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The Merde Factor

Stephen Clarke
The Merde Factor Book PDF

Author : Stephen Clarke
Publisher : Random House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448108275

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Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream, and doing his best not to annoy the French. But recently things have been going très wrong: He's stuck in an apartment so small that he has to cut his baguettes in two to fit them in the kitchen. His research into authentic French cuisine is about to cause a national strike - and it could be all his fault. His Parisian business partner is determined to close their tea-room. And thinks that sexually harrassing his female employees is a basic human right. And Paul's gorgeous ex-girlfriend seems to be stalking him. Threatened with eviction, unemployment and bankrupcy, Paul realises that his personal merde factor is about to hit the fan...

In the Merde for Love

Stephen Clarke
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Author : Stephen Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781596917446

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The latest episode in Stephen Clarke's almost-true account of his adventures as an expat in France is just as winning as the first. This "anti-Mayle" will have readers chortling over their croissants and café au lait while Paul West struggles to solve the mysteries inherent in life in France. What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Is it really polite to sleep with your boss's mistress? And why are there no public health warnings on French nude beaches? Paul discovers how to judge a French vacationer by the rustiness of his bicycle; opens his English tearoom; and finally understands why Parisian waiters are so cranky. Just in time for spring in Paris, find out if Paul finds the perfect French mademoiselle or if it all ends in merde!

Dial M for Merde

Stephen Clarke
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Author : Stephen Clarke
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453243565

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Dial M for Merde by Stephen Clarke Pdf

This international bestseller from the author of A Year in the Merde “combines the gaffes of Bridget Jones with the boldness of James Bond” (Publishers Weekly). When the glorious oceanographer Gloria Monday convinces Paul West to travel to the swank beaches of southern France—where she’s investigating caviar-smuggling cartels—he assumes he’s about to have the time of his life. But for West, France has always been full of surprises underfoot, and this trip is no exception to the rule. He’s soon dragged into an undercover investigation that goes all the way to the top and leaves him feeling sometimes like James Bond, sometimes like Inspector Clouseau. Dial M for Merde is a comic caper that pokes fun at French society at every level, from pompous politicians to grumpy waitstaff.

Merde Happens

Stephen Clarke
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Author : Stephen Clarke
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742748283

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Q: What happens when an Englishman, an American, and a French woman drive across America in a Mini? A: Merde Happens ... Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job that involves him touring America in a Mini, while pretending to be typically British. Also in the car is Paul's French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American poet friend, Jake, whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world. Preferably in the back of Paul's Mini. But as the little car battles from New York to Miami, and then heads west, leg-room turns out to be the least of Paul's troubles. His work is being sabotaged, his tour plans are in tatters, and his love life becomes a Franco-American war zone. And as Paul knows better than anyone, when you mix love and war - merde happens ...

Merde in Europe

Stephen Clarke
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Author : Stephen Clarke
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473537651

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THE POST-BREXIT EDITION - brand new chapters with extra EU chaos for Englishman Paul West. An Englishman, Paul West, goes to Brussels to work for a French MEP. There he gets an insider's view of what really goes on in the massive madhouse that is the EU Parliament. With the referendum on the horizon, things are even more hysterical than usual. When the Brexit result comes in, Paul has to make a decision. If he wants to work in Europe, should he apply for a French passport? But can an Englishman really become French? Can he sing the bloodthirsty 'Marseillaise'? Can he even pronounce the word 'Marseillaise'? And as Paul contemplates his own personal Brexit, the whole of Brussels seems to be going into meltdown ...

The Short Victorious War

David Weber
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Author : David Weber
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743435734

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Banking on a short, victorious war to replenish their depleted treasury, the ruling class of the People's Republic of Haven do not count on coming up against Captain Honor Harrington and the Royal Manticoran Navy.

Sarah's Key

Tatiana de Rosnay
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Author : Tatiana de Rosnay
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429985215

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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Pdf

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.

A Year in the Merde

Stephen Clarke
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Author : Stephen Clarke
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781742748290

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Self-published in France, and a subsequent bestseller, the hilarious story of a year in the life of a young Englishman abroad. Paul West, a young Englishman, arrives in Paris to start a new job - and finds out what the French are really like. They do eat a lot of cheese, some of which smells like pigs' droppings. They don't wash their armpits with garlic soap. Going on strike really is the second national participation sport after pétanque. And, yes, they do use suppositories. In his first novel, Stephen Clarke gives a laugh-out-loud account of the pleasures and perils of being a Brit in France. Less quaint than A Year in Provence, less chocolatey than Chocolat, A Year in the Merde will tell you how to get served by the grumpiest Parisian waiter; how to make perfect vinaigrette every time; how to make amour - not war; and how not to buy a house in the French countryside.

Édith Piaf

David Looseley
dith Piaf Book PDF

Author : David Looseley
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781388594

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Édith Piaf by David Looseley Pdf

The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an ‘imagined’ Piaf.

