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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough Publisher Comments As David McCullough writes, “Not all pioneers went west.” In The Greater Journey, he tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $14.00 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik Publisher Comments Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner — in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough Publisher Comments The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring — and until now, untold — story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White Publisher Comments Bloomsbury is proud to announce the first title in an occasional series in which some of the world's finest novelists reveal the secrets of the city they know best. These beautifully produced, pocket-sized books will provide exactly what is missing in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Judgment of Paris by Ross King Staff Pick With consummate skill, Ross King resurrects the rivalry between the French art establishment and the artists who gave birth to the Impressionist movement. Focusing on the decade between two famous exhibitions, the shocking Salon des Refusés in 1863 and... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Paris in Mind by Jennifer Lee Publisher Comments “Paris is a moveable feast,” Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, and in this captivating anthology, American writers share their pleasures, obsessions, and quibbles with the great city and its denizens. Mark Twain celebrates the unbridled energy... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 by Jeffrey H Jackson Publisher Comments In the winter of 1910, the river that brought life to Paris quickly became a force of destruction. Torrential rainfall saturated the soil, and faulty engineering created a perfect storm of conditions that soon drowned Parisian streets, homes,... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb Publisher Comments Praise for The Discovery of Franceby Graham Robb:A New York TimesNotable Book of the YearA Slate Best Book of the YearA Publishers WeeklyBest Book of the YearWinner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize“Rid your mind of the idea&mdash... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Our Paris: Sketches from Memory by Edmund White Publisher Comments What happens when one of our most celebrated writers combines talents with a French artist and architect to capture life in their Parisian neighborhood? The result is a lighthearted, gently satiric portrait of the heart of Paris -- including the Marais... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Almost French by Sarah Turnbull Publisher Comments The charming true story of a spirited young woman who finds adventure--and the love of her life--in Paris. "This isn't like me. I'm not the sort of girl who crosses continents to meet up with a man she hardly knows. Paris hadn't even been part of my... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Invention of Paris: History in Footsteps (11 Edition) by Eric Hazen Publisher Comments The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan. Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo with the riots, rebellions and revolutions of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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*flaneur (08 Edition) by White Publisher Comments “One has the impression, reading The Flâneur, of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldnt otherwise see…Edmund White tells such a good... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968 by Michael M. Seidman Publisher Comments "[the book] offers a meticulouos and appropriately dispassionate account of the French events of May 1968. Contributing to a more complete picture of what occurred, the book would be worthwhile reading in courses on comparative experiences of the 1960s."... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $23.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Paris Tales: A Literary Tour of the City by Helen Constantin Publisher Comments If you've never been to Paris, here is your chance to experience it; if you have been there, here is your chance to return. Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who have been inspired by the mystery... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Notable or Notorious?: A Gallery of Parisians by Gordon Wright Synopsis This book, save for one chapter, is not concerned with artists. It is concerned with men and women who achieved a degree of prominence or notoriety in the Paris of their day, but whose reputations have been dimmed by time. While they are not 'world... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $1.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Stuff Parisians Like: Discovering the Quoi in the Je Ne Sais Quoi by Olivier Magny Publisher Comments In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like, a tongue-in-cheek homage to Parisians. To be mistaken for a Parisian, readers must buy the newspaper Le Monde, fold it, and walk. Then sit at a café and make phone... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Casey Harison Publisher Comments This book connects the story of a group of migrant workers to the question of why Paris became the nineteenth century's Capital of revolution, and why this stage of the city's history ended. The stonemasons were well-known for their skills, their... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930s by William Wieser Publisher Comments For the artists and expatriates, the aristocrats and arrivistes, Paris in the 1930s lost none of its magical allure, as this lavishly illustrated chronicle of a fascinating decade in the city's cultural history shows. At salons, galleries, palaces, and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King Publisher Comments Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Paris: The Secret History by Andrew Hussey Publisher Comments If Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon described daily life in contemporary Paris, this book describes daily life in Paris throughout its history: a history of the city from the point of view of the Parisians themselves. Paris captures everyone's... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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