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French Exit

French Exit
  • Author(s): Patrick deWitt
  • Location(s): Paris, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Frances Price – tart widow, possessive mother and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then...

French Kissing

French Kissing
  • Author(s): Lynne Shelby
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna is English and lives in London. Alexandre is French and lives in Paris. They have been penfriends for fifteen years – since they met on a school exchange trip. When Alex’s work as a photographer brings him to...

French License

French License
  • Author(s): Joe Start
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This narrative non-fiction story covers the author’s attempt, as a Californian expat, to obtain his driver’s license in Paris. What appears simple enough becomes a tragicomedy as he confronts one obstacle after another. It has taken him so long,...

French Restoration

French Restoration
  • Author(s): Sara Claridge
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Chantal Chevalier is determined to win the interior design contract for Chateau Vauquelin, if only to stop wealthy hotelier Alex Kirkwood from destroying its magical splendour and turning the place into a bland playground for the rich and famous....

French Windows

French Windows
  • Author(s): Antoine Laurain
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nathalia Guitry was a successful photographer. Until the day she caught a murder on camera. At therapy, Doctor Faber suggests a way out of her creative block: she must write stories about the people she sees in the building...

Fresh Air and Empty Streets

Fresh Air and Empty Streets
  • Author(s): Oliver Cable
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Fifteen years after Alexander left his wife and young child to pursue the life of an artist in Paris, his son Felix is on his doorstep, looking for answers. On a journey through smoky jazz bars, artists’ studios and...

Fresh Water for Flowers

Fresh Water for Flowers
  • Author(s): Valérie Perrin
  • Location(s): Burgundy-Franche-Comté
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Random visitors, regulars, and her colleagues―three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest―visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears...

From a Paris Balcony

From a Paris Balcony
  • Author(s): Ella Carey
  • Location(s): Paris, Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2015 looking back

Secrets of Paris Book 3 The small green chest was concealed at the back of her father’s wardrobe. Its hinges were made of brass that must once have shone, but now the surface was roughened and dull. As she...

Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible

Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible
  • Author(s): Suzanne Kamata
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Aiko Cassidy is fifteen and lives with her sculptor mother in a small Midwestern town. For most of her young life, Aiko, who has cerebral palsy, has been her mother’s muse. But now, she no longer wants to pose...

Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil

Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil
  • Author(s): Jean-Claude Izzo, Howard Curtis (Translator)
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

A short sublime book on the three things dearest to Jean-Claude Izzo’s heart: his native Marseilles, the sea in all its splendor, and Mediterranean noir–the literary genre his books helped to found. This collection of writings shows Izzo, author...

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