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Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, but everything changed when the sinking of the Titanic changed her family and her world forever....

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At forty years old, she has an enviable life: a successful career, stunning looks, a beautiful house in the suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband, whose wealthy background allows her to transcend her own social class....

Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse - Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron....

From entertaining with easy flair and formality to cultivating allure while living an active, modern life, this is the essential book for anyone hoping to put Parisian je ne sais quoi into her life....

An entertaining and openhearted tale of a naïf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society—at least a little.

A glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel....

Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage....

In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career....

The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world....

For the first time in Jack Aubrey's long, illustrious career, the sea brings small solace to him because of his increasing despondency over debts and troubles at home....

A witty exploration of the facts and legends surrounding some of the most popular French foods and wines by a French cheesemonger and an American academic, A Bite-Sized History of France tells the compelling and often surprising story of France from the Roman era to modern times....

For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote In Search of Lost Time (while bedridden no less), Alain de Botton has the answer....

Bernard B. Fall vividly captures the sights, sounds, and smells of the savage eight-year conflict in the jungles and mountains of Southeast Asia from 1946 to 1954....

There are a lot of different ways to learn a language—studying books, taking a class, or even watching foreign movies. But I’m an auditory learner. I have to hear and repeat the language to make it stick. And that’s what you’ll experience with this audiobook....

The Baltic War which began in the novel 1633 is still raging, and the time-lost Americans of Grantville - the West Virginia town hurled back into the seventeenth century....

It’s Bastille Day in France, and the private French space agency Galactus - France’s answer to Space X, owned by the treasure hunter Jean-Pierre Broussard - has just sent a satellite payload into orbit. Billed as a “communications” satellite, it harbors a frightening reality....

Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs....

Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin, is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service....

From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time....