From France With Love

Author : Nadine Williams
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143008498
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From France with Love written by Nadine Williams and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two failed marriages, she has sworn never to succumb to another man's charms. He is grief-stricken after the death of his wife of forty-odd years. So Nadine and Olivier are both unprepared when their friendshup unexpectedly blossoms into love. Nadine is Australian born and bred, Olivier is very French, yet in spite of all their differences and defences, they find a precious intimacy they want to build on. But can their love survive a road trip around France when the dream holiday becomes a harrowing test of wills and cultural clashes? From France with Love is an endearing yet honest, fiery account of the bittersweet experience of finding love in mid-life. This romantic true tale proves that what matters is the journey, not the destination.

Author : Mary Harrod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857726668
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From France With Love written by Mary Harrod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love stories have always been at the heart of French cinema, but romantic comedies have, until recently, been absent from it. In 2001, the global success of Amelie catalysed a major development in the Western world's second-largest film industry: the appropriation of the 'Hollywood' romantic comedy genre (or Rom-Com a l'Americaine). In From France with Love, Mary Harrod explores this contemporary phenomenon, examining both local hits and films with international status. Using socio-cultural data, box-office figures and analysis of critical reception, she reveals the ways in which these films mirror shifting attitudes towards gender roles within French society, as well as the increasingly important interrelation between French national cinema and transnational filmmaking paradigms.

Author : Stefania Rousselle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143134531
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amour written by Stefania Rousselle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning journalist and filmmaker Stefania Rousselle, a stunning collection of photographs and essays that seek to understand the universality of love Journalist and filmmaker Stefania Rousselle found herself overwhelmed and dejected with the horrors of the news after covering terrorist attacks, human trafficking, and the rise of extremism. To renew her faith in humanity, she took off on a solo road trip across France, determined to see if love still exists. Traveling from village to village, farming towns to industrial cities, heart to heart, Rousselle sought out ordinary women and men, all to ask them one question, What is love? Collecting more than 90 personal testimonies, each one moving and beautiful in its own way, alongside over 100 intimate photographs, Rousselle reveals the many facets of love, and discovers that love can still be found even in the darkest of places. From a baker in Normandy to a shepherd in the Pyrenees, from a tree trimmer in Martinique to a mail woman in the Alps, Amour is a visual testament to love in all its many forms.

Author : Nadine Williams
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742283985
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From France with Love written by Nadine Williams and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two failed marriages, she has sworn never to succumb to another man's charms. He is grief-stricken after the death of his wife of forty-odd years. So Nadine and Olivier are both unprepared when their friendshup unexpectedly blossoms into love. Nadine is Australian born and bred, Olivier is very French, yet in spite of all their differences and defences, they find a precious intimacy they want to build on. But can their love survive a road trip around France when the dream holiday becomes a harrowing test of wills and cultural clashes? From France with Love is an endearing yet honest, fiery account of the bittersweet experience of finding love in mid-life. This romantic true tale proves that what matters is the journey, not the destination.

Author : Stephen Harding
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306922142
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape from Paris written by Stephen Harding and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thrilling wartime adventure tells the true story of the downed American aviators who were rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden under the very noses of the Gestapo. Escape from Paris is the true story of a small group of U.S. aviators whose four B-17 Flying Fortresses were shot down over German-occupied France on a single, fateful day: July 14, 1943, Bastille Day. They were rescued by brave French civilians and taken to Paris for eventual escape out of France. In the French capital, where German troops walked on every street and Gestapo agents hid around every corner, the flyers met a brave Parisian resistance family living and working in the Hôtel des Invalides, a complex of buildings and military memorials, where Nazi officials had set up offices. Hidden in the complex the Americans, along with dozens of other downed Allied pilots and resistance operatives, hatched daring escape plots. The danger of discovery by the Nazis grew every day, as did an unlikely romance when one of the American airmen begins a star-crossed wartime romance with the twenty-two-year old daughter of the family sheltering him—a noir tale of war, courage and desperation in the shadows of the City of Light. Based on official American, French, and German documents, histories, personal memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's key participants, Escape from Paris crosses the traditional lines of World War II history with tense drama of air combat over Europe, the intrigue of occupied Paris, and courageous American and Allied pilots and French resistance fighters pitted against Nazi thugs. All of this set in one of the world's most beautiful and captivating cities.

