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Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France by Vivian Swift Publisher Comments Road trip: those are still the two most inspiring words to vagabonds and couch potatoes alike; after all, the great American spirit was forged by road trippers from the Pilgrims to Lewis and Clark to the Dharma Bums. Le Road Trip combines the appeal of... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover 
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Sweet Life in Paris (09 Edition) by David Lebovitz Publisher Comments Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - 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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Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down Signed Edition by Rosecrans Baldwin Publisher Comments A fresh, exhilarating take on one of the worlds most popular topics — Paris, the City of Light! — by an acclaimed young novelist. A self-described Francophile, Rosecrans Baldwin always dreamed of living in Paris — drinking le caf... (read more) Available June 10, 2012 Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover 
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Two Towns in Provence by M F K Fisher Publisher Comments This memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, "my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself...just as much of its reality is based on my own shadows, my inventions." A vibrant and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France by Richard Goodman Publisher Comments A story about dirt--and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French land all to oneself to till. Richard Goodman saw the ad in the paper: "SOUTHERN FRANCE: Stone house in Village near... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris to the Past: Traveling Through French History by Train by Ina Caro Publisher Comments In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history. Whether taking us to Orléans to evoke the visions... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant by Michael S Sanders Publisher Comments Chapter One One Morning in August By eight o'clock on a late summer day what passes for the morning bustle in Les Arques is well under way. Elise Sé gol, the widow who owns the little house across the street from the restaurant, has thrown open her... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Year in Provence/Toujours Provence 2-Copy Box Set by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments A boxed set containing the first two bestselling volumes of Peter Mayles hilarious and heartwarming adventures living in the Provence region of France. A Year in Provence In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co. by Jeremy Mercer Publisher Comments Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited him up for tea. Within weeks, he was living above... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard Publisher Comments In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman--and never went home again. @lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her @lt;i@gt;pav au poivre, @lt;/i... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home by Kim Sunee Publisher Comments Already hailed as brave, emotional, and gorgeously written by Frances Mayes and like a piece of dark chocolate--bittersweet, satisfying, and finished all too soon by Laura Fraser, author of An Italian Affair, this is a unique memoir about the search for... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris in Love by Eloisa James Publisher Comments In 2009, New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris. Paris in Love: A Memoir chronicles her joyful... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A J Liebling Publisher Comments New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thaddeus Carhart Publisher Comments Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Paris neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Merde for Love by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments The latest episode in Stephen Clarke's almost-true account of his adventures as an expat in France is just as winning as the first. This "anti-Mayle" will have readers chortling over their croissants and café au lait while Paul West struggles to solve... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Town Like Paris: Falling in Love in the City of Light by Bryce Corbett Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-eight, stuck in a dead-end job in London, and on the run from a broken heart, Bryce Corbett takes a job in Paris, home of lamour and la vie boheme; he is determined to make the city his own—no matter how many bottles of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Olive Tree: A Personal Journey Through Mediterranean Olive Groves by Carol Drinkwater Publisher Comments Troubled by challenges her own South of France farm is experiencing—attack by a virulent pest and the premature ripening of the trees' fruits—Carol realizes new approaches to farming are becoming essential. Traditional customs have been set... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments Based on Stephen Clarke's own experiences and with names changed to "avoid embarrassment, possible legal action, and to prevent the author's legs being broken by someone in a Yves Saint Laurent suit," A Year in the Merde provides perfect entertainment... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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In the Merde for Love by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments The latest episode in Clarkes almost-true account of his adventures as an expatriate in France is just as delightful as the original--and already a bestseller in the U.K.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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