Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes

Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Elizabeth Bard
• Narrated By Ann Marie Lee

In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman - and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pavé au poivre, the steak's pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper sauce? Lunch in Paris is a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs - one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine.

Dinner Chez Moi: 50 French Secrets to Joyful Eating and Entertaining

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Elizabeth Bard
• Narrated By Suzanne Toren
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Tips, tricks, and recipes to make your feasts and fetes more French, from the New York Times best-selling author of Lunch in Paris and Picnic in Provence.

How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline De Maigret, and others
• Narrated By Carrington MacDuffie

In short, frisky sections, these Parisian women give you their very original views on style, beauty, culture, attitude, and men. The authors - Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, and Sophie Mas - unmarried but attached, with children - have been friends for years. Talented bohemian iconoclasts with careers in the worlds of music, film, fashion, and publishing, they are untypically frank and outspoken as they debunk the myths about what it means to be a French woman today.

Cooking for Picasso: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 30 mins)
• By C. A. Belmond
• Narrated By Mozhan Marno

The French Riviera, spring 1936: It's off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where 17-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Café Paradis. A mysterious new patron who's slipped out of Paris and is traveling under a different name has made an unusual request - to have his lunch served to him at the nearby villa he's secretly rented, where he wishes to remain incognito.

The Book of Summer: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Michelle Gable
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell
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Physician Bess Codman has returned to her family's Nantucket compound, Cliff House, for the first time in four years. Her great-grandparents built Cliff House almost a century before, but due to erosion, the once-grand home will soon fall into the sea. Though she's purposefully avoided the island, Bess must now pack up the house and deal with her mother, a notorious town rabble-rouser, who refuses to leave.

The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Meik Wiking
• Narrated By Meik Wiking

Why are Danes the happiest people in the world? The answer, says Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, is hygge. Loosely translated, hygge - pronounced hoo-ga - is a sense of comfort, togetherness, and well-being. "Hygge is about an atmosphere and an experience," Wiking explains. "It is about being with the people we love. A feeling of home. A feeling that we are safe."

French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Peter Mayle
• Narrated By Simon Jones
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Armed with knife, fork, and corkscrew, Peter Mayle travels to every corner of France. From bouillabaisse to escargot, here is all the glory and pleasure of the French table in the most satisfying audiobook. Bon appétit!

Villa in Italy

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Elizabeth Edmondson
• Narrated By Nicolette McKenzie
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Marvellously atmospheric tale of strangers summoned to a grand but neglected villa on the Italian coast. Each of them has been named in a will, but nobody knows their benefactress.... Four very different people are named in a will. Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice by illness; George, an idealistic scientist who cannot face what his skills have created; Marjorie, desperately poor and unable to dislodge her writer’s block; and Lucius, ostensibly in control but whose personal life is in chaos.

Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 44 mins)
• By John le Carré
• Narrated By Michael Jayston
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George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy - which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. Why, then, did the man from the Foreign Office shoot himself in the head only hours later? Or did he? The heart-stopping tale of intrigue that launched both novelist and spy, Call for the Dead is an essential introduction to le Carre's chillingly amoral universe.

Letters from Paris

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Juliet Blackwell
• Narrated By Xe Sands
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After surviving the accident that took her mother's life, Claire Broussard worked hard to escape her small Louisiana hometown. But these days, she feels something lacking. Abruptly leaving her lucrative job in Chicago, Claire returns home to care for her ailing grandmother. There, she unearths a beautiful sculpture that her great-grandfather sent home from Paris after World War II. At her grandmother's urging, Claire travels to Paris to track down the centuries old mask-making atelier where the sculpture was created.

Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living in Paris

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Jennifer L. Scott
• Narrated By Amy Rubinate
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Each chapter of Lessons from Madame Chic reveals a valuable secret Jennifer learned in Paris - tips you can incorporate into your own life, no matter where you live or the size of your budget. Embracing the classically French aesthetic of quality over quantity, aspiring Parisiennes will learn to master the art of eating (deprive yourself not), dressing (the 10-item wardrobe), grooming (le no-makeup look), and living à la française.

