Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to ...
David Sedaris, author of NAKED, continues his humorous exploration of himself, focusing on his humorous attempts to learn French after moving to Paris; his topics include restaurants, his quirky dislikes, his career dreams, and the habits of his increasingly eccentric family.
A blistering new Myron Bolitar thriller from the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Hold Tight." Caught in a foreign landscape where nothing is as it seems, Bolitar must tear apart the city--and eventually the globe--fighting for answers to unfathomable questions.
Down and out in Paris, the narrator of TROPIC OF CANCER hangs out in the Montparnasse neighborhood with fellow expatriates and artists. Told via turbulent, elaborate prose, the story is infused with graphic sexuality and sheer gusto. Originally published in 1934, TROPIC OF CANCER was banned from the U.S. until 1961; when it was finally printed ...
Gabriel, a master of the darkness, awakens with a hunger for blood. As he hunts the streets of Paris for prey, a soothing voice calls to him, giving him strength to control his craving. Francesca Del Ponce is a healer who radiates goodness. But Gabriel's obsession with her would turn him as his twin brother had turned, leaving the world with two ...
A sequel to ANGELS & DEMONS, THE DA VINCI CODE starts off with a bang and doesn't quit, leaving the reader gasping to keep up with the twists and turns of this amazingly popular academic thriller. The naked, spread-eagled corpse of a senior curator is found in the Louvre's Grand Gallery, next to a mysterious message written in his blood. The ...
"Eyewitness Travel Guides" provide travellers with illustrated guidebooks where every significant location, building, museum and gallery, as well as major shops, hotels and restaurants, are shown. In addition, "Eyewitness Travel Guides" contain specially commissioned 3-D aerial maps and diagrams.
After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris--home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. As the second novel of this bestselling series gets underway, it becomes time for Sophie to learn the second elemental magic: Fire Magic.
The murder of an elderly curator at the Louvre soon entangles Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon in a race against time to decipher a labyrinthine puzzle before an ancient secret--and an explosive historical truth--are lost forever.
Hugo's wrenching story centers on Jean Valjean, an honest peasant sentenced to five years' hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread, then 19 more for trying to escape. Turned into a hardened and ruthless criminal by his experiences, he reforms, becomes mayor of a French town, but is tracked down by the pitiless detective Javert for another obscure ...
Much of this memoir concerning Gopnik's five-year experience as an American in Paris was printed as the New Yorker column "Paris Journal," where it was the recipient of a 1998 George Polk Award and a 1997 National Magazine Award. With wit and insight, Gopnik relates the joys and difficulties of relocating his young American family to the romantic ...
Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the twenties with moving, and sometimes caustic, portraits of friends like Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein along with fascinating reflections on his own development as a young writer. This posthumous volume was compiled from old manuscripts found at the Ritz Hotel in Paris and is, according to some critics, ...
Home to magnificent art museums, romance, and some of the world's most revered food, Paris is most often at the top of anyone's "must see" list. Learn to navigate the city on the Paris Metro; view the numerous masterpieces in the Louvre and Musee d'Orsay; or take a self-guided walking tour of the sights along the Champs-Elysees. With Rick Steves' ...
From the bestselling author of The City of Joy comes the dramatic story of the Allied liberation of Paris. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs the network of fateful events--the drama, the fervor, and the triumph--that heralded one of the most dramatic episodes of our time. This bestseller about 1944 Paris is timed to meet the demand for Dominique ...
Lebovitz, a pastry chef and cookbook author, always dreamed about living in Paris. This collection of recipes and observations is a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections.
In another of Alan Furst's immensely popular World War II mysteries, Jean Casson (hero of THE WORLD AT NIGHT) returns to Nazi-occupied Paris in the fall of 1941 and checks into a seedy hotel. He's down on his luck, depressed, and bored: like the city he loves, he has lost his joie de vivre. Joining an undercover unit, he becomes involved in an ...
An Australian journalist meets a French lawyer, marries him, and moves to Paris. In this memoir about the experience, Sarah Turnbull is candid about her difficulties fitting into French culture, and accepting its enormous differences from what she is used to. Her efforts to build a career there, to find friends, to accept her husband's family's ...
In expatriate Thad Carhart's fascinating memoir, he gets to know a man who repairs and sells pianos and becomes a regular at his small, eccentric shop in Paris. Then Carhart, an amateur pianist in his youth, buys a piano himself, begins taking lessons, and finds his life transformed by music, friendship, and the ineffably lovable French-ness of ...
Victor Hugo's romance is set in the middle ages, largely in the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, where Quasimodo is the hunchbacked bellringer. Quasimodo silently loves a gypsy dancer named Esmeralda. She is accused of witchcraft and seeks refuge in the cathedral, where Quasimodo cares for her. But when she is executed in spite of his efforts, he ...
For more than 50 years, Madeline's adventures have enthralled her ever-growing audience. The original "Madeline" was named a Caldecott Honor Book, and the first of its five sequels, "Madeline's Rescue, " received a Caldecott Medal. For the first time ever, all six books are collected in one handsome volume. Color illustrations throughout.
"The Vampire Chronicles" continue. With the body of Lestat lying comatose nearby, 500-year-old Armand, first introduced in "Interview with the Vampire", tells the story of his life: his childhood in Istanbul, his enslavement, both sexual and vampiric, to the ancient vampire Marius, and his devotion to his non-vampire children.
A world-renowned actress falls victim to a terrifying explosion in Paris, and begins a courageous journey of survival, memory, and self-discovery, in the mesmerizing new novel by a #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author.
The world's top computer scientist is missing after a Paris bombing. Did he die in the blast, or was he kidnapped, and was the bomb just a distraction? The case is complicated by the fact that the scientist was working on a weapon that could destroy much of the world, and if the wrong side has him in their power, who knows what could happen....?
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