You may like fairy tale endings, but how did fairy tales begin? The Lost Princess is the story behind French fairy tales and the women who wrote them.
From her Midwestern roots to a French culinary school, Jane Bertch is an American with much to learn about making a living and making a life in Paris.
In early Christianity, the descriptions of hell were intended to scare the hell out of you, or as Bart Ehrman writes, “to scare you out of hell.”
Miss Beatrice Steele is obsessed with murder. Not committing murders, but solving the mysteries she reads about in the London newspapers.
“The whole truth about the Venus de Milo is not known, but I know it.” So wrote an 87-year-old French sailor named Matterer who died in 1868.
At the age of 28, Oliver Darkshire and his career prospects are adrift in London until he finds a job at Henry Sotheran Ltd., a rare bookshop.
In Vivian Maier Developed, we are introduced to the mystery of a street photographer who worked as a nanny.
Writing about everything from aging to a Christmas tree to an encounter with a rattlesnake, Ursula K. Le Guin will have you thinking about what matters, too.
On a wintry night in 1893, Esther Tull, a seamstress, travels to Lord Strythe’s London home. Under her clothes, Esther has hidden a message, but why?
“Read This for Inspiration” can inspire you to make a change. This book isn’t a checklist. It’s not another thing to do. It’s another way to think.
In this bestselling novel, every morning, Guylain Vignolles waits for the 6.27 train. He enjoys the ride to work, but dreads arriving at his job.
From whale to lobster to seaweed, we humans are continuing to move down the food chain to survive. Is seaweed our last chance?
Heather McGhee’s “The Sum of Us” made me realize (once again) how much I don’t know or more precisely, how much I thought I knew.
Blame it on Claire Tomalin. After reading her biography, Jane Austen: A Life, my obsession with Jane Austen had begun.
Have you ever wanted to walk into a book? Jasper Fforde’s “The Eyre Affair” has a Prose Portal that allows readers to do just that.
Murder mysteries set in quaint English villages are typical. Four amateur sleuths in their 70s are not. Meet the members of The Thursday Murder Club.
I feel the need. The need to bake. What do I have in the pantry? What do I feel like baking today?
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