Product Description: Near the end of his second term as president of France, François Mitterrand decided to talk openly about his life, both personal and political. President for fourteen years, longer than anyone else in the history of the French Republic, Mitterrand was interested not in constructing an elaborate memorial to himself in words but in leaving behind a living testament...read more

Traces the events and inspirations in the childhood life of Olivier Baussan, the founder of the renowed French fragrance company, discussing his early work in an abandoned still with five employees to his rise to the head of a successful international business. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: The Marquis de Sade is known variously to history as “the Divine Marquis” (the Surrealists) and “that monster author” (Napoleon)because of the daring originality and scandalous nature of much of his writing. What is less known, or virtually forgotten, is that he also possessed a dark but undeniable sense of humor...read more

A generous sample of the notorious Frenchman's correspondence culled from his twenty years' imprisonment between 1777 and 1790 reveals his opinions on such subjects as society, the body politic, and humanity and offers insight into the writer himself. (view table of contents)

The late French president and the Nobel Prize-winning author present a joint memoir that touches upon a wide variety of subjects, from literature and memory to power and politics. Reprint. NYT. PW.

One of France's most popular authors tells the story of a man in his thirties who learns he has terminal cancer--a revelation that exposes the flimsiness of his closest relationships and causes him to revolt against his former life.

A man who rowed eight thousand miles across the Pacific describes his harrowing journey, battling currents that moved him backward, cyclones with one hundred mph winds, and waves that capsized his boat

A man who rowed eight thousand miles across the Pacific describes his harrowing journey, battling currents that moved him backward, cyclones with one hundred mph winds, and waves that capsized his boat.

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Leif, orphaned son of a Viking seafarer, joins Columbus and his crew on the voyage to the New World, only to discover the cruelty of European explorers and to be captured by natives, in a beautifully illustrated, provocative account of the voyage.

Lol Stein's comfortable married life is disrupted when she returns to her hometown and recalls how she was abandoned by a former fiance