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France Drama France Provence Inheritance and succession Drama Man-woman relationship France Drama Mayle, Peter Homes and haunts France Provence Provence (France) Description and travel Provence (France) Drama Provence (France) Fiction Provence (France) Social life and customs Vineyards France DramaDurrell, Lawrence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.9 DURBerry, Julie
Summary: In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BERMayle, Peter
Summary: "The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed. Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the Cô̂te d'Azur. In search of sunlight,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 944.9 MAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel MayleDelbanco, Nicholas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 DELGethers, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 GETSummary: Based on Peter Mayle's bestseller by the same name, it is the hilarious first year account of the Mayles' adjusting to both the idiosyncracies of the locals and the quaint traditions of this ancient and charming region.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2001
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Summary: "Swathes of Purple Lavender and dramatic, craggy outcrops go hand in hand with the twinkling blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea and its popular beaches. Delight in Roman amphitheatres, grandiose churches, delicate parfumeries and gourmet cuisine. Explore dazzling towns such as Nice, Cannes and Marseille or head inland to the prettiest hilltop villages. This is Provence and the Côte d'Azur, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.49 PROBarr, Luke.
Summary: Presents a dramatic account of the 1970 gathering in Provence where such culinary luminaries as James Beard and Julia Child debated and inadvertently launched the modern food movement in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5973 BARSummary: Everybody has heard about when Vincent van Gogh looked into a mirror and cut into his own ear. Bernadette Murphy, an independent researcher, has uncovered definitive evidence which reveals exactly what happened that night, and how it ultimately shaped van Gogh's remarkable art. Murphy's detective work finally provides answers to the mystery that has divided art historians for decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECMayle, Peter.
Summary: When Simon Shaw is stranded in the small village of Luberon, France, an enchanting woman comes to his rescue and soon lures him into buying the local hotel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYRademacher, Cay
Summary: "International Dagger Award shortlisted author of The Murderer in Ruins, Cay Rademacher, delivers a beautifully atmospheric new story with a captivating main character in Murderous Mistral: A Provence Mystery. Capitaine Roger Blanc, an investigator with the anti-corruption-unit of the French Gendarmerie, was a bit too succesfull in his investigations. He finds himself removed from Paris to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RADSummary: Two popular travel destinations in France unfold from a bird's eye view. See the beauty of southeastern France from a spectacular vantage point. Shot in high-definition from a helicopter-mounted camera, these two programs afford dazzling views of historic Provence, and the world-famous Mediterranean wonderland The Riviera.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 VISSummary: Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOJanes, J. Robert (Joseph Robert)
Summary: "Occupied France, December 1942. Seven days before Christmas, Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the French Surete Nationale and his partner Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo are dispatched to a village in Provence to investigate what appears to be a "local" murder. An attractive, well-dressed woman lies dead on a hillside, an iron-tipped bolt through her heart. Was it a crime of passion?" "The tight-lipped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANSummary: In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WELSummary: "It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed: driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GROLenard, Yvone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.9 LENJames, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.495 JAMPears, Iain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAGoldis, Jaclyn
Summary: "A girls trip to a luxurious French chateau turns from dream vacation to nightmare"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLMayle, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.9 MAYBlavette, Charles
Summary: Set in 1920s Provence, follows the tempestuous affairs Italian migrant Toni has with two women and their tragic consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TONMayle, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.9 MAYWilliams, Nina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2000