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  • Left Bank

    Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940–50

    by Agnès Poirier ...
    An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of ParisIn this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately triumphant eras, Agnes Poirier unspools the stories of the poets, writers, painters, and philosophers ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Sleeping with the Enemy

    Coco Chanel's Secret War

    by Hal Vaughan ...
    “From this century, in France, three names will remain: de Gaulle, Picasso, and Chanel.” –André MalrauxCoco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture.She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their bone corsets and cut their hair. She used ordinary jersey as couture fabric, elevated ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Death in the City of Light

    The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

    by David King ...
    The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris.As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Hotel on Place Vendôme

    Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris

    by Tilar J. Mazzeo ...
    A captivating history of Paris's famous Hôtel Ritz, set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of WWII, from the New York Times –bestselling author.When France fell to the Germans in June 1940, the legendary Hôtel Ritz on the Place Vendôme—an icon of Paris frequented by film stars and celebrity writers, American heiresses and risqué flappers, playboys, and princes—was the only luxury hotel ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Paris Went Dark

    The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940–1944

    by Ronald C. Rosbottom ...
    The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II." When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 resonated eerily with 2017 America. . . . This book is a compelling, sobering warning about the dangers of complacency in the face of intolerance."―Celeste Ng, Wall Street JournalOn June fourteen, 1940, ... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Les Parisiennes

    Resistance, Collaboration, and the Women of Paris Under Nazi Occupation

    by Anne Sebba ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author explores WWII Paris history and tells the stories of how women survived—or didn't—during the Nazi occupation.Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Mademoiselle

    Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

    by Rhonda K. Garelick ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERCertain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical moments, that they illuminate cultural forces far beyond the scope of a single person. Such is the case with Coco Chanel, whose life offers one of the most fascinating tales of the twentieth century—throwing into dramatic relief an era of war, fashion, ardent nationalism, and earth-shaking change ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Looking for The Stranger

    Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    A New York Times Notable Book. A literary exploration that is "surely destined to become the quintessential companion to Camus's most enduring novel" ( PopMatters).The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as likely ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

    Revised Edition

    by Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper ...
    **"A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill."--Sunday TelegraphFrom Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem**In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the ... Read more

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  • Villa Air-Bel

    World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille

    by Rosemary Sullivan ...
    "Rosemary Sullivan goes beyond the confines of Air-Bel to tell a fuller story of France during the tense years from 1933 to 1941. . . . A moving tale of great sacrifice in tumultuous times." — Publishers WeeklyParis 1940. Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupery, and scores of other cultural elite denounced as enemies of the conquering Third Reich, live in daily fear of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Albert Camus

    A Life

    by Olivier Todd ...
    Translated by Benjamin Ivry ...
    Drawing on personal correspondence, notebooks, and public records never before tapped, as well as interviews with Camus's family, friends, fellow workers, writers, mentors, and lovers, here is the enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly researched biography of the Nobel Prize winning author.Todd shows us a Camus who struggled all his life with irreconcilable conflicts—between his loyalty to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Chagall

    by Victoria Charles ...
    Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did not stop Chagall from later joining that famous school founded by the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and directed by Nicholas Roerich. Chagall moved to Paris in 1910. The city was ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus