For the Love of France

A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: James Naughton
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979,... Read more

The Paris Bookseller

By: Kerri Maher
Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

“The Paris Bookseller is historical fiction that tells the story of the real Sylvia Beach, an American in Paris post World War I, who opens Shakespeare and Co. The bookstore becomes the center of the literary scene of the Lost Generation of writers—Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and others walking... Read more

The Book of Salt

By: Monique Truong
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

"[He] came to us through an advertisement that I had in desperation put in the newspaper." It began captivatingly for those days: "Two American ladies wish…" It was these lines in The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book that inspired The Book of Salt. In Paris, 1934, B├¼nh has accompanied his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to the train... Read more

The Paris Wife

A Novel

By: Paula McLain
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her... Read more

Labyrinth

By: Kate Mosse
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 19 hours 34 minutes

In the heart of the Pyrenees mountains lies a hidden secret, waiting to be uncovered.

In July 2005, in the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth.

Eight hundred... Read more

A Year in Provence - Abridged

By: Peter Mayle
Narrated by: Peter Mayle
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who's ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD!
Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, gray winters and damp summers of England for the blue... Read more

The Lost Girls of Paris

By: Pam Jenoff
Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire & Candace Thaxton
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

“Pam Jenoff specializes in finding a piece of history that has not been fully explored and that often leaves one thinking truth is stranger than fiction. In The Lost Girls of Paris, she returns to WWII but this time her protagonists are a group of British women recruited to blend into the French countryside and sabotage the Nazi network in... Read more

Me Talk Pretty One Day

By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one... Read more

All the Light We Cannot See

A Novel

By: Anthony Doerr
Narrated by: Zach Appelman
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

“I picked this up thinking to escape the world I find myself living in, and while the French countryside and German villages are beautifully rendered, this was no easy escape. Werner’s struggles with being complicit in the madness and cruelty surrounding him ring painfully true, and Marie-Laure’s fight for survival is anything but restful. Read more

Almost French

A Life of fanfare and faux pas

By: Louis Jansen van Vuuren
Narrated by: Louis Jansen van Vuuren
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

When he first visited Paris as a young student, artist Louis Jansen van Vuuren could never have imagined that one day he would end up owning a château in rural France.Almost French is the entertaining, often hilarious account of his induction over the past 21 years into all things French: snooty waiters, highbrow countesses, numerous faux pas... Read more

The Paris Library

A Novel

By: Janet Skeslien Charles
Narrated by: Nicky Diss, Sarah Feathers, Esther Wane & Janet Skeslien Charles
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

“This book reached out and embraced my soul. I loved reading about this little slice of history. While I've delved into World War II historical fiction before, the Parisian perspective added a fresh and captivating layer. It was fascinating to hear about the library, and all of the amazing people who worked there. This novel, spanning two... Read more

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

Set amid the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo’s masterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831. It is the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral, who falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, who shows him kindness... Read more