French Art

When Peggy Gimmel decides to sell the apartment she bought decades ago for a few thousand dollars, she’s thrilled to discover that it’s worth almost $2 million. But her sudden windfall triggers a cascade of unexpected events and plunges her into the dizzying orbit of Lucinda Wells, one of...

Historical fiction of the highest order, The Queen’s Lover reveals the untold love affair between Swedish aristocrat Count Axel Von Fersen and Marie Antoinette The Queen’s Lover begins at a masquerade ball in Paris in 1774, when the dashing Swedish nobleman Count Axel Von Fersen first...

Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the northern Minnesota woods with his father on a cold November afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter-mile apart, they wait with their rifles for white-tailed deer...

In this exquisite debut novel, a host of characters confront their confusions in love. Claire, an art specialist at Sotheby's, lives in a world of glamour and achievement–but after attending an art opening, where she runs into the young man her husband had left her for five years earlier, she...

A vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the artist at the center of the movement, Claude and Camille is above all a love story of the highest romantic order. In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult...

Aubrey Wallace is the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind of woman no one can ignore. One afternoon, they both disappear from the small Vermont town where they live. The next day, two hundred miles away, a toddler is snatched from her Massachusetts home. For the next five years...

At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general’s mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments...

The award-winning international sensation that poses the question: Was Sigmund Freud responsible for the death of his sister in a Nazi concentration camp? The boy in her memories who strokes her with the apple, who whispers to her the fairy tale, who gives her the knife, is her brother Sigmund...

Many writers have highlighted South Florida's colorful characters, but John Deal is a remarkably normal man, put in extraordinary situations. Deal has spent much of his adult life trying to rebuild the Miami construction firm that his late father ruined. Cuba has just normalized relations with...

After the death of his mother, Albert "Shoe" Horn is left to provide for his alcoholic father and look after his younger brother Bobby—a teenager with the mind of a child. After Shoe inadvertently kills a man in a fight, he must try to balance the need to protect his brother and his desire to...

Fondée en 306 av. J.-C., l'école d'Épicure – appelée aussi le Jardin –, était un véritable havre de paix et de convivialité, où l'amitié occupait une place centrale. Les enseignements de ce philosophe ont la particularité d'offrir des conseils et des remèdes précieux pour qui souhaite mener une vie sereine et épanouie. Car les maximes d'Épicure, courtes et faciles à mémoriser, nous accompagnent encore aujourd'hui et nous guident vers une existence libre et harmonieuse.

Entretenez l’amour dans votre couple. Le secret n’est pas de tomber amoureux… mais de continuer à aimer. Au fil du temps, la passion se transforme, le quotidien s’installe, les défis s’accumulent… et pourtant, une relation de couple peut continuer à s’épanouir, à grandir, à émerveiller.

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...

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...

Omerta, chasse aux sorcières et calomnie...Qui donc organise la censure par le silence, promeut de mauvais livres par la connivence idéologique, organise la désinformation par le discrédit ?

Julia Childs's TV show, The French Chef, was extraordinarily popular during its broadcast from 1963 until 1973. Child became a cultural icon in the 1960s, and, in the years since, she and her show have remained enduring influences on American cooking, American television, and American culture. In this concise book, Dana Polan considers what made Childs program such a success. It was not the first televised cooking show, but it did define and popularize the genre. Polan examines the development of the show, its day-to-day production, and its critical and fan reception.

Un ouvrage fondamental sur l'amour et la sexualité : tous les conseils de Brigitte Lahaie pour mieux s'aimer. Forte de ses expériences personnelles et des milliers d'auditeurs qu'elle écoute chaque jour avec bienveillance, Brigitte Lahaie propose ici un véritable art d'aimer, afin que le sexe ne soit plus seulement considéré comme une performance ou un devoir conjugal, et que cessent les tabous.

La série à succès de Netflix décryptée par 4 spécialistes du fact checking. Au cœur des années 60, la quête d'une jeune orpheline prodige des échecs pour devenir championne du monde. Beth Harmon, l'héroïne de la série, n'a rien au départ pour atteindre le grade élevé de "Grand Maître". Orpheline - son père l'a abandonnée et sa mère s'est suicidée -, elle grandit dans un pensionnat où l'on apprend plus à devenir une bonne épouse qu'une femme émancipée. Beth montre cependant des belles dispositions pour les mathématiques.

Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent - a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of acting is alive and well. Scores of French actresses are doing the best work of their lives in movies tailored to their star images and unique personalities. Yet virtually no one this side of the Atlantic even knows about them. Viewers who feel shortchanged by Hollywood will be thrilled to discover The Beauty of the Real.

Greg Dean vit sur la scène du stand-up depuis 1977. Il a participé à de nombreuses émissions de télévision, notamment Saturday Night Live et Parade of Stars. Il est un habitué rémunéré du Hollywood Comedy Store et son nom figure sur leur prestigieux Wall of Fame. Bien qu'il se soit retiré de la scène après avoir guéri d'un cancer en 2005, il continue à donner des cours dans son école, en présentiel et en ligne, et les showcases de ses élèves se font au Hollywood Improv.