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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Embarking on an affair with Dom, a wealthy older man she barely knows, and beginning a new life with him in Provence, Eve becomes obsessed with finding out why Dom refuses to talk about his previous marriage--and what happened to his beautiful ex-wife.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Zeeta and her itinerant mother move to Aix-en-Provence, France, Zeeta is haunted by a mysterious admirer who keeps leaving mementoes for her, and when her Ecuadorian boyfriend comes to visit, their relationship seems to have changed.
3) Two summers
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Two possible futures face Summer: either she will spend the summer in Provence with her father, uncovering family secrets, and exploring the old world, or she will stay in upstate New York, coping with her mother, and dreaming of her long time crush--and which future unfolds will depend on whether or not she answers a phone call.
4) Ysabel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Saint-Saveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence is an ancient structure of many secrets-a perfect monument to fill the lens of a celebrated photographer, and a perfect place for the photographer's son, Ned Marriner, to lose himself while his father works. But the cathedral isn't the empty edifice it appears to be. Its history is very much alive in the present day-and it's calling out to Ned."--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
With his national bestsellers A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle gave new meaning to the phrase "great escape." Now he has written a delightful novel of romance, adventure, and tongue-in-cheek suspense, set in the beguiling French region he has staked out as his own.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A pair of expatriate couples find their new home in Provence challenged by pharmaceutical salesman Richard's womanizing and promotion of antidepressants in Africa, where idealistic Rachel hopes to adopt a second child. By the award-winning author of Becoming Strangers.
7) A dog's life
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
All about a dog named Boy. He recounts his days as a bachelor, his contempt for hunters, his love--after a fashion--for chickens, his amorous interludes and his run-ins with plumbers and other human annoyances. By the author of Toujours Provence, with drawings by Edward Koren.
Author
Publisher
Compass
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Provence: the annual pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries of gypsies from all over Europe. The Duc de Croytor, distinguished folklorist, is there and so is Englishman Neil Bowman. But there is something different about this year's pilgrimage. A small group of gypsies have something they are determined to hide, and Bowman soon learns that curiosity is highly dangerous. From the terror of murder during the Provencal cours-libre in the bullring to an exciting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Pursuit in Provence is Jordan Mayfair's debut as an amateur sleuth finding her way through a labyrinth of art rock-and-roll -- and murder -- against the captivating backdrop of Provence"--
American architect Jordan Mayfair traveled to Provence with visions of Roman ruins bathed in magical Provenc̨al light, exquisite foods and wines, and possibly an alluring Frenchmen. Then her suitcase vanished, and a hit-and-run hit too close for comfort. Now...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A museum director walks into work one morning to discover that the entire collection of porcelain, old documents, and paintings is gone. He calls the local police, and examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque sets out to learn the thief's identity. Verlaque wonders if this could have something to do with the recent robbery of Madame de Montbarbon's apartment. He is distracted by the impending of birth of his first child with his wife, Marine Bonnet....
11) A good year
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The writer with a claim to being the world's foremost literary escape artist is back, with an intoxicating novel about the business and pleasure of wine, set in his beloved Provence. Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncle's vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta is not surprised that the majority of the considerable family money will pass to her dutiful younger brother, Wal. Still, she is left a modest remembrance from her mother, and for the first time Tempèsta has a world of choices...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Introducing a seductive new mystery series set in Provence-featuring chief magistrate Antoine Verlaque. Set in charming and historic Aix-en-Provence, France, Death at the Château Bremont introduces readers to Antoine Verlaque, the handsome and seductive chief magistrate of Aix, and his on-again, off- again love interest, law professor Marine Bonnet. When local nobleman Etienne de Bremont falls to his death from the family château, the town is abuzz...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"It's love at first sight when Penelope Kite sees Le Chant d'Eau--The Song of Water--the stone farmhouse tucked high in the hills above the Luberon valley, complete with a garden, swimming pool, and sweeping mountain vistas. For years, Penelope put her unfaithful ex-husband and her ungrateful stepchildren first. Since taking early retirement from her job in forensics at the Home Office in England, she's been an unpaid babysitter and chauffeur for...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A girls trip to a luxurious French chateau turns from dream vacation to nightmare"--
Welcome to Provence, where the Lady of the Chateau, Séraphine Demargelasse, has opened its elegant doors to her granddaughter Darcy and three friends. Twenty years earlier, the four girlfriends studied abroad together in France and visited the old woman on the weekends, creating the group's deep bond. Amid winery tours, market visits, and fancy dinners, it becomes...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Book
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ilse Lund is a translator who lives in a beach house on stilts set on off the west coast of Greenland. Restless from the predictability of life in her isolated world circumscribed by the sea, Ilse convinces her publisher to pay for a trip to the country whose language she translates but has never visited--France. Her mission: to translate the verses of an elderly Provençal poet. Settling into the poet's medieval village of Beau Riviere, Ilse falls...
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