For gardening aficionados and Francophiles, a love letter to the Versailles Palace and grounds, from the man who knows them best. In Alain Baraton's Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its...
France
- Author:Baraton, AlainSummary:
- Author:Moore, TimSummary:
A grueling cycling event featuring some of the world's greatest athletes, the Tour de France was clearly not meant for the likes of Moore. Pedaling off weeks before the actual race begins, Moore nonetheless tackles the course with...
- Author:Ozick, CynthiaSummary:
Ozick crafts a retelling of Henry James' The ambassadors--using its plot, yet infusing the novel with an all new place, time, and meaning. It's 1952, and middle-aged Bea Nightingale reluctantly agrees to fly to Paris to help...
- Author:Groot, TracySummary:
A retelling of the Old Testament tale of Rahab the harlot that takes place in Nazi-occupied France. After American fighter pilot Tom Jaeger is shot down and harbored by the French Resistance, he figures prominently in a plan to...
- Author:Chevallier, GabrielSummary:
In 1915, Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. Soon, however, the vaunted "war to end all wars" is just an unimaginable, unceasing slaughter. Wounded, Jean returns from the front to discover a world where no one...
- Author:de Rochmondet, G.M., Léger, BenoitSummary:
En 1830, Madame G.M. de Rochmondet publie à compte d'auteur les Études sur la traduction de l'anglais, un ouvrage qui se distingue des ouvrages antérieurs sur la question de la traduction de l'anglais vers le français. Peu connu, son...
- Author:Hasni, Abdelkrim, Lebeaume, JoëlSummary:
Au cours de la dernière décennie, l’enseignement scolaire au Québec et en France a été profondément renouvelé et reconfiguré par des actions publiques en matière d’éducation et par les missions affectées à l’enseignement obligatoire....
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
The first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living on the breadline in Paris and the...
- Author:Bourdieu, PierreSummary:
- Author:Ambrose, Stephen E.Summary:
Chronicles the events, politics, and personalities of that pivotal day in World War II, shedding light on the strategies of commanders on both sides as well as the ramifications of the battle.
- Author:LaFevers, RobinSummary:
When Sybella accompanies the Duchess to France, she expects trouble, but she isn't expecting a deadly trap. Surrounded by enemies both known and unknown, Sybella searches for the undercover assassins from the convent of St. Mortain...
- Author:LaHaye, Tim F.Summary:
While desperately seeking income as a photographer, Dylan Cooper befriends art gallery assistant Grace MacVicar. So well do the two get along that Dylan begins to harbor hopes for the future. But at the premier of his photographic...
- Author:Bret, DavidSummary:
1940s, Paris. The German occupation is in full swing. Marcel, a famous singer at Levalle’s, grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and now leads a complicated life. Juggling his common-law wife and his mistress keeps him as busy as his...
- Author:Hubbard, JanetSummary:
Twenty-nine-year-old NYPD detective Max Maguire flies to France to attend her friend Chloe Marceau’s wedding at a grand estate in the Valley of the Marne in Champagne, an hour and a half east of Paris. She meets the older and more...
- Author:Fleming, IanSummary:
For James Bond and the British Secret Service, the stakes couldn't be higher. The MI6 agent's mission is to neutralize the Russian operative Le Chiffre by ruining him at the baccarat table and forcing his Soviet masters to "retire" him...
- Author:Macaulay, DavidSummary:
Reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created.
- Author:O'Brien, CharlesSummary:
The setting is Bath, England’s most fashionable spa, during the spring season of 1787. Haughty aristocrats, wealthy upstart businessmen, social climbers, adventurers, courtesans, sharpers, addicted gamblers, and a representative sample...
- Author:Mabanckou, AlainSummary:
- Author:McKinley, RobinSummary:
Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.
- Author:Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La MotteSummary:
Madam Guyon is a heretic to some, but a saint to others. Living at a time when being charged as heretic was a matter of civil law, Madam Guyon was imprisoned and persecuted for her unyielding stance against the religious authorities in...