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A New York Times Bestseller -- In 2009, bestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris. With no classes to teach, no meetings to attend, no lawn to mow, Eloisa revels in the ordinary pleasures of life. Paris in Love invites the reader into the life of a most enchanting family, framed by la ville de l'amour.

Product Description: 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 through her pavé au poivre, the steak's pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper sauce? Lunch in Paris is a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs—one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine...read more

Of the many books about the American experience of Paris, Laurie Graham's In Other Words is noteworthy not only for its elegance and charm, but for its depiction of how a place gains meaning when viewed through the prism of language. When Graham bought her apartment in Paris, she saw the tiny pied-à-terre as an extension of her love for the French language, a physical place that would make the language real. In this series of six related essays, Graham takes the reader on an intimate tour of her Paris. With humor and a lively eye for detail, she describes her search for just the right apartment and, later, her anxieties about the building's soundness; her encounters with her very French neighbors; her thoughts on fitting in ; and, most alarming, her husband's emergency trip in the wee hours of the morning to Cochin Hospital, as he lay delirious and coughing up blood. But never far from the story is the joy to be found in words. Woven into her tales of Paris is a fascinating and lighthearted rendering of the sounds, the vocabulary, and the structures of the French language that will delight both students of language and the Francophile general reader. Laurie Graham was an editor at Scribner's for eighteen years and is the author of Rebuilding the House, a New York Times Notable Book, and Singing the City: The Bonds of Home in an Industrial Landscape. In this new book, she shows us a way to look at Paris and language that sheds new light on why so many of us love this great city and the pleasure to be found in living in other words. The book contains 12 drawings.

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