City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
By: Rupert Christiansen
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting …
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1. The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
By: Ross King
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a sem… read more
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- art history
- history
- 19th century
- france
- nonfiction
2. The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
By: Elaine Sciolino
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Bestseller "Sciolino’s sharply observed account serves as a testament to…Paris―th… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- france
- history
3. The Dark Vineyard (Bruno, Chief of Police, #2)
By: Martin Walker
3.97
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
Bruno Courrèges, chef de la police municipale, est réveillé au milieu de la nuit: un incendie s'est… read more
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- france
4. Fatal Pursuit (Bruno, Chief of Police, #9)
By: Martin Walker
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
A pair of murders, a romance and rivals in pursuit of a long-lost vintage car of unfathomable value… read more
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- france
5. Coriolanus
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.30
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Shakespeare's last tragedy explores the career and death of a brilliant and arrogant Roman general.… read more
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6. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
By: Michael Pollan
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A DEFINITIVE COMPENDIUM OF FOOD WISDOM Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of eve… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Other Paris
By: None
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A trip through Paris as it will never be again-dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemi… read more
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- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- france
- urbanism
8. Saint-Germain-des-Pres: Paris's Rebel Quarter
By: John Baxter
3.51
Format: 235 pages, ebook
From the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the Worldcomes this first book in an exci… read more
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9. Murder in Belleville (Aimee Leduc Investigations, #2)
By: Cara Black
3.50
Format: 24 pages,
Parisian P.I. Aimee Leduc finds herself involved with a secretive North African radical group the F… read more
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10. How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
By: Joan DeJean
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet… read more
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11. Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
By: Alison Weir
3.88
Format: 192 pages,
Combining the pace and descriptive quality of a novel with the authority of a textbook, Alison Weir… read more
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12. The Streets of Paris: A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History
By: Susan Cahill , None
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Parisis Susan Cahill's wonderfully uniqu… read more
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13. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
By: Patrik Svensson
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scie… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir
By: Wendy Mitchell
4.37
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Wendy Mitchell had a busy job with the British National Health Service, raised her two daughters al… read more
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- nonfiction
"We see, too, how Christopher is at a stage in his disease where he can't remember the word for moon, but it doesn't matter, he knows it's something beautiful in the sky, isn't that enough?"-Wendy Mitchell, Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir
15. Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
By: Ken Follett
3.86
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civil… read more
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- architecture
- nonfiction
- france
- history
"I'm not a religious believer, yet despite that I go to church. I love the architecture, the music, the words of the Bible, and the sense of sharing something profound with other people. I have long f…"-Ken Follett, Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
16. Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
By: Agnès Poirier
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collabora… read more
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- france
- history
17. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
By: Kerry Howley
3.81
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
18. The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
By: James Gardner
3.88
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
Some nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incompa… read more
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- france
19. City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
By: Rupert Christiansen
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting … read more
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- 19th century
- travel
- nonfiction
- france
- urbanism
- cities
20. Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris
By: Mary McAuliffe
3.93
Format: 328 pages, ebook
Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and … read more
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21. Sacred Paris: A Guide to the Churches, Synagogues, and the Grand Mosque in the City of Light
By: Susan Cahill
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris and The Streets of Paris comes a beautifully illustrated… read more
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- history
- travel
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