1000 Years of Annoying the French

Stephen Clarke
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Author : Stephen Clarke
Publisher : McArthur & Co
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770870819

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The English Channel may be only twenty miles wide, but it’s a thousand years deep. Stephen Clarke takes a penetrating look into those murky depths, guiding us through all the times when Britain and France have been at war - or at least glowering at each other across what the Brits provocatively call the English Channel. Along the way he explodes a few myths that French historians have been trying to pass off as ‘la vérité’, as he proves that the French did not invent the baguette, or the croissant, or even the guillotine, and would have taken the bubbles out of bubbly if the Brits hadn’t created a fashion for fizzy champagne.Starting with the Norman (not French) Conquest and going right up to the supposedly more peaceful present, when a state visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy becomes a series of hilarious historical insults, it is a light-hearted - but impeccably researched - account of all our great fallings-out. In short, the French are quite right to suspect that the last thousand years have been one long British campaign to infuriate them. And it’s not over yet ...

Annoying The French Encore!

Stephen Clarke
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Author : Stephen Clarke
Publisher : Random House
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781448150250

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Annoying The French Encore! by Stephen Clarke Pdf

A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR Bonjour cher reader, Ever since European history began, we Brits have been happily engaged in our national pastime - annoying the French. And the past couple of years have shown that this annoying never stops. To give just three examples: After a mid-Atlantic collision between French and British nuclear submarines, France's Minister of Defence seemed to blame the accident on ... shrimps. When French political superstar Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested in New York, France's establishment was outraged. It soon emerged that sexual harassment was regarded as a basic human right by the country's male élite. (This theme provided so much excellent material that I decided to include it in the plot of my soon-to-be published novel, The Merde Factor.) And when David Cameron walked out of a Eurosummit, a French politician accused him of being 'like a man at a wife-swapping party who refuses to bring his own wife.' Yes, a very French image, and it just one of the many anti-Anglais insults that came flying across the Channel. You will find all this, and much more, in Annoying the French Encore! Because, for the French, the merde never ends. Yours historically, Stephen Clarke, Paris, August 2012 ‘Tremendously entertaining’ Sunday Times ‘Relentlessly and energetically rude’ Mail on Sunday

Tout Soul

Karen Wheeler
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Author : Karen Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : English
ISBN : 0957106602

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"Having quit her fast-paced life as a fashion editor in London for a new life in France, Karen appears to have it all: a cute dog, a charismatic Portuguese boyfriend and a quirky collection of French and expat friends. But then she makes a discovery that changes everything. In the year that follows, she decides to cure heartbreak by seeking happiness in small things. But nothing could have prepared her for the tragedy to come... Tout Soul will make you laugh and make you cry in equal measure."--Pub.lisher description.

Dark Companion

Marta Acosta
Dark Companion Book PDF

Author : Marta Acosta
Publisher : Tor Teen
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781429988292

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Jane Eyre meets Twilight in Dark Companion, a lush and romantic YA gothic tale about an orphaned girl who attends an exclusive private school and finds herself torn between the headmistress's two sons. Orphaned at the age of six, Jane Williams has grown up in a series of foster homes, learning to survive in the shadows of life. Through hard work and determination, she manages to win a scholarship to the exclusive Birch Grove Academy. There, for the first time, Jane finds herself accepted by a group of friends. She even starts tutoring the headmistress's gorgeous son, Lucien. Things seem too good to be true. They are. The more she learns about Birch Grove's recent past, the more Jane comes to suspect that there is something sinister going on. Why did the wife of a popular teacher kill herself? What happened to the former scholarship student, whose place Jane took? Why does Lucien's brother, Jack, seem to dislike her so much? As Jane begins to piece together the answers to the puzzle, she must find out why she was brought to Birch Grove—and what she would risk to stay there.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Books in My Life

Henry Miller
The Books in My Life Book PDF

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811201082

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The Books in My Life by Henry Miller Pdf

In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.

Darkness Rises

Dianne Duvall
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Author : Dianne Duvall
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420129793

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Darkness Rises by Dianne Duvall Pdf

In this USA Today–bestselling paranormal romance, a gifted assassin and a handsome vampire join forces to tackle an evil conspiracy. Krysta is used to getting the drop on vampires. Her “special abilities” aren’t much, but the plan is simple—she plays helpless pretty young thing to lure them in. Then her shoto swords come out and it’s bye-bye, bloodsucker. Until one night she finds herself with an unexpected ally. He’s a vampire, all right, but different. Mysterious. Handsome. And more interested in saving her skin than draining it. Étienne has been an Immortal Guardian for two hundred years—long enough to know that Krysta is special. He can't stop thinking about her long legs, even more than her short swords. Then he discovers the vamps she’s exterminating have friends in high places, and the Guardians are in danger too. He’ll have to accept Krysta’s help to save them. The stakes for a mortal are high. But the cost to his heart might be higher… “Duvall is fast proving to be a major player in paranormal romance.”—RT Book Reviews “The Immortal Guardians series is one you'll want to follow.”—The Romance Review “These dark, kick-ass guardians can protect me any day!”—New York Times–bestselling author Alexandra Ivy on Darkness Dawns