In the celebrated author's first mystery novel, Inspector Bencolin must unravel a dumbfounding locked-room mystery and apprehend a sadistic killer.In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Benc
From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American literary response. An almost inevitable destination for writers and thinkers, Paris has been many things
In this stimulating nonfiction book, readers will discover the various types of friction--including rolling friction, sliding friction, fluid friction, and static friction--and the huge impacts it has
Madame X, John Singer Sargent's most famous and scandalous portrait, caused an immediate furor when Sargent unveiled it at the 1884 Paris Salon. The subject's bold pose, provocative dress, and decaden
A Paperback Original―Also Available in a Hardcover Library EditionFrom Kirsty Manning, author of The Song of the Jade Lily, comes a gripping World War II set historical novel about murder, secrets, an
Marguerite Gautier, the greatest beauty in Paris, had many lovers but never truly loveduntil she met Armand Duval. What happens to a cool, calculating beauty when she herself suffers the wound of love
Sixty years ago, no one had traveled beyond planet Earth. But two enemies were competing in a race to space. Discover the exciting story that leads from WWII, through the Cold War, and, at last, to th
After World War I, many African Americans found a welcoming home in Paris while the fight for civil rights continued in the United States. African American soldiers, writers, performers, and activists
For sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to Gourmet. At once unique and universal, these essays by Joseph Wechsberg, Naomi Barry, and Diane Johnson, among others,
In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas recreates, using a bibliographical approach, the manner in which Spain was regarded in Europe in the Eighteenth centu
The Murthly Hours consists of two parts: a book of hours of the end of the thirteenth century preceded by twenty-three slightly earlier miniatures of Old and New Testament scenes surviving from anothe
