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Talk to the Snail: Ten Commandments for Understanding the French

Talk to the Snail: Ten Commandments for Understanding the French

by Stephen Clarke

Have you ever walked into a half-empty Parisian restaurant, only to be told that it’s “complet”? Attempted to say “merci beaucoup” and accidentally complimented someone’s physique? Been overlooked at the boulangerie due to your adherence to the bizarre foreign custom of waiting in line? Well, you’re not alone. The internationally bestselling author of A Year in the Merde and In the Merde for Love has been... (more)

French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure

French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure

by Mireille Guiliano

Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and just in time: the ultimate non -diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live. French women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this “French paradox”–how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Hers is a charming,... (more)

Provence A-Z

by Peter Mayle

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own. Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting, curious, delicious, or down-right fun. In more than... (more)

Bonjour Tristesse

by Francoise Sagan

Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father—a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye—for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, while... (more)

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French

by Jean-Benoi?t Nadeau

At last, a fresh take on a country that no one can seem to understand. The French smoke, drink and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet they live longer and have fewer heart problems than Americans. They take seven weeks of paid vacation per year, yet have the world’s highest productivity index. From a distance, modern France looks like a riddle. But up close, it all makes sense. Sixty Million Frenchmen... (more)

I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud (Modern Library Classics)

I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud (Modern Library Classics)

by Arthur Rimbaud

One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the dozen biographies devoted to Rimbaud’s life depend on one main source for information—his own correspondence—a complete edition of these remarkable letters has never been published in English. Until now. A moving document... (more)

The Red Balloon (Oberon Book)

by Anthony Clark, Albert Lamorisse

An enduring children's classic. The story of a young boy and his best friend, a red balloon. The balloon follows the boy everywhere. A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year.

The Gastronomical Me

by M. F. K. Fisher

In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. The Gastronomical Me is a chronicle of her passionate embrace of a whole new way of eating, drinking, and celebrating the senses. As she recounts memorable meals shared with an assortment of eccentric and fascinating... (more)

Adele & Simon

by Barbara McClintock

When Adele walks her little brother Simon home from school he loses one more thing at every stop: his drawing of a cat at the grocer's shop, his books at the park, his crayons at the art museum, and more.

French: How to Speak and Write It

by Joseph Lemaitre

Probably the most delightful, useful and comprehensive elementary book available for learning spoken and written French, either with or without a teacher. Index.

M.F.K. Fisher's Translation of Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of TasteJean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin'

M.F.K. Fisher's Translation of Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste

by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin'

Crepes by Suzette

by Monica Wellington

Part story, part grand tour, Monica Wellington’s tale of a Parisian street-cart vendor will charm and inform. Suzette, the crêpe maker, sells her delicacies in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. As she goes from place to place, readers are treated to a variety of Parisian scenes and a series of customers inspired by figures in famous French paintings. Wellington’s mixed- media collages,... (more)

YEAR IN PROVENCE

by Peter Mayle

Enjoy an irresistible feast of humour and discover the joys of French rural living with Peter Mayle's bestselling, much-loved account of "A Year In Provence". Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Luberon Valley and began a new... (more)

Murphy Meets Paris

by Harriet Ziefert

Murphy, the yellow Labrador who needed to watch his weight, is back and this time he's jetting off to an exciting vacation in Paris. Traveling on a four-star "Heavenly Pets" package, Murphy and his owner, Cheryl, visit the Luxuembourg Gardens, tour the Louvre, enjoy a night on the town, and, last but not least, climb the Eiffel Tower. Will Paris ever be the same? Emily Bolam's paint and ink artwork is perfectly... (more)

We've Always Had Paris...and Provence: A Scrapbook of Our Life in France

We've Always Had Paris...and Provence: A Scrapbook of Our Life in France

by Patricia Wells

Patricia Wells, long recognized as the leading American authority on French food, and her husband, Walter, live the life in France that many of us have often fantasized about. After more than a quarter century, they are as close to being accepted as "French" as any non-natives can be. In this delightful memoir they share in two voices their experiences—the good, the bad, and the funny—offering a charming and... (more)

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France, But Not the French [60 MILLION FRENCHMEN CANT]

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France, But Not the French [60 MILLION FRENCHMEN CANT]

by Jean-Benoit(Author) ; Barlow, Julie(Joint Author) Nadeau

Henry and June: From a Journal of Love

The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)

by Anaïs Nin

This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. “Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything I’ve ever read....I found it a very erotic book and profoundly liberating” (Alice Walker). The source of a major motion picture from Universal. Preface by Rupert Pole; Index.

Almost French

A New Life in Paris

by Sarah Turnbull

Number 1 on the Bestseller list (Australia) with over 20,000 copies sold in the UK alone and over 250,000 world-wide! Almost French has been a huge success and now with the new-look, mass market B Format it is ready to go stellar! Publication timed for major trade promotions including summer reading and airport holiday exodus. In the bestselling tradition of Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun, Chris Stewart's A... (more)

Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art

Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art

by Dan Franck

A legendary capital of the arts, Paris hosted some of the most legendary developments in world culture -- particularly at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the flowering of fauvism, cubism, dadaism, and surrealism. In Bohemian Paris, Dan Franck leads us on a vivid and magical tour of the Paris of 1900-1930, a hotbed of artistic creation where we encounter Apollinaire, Modigliani, Cocteau, Matisse,... (more)

McDuff Goes to School (Mcduff)

by Rosemary Wells

When McDuff and his new French-speaking neighbors' dog are enrolled in obedience school, it seems as though McDuff has not learned his lessons.

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by Stephen Clarke

by Mireille Guiliano

by Peter Mayle

by Francoise Sagan

by Jean-Benoi?t Nadeau

by Arthur Rimbaud

by Anthony Clark, Albert Lamorisse

by M. F. K. Fisher

by Barbara McClintock

by Joseph Lemaitre

by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin'

by Monica Wellington

by Peter Mayle

by Harriet Ziefert

by Patricia Wells

by Jean-Benoit(Author) ; Barlow, Julie(Joint Author) Nadeau

The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)

by Anaïs Nin

A New Life in Paris

by Sarah Turnbull

by Dan Franck

by Rosemary Wells