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United States encyclopediasHazan, Éric
Summary: "Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, takes us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, more or less following the dividing line between the east and west of Paris, or what you could call the "Paris meridian." He chose this itinerary without much consideration, but later on it became clear to him that it was no accident, that this line followed the meanders of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 HAZKaplan, Alice Yaeger.
Summary: Examines how spending time abroad in Paris changed the lives and outlooks of three notable American women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.361 KAPSciolino, Elaine
Summary: "Part memoir, part travelogue, part love letter to the people who live and work on a magical street in Paris. Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. 'I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs,' Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2016
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Summary: This a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs--one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine. Bard packs her bags to begin a new life in the most romantic of cities. She finds that the deeper she immerses herself in French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to translate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 944.361 BARDBetts, Kate
Summary: As a young woman, Kate Betts nursed a dream of striking out on her own in a faraway place and becoming a glamorous foreign correspondent. After college--and not without trepidation--she took off for Paris, renting a room in the apartment of a young BCBG (bon chic, bon genre) family and throwing herself into the local culture. She was determined to master French slang, style, and savoir faire,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BETTS, KATE BETLebovitz, David
Summary: "Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes dozens of new recipes. When David Lebovitz began the project of updating his apartment in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 LEBBaldwin, Rosecrans.
Contents: The Goddess -- Send in the Clouds -- Ego Tourism -- The Realest -- Art is Not a Luxury -- Something Is Added to the Air Forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.36 BLUBlume, Lesley M. M.
Summary: "The making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world In the summer of 1925, Earnest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST BLUHemingway, Ernest
Summary: Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.361 FRALassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASWhite, Edmund
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 944.36 WHIGopnik, Adam.
Summary: Adam Gopnik compares and contrasts living in Paris in the latter half of the twentieth century while he and his his wife raised their family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 GOPGopnik, Adam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 944 GOPGreen, Julien
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marion Boyars 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREEN, JULIEN GREJefferson, Thomas
Summary: HIST Thomas Jefferson, best known as the author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and as our third president, was an extraordinarily accomplished man with wide-ranging interests. From 1784 to 1789, he was America's envoy to France, during which time he also traveled widely on the European continent. From his extensive writings during these years, editors Wilson and Stanton (both with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 JEFLeland, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 LELHemingway, Ernest
Summary: Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the 1920's. It is a literary feast that includes tender memories of his first wife, Hadley and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HEMRipert, Eric.
Summary: "Before he earned his third Michelin star at his iconic restaurant, Le Bernardin, the James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef of the Year, became a regular guest judge on Bravo's Top Chef, even before he knew how to make a proper omelet, Eric Ripert was a young boy in the South of France who felt that his world had come to an end. At the age of five, his parents went through a bitter divorce....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIPERT, ERIC RIPSmith, Kathryn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720.92 SMIRoe, Sue
Summary: When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 ROEWilliams, Beatriz
Summary: "1914. When war breaks out, Aurelie de Courcelles flees the safety of the Hotel Ritz and her American heiress mother to join her estranged father at their estate in Picardy, determined to defy the German invaders. But as the Germans push forward, taking the chateau as their headquarters, Aurelie's plans are complicated by the presence of Maximilian von Sternburg, once a friend, now aide-de-camp...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WILMayes, Frances
Summary: "A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on "home," from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022