“In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January’s frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.”
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1 US winner will receive a softcover
in very good condition
Paris, 1940.
The City of Light has fallen under German occupation.
Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz has become a bold act of defiance.
So has forbidden love for spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts,
and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion.
Despite their devout families’ vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Café de Flore, whose habitués include Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter.
For a time, Annette and Jean feel they have eluded the brute might of the relentless Nazis — and more immediately, their parents’ threats and demands.
But as restrictions on the Jewish community escalate to arrests and deportations, the maleficent forces gathering around the young lovers set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths.
Drawn from never-before-published family letters and other treasures, as well as archival sources and exclusive interviews, Star Crossed offers us precious insight into the Holocaust and the lives French people bravely led under the Hitler regime. This breathtaking true story of beauty, art, liberation, and the transformative power of love resonates with an intimate story of undying devotion, seen through the prism of history.
ABOUTH THE AUTHORS:
HEATHER DUNE MACADAM
is the author of the international bestseller and Pen Award Finalist 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Transport to Auschwitz,
translated into 18 languages, and the producer/director of its companion documentary film, 999.
Her first book was the bestselling memoir Rena’s Promise: A Story of Sister in Auschwitz.
Click on the picture to check Heather Dune’s other books and her documentary:
SIMON WORRALL
a Francophile since his Parisian childhood, Simon is fluent in French and German,
and is the author of the highly acclaimed books, The Poet and the Murderer and the novelized true story of his mother in World War II, The Very White of Love.
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Joie de Vivre:
Secrets of Wining, Dining,
and Romancing Like the French
by
Harriet WeltyRochefort
Nonfiction
US publication: 2012
by Thomas Dunne Books
320 pages
An engaging exploration of the style that permeates all things French―perfect for anyone looking to achieve that classic French flair
For Harriet Welty Rochefort, an American who has lived in France for many years with her very French husband, it’s clear that the French truly are singular in the way they live, act, and think―from the lightness of their pastries to the refinement of their Hermes scarves. They simply exude a certain je ne sais quoi that is a veritable art form.
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in new condition
July 18, 2024
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