Map of Another Town
By: M.F.K. Fisher
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘A glowing memoir of Provence’ New York Times M F K Fisher moved to Aix-en-Provence with her dau…
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1. The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit
By: Helena Attlee
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Land Where Lemons Grow uses the colourful past of six different kinds of Italian citrus to tell… read more
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2. Palestine
By: None , Joe Sacco
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more
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3. Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence
By: Peter Mayle
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
With his national bestsellers A Year in Provenceand Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle gave new meaning… read more
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4. Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste
By: Luke Barr
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Hardcover
Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coinci… read more
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5. A Sport and a Pastime
By: James Salter , Reynolds Price
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) desc… read more
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6. My Life in France
By: Julia Child , Alex Prud'Homme
3.96
Format: 425 pages,
In her own words, here is the story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with F… read more
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7. A Year in Provence
By: Peter Mayle
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
National Bestseller In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to r… read more
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8. In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
By: Sue Roe
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in b… read more
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9. Tender Is the Night
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.78
Format: 430 pages, Paperback
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young… read more
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"My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"The price for his intactness was incompleteness."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"New friends can often have a better time together than old friends."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
10. My Life So Far
By: Jane Fonda
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
"In the process of writing this book I discovered there were clear, broad, even universal themes th… read more
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11. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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12. The Paris Novel
By: Ruth Reichl
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more
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"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
13. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
14. A Chateau Under Siege
By: Martin Walker
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
France's favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the peop… read more
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15. Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
By: Dan McCrum
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financi… read more
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16. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.27
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more
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17. The Sicilian Inheritance
By: Jo Piazza
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted i… read more
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18. The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
By: Ben Coates
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From rowing the canals of Amsterdam to riding a cow through the Alps, via Cold War nuclear bunkers,… read more
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"All along the river, the people I spoke to were hard-working and deeply attached to the mental security blanket of having a decent house, clean car and steady job. They were relatively wealthy, but a…"-Ben Coates, The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
"Several years of living in the Netherlands had reduced my innate English prudishness somewhat, but I still suffered from a typical Englishman's angst at public nudity. Cowering between the changing r…"-Ben Coates, The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
19. The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
By: Daniel Stone
3.93
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the gl… read more
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"What would normally be good news instead laid bare a pesky side effect of innovation: greater efficiency required fewer workers, leaving rural communities with little to support themselves."-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
"He didn't know it, but America had a need for David Fairchild. The bare agricultural landscape at the beginning of his life would transform by its end into a colorful portrait: yellows from tropical …"-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
"In Naples, where pizza was invented, Fairchild tasted his first cheesy flatbread, a punishing food for first-timers, whose mouths could be scorched with hot, lavalike cheese. He was enchanted by the …"-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
"The grape, of a variety known as sultanina, would ultimately grow best in the wet and temperate soil of California. America's region most climatically similar to the Mediterranean. Fairchild's sample…"-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
20. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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21. Map of Another Town
By: M.F.K. Fisher
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘A glowing memoir of Provence’ New York Times M F K Fisher moved to Aix-en-Provence with her dau… read more
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