Walter Dean Myers

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Georgia

A World War II Soldier - Normandy, France, 1944

A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.

The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins

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Neal I. Rosenthal

Missouri

On a Lifetime in the Vineyards and Cellars of France and Italy

A leading importer of limited-production wines of character and quality takes us on an intimate tour through family-owned vineyards in France and Italy and reflects upon the last three decades of controversy, hype, and change in the world of wine In the late 1970s, Neal I. Rosenthal set out to learn everything he could about wine. Today, he is one of the most successful importers of traditionally made wines produced by small family-owned estates in France and Italy. Rosenthal has immersed himself in the culture of Old World wine production, working closely with his growers for two and sometimes three generations. He is one of the leading exponents of the concept of “terroir”—the notion that a particular vineyard site imparts distinct qualities of bouquet, flavor, and color to a wine. In Reflections of a Wine Merchant, Rosenthal brings us into the cellars, vineyards, and homes of these vignerons, and his delightful stories about his encounters, relationships, and explorations—and what he has learned along the way—give us an unequaled perspective on winemaking tradition and what threatens it today. Rosenthal was featured in the documentary film Mondovino and is one of the more outspoken figures against globalization, homogenization, and the “critic-ization” of the wine business. He was also a major subject in Lawrence Osborne’s The Accidental Connoisseur. His is an important voice in defense of the individual and the artisanal, and their contribution to our quality of life.

Reflections of a Wine Merchant

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Nina George

New York

A Novel

Following a failed suicide attempt inspired by her loveless marriage, Marianne Messman travels to Brittany with the intention of trying again but changes her mind when the guests of a charming bistro reintroduce her to life's delights.

The Little French Bistro

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Book 1 of the Isabella Book series. #QueenIsabella #KingEdwardII #SirRogerMortimer #France #England #Despenser #Mortimer #revenge #sasson


Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

The story of Queen Isabella, who sought revenge on her husband Edward II, and her lover Sir Roger Mortimer, who masterminded the invasion that accomplished it. The marriage of Isabella of France and Edward II of England in 1308 is a union meant to secure lasting peace. For years, Isabella is a loyal wife, who repeatedly salvages her husband's kingship, even as she endures his neglect. When she finally speaks out against Edward's favorite, Lord Hugh Despenser, her income, lands and children are taken from her. In an age when women are not supposed to openly defy their husbands, Isabella vows to get her children back and have her revenge on Despenser - no matter what the cost. Imprisoned in the Tower of London for leading a rebellion against King Edward, Mortimer escapes with Isabella's help and finds refuge in the French court. But when Isabella arrives in Paris to negotiate a peace treaty, it is a temptation the ambitious Mortimer cannot resist.

Isabeau, a Novel of Queen Isabella and Sir Roger Mortimer

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Jack Tresidder

Lyn Parry

Jack Tressider

Packed with detailed descriptions, photographs, illustrations, maps, and more. A true traveler’s companion guide.

Presents a guide to Loire Valley of Central France that provides information on the region's history, landscape, people, architecture, historical sites, restaurants, shops, and hotels.

Eyewitness Travel Guide - Loire Valley

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Natasha Lester

Mississippi

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Orphan comes an unforgettable historical novel about a secret collection of Dior gowns that ties back to the first female pilots of WWII and a heartbreaking story of love and sacrifice. England, 1939: The Penrose sisters couldn't be more different. Skye is a daring and brash pilot, and Liberty the one to defy her at every turn. Even if women aren't allowed in the Royal Air Force, Skye is determined to help the war effort. She's thrilled when it reunites her with her childhood soulmate, Nicholas. She's less thrilled to learn Nicholas is now engaged to an enigmatic Frenchwoman named Margaux Jourdan. Paris, 1947: Designer Christian Dior unveils his glamorous first collection to a world weary of war and grief. He names his debut fragrance Miss Dior in tribute to his beloved sister Catherine, who forged a friendship with Skye and Margaux through her work with the French Resistance. Present Day: Fashion conservator Kat Jourdan discovers a priceless collection of Dior gowns in her grandmother's vacant cottage. As she delves into the mystery of their origin, Kat begins to doubt everything she thought she knew about her beloved grandmother.

The Paris Secret

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Mireille Guiliano

Slight discoloration on back corner of jacket, see pictures.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

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, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and eating for our times.

As a typically slender French girl, Mireille (Meer-ray) went to America as an exchange student and came back fat. That shock sent her into an adolescent tailspin, until her kindly family physician, “Dr. Miracle,” came to the rescue. Reintroducing her to classic principles of French gastronomy plus time-honored secrets of the local women, he helped her restore her shape and gave her a whole new understanding of food, drink, and life. The key? Not guilt or deprivation but learning to get the most from the things you most enjoy. Following her own version of this traditional wisdom, she has ever since relished a life of indulgence without bulge, satisfying yen without yo-yo on three meals a day.

Now in simple but potent strategies and dozens of recipes you’d swear were fattening, Mireille reveals the ingredients for a lifetime of weight control–from the emergency weekend remedy of Magical Leek Soup to everyday tricks like fooling yourself into contentment and painless new physical exertions to save you from the StairMaster. Emphasizing the virtues of freshness, variety, balance, and always pleasure, Mireille shows how virtually anyone can learn to eat, drink, and move like a French woman.

