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	Eyewitness Guide Paris  •   Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES Gorgeous, well illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book is a thorough overview of the City of Light, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. Featuring well chosen literary excerpts and a detailed synopsis of the city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (FRN02, $25.00)
	Paris to the Moon  •  Adam Gopnik TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 338 PAGES Gopnik writes with candor and humor about Parisian ways in this charming collection of reflections on adapting to life abroad. The chapter on French medicine and the birth of the Gopnik's new baby alone is worth the price of this book. Other notworthy essays cover Deux Magots and Le Flore (A Tale of Two Cafes) and cross-cultural encounters (Trouble at the Tower). (FRN208, $15.00)
	Paris in Mind  •  Jennifer Lee ANTHOLOGY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES With selections spanning 300 years, this wonderful anthology reflects America's long connection to Paris and the French. Each short excerpt is organized by topic -- Love, Food, Being Civilized, and Tourism -- and ranges from the humorous to the celebratory to the grim. The 30 American writers tapped include Benjamin Franklin, Ernest Hemingway and David Sedaris. (FRN412, $13.95)
	Paris Map  •   Borch Maps 2006 •  MAP A sturdy laminated map of the city center of Paris at a scale of 1:12,000 and all of Paris at a scale of 1:15,000. Two Sides. 20x26 inches. (FRN400, $8.95)

	Ile de France 514  •   Michelin    •  A colorful and detailed map of the region surrounding Paris at a scale of 1:200,000. (FRN169, $12.95)
	Blue Guide Paris  •  Delia Gray-Durant  •  Ian Robertson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  The compact, authoritative guide to Paris and Versailles, strong on art and architecture. This eleventh edition includes plenty of color photographs and a section of practical information, in addition to the usual maps and detailed floor plans. (FRN145, $29.95)
	Fodor's Paris' 25 Best  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This shirt-pocket map and guide includes essential information on the city's history, highlights and sightseeing, ideal for a short visit to the City of Light. (FRN41, $11.95)
	Lonely Planet French Phrasebook  •  Marie-Helene Girard  •  Anny Monet   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy phrasebook for French basics. This guide focuses on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (FRN120, $8.99)
	Paris Secrets  •  Janelle Mcculloch   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Both an architectural study and an insightful travel resource, this lavishly illustrated compendium captures the alleyways, bistros, patisseries, boulevards, courtyards and interiors of Paris in vivid detail. With 400 color photographs. (FRN840, $60.00)
	The Food of France  •  Waverly Root   • FOOD  •  An evocative and beautifully written survey of French food. First published in 1958 and revised in the mid-1970s, this book covers the important regions of French cuisine by dividing them into domains of Butter (northern France), Fat (Alsace), and Oil (the south). (FRN17, $18.00)
	A Propos De Paris  •  Henri Cartier-Bresson   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This handsomely produced coffee table book features 131 duotone images of Paris selected by Cartier-Bresson in honor of his 90th birthday. It's a splendid tribute to the people and life of the City of Light. (FRN132, $35.00)
	A Traveller's History of Paris  •  Robert Coles   • HISTORY  •  A fast-moving, short survey of French history with a focus on Paris from its foundation, through the heady days of revolution, and up to modern times. (FRN426, $14.95)
	French or Foe? Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France  •  Polly Platt   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  With humor, directness and great insight, this compact book is an expert and entertaining guide to the French and how to get along with them. The expanded third edition addresses France's romance with cell phones and includes a short chapter of recent vignettes. (FRN54, $16.95)
	Paris Was Yesterday  •  Janet Flanner  •  Irving Drutman   • HISTORY  •  Like many American writers in '20s and '30s, journalist Janet Flanner left the States to join the Paris intellectual scene. In characteristically masterful prose, here are her impressions of life in Paris between the wars. (FRN93, $20.95)
	Paris, Capital of the World  •  Patrice Higonnet  •  Arthur Goldhammer   • HISTORY  •  Organized thematically, this refreshing portrait of Paris from the mid-18th century to WWII explores myth and reality of the city. With a wide variety of well-chosen quotes, lyrics, literary excerpts and illustrations. (FRN541, $24.00)
	Paris, The Biography of a City  •  Colin Jones   • HISTORY  •  Jones writes with obvious affection in this entertaining, ambitious history of Paris, its architecture, culture and politics, from the late Stone Age to Jacques Chirac. (FRN502, $18.00)
