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Adventures on Land & Sea: Searching for Culinary Pleasures in Provence and along the Cote d’ Azur

Adventures on Land & Sea: Searching for Culinary Pleasures in Provence and along the Cote d’ Azur
  • Author(s): Carole Bumpus
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Recent - early 2,000s

KEYNOTE: Fans of Peter Mayle, Frederic Mistral or Marcel Pagnol will enjoy this exploration of medieval villages, cultures, and recipes of France’s Provençe. This travelogue is Book 4 in the author’s best-selling series. DESCRIPTION: Join Carole Bumpus, her husband,...

ADVENTURES ON LAND AND SEA (Searching for Culinary Pleasures in Provence and Along the Cote d’Azur)

ADVENTURES ON LAND AND SEA (Searching for Culinary Pleasures in Provence and Along the Cote d’Azur)
  • Author(s): Carole Bumpus
  • Location(s): Provence, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Fans of Peter Mayle and Janine Marsh will enjoy this exploration of medieval villages, cultures, and recipes of France’s Provence. This travelogue is Book 4 in the author’s best-selling series, which has won the IPPY gold medal for Best...

After Paris

After Paris
  • Author(s): Nicole Kennedy
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Three women take the same Eurostar to Paris for a girls’ trip, but take separate trains back. What happened that weekend? A thought-provoking and gripping novel about trying to hold on to friendships when you start to grow apart....

After the Circus

After the Circus
  • Author(s): Patrick Modiano
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano’s writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and...

Ahead of the Shadows

Ahead of the Shadows
  • Author(s): A B Kyazze
  • Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of), Paris, Sudan
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2003, 2022

When a photographer witnesses war crimes, will she have to abandon her calling to save herself? As Lena and Kojo work in conflicts across East and Central Africa, there is immense psychological pressure, and it’s not certain if their...

Akin

Akin
  • Author(s): Emma Donoghue
  • Location(s): Nice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy,...

All I Have to Give

All I Have to Give
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): The Somme, England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1916

When all is lost, can she find the strength to start again? It is 1916 and Edith Mellor is one of the few female surgeons in Britain. Compelled to use her skills for the war effort, she travels to...

All That Life Can Afford

All That Life Can Afford
  • Author(s): Emily Everett
  • Location(s): London, St Tropez (Saint-Tropez)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A taut and lyrical coming-of-age debut about a young American woman navigating class, lies, and love amid London’s jet-set elite. I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new. Anna first fell in love...

All The Broken Places

All The Broken Places
  • Author(s): John Boyne
  • Location(s): France, Germany, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to WW2

From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable,...

All The Devils Are Here

All The Devils Are Here
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction

The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a...

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