A natural raconteur, Mireille illustrates her philosophy through the experiences that have shaped her life–a six-year-old’s first taste of Champagne, treks in search of tiny blueberries (called myrtilles) in the woods near her grandmother’s house, a near-spiritual rendezvous with oysters at a seaside restaurant in Brittany, to name but a few. She also shows us other women discovering the wonders of “French in action,” drawing examples from dozens of friends and associates she has advised over the years to eat and drink smarter and more joyfully.

Here are a culture’s most cherished and time-honored secrets recast for the twenty-first century. For anyone who has slipped out of her zone, missed the flight to South Beach, or accidentally let a carb pass her lips, here is a buoyant, positive way to stay trim. A life of wine, bread–even chocolate–without girth or guilt? Pourquoi pas?

French Women Don't Get Fat

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Book 2 of the Isabella Book series. #QueenIsabella #KingEdwardII #SirRogerMortimer #France #England #KingEdwardIII #Mortimer #revenge #murder #sasson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Murder and Revenge in the Time of Edward III

England, 1326. Edward II has been dethroned. Queen Isabella and her lover, Sir Roger Mortimer, are at the pinnacle of their power. Fated to rule, Isabella's son becomes King Edward III at the callow age of fourteen. Young Edward, however, must bide his time as the loyal son until he can break the shackles of his minority and dissolve the regency council which dictates his every action. When the former king is found mysteriously dead in his cell, the truth becomes obscured and Isabella can no longer trust her own memory . . . or confide in those closest to her. Meanwhile, she struggles to keep her beloved Mortimer at her side and gain yet another crown-France's-for the son who no longer trusts her. Amidst a maelstrom of shifting loyalties, accusations of murder propel England to the brink of civil war. In the sequel to Isabeau, secrecy and treason, conspiracy and revenge once again overtake England. The future rests in the hands of a mother and son whose bonds have reached a breaking point.

The King Must Die

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Edmund Burke

Ohio

Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, this work offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. It articulates a defense of property, religion, and traditional values.

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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#hardcover #adventure #memoir #travel #firstedition #nonfiction #Italy #food #France #biography 

Michigan

Journeys of a Passionate Traveller

Celebrating the wonders, benefits, and experiences of travel, the best-selling author of Under the Tuscan Sun shares a collection of narrative essays in which she details her travels to Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Turkey, Greece, southern Italy, and North Africa, interweaving personal insights with commentary on art, history, landscape, culture, and tradition. 150,000 first printing.

A Year in the World

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#France #winecountry #wine #travel #maps #winefestivals #regions

Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs (wine usually seems to be made in attractive surroundings) as well as maps, the books in this series describe the wine-producing regions of each country. The authors recommend itineraries, list wineries, describe the local cuisines, suggest wine bars and restaurants, and provide a mass of practical information -- much of which is not readily available elsewhere.

Each title includes:
-- Itineraries and maps
-- Local gastronomic specialties
-- Hundreds of visitor-friendly wineries
-- Descriptions of local and regional wines
-- Museums and sight-seeing points
-- Lists of wine festivals and exhibitions
-- Restaurants, hotels and wine stores
-- Reference section and glossary

Travellers Wine Guide to France

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#hardcover #france #historical #marieantoinette

The Life of Marie Antoinette

Describes Marie Antoinette's childhood in Vienna and her marriage to Louis XVI and the political climate of France during her husband's reign

To the Scaffold

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#hardcover #fiction #literaryfiction #france #romance #thelittleparisbookshop #ninageorge

Lance Armstrong

Sally Jenkins

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the hardback cover. Will ship within hours after your order is received. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

Texas

My Journey Back to Life

The world-champion cyclist recounts his diagnosis with cancer, the grueling treatments during which he was given a less than twenty percent chance for survival, his surprising victory in the 1999 Tour de France, and the birth of his son. 125,000 first printing.

It's Not about the Bike

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#paperback #historical #marriage #war #worldwar #mystery #murder #marriage #germany #france 

At once a suspenseful mystery and a heartfelt tale of a man's attempts to sort out the tangled remains of a life torn apart by war . . . Ironside's landscapes are rich, if decimated, and her characters extraordinarily intriguing--"Birmingham Post" (UK).

A Good Death

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#hardcover #fiction #literaryfiction  #france #marriage #passionate #restaurant #suicide #2ndchances #newbeginnings nearly pristine condition, small red marker on bottom, see photo. This book just needs a second chance and someone to love it. Just like Marianne in the story. 😄 You could be that someone! 

Title Page and next page have a mild crumple and smudge. Otherwise in perfect condition. See photos. 

