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  • Paris Noir

    The Secret History of A City

    by Jacques Yonnet ...
    Translated by Christine Donougher ...
    In Paris Noir Yonnet tells is about some of the darker quarters of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, centred on the place Mauberge and the rue Mouffetard, as seen from his own experience. It is mainly written during the 1940s, under the Occupation and in the immediate post-war period; there is a certain amount dealing with the resistance, but the main thrust of the book is a Paris that existed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    by Peter Mayle ...
    Series Book 2 - Sam Levitt Capers
    Lovable rogue and sleuth extraordinaire Sam Levitt is back in another beguiling, as-only-Peter-Mayle-can-write-it romp through the South of France.At the end of The Vintage Caper, Sam had just carried off a staggering feat of derring-do in the heart of Bordeaux, infiltrating the ranks of the French elite to rescue a stolen, priceless wine collection. With the questionable legality of the adventure ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • 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 ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Riviera Set: From Queen Victoria to Princess Grace

    by Lita-Rose Betcherman ...
    Katherine Manners, later Duchess of Buckingham, was one of the most intriguing and influential women of early 17th-century England. Born into immense wealth and devout Catholic faith, she defied social expectations by marrying George Villiers, the charismatic favorite of King James I and one of the most powerful men in the realm. Their union was a bold crossing of religious and political ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sorrento, Italy Travel Guide - What To See & Do

    by Donald Cooke ...
    Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Sorrento, Italy on the Amalfi Coast.Sorrento in Campania features beautiful architecture, many cafes and restaurants, and shops catering to tourists. As it is on the Circumvesuviana rail system it is easily reached from Naples and is an ideal base for visiting Pompeii and Ercolano. Ferries regularly commute between Sorrento to Capri, making Sorrento an ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • LIVING LIKE A LOCAL: Stories of Our Life in France

    by Shelley Row ...
    Many dream of living abroad but Shelley and her husband, Mike, did it. They left the security of their careers, the comfort of their home, and the familiarity of their neighborhood and moved to France. For ten months, they made their home in the village of Cotignac in southern France. From their yellow-stucco house with the green shutters perched on the hillside overlooking the village, they lived ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Little Money Street

    In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France

    by Fernanda Eberstadt ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France — a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a society made, in part, of lawlessness and defiance of non-Gypsy norms; and she met MoÏse Espinas, the lead singer of the Gypsy band, Tekameli.As her ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Our Paris

    Sketches from Memory

    by Edmund White ...
    Edmund White’s charming, funny, telling series of vignettes of the Paris neighborhood where he and his lover, French architect and illustrator Hubert Sorin, lived. In this ode to Pairs, the everyday becomes extraordinary with White’s observations accompanied by Sorin’s illustrations. With characters like Father Pierre Riches, the “kind and elegant” catholic priest whose hair had been stroked by ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Notes from the Cévennes

    Half a Lifetime in Provincial France

    by Adam Thorpe ...
    Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cévenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton, now a Vintage Classic.In more recent writing Thorpe has explored the Cévennes, drawing on the legends, history and above all the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Slow Tour Through France

    From Avignon To Saint-Malo By Bicycle (Mostly)

    by Marie Madigan ...
    When Marie and her partner Adi spent two months cycling around France with a tent, they weren't trying to break any records; they just wanted a bit of sunshine for a change.France enchanted, but the weather had other ideas. During nearly 2,000 slow miles they struggled with hailstones, hills, bad knees, and the scarcity of tea pots - only to find, as if they didn't know it already, that no matter ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Paris Chapbook

    by Brewster Chamberlin ...
    An intellectually stimulating collection of other people's opinions, comments, and critiques of Paris. Chamberlin describes these snippets as “citations which illuminated one or another aspect of Parisian life and culture, or appealed to my sense of humor, however twisted this may seem to some readers.” From the author of A Piece of Paris: The Grand XIVth; Paris Now and Then; and Kultur auf ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 3D guide of Eastern tombs of the Qing Emperors China

    by panoramic-plus ...
    epub sheet with links and codes to a 200Mo average flash download with a flipping book of 35 pages minimum ... Read more

    $10.59 USD