	Seven Ages of Paris  •  Alistair Horne   • HISTORY  •  Horne writes with flair, drama and affection for the City of Light in this wonderfully opinionated, personal overview of the history of Paris. (FRN503, $18.00)
	The Road from the Past, Traveling through History in France  •  Ina Caro   • HISTORY  •  Time travel through France by way of its finest castles, chateaux, cathedrals and monasteries. This unusual travelogue is an invaluable companion for traveling in Paris, southern France, the Dordogne and the Loire Valley, combining personal observation with large doses of well-presented history. (FRN03, $17.00)
	Toujours Paris  •  Yann Layma   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The landmarks, streets, and people of the City of Lights are captured in 200 full-color photographs, packaged in a beautiful box to resemble a photographer's portfolio. (FRN792, $50.00)
	Artists in Residence  •  Dana Micucci   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An attractively illustrated guide to exploring the homes of 19th-century artists in and around Paris, including Giverny, Auvers and Ornans. An excellent guide for day-long excursions outside Paris with a focus on nature and art. (FRN353, $19.95)
	Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages  •  Alain Erlande-Brandenburg   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  This pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages features hundreds of drawings, color illustrations and a brief chronology. (MED07, $12.95)
	The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral  •  Robert A. Scott   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs. (EUR190, $19.95)
	The Judgment of Paris, The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism  •  Ross King   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  King's lovingly research and lucid cultural history of French art and society in the 1860s places the impressionists at the center of a revolution in philosophy and taste. (FRN575, $16.95)
	A Moveable Feast  •  Ernest Hemingway   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A treasure for anyone interested in Parisian cafe society and its luminaries circa 1925. Hemingway includes sharp portraits of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Maddox Ford and others who idled on their way to greatness. (FRN26, $15.00)
	Between Meals, An Appetite for Paris  •  A.J. Liebling   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE  •  Liebling captues with stylish prose his coming-of-age in Paris in this elegant memoir, which is also a tribute to French cuisine. (FRN32, $15.00)
	Talk to the Snail, Ten Commandments to Understanding the French  •  Stephen Clarke   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Clarke's essays on France and the French, as witty as they are useful, combines a guide to cultural understanding with some perfectly rendered, and perfectly hysterical notes on how to speak French. (FRN643, $15.95)
	The Secret Life of the Seine  •  Mort Rosenblum   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Rosenblum, a born storyteller, takes to a houseboat moored on the Seine after losing his Paris apartment. This entertaining tour of people and place is his account of his explorations along the river. (FRN48, $17.50)
	Murder in the Latin Quarter  •  Cara Black   • MYSTERY  •  The ninth installment in Black's sophisticated series featuring "adorably punkish" detective Aimee Leduc (she gets around on a pink Vespa). This time, Aimee's investigations lead her through the old university district of Paris -- its youthful energy, colorful streets, schools, museums, cafes and bookstores at the fore. (FRN772, $14.00)
	Murder in the Marais  •  Cara Black   • MYSTERY  •  Literate, thrilling and with a strong sense of the geography and flavor of Paris, this first mystery starring Aimee Ledoc shows off the French-American detective's wit and wile. (FRN561, $13.00)
	Paris Stories  •  Mavis Gallant  •  Michael Ondaatje   • LITERATURE  •  All written in Paris (where Gallant has long lived), these magnificent stories range from the Left Bank to the French Riviera, postwar Germany and Franco-era Spain. If you haven't read her (many of the stories originally appeared in the New Yorker), you are in for a treat. Gallant is one of the great 20th century short story writers. (FRN373, $15.95)
	Pere Goriot  •  Burt Raffel  •  Honore de Balzac   • LITERATURE  •  Balzac's penetrating examination of the Parisian world -- its society, its geography, its ambitions, its hypocrisies-- is still one of most compelling. (FRN365, $14.95)
	The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris  •  Edmund White   • LITERATURE  •  The gifted novelist reveals his favorite haunts in this glittering portrait of Paris and its pleasures. (FRN259, $12.99)
	Zazie in the Metro  •  Raymond Queneau   • LITERATURE  •  Raymond Queneau's delirious short novel of a country girl, her loony uncle and some disapproving gendarmes on a madcap tour of Paris. Louis Malle made it into a film in 1960. (FRN434, $14.00)

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