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A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle  Publisher Comments In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures...
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The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Olive Oil in the South of France
by Carol Drinkwater Publisher Comments When Carol Drinkwater and her fiancé, Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the region's splendor impossible to resist. Using their entire savings as a down payment, the...
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Sara Midda's South of France: A Sketch Book (Workman Undated Diaries/Advent Calendars)
by Sara Midda Publisher Comments From Sara Midda, whose first book evoked all the pleasures of an English garden, comes a wondrous sketchbook of a year's sojourn in the South of France. This is a very personal journal, crammed with images, notions and discoveries of the day-to-day. In...
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The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920
by Christopher Johnson Publisher Comments In this seminal book, Christopher Johnson writes a full-scale study of the rise and decline of industrialization in the Bas-Languedoc region of France. Working within a broad 200-year frame, Johnson examines the process of how and why a successful...
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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Princeton Paperbacks)
by Henry Adams Review One has the feeling that during the process of writing, the book grew way beyond its original plan and intention to be the informal travel talk of an art tourist, or an art-uncle for nieces with Kodaks. At a certain point it almost ceases to deal with...
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Ripening Sun: One Woman and the Creation of a Vineyard
by Patricia Atkinson Publisher Comments In 1990, Patricia Atkinson and her husband moved to the Dordogne, planning to earn their living as financial consultants, while an employee tended their small vineyard. Then disaster struck—the stock-market crashed and a debilitating illness sent...
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A Life of Her Own: A Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France
by Emilie Carles Synopsis Carles autobiography is the tale of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that emerged to take its place. Her account reflects the turbulent history of the twentieth century from the viewpoints of the many roles she played in it--teacher...
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Running in Place: Scenes from the South of France
by Nicholas Delbanco Publisher Comments Running in Place is a stunning evocation of Provencal culture and history. An acclaimed novelist and essayist, Nicholas Delbanco provides a vivid portrait of a paradise still pure but not immune to progress. A perfect book for anyone who loves the work...
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Ceremonial City
by Robert Schneider Publisher Comments From public executions to religious processions to political festivities, Toulouse's ceremonial life was remarkably rich in the decades prior to the French Revolution. In an engaging portrait that conveys this provincial city in all its splendor and...
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French Spirits: A House, a Village, and a Love Affair in Burgundy
by Jeffrey Greene Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Presbytery How is it that real estate agents know even before they look at you, as they shout on the phone to a colleague, that you are a waste of their time? They must develop a sixth sense to spot dreamers, like us, who know nothing...
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On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town
by Susan Loomis Publisher Comments Susan Loomis arrived in Paris twenty years ago with little more than a student loan and the contents of a suitcase to sustain her. But what began then as an apprenticeship at La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine evolved into a lifelong immersion in French cuisine...
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From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant
by Michael S Sanders 
Powells.com Staff Pick Immerse yourself in the customs and culture of Les Arques, France, a hilltop village untouched by the modern era that struggles to remain vital. Part travelogue, part exploration of French cuisine, Michael Sanders's charming book reveals the traditions...
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The Rose Cafe: Love and War in Corsica
by John Hanson Mitchell Publisher Comments In 1962, while he was a student in Paris, John Hanson Mitchell spent a luminous six months on the Mediterranean island of Corsica at the Rose Café, in Ile Rousse. Twenty-two, Mitchell spent his idyll hours there observing the lives of the people who...
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La Belle Saison: Living Off the Land in Rural France
by Patricia Atkinson Publisher Comments In this sequel to her international bestseller, The Ripening Sun, Patricia Atkinson limns a way of life centered on the seasons, the food, and the wine of the glorious French countryside. When Patricia Atkinson first moved to France, her intention was...
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High Season: How One Mediterranean Town Has Seduced Travelers for Two Thousand Years
by Robert Kanigel Publisher Comments Founded by seafaring Greeks, colonized by Romans, and transformed by spoiled English aristocrats into an elegant stop on the Grand Tour, the city of Nice has beguiled travelers for two millennia. Once the winter playground for Russian royalty and an...
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The Oysters of Locmariaquer (P.S.)
by Eleanor Clark Publisher Comments On the northwest coast of France, just around the corner from the English Channel, is the little town of Locmariaquer (pronounced "loc-maria-care"). The inhabitants of this town have a special relationship to the world, for it is their efforts that...
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French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France
by Richard Goodman Publisher Comments "One of the most charming, perceptive and subtle books ever written about the French by an American."--San Francisco...
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Shaping Modern Times in Rural France: The Transformation and Reproduction of an Aveyronnais Community
by Susan Carol Rogers Publisher Comments Challenging the notion that modernization is a homogenizing process, Susan Rogers contends that in the course of large-scale transformations communities often reproduce and strengthen distinctive cultural and social features. To make this argument, she...
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The Magic of Provence: Pleasures of Southern France
by Yvone Lenard Synopsis When Yvone Lenard returned to her native France and purchased a house in a hilltop village of Provence, she found an enchanted world of food, wines, and unusual adventures. Told with Lenard's understanding of the French culture, this memoir has ways to...
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French Spirits: A House, a Village, and a Love Affair in Burgundy
by Jeffrey Greene Publisher Comments When Jeffrey Greene, a prizewinning American poet, and Mary, his wife-to-be, a molecular biologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, discover a moss-covered stone presbytery in a lovely village in the Puisaye region of Burgundy, they know they have to...
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