Author : Lauren Collins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014311073X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When in French written by Lauren Collins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier—a surprising turn of events for someone who didn’t have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love someone in a second language? Collins wonders, as her relationship with Olivier continues to grow entirely in English. Are there things she doesn’t understand about Olivier, having never spoken to him in his native tongue? Does “I love you” even mean the same thing as “je t’aime”? When the couple, newly married, relocates to Francophone Geneva, Collins—fearful of one day becoming "a Borat of a mother" who doesn’t understand her own kids—decides to answer her questions for herself by learning French. When in French is a laugh-out-loud funny and surprising memoir about the lengths we go to for love, as well as an exploration across culture and history into how we learn languages—and what they say about who we are. Collins grapples with the complexities of the French language, enduring excruciating role-playing games with her classmates at a Swiss language school and accidently telling her mother-in-law that she’s given birth to a coffee machine. In learning French, Collins must wrestle with the very nature of French identity and society—which, it turns out, is a far cry from life back home in North Carolina. Plumbing the mysterious depths of humanity’s many forms of language, Collins describes with great style and wicked humor the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of learning—and living in—French.

Author : Jamie Cat Callan
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806534966
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Women Don't Sleep Alone: written by Jamie Cat Callan and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Parisian Charm School and Bonjour, Happiness! shares the secrets French women have long known about love and romance. French women know that the gift for attracting men has nothing to do with beauty, dating, or following the rules. They don't listen to Dr. Phil's advice. They don't worry about the care and feeding of their boyfriend. And they certainly don't think men are from Mars. On the contrary, French women's love lives are romantic, sensual, playful, and intense. They conduct their relationships with the same originality and artfulness that they bring to their sense of style. And American women could learn a thing or two from their example. For the first time ever, Jamie Cat Callan gives readers a personalized, guided tour through the corridors of French love. In these pages, you will discover: Why French women always feel sexy The French art of flirtation Why French women walk everywhere and love to be seen Where French women meet men What French women do when their man misbehaves And a delicious recipe for the perfect, amorous meal! "Adorable!"—Erica Jong, New York Times bestselling author of Fear of Flying and Fear of Fifty

Author : Camille Cusumano
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580051156
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France, A Love Story written by Camille Cusumano and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of tales by women who fell in love with the European nation presents the culture, language, history, art, and character of France through the eyes of Americans who were drawn across the Atlantic to Paris. Original.

Author : Debra Ollivier
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101133740
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What French Women Know written by Debra Ollivier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Los Angeles Times bestseller! "A Gallic prescription for living a life that is richer, more sensual, messier, and a lot more fun" (Boston Globe) It's not the shoes, the scarves, or the lipstick that gives French women their allure. It's this: French women don't give a damn. They don't expect men to understand them. They don't care about being liked or being like everyone else. They accept the passage of time, celebrate the immediacy of pleasure, embrace ambiguity and imperfection, and prefer having a life to making a living. In What French Women Know, Debra Ollivier goes beyond stale ooh- la-la stereotypes, challenging ingrained notions about sex, love, marriage, motherhood, and everything in between. With savvy, provocative thinking from French mistresses and maidens alike, Ollivier presents a refreshing counterpoint to the tired love dogma of our times, and offers realistic, liberating alternatives from the land that knows how to love.

Author : Kristin Espinasse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743287290
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words in a French Life written by Kristin Espinasse and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the popular blog (French-word-a-day.com) and newsletter comes a heart-winning collection from an American woman raising two "very" French children with her French husband in Provence, and carrying on a lifelong love affair with the language.