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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....
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
by Edmund 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 wouldn’t otherwise see…Edmund White tells such...
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Almost French
by Sarah Turnbull 
Publisher Comments A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor. Sarah Turnbullas stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and FrA(c)dA(c...
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Through the Windows of Paris: Fifty Unique Shops
by Michael Webb Publisher Comments Shop windows and interiors are among the glories of Paris-as enticing as its museums and grand vistas but far less tiring to explore. They distill the qualities we most admire in the City of Light: a love of fantasy and tradition of craft and style, and...
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Metro Stop Paris: An Underground History of the City of Light
by Gregor Dallas Publisher Comments A history of Paris in twelve métro stops. Métro Stop Paris recounts the extraordinary and colorful history of the City of Light, by way of twelve Métro stops—a voyage across both space and time. At each stop a Parisian building, or...
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The Judgment of Paris
by Ross King
Powells.com 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...
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A Place in the World Called Paris
by Steven Barclay Synopsis Paris--with its subtle moods, elegant charm, and sensual allure--inspires writers and visitors like no other city. A Place in the World Called Paris, now in a beautiful paperback edition, collects the twentieth century's most distinguished authors...
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Paris Then & Now (Then & Now)
by Peter Caine Publisher Comments Discover the magic of the City of Light! Tour one of the most romantic cities in the world — Paris — in this stunning collection of past-and-present photographs that pay tribute to the city's fabulous architecture and heritage. Experience the...
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Paris: The Biography of a City
by Colin Jones Publisher Comments Paris has been the center of French culture and politics, the great stage of kings, poets, and revolutionaries, the inspiration of artists, and the prize of armies since the Middle Ages. More distinguished than London, more central to world events than...
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Paris
by Haiko Lanio Synopsis These photographs of Paris aim to offer new perspectives on some of the city's most familiar sights and, in so doing, to draw attention to the clash between the old and the new in its architecture, people and history....
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Nightinghouls of Paris (07 Edition)
by Mcalmon Publisher Comments The Nightinghouls of Paris is a thinly fictionalized memoir of the darker side of expatriate life in Paris. Beginning in 1928, the story follows the changes undergone by Canadian youths John Glassco and his friend Graeme Taylor during their (mis...
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Paris
by Mimmo Jodice Publisher Comments "Nothing to Paris can ever be compared."--Eustache Deschamps, 1375 Anyone who has visited Paris understands this: it is the city by which others may be measured, in inexhaustible place that takes root in one's soul. Countless people-- artists, tourists...
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Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light
by Tyler Stovall Publisher Comments Paris Noir tells the fascinating history of American expatriates who chose to live in Paris in the twentieth century. An avant-garde and tightly knit community of black American writers, painters, musicians, and political exiles discovered that Paris...
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The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
by Alicia Drake Synopsis Drake presents a sublime and dramatic narrative about the high-chic fashion wars of 1970s Paris where two titanic geniuses and rivals, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagefeld, collided and sparked a tumultuous decade....
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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...
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Henry James Goes to Paris
by Peter Brooks Publisher Comments Henry James's reputation as The Master is so familiar that it's hard to imagine he was ever someone on whom some things really were lost. This is the story of the year--1875 to 1876--when the young novelist moved to Paris, drawn by his literary idols...
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Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet
by Gourmet Magazine Publisher Comments For sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to Gourmet. At once unique and universal, these essays by Joseph Wechsberg, Naomi Barry, and Diane Johnson, among others, present tantalizing glimpses of culinary life in the...
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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...
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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...
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Paris: The Biography of a City
by Colin Jones Publisher Comments From the Roman Emperor Julian, who waxed rhapsodic about Parisian wine and figs, to Henry Miller, who relished its seductive bohemia, Paris has been a perennial source of fascination for 2,000 years. In this definitive and illuminating history, Colin...
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