French Art

The best-selling Parisian guide on how to give yourself a break and find true happiness. It's time to stop giving a f--k! Be calm.... Stop stressing.... Embrace the universe.... Try yoga.... Be fulfilled...and that's an order! We hear these commands everywhere, and we often torture ourselves to 'try harder', yet somehow we never feel we've done quite enough. It's about time we stopped feeling guilty for not being perfect and instead simply allowed ourselves to be angry, tired, silly and passionate.

Did you know that over 220 million people around the world speak French? Now is the time to join them and tap into the countless opportunities that come with mastering this widely spoken language.

Every year upon arriving in Plobien, the small Breton town where he spends his summers, American writer Mark Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas-filled Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled, but not daunted (OK, slightly daunted), he faces imminent concerns: What does he cook for a French person? Who has the right-of-way when entering or exiting a roundabout? Where does he pay for a parking ticket? And most dauntingly of all, when can he touch the tomatoes?

As Paris rediscovers its joie de vivre, Tabitha Knight, recently arrived from Detroit for an extended stay with her French grandfather, is on her own journey of discovery. Thanks to her neighbor and friend Julia Child, another ex-pat who's fallen head over heels for Paris, Tabitha is learning how to cook for her Grandpere and Oncle Rafe and Tabitha's sojourn is proving thoroughly delightful. That is, until the cold December day they return to Julia's building and learn that a body has been found in the cellar.

A mesmerizing portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times best selling author of The Girls and The Guest. A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat, playing solitaire on his phone...

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home to bring news of their latest victory. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he caused to the French intelligence network in the New World and the British packet carrying them is shadowed by two American privateers. The chase that follows...

The 11th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage--the...

In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on an unlikely path. When a local landowner’s wrath threatens his family, the Spanish bow leads Feliu to anarchist Barcelona, then on to the court in Madrid, where a music master’s daughter...

“I adored The Light of Paris. It’s so lovely and big-hearted—it made me long for Paris.”—Jojo Moyes, New York Times-bestselling author of Me Before You and After You The miraculous novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Weird Sisters—a sensation beloved by...

Nina, Zoé et Pedro se préparent à vivre une année inoubliable, marquée par des défis et des découvertes. Zoé rêve de briller dans le spectacle de Casse-Noisette, tandis que la relation entre Nina et James évolue de manière inattendue. Ensemble, ils doivent composer la chorégraphie de leur vie, jonglant entre amour, amitié, danse et musique. Dans un tourbillon d'émotions et de révélations, ce trio dynamique apprend à s'adapter aux rythmes changeants de leur existence.

Nina, confrontée à des tensions avec Pedro après des révélations inattendues, doit mettre de côté ses sentiments pour soutenir leur amie commune, Zoé, lors de sa première représentation dans "Casse-Noisette". Malgré la gêne qui persiste entre Nina et Pedro, leur engagement envers Zoé les unit dans un moment de partage et de complicité. À travers le succès de Zoé sur scène et les remerciements sincères qu'elle leur adresse, Nina prend conscience de l'importance de ses amis et de la force que leur présence lui apporte.

C'est l'été, et pour Zoé et Nina, il promet d'être inoubliable. Zoé se prépare pour le prestigieux concours du Casse-Noisette aux Grands Ballets de Montréal, tandis que Nina s'apprête à vivre une aventure unique dans un camp de Gumboot. Loin de ses parents et amis, Nina devra faire face à ses peurs et découvrir sa force intérieure. Les défis de Zoé et Nina les mèneront sur des chemins inattendus, où la musique et le rythme joueront un rôle central.

In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on an unlikely path. When a local landowner’s wrath threatens his family, the Spanish bow leads Feliu to anarchist Barcelona, then on to the court in Madrid, where a music master’s daughter...

La majorité d'entre nous ne savent pas dépenser. Nous courons après des choses qui impressionnent les autres mais ne nous font pas vibrer. Ou alors nous épargnons jusqu'à plus soif sans oser nous payer ce qui nous ferait vraiment la vie plus belle. Nous confondons l'admiration avec la jalousie, le confort avec l'excès, l'utilité avec le standing.

From the acclaimed author of Corelli’s Mandolin and Birds Without Wings comes an intimate new novel, a love story at once raw and sweetly funny, wry and heartbreakingly sad. He’s Chris: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. In his forties, he’s a stranger inside the youth...

Claude Monet has been the icon for the impressionist movement. His family life wasn’t perfect, but despite all obstacles, the French genius painter has left us a legacy and a new perspective on realism and technique in their purest forms. In this guide, we’ll go over his youth, his style, his methods, his most famous paintings, and many of the reasons why he made the decisions he made.

From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film--an essential work on the preeminent, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged, and continues to forge, the landscape of modern film. Directors operate behind the scenes, managing...

Tontine is a form of gambling - part lottery, part insurance. It begins with the Day the Battle of Waterloo was fought and ends at the closing of the 19th Century...

“Bride of New France is the best piece of historical fiction I’ve read in a long time.” –Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, New Brunswick) Laure Beauséjour has grown up in a dormitory in Paris surrounded by prostitutes, the insane, and other forgotten women. Despite numerous hardships...

The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement. There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New Orleans laundromat, the rumored survivor of Hiroshima who emigrates to the tranquil coast of Western Ireland, the...