Alison Anderson

Jean-Philippe Blondel

Exposed

Leïla Marouane

Tells the story of Basile Tocquard, a wealthy and handsome Parisian bank manager, who tries to balance his past in Algeria as a devout follower of Islam to his new life living in a trendy neighborhood in Paris.

The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris

A Novel

The Summer Guest

Akira Mizubayashi

Broken Soul

Hélène Grémillon

Following her mother's death in 1975 Paris, Camille begins receiving letters from a stranger who relates how his first love acted as a surrogate for a couple in France before the war, revealing to Camille a previously unknown family history.

The Confidant

Laurence Cossé

A Novel Bookstore

(The Cartographer’s War Book 1)

The Spring Maiden

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

A collection of eight short stories in which Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. G. Le Clézio examines a longing for life outside of the confines of modern existence.

Mondo and Other Stories

Pascale Pujol

Little Culinary Triumphs

This volume weaves together the literature on the media and the environment into an integrated cultural studies text. The author re-examines the concept of culture using the environment as a case study.

Media, Culture and the Environment

Steven Miles

Kevin Meethan

R Steven Miles

In a world undergoing rapid change, this essential collection discusses why consumption has become so important, and what role, if any, it plays in underpinning social, economic and political transformation.

Markets and Meanings

The Changing Consumer

When a near shipwreck strands a young couple on an uncharted island in the Pacific, they encounter a mysterious woman who may or may not be the legendary aviator Amelia Earhart but who has been stranded on the reomote strip of land for more than forty yea

Hidden Latitudes

Alice Zeniter

Alice and Mad, friends since childhood, decide to marry when Mad is threatened with deportation.

Take this Man

Christian Bobin

Childhood, the pleasures of reading, loss, and joy are among the subjects featured in this collection of nine essays. In the fusing of memoir, short story, and reflective essay genres along with the spiritual exposé of modern life, this meditative prose examines spirituality and living mindfully.

Lyric Essays

A Little Party Dress

To this day, Emily Dickinson remains a beloved and enigmatic figure in American poetry. This “lady in white,” who shut herself away from the world and found solace alone with her words, has since her death been viewed primarily through the lens of her poetry, which afforded her beauty and hope amid the agony and loneliness of her life. As a reclusive writer himself, contemporary French author Christian Bobin felt a kindred tie to the poetess, and his book The Lady in White honors Dickinson in the form of a brief, poetically imagined account of her life and the work that she gave the world. This fresh and personal interpretation of Dickinson’s life leaves one with an impression of knowing Dickinson both through her poetry, as recalled by Bobin, and as he senses the person she was through her work and the sparse facts we have about her life.

Alison Anderson

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