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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...

Geography Of The Heart

Geography Of The Heart
  • Author(s): Fenton Johnson
  • Location(s): Paris, Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

In this poignant memoir, the author interweaves two fascinating stories: his own upbringing as the youngest of nine children of a Kentucky whiskey maker and that of his lover Larry Rose, the only child of German Jews, survivors of...

George’s Grand Tour

George’s Grand Tour
  • Author(s): Caroline Vermalle
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the path of The Tour de France…..At the age of 83, retired butcher George Nicoleau is about to set off on the greatest adventure of his life. George and his neighbour Charles have long dreamt of a road...

Germinal

Germinal
  • Author(s): Emile Zola
  • Location(s): Val-d'Oise
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1860s

Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Compelled to take a back-breakin job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners...

Getaway

Getaway
  • Author(s): Rod Humphris
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Suzana Chesterfield, recently rescued from a gang of slave-traders by Simon Ellice, has come sailing with him to try to work out what to do with her life. And perhaps to find out whether the handsome, selfish, bastard should...

Getting Lost

Getting Lost
  • Author(s): Annie Ernaux
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1989

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was...

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