Mayle, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYBerry, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BERJanes, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANPears, Iain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEABarr, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5973 BARGoldis, Jaclyn
Summary: "A girls trip to a luxurious French chateau turns from dream vacation to nightmare"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLGaynor, Hazel
Summary: "Keynote Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly's whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d'Azur in this page-turning novel of passion, fate, and second-chances"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAYRademacher, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RADSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOMayle, 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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 944.9 MAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel MayleLongworth, M. L. (Mary Lou)
Summary: "Antoine Verlaque, examining magistrate for the beautiful town of Aix-en-Provence, doesn't like Christmas. The decorations appear in the shops far too early, festive tourists swarm the streets, and his beloved Cours Mirabeau is lined with chalets selling what he regards as tacky trinkets. But his wife and partner Marine Bonnet is determined to make this a Christmas they can both enjoy,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Longworth 2021Longworth, M. L. (Mary Lou)
Summary: "Something strange has happened at the unassuming Mus©♭e de Quentin-Savary in Aix-en-Provence. When the director, Monsieur Achille Formentin, walks in one beautiful April morning, he is shocked to find the whole museum emptied of its contents -- only a bench, the reception desk, and a lowly fern remain. Distressed, he calls the local police, and Aix's examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque sets...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Longworth 2021Ifans, Rachel
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.49 PROLawrenson, Deborah
Summary: Interweaving three narratives, a story of love, mystery, and murder during World War II follows three courageous women--an award-winning British landscape designer, a young, blind perfumer's apprentice, and a junior British intelligence officer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWVreeland, Susan.
Summary: In 1937, young Lisette Roux and her husband, Andre, move from Paris to a village in Provence to care for Andre's grandfather Pascal. Lisette regrets having to give up her dream of becoming a gallery apprentice and longs for the comforts and sophistication of Paris.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Vreeland 2014Vreeland, Susan.
Summary: "A young Parisian woman is exiled to Provence to take care of her husband's ailing grandfather during the Vichy regime, but discovers that despite the horrors of war, the paintings of Cezanne, Pisarro, Chagall, and Picasso bring to life the landscape around her and allow her once again to experience love"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Vreeland 2014Durrell, Lawrence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.9 DURSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV YEAMayle, Peter.
Summary: "The beloved author at his effervescent best: his master sleuth, Sam Levitt, eating, drinking, and romancing his way through the South of France-even as he investigates a case of deadly intrigue among the Riviera's jet set. Billionaire Francis Reboul istaking in the view at his coastal estate, awaiting the arrival of vacationing friends Sam Levitt and Elena Morales, when he spies a massive...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYAdler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADLFriedman, Aimee
Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Aimee Friedman comes an inventive novel about fate, family secrets, and new love, told in split narrative. In this absorbing new novel, Summer makes a choice that changes the whole course of the season ahead of her. When her story divides, Summer finds herself alternately face to face with a longtime crush and worlds away. She is both living amid secrets...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Audiobooks 2016
View online at Hoopla
Gagne, Peter J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quintin Publications 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3714 GAGKellogg, Marne Davis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELViva, Frank
Summary: During the course of a day spent with Grampa, Owen learns silly dances to fight the urge to pee.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023