedom, and everything she holds d… [more below]
- Author: DeLozier, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0593475038
- Language: English
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Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
$32.00 Add to cartThe first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri- Author: Herring, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1541600940
- Language: English
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Canoes
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Eastbound, a New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year
A colorful cast of female characters contends with UFOs, sonic waves, and the legend of Buffalo Bill in a spellbinding novella an- Author: De Kerangal, Maylis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1953861962
- Language: English
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Vernon Subutex 2
$17.00 Read morePart social epic, part punk-rock thriller, writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex trilogy continues the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted sprawling tale of an ex-record shop cle
- Series: Vernon Subutex #2
- Author: Despentes, Virginie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0374283257
- Language: English
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Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
$16.95 Add to cart“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” –Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground
“Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing shor- Author: Jackson, Jeffrey H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1643752057
- Language: English
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King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV
$57.00 Add to cartLouis XIV was a man in pursuit of glory. Not content to be the ruler of a world power, he wanted the power to rule the world. And, for a time, he came tantalizingly close.
Philip Mansel’s King of the- Author: Mansel, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 022669089X
- Language: English
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
$21.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen, streaming now!
“A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of g
- Author: Frieda, Leonie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0060744936
- Language: English