In the spirit of We Were the Lucky Ones and We Must Be Brave, a heartbreaking World War II novel of one mother's impossible choice, and her search for her daughter against the odds. As a Russian Jewish émigré to France, Vera's wealth cannot protect her or her four-year-old-daughter, Lucie, once the Nazis occupy the country. After receiving notice that all foreigners must report to an internment camp, Vera has just a few hours to make an impossible choice: Does she subject Lucie to the horrid conditions of the camp, or does she put her into hiding with her beloved and trusted governess, safe until Vera can retrieve her? Believing the war will end soon, Vera chooses to leave Lucie in safety. She cannot know that she and her husband will have an opportunity to escape, to flee to America. She cannot know that Lucie's governess will have fled with Lucie to family in rural France, too far to reach in time. And so begins a heartbreaking journey and separation, a war and a continent apart. Vera's marriage will falter under the surreal sun of California. Her ability to write--once her passion--will disappear. But Vera's love for Lucie, her faith that her daughter lives, will only grow. As Vera's determination to return to France and find Lucie crystalizes, she meets Sasha, a man on his own search for meaning. She is stronger with Sasha than she is alone. Together they will journey to Lucie. They will find her fate.

Those Who Are Saved

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#hardcover #crime #police #france #mysteryfiction First US edition

Virginia

A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel

The Templars’ Last Secret

Dai Sijie

For this second novel, Dai Sijie has invented a most fantastic, yet profoundly enlightening, quest set in modern China. Mr. Muo is a forty-year-old scholar and devotee of Freud who leaves France and returns to his native China to free his college love from prison. He must procure a virgin for the corrupt and sadistic Judge Di so that the Judge will pardon the woman for whom, as it turns out, Muo has harbored an essentially unreciprocated love for twenty years. This wild premise is just the starting point for Muo’s—and the reader’s—even more wild and superbly entertaining adventure across the Chinese countryside. While he scours the country for a virgin, Muo determines to practice the teachings of Freud by offering low-cost dream interpretation to the Chinese people he encounters along the way. But Muo is a novice in dream interpretation as well as in the ways of love. The results of his encounters with the Chinese women, are, therefore, laden with awkwardness, embarrassment, and, occasionally, absurdity—both in his interpretation of their dreams and in his investigation into their purity. Along the way, Muo attracts the love of an ugly older policewoman, loses his virginity to his long-time friend and neighbor, and, when he finally meets a young virgin for Judge Di, finds himself, inevitably, falling in love with her himself. No obstacle deters Muo from his quest. He battles an array of colorful and sometimes frightening Chinese characters, including the savage hill bandits (Lolo), corrupt judges and politicians, convict restaurateurs, an herbalist who observes panda droppings, and the peasants who submit to Muo’s amateur psychoanalysis. 

Through Muo’s expedition, Sijie spares no detail. Embellishing his acute insight into human behavior with madcap humor, Sijie philosophizes on the capricious nature of love, the confused state of modern China, and dream interpretation as a way of understanding the human state. His creation—Mr. Muo—is a tribute to supreme optimism and the tenaciousness of the individual spirit.


After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr. Muo returns home to bring the benefits of psychoanalysis to twenty-first-century China and to somehow free his college sweetheart, now a political prisoner, a quest that leads him to the sadistic local magistrate.

Mr Muo's Travelling Couch

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Victor Brombert

Light shelf wear on the jacket. Subtle. Pages in great shape. Low mileage. Sharp photography. Crisp and clean. No dog ears or scribbles. Please see photos for reference.

Memories of a Stateless Youth

Paris in the 1930s--melancholy, erotic, intensely politicized--provides the poetic beginning for this autobiography by one of America's most renowned literary scholars. Brombert recaptures the story of his youth in a Proustian reverie that vividly recalls his privileged upbringing in Paris's 16th arrondissement.

Trains of Thought

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Continuing her story begun in The olive farm, the author tells of her marriage to Michel in Polynesia, and of their challenges and adventures upon returning to their olive farm in the south of France.

The Olive Season

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Joanne Harris

A sensual novel follows a woman as she returns to the French village where she lived as a girl during the German occupation.

Five Quarters of the Orange

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Hardcover no dust jacket. Slight edge wear. #hardcover #queenoffrance #france #makebelieve #imagination #childrens #kids #queen 

California

Dressed up as a queen, a little girl has some endearing and funny audiences with two most obliging subjects -- her mother and father.

When Rose wakes up one morning feeling royal, she dons her necklaces, bracelets, and crown. Soon the Queen of France emerges to survey her domain, disapproving of Rose's mother's thorny gardening choices and asking Rose's father where the Royal Physician may be found. The odd thing is, when Rose returns to look for the Queen of France, she's nowhere to be seen. And when the imperious queen comes back, she's curious to know what Rose's parents would think if she traded places with their little girl? With charming illustrations by Kady MacDonald Denton and a humorous tale by Tim Wadham, here is a sweet homage to the easy affection between parents and an imaginative child.

The Queen of France

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Jane Smiley

Illinois

Paras (short for Perestroika) is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall - she's a curious filly - and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance in the City of Light. But how long can a runaway horse live undiscovered in Paris? And how long can a boy keep her hidden, and all his own?

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Eyewitness Travel Guide - Loire Valley

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French Women Don't Get Fat

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It's Not about the Bike

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Those Who Are Saved

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The Templars’ Last Secret

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Five Quarters of the Orange

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