France
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“A haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance.” –Marie Claire
The riveting and little-known story of a group of female members of the French resistance who were dep
- Series: P.S. #1
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0061650714
- Language: English
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Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
$46.58 Add to cartA compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy
We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless.- Series: New Forum Books #70
- Author: Storey, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0691211124
- Language: English
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Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible
$14.95 Add to cartAnna and the French Kiss meets Stoner & Spaz in a contemporary young adult coming-of-age novel about a girl, her struggles, and her art.
Aiko Cassidy is fourteen and lives with her sculptor mother in- Author: Kamata, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 17 2013
- ISBN10: 1936846381
- Language: English
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
$30.99 Add to cart“Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.” –Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books
Since his- Author: Scurr, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082611
- Language: English
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Paris Journal, 1944-1955
$17.99 Add to cartHere is a continuation of selections from Flanner’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature ” Gen黎.” With clarity and authority,… [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0156709481
- Language: English
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Say It Right in French, Third Edition
$12.00 Add to cartSpeak a new language with confidence with this accessible guide to correct pronunciation
Fear of mispronunciation prevents many people from daring to speak a new language. Don’t let that fear hold you… [more below]- Author: Epls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1260116328
- Language: English
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Left Bank
$25.99 Add to cartAn incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris.
In this- Author: Poirier, Agn?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1250231469
- Language: English
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The World of the Tour de France: The Riders, the Bikes, the Teams, the History
$34.99 Read moreThe World of the Tour de France is a celebration of one of the world’s great annual sporting events, and the top competition in world cycling. This book covers the Tour from its humble beginnings in 1… [more below]
- Author: Puddicombe, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1915343135
- Language: English
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Diaghilev’s Empire
$20.00 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year at The New Yorker and The Telegraph
“Amusing and assertive . . . [Christiansen’s] delight is infectious.” –Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review Rupert Christiansen- Author: Christiansen, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872537
- Language: English
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A Long Way from Paris
$16.00 Add to cartIn this searing, authentic memoir, Elizabeth is hired to herd goats on a remote mountain farm in the South of France where she carves out a life for herself without heat, running water, or even a good
- Author: Murray, E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0990310213
- Language: English
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The Man in the Red Coat
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending–a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle ?poque Paris, told through the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0525658777
- Language: English
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The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
$24.00 Add to cartLouis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within
- Author: Cadbury, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312320299
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Paul Johnson, “a very readable and entertaining biography” (The Washington Post) about one of the most important figures in modern European history: Napoleon Bon… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037455
- Language: English
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Napoleon’s Glance: The Secret of Strategy
$21.99 Add to cartIn Napoleon’s Glance William Duggan discovers the secret of Napoleon’s success — coup d’oeil (pronounced koo-DOY) meaning a stroke of the eye, or “glance” a sudden insight that shows you what course … [more below]
- Series: Nation Books
- Author: Duggan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: March 19 2004
- ISBN10: 1560256028
- Language: English
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All Signs Point to Paris: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Destiny
$19.99 Add to cart“This one brims with magic… An absolute page-turner and joy to read!” — Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author
Propulsive, touching, and darkly funny, All Signs Point to Paris is the story of
- Author: Sizlo, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063268531
- Language: English
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Raising Olives in Provence: A Guide for Body and Soul
$18.99 Read moreA fun-filled portrait of Provence told by an American bestselling author who knows France intimately and unwraps people and places with devastating insight–and laugh-out-loud humor.
Americans have lo- Author: Timmerman, Kenneth R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888451601
- Language: English
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The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious–And Perplexing–City
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen and L’Appart, a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections.
Like so m… [more below]- Author: Lebovitz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 076792889X
- Language: English
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The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
$19.99 Add to cart“A book to be plundered and raided.” — New York Times Book Review
“A portal into a world of timeless travel literature curated by one of the greatest travel writers of our day.” — USA Today Paul The- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0547737378
- Language: English
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A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948
$33.99 Add to cartIn the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the first agreement to divide the region … [more below]
- Author: Barr, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0393344258
- Language: English
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
$18.99 Add to cartThe spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris.
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and- Author: Rosbottom, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0316217433
- Language: English
