Local Authors

Showcasing a mix of English-language titles written by Paris-based authors.

Updated May 29, 2024
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Flâneuse : women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
Elkin, Lauren
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon....
French like moi : a Midwesterner in Paris
Carpenter, Scott Dominic
Paper Book
A Midwest Indie Bestseller! When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors, police denunciations, surly demonstrators, cooking disasters, medical mishaps--not to mention all those lectures about cheese! It turns...
La seduction : how the French play the game of life
Sciolino, Elaine.
Paper Book
The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction: its rules, its pleasures, its secrets.France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. But Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New York...
The last hours in Paris
Druart, Ruth
Paper Book
From the author of While Paris Slept comes a story of great love, betrayal, and redemption, set in WWII and 1960s France and England. "Words are power. They can bring you down, lift you up, make your heart soar, make you fall in love. Or make...
My Paris kitchen : recipes and stories
Lebovitz, David.
Paper Book
A collection of stories and 100 sweet and savory French-inspired recipes from popular food blogger David Lebovitz, reflecting the way Parisians eat today and featuring lush photography taken around Paris and in David's Parisian kitchen. In 2004, David Lebovitz packed up his most...
The new Parisienne : the women & ideas shaping Paris
Tramuta, Lindsey
Paper Book
The New Parisienne focuses on one of the city's most prominent features, its women. Lifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman-white, lithe, ever fashionable-Lindsey Tramuta demystifies this oversimplified archetype and recasts the women of Paris as they truly are, in all their...
The Paris library
Skeslien Charles, Janet
Paper Book
An instant New York Times, Washington Post, and USA TODAY bestseller--based on the true story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris during World War II--The Paris Library is a moving and unforgettable "ode to the importance of libraries, books, and...
Sarah's key
Rosnay, Tatiana de
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture! From beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay come's her celebrated novel Sarah's Key. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by...
A secret kept
Rosnay, Tatiana de
Paper Book
This stunning new novel from Tatiana de Rosnay, author of the acclaimedNew York Times bestsellerSarah's Key, plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the power of a past secret to change everything in the present. It all began with a simple seaside vacation, a...
Self-portrait in black and white : unlearning race
Williams, Thomas Chatterton
Paper Book
A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family's multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a "black" father from...

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