Published in 1968. This book has beautiful illustrations and each page lists of variety of words in four separate languages - English, French, Russian, and Spanish. There is a small stamp on the inside front cover (pictured)

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Georgia

An Excursion in Four Languages

In the Park

Mireille Guiliano

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Rhode Island

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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Janet Laurence

Contains recipes for snacks, main dishes, and desserts originating in France

Texas

French cooking is arguably the finest in the world, and this selection of 30 dishes offers a tantalizing taste of that wealth. Includes recipes for internationally renowned classics such as Bouillabaisse, as well as regional favorites such as Salade Nicoise from Provence. Each recipe is accompanied by a full-color illustration.

A Little French Cookbook

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James Tipton

Massachusetts

A Novel of the French Revolution

For fans of Tracy Chevalier and Sarah Dunant comes this vibrant, alluring debut novel of a compelling, independent woman who would inspire one of the world's greatest poets and survive a nation's bloody transformation.

Set amid the terror and excitement of the French Revolution, James Tipton's evocative novel is the story of a woman who has for too long been relegated to the shadows of history: Annette Vallon, William Wordsworth's mistress and muse.

Born into a world of wealth and pleasure, Annette enjoys the privileges of aristocracy, but a burning curiosity and headstrong independence set her apart. Spoiled by the novels of Rousseau, she refuses to be married unless it is for passion. Yet the love she finds with a young English poet will test Annette in unexpected ways, bringing great joy and danger in a time of terror and death.

Told in sparking prose, Annette Vallon captures the courage and fearlessness of a woman whose dramatic story illuminates a turbulent and fascinating era.

Annette Vallon

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New York

Susan Elia MacNeal

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

West Virginia

A Maggie Hope Mystery

After a possible suicide enlivens her tenure as the tutor for princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, MI-5 prospect Maggie Hope uncovers a conspiracy to take out Enigma, England's critical code-breaking machine during World War II. Original.

Princess Elizabeth's Spy

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Slight discoloration on back corner of jacket, see pictures.

Wisconsin

Collective

French language book. Very light signs of use.

Ben 10 Contre les Aliens

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L'Epouvanteur, Tome 1 (French Edition)

Joanne Harris

When the beautiful and mysterious Vianne moves to Lansquenet and opens a chocolate shop across from the church, the inhabitants of the tiny village find themselves torn between the solemn law of religion and the joyful rewards of Vianne's confections. Reprint. (A Miramax film, releasing December 2000, directed by Lasse Hallstrm, starring Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin, & Judi Dench) (General Fiction)

Chocolat

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How the French Talk about Love--Photographs and Stories

From award-winning journalist and filmmaker Stefania Rousselle, a stunning collection of photographs and essays that seek to understand the universality of love

Journalist and filmmaker Stefania Rousselle found herself overwhelmed and dejected with the horrors of the news after covering terrorist attacks, human trafficking, and the rise of extremism. To renew her faith in humanity, she took off on a solo road trip across France, determined to see if love still exists. Traveling from village to village, farming towns to industrial cities, heart to heart, Rousselle sought out ordinary women and men, all to ask them one question, What is love?

Collecting more than 90 personal testimonies, each one moving and beautiful in its own way, alongside over 100 intimate photographs, Rousselle reveals the many facets of love, and discovers that love can still be found even in the darkest of places. From a baker in Normandy to a shepherd in the Pyrenees, from a tree trimmer in Martinique to a mail woman in the Alps, Amour is a visual testament to love in all its many forms.

Amour

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French language book. Light wear on corners.

Le Misanthrope

Jean-Dominique Bauby

Illinois

A Memoir of Life in Death

The author, former editor of French Elle magazine, describes the rare stroke to the brain stem that left his mind intact in a nearly totally paralyzed body

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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Book is in French. Perfect for French learning students or French natives. 
Paperback in like new condition with the exception of a name written on the 1st page

Maryland

L’inconnue de la Crique (The Unknown of the Cove)

Meg Waite Clayton

South Carolina

A Novel

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Train to London revisits the dark early days of the German occupation in France in this haunting novel--a love story and a tale of high-stakes danger and incomparable courage--about a young American heiress who helps artists hunted by the Nazis escape from war-torn Europe. Wealthy, beautiful Naneé was born with a spirit of adventure that transcends her Midwestern roots. For her, learning to fly is freedom. When German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, this woman with an adorable dog and a generous heart joins the resistance. Known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding, Naneé uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety. Inspired by the real life Chicago heiress Mary Jayne Gold, who worked with American journalist Varian Fry to smuggle artists and intellectuals out of France, Meg Waite Clayton has fashioned a sweeping tale of romance and danger, set in a world aflame with personal and political passion. The Postmistress of Paris is the haunting story of an indomitable woman whose strength, bravery, and love is a beacon of hope in a time of terror.

The Postmistress of Paris - 1st edition 

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1st Atheneum Paperback Edition. Inscribed by previous owner on half-title page.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

A Gastronomic Memoir

Abstract: A collection of French recipes is presented is a clear, concise style. Nine chapters present detailed recipes for a great variety of dishes. The first chapter discusses basic ingredients and cooking techniques. The next 8 chapters focus on specialities of cooks the author is aquainted with and studied under. With each recipe the number of servings, the cost, preparation method, preparation time, and remarks about the ingredients are provided. Also included with some recipes are comments about the best season to obtain needed ingredients. Both American and Metric measures are provided where possible but American measures predominate. An index is included. (kbc).

When French Women Cook

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Jean-Claude Corbeil

Ariane Archambault

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Indiana

Key words and phrases connected with detailed illustrations translate thousands of terms in English and French.

French-English Visual Dictionary

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William Alexander

Michigan

How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart

"A delightful and courageous tale and a romping good read. Voila!" --Mark Greenside, author of I'll Never Be French (No Matter What I Do)



William Alexander is more than a Francophile. He wants to be French. There's one small obstacle though: he doesn't speak la langue française. In Flirting with French, Alexander sets out to conquer the language he loves. But will it love him back?



Alexander eats, breathes, and sleeps French (even conjugating in his dreams). He travels to France, where mistranslations send him bicycling off in all sorts of wrong directions, and he nearly drowns in an immersion class in Provence, where, faced with the riddle of masculine breasts, feminine beards, and a turkey cutlet of uncertain gender, he starts to wonder whether he should've taken up golf instead of French. While playing hooky from grammar lessons and memory techniques, Alexander reports on the riotous workings of the Académie française, the four-hundred-year-old institution charged with keeping the language pure; explores the science of human communication, learning why it's harder for fifty-year-olds to learn a second language than it is for five-year-olds; and, frustrated with his progress, explores an IBM research lab, where he trades barbs with a futuristic hand-held translator.



Does he succeed in becoming fluent? Readers will be as surprised as Alexander is to discover that, in a fascinating twist, studying French may have had a far greater impact on his life than actually learning to speak it ever would.



"A blend of passion and neuroscience, this literary love affair offers surprise insights into the human brain and the benefits of learning a second language. Reading William Alexander's book is akin to having an MRI of the soul." --Laura Shaine Cunningham, author of Sleeping Arrangements

 

"Alexander proves that learning a new language is an adventure of its own--with all the unexpected obstacles, surprising breakthroughs and moments of sublime pleasure traveling brings." --Julie Barlow, author of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong  

Flirting with French

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Definitive French text and facing translation of all the prophecies, with notes and indexes, historical background, theories about how and why they were made, plus a critical biography of the seer, his will, letters, more. Map bibliographies, genealogies. 17 illustrations. 832 pages.

Nostradamus and His Prophecies

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