The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs)
• By Elaine Sciolino
• Narrated By Elaine Sciolino
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Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows.

A Rather Lovely Inheritance

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 27 mins)
• By CA Belmond
• Narrated By Katherine Kellgren
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This is your life Penny Nichols...Penny Nichols is a historical researcher working on a big-budget film in the south of France when she gets an urgent call. Her Aunt Penelope has just died, and Penny's presence is required in London for the reading of the will. With only a slim recollection of her eccentric aunt, Penny is astonished to learn that not only is she the bona fide heiress - but she's also been invited to put her research skills to work.

Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Pamela Druckerman
• Narrated By Abby Craden
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The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children is here. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent". French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special. But French children are far better behaved and more in command of themselves than American kids....

The Little French Guesthouse: La Cour des Roses, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Helen Pollard
• Narrated By Helen Johns
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When Emmy Jamieson arrives at La Cour des Roses, a beautiful guesthouse in the French countryside, she can't wait to spend two weeks relaxing with boyfriend Nathan. Their relationship needs a little TLC, and Emmy is certain this holiday will do the trick. But they've barely unpacked before he scarpers with Gloria, the guesthouse owner's cougar wife. Rupert, the ailing guesthouse owner, is shell-shocked. Feeling somewhat responsible - and rather generous after a bottle (or so) of wine - heartbroken Emmy offers to help.

What French Women Know: About Love, Sex, and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Debra Ollivier
• Narrated By Debra Ollivier
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In her groundbreaking and utterly liberating new book, Debra Ollivier goes beyond familiar ooh-la-la stereotypes about French women, challenging cherished notions about sex, love, dating, marriage, motherhood, raising children, body politics, seduction, and flirtation. What French Women Know debunks long-standing myths and offers savvy new thinking from an old sexy culture.

We Were the Lucky Ones

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Georgia Hunter
• Narrated By Kathleen Gati, Robert Fass
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An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who are separated at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive - and to reunite.

Provence A-Z

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Peter Mayle
• Narrated By John Lee
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An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining audio sourcebook on Provence, by the writer who has made the region his own. Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle, in almost 20 years there, has found to be the most interesting, curious, delicious, or down-right fun.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Maria Semple
• Narrated By Kathleen Wilhoite
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Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.

Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle - and people in general - has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands.

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Denise Kiernan
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell
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At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians - many of them young women from small towns across the South - were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains.

Crazy Rich Asians

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Kevin Kwan
• Narrated By Lynn Chen
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Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry.

Between Two Worlds

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Tyler Henry
• Narrated By Tyler Henry
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Tyler Henry discovered his gift for communicating with the departed when he was 10 and now, at age 20, is a renowned practicing medium who is the go-to clairvoyant of celebrities. He's worked with some of Hollywood's biggest names, including Khloe Kardashian, Amber Rose, Margaret Cho, Jaime Pressly, Monica Potter, and Boy George, many of whom appear on his smash hit E! reality show, Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry.

My Not So Perfect Life: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Sophie Kinsella
• Narrated By Fiona Hardingham
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Everywhere Katie Brenner looks, someone else is living the life she longs for, particularly her boss, Demeter Farlowe. Demeter is brilliant and creative, lives with her perfect family in a posh townhouse, and wears the coolest clothes. Katie's life, meanwhile, is a daily struggle - from her dismal rental to her oddball flatmates to the tense office politics she's trying to negotiate. No wonder Katie takes refuge in not-quite-true Instagram posts, especially as she's desperate to make her dad proud.

Masked Ball at Broxley Manor: A Royal Spyness Novella

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 44 mins)
• By Rhys Bowen
• Narrated By Katherine Kellgren

At the end of her first unsuccessful season out in society, Lady Georgiana has all but given up on attracting a suitable man - until she receives an invitation to a masked Halloween ball at Broxley Manor. Georgie is uncertain why she was invited, until she learns that the royal family intends to marry her off to a foreign prince, one reputed to be mad.