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My Life as as Silent Movie Star

My Life as as Silent Movie Star
  • Author(s): Jesse Lee Kercheval
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s forward

After losing her husband and daughter in an auto accident, 42-year-old Emma flies to Paris, discovers she has a twin brother whose existence she had not known about, and learns that her birth parents weren’t the Americans who raised...

Ordinary Joe

Ordinary Joe
  • Author(s): Jon Teckman
  • Location(s): California, Cannes, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about what happens when all of your dreams become true. What would you do if… …you were happily married …with two gorgeous children …and the most gorgeous film star in the world walked up to...

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees
  • Author(s): Elly Grant
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees gives you an insight into the workings and atmosphere of small town France against a background of gender, sexual, racial and religious prejudice. The story unfolds, told by Danielle a single, downtrodden , thirty...

Parfums

Parfums
  • Author(s): Philippe Claudel
  • Location(s): Lorraine
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

From the sizzling sharpness of freshly cut garlic to the cool tang of a father’s aftershave; the heady intoxication of a fumbled first kiss to the anodyne void of disinfectant and death, this is a decadently original olfactory memoir....

Paris For One

Paris For One
  • Author(s): Jojo Moyes
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She’s never even been on a romantic weekend away – to anywhere – before. Travelling abroad isn’t really her thing. But when Nell’s boyfriend fails to show up, she has...

Paris Revealed: The Secret Life of a City

Paris Revealed: The Secret Life of a City
  • Author(s): Stephen Clarke
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

A bit of history, wry observations – this is a light hearted look at Paris, informative and easy to read.

Paris to the Moon: A Family in France

Paris to the Moon: A Family in France
  • Author(s): Adam Gopnik
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Commissioned by The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik spent five years in Paris with his wife, Martha and son, Luke, writing dispatches now collected here along with previously unpublished journal entries in Paris to the Moon. A self-described “comic-sentimental essayist”,...

Paris, My Sweet

Paris, My Sweet
  • Author(s): Amy Thomas
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris My Sweet is a memoir of a year in the life of thirty-six year old Amy, who works for Louis Vuitton. It is a guide book in part to the Paris bakeries, part love letter to this great...

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Just an innocent invitation… When Sophie Ellis is asked to house-sit at a luxurious Knightsbridge townhouse, it appears to be the offer of a lifetime. Drawn into the glittering circle of the home’s owner, she meets wealthy American businessman...

Perfume from Provence

Perfume from Provence
  • Author(s): Lady Fortescue
  • Location(s): Nice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1930s

The original story of falling for France, Perfume from Provence was first published in 1935 and became a best-seller. Winifred Fortescue was an actress who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Jerome K. Jerome and George Bernard Shaw when...

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