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Identical strangers Identical strangers Paula Bernstein,Elyse Schein,Paula Bernstein Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. When Elyse contacted her adoption agency, she wa… OL12275816W
Parisians Parisians Graham Robb This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near… OL15409576W
Paris was ours Paris was ours Penelope Rowlands Paris is “the world capital of memory and desire,” concludes one of the writers in this intimate and insightful collection of memoirs of the city. Living in Paris changed these writers forever. In… OL15571584W
Mastering the Art of French Eating Mastering the Art of French Eating Ann Mah When journalist Ann Mah’s diplomat husband is given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann is overjoyed. A lifelong foodie and Francophile, she immediately begins plotting gastronomic adventures à deu… OL16809765W
Breathless Breathless Nancy K. Miller "In the early 1960s, most middle-class American women in their twenties had their lives laid out for them: marriage, children, and life in the suburbs. Most, but not all. Breathless is the story of a… OL17896676W
Lunch in Paris Lunch in Paris Elizabeth Bard "Tells the story of falling in love with a Frenchman and moving to the world's most romantic city. Elizabeth Bard finds that learning to cook and building a new life have a lot in common."--Publisher… OL18706484W
L'appart L'appart David Lebovitz "A chef buys an apartment in Paris and endures the headaches and excitement of renovating his own corner of paradise in the City of Light"-- "Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovit… OL19726352W
The only street in Paris The only street in Paris Elaine Sciolino The former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs," Sciolino explains, as she makes readers hungry … OL20025090W
Parisiennes Parisiennes Anne Sebba xxxiv, 451 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm OL21102121W
Return to Paris Return to Paris Colette Rossant 1947 and Paris is recovering from the war. Abandoned by her mother, lonely, frightened and terribly homesick, Colette finds solace in her love for French food, roasted lamb stuffed with garlic, sprin… OL21180792W
Lunch in Paris Lunch in Paris Elizabeth Bard In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman--and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly throug… OL4243327W
Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution Deborah Kennedy "Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) had a long and prolific career as a writer: she was a celebrated British poet, an influential translator of works of French literature and history, and an important … OL6214994W
Idiots in Paris Idiots in Paris Bennett, John G. xii, 145 p. ; 22 cm OL94576W