Alexandra has built a new life in Paris, finding the happiness she never expected with her husband Phillipe. Philippe values the comfort and intimacy of his second marriage. Hard to believe he'd risk it all. Jean-Luc is the son of Philipe's best friend. He wants Alexandra and once she is involved only one of them will get the blame. Paris Mon Amour charts the passion and the price of inescapable desire, obsessive love and devastating betrayal.

Le Flaneur, the turn-of-the-century French term for the urban stroller, the street wanderer -- an intellectual with plenty of leisure time to idly traverse the byways of the city, drifting from one quarter to another, making discoveries, meeting old acquaintances, making new ones. It remains the best way to see Paris. This volume of photography is a memoir of numerous walks through the French capital by some great photographers, who set out, like le flaneur, to capture by chance something they had never seen before. These images map and re-map the desired paths and favourite landmarks of one of the most photographed cities in the world, reprinting classic shots from the last two hundred years -- right up to the present day. They poignantly evoke the bars, the cafes, the architecture, the parks and, of course, the vibrancy of the people. Turning the pages is like taking a walk through the history of the city, noting the changes and those elements that are forever Paris -- the tree-lined boulevards, the dimly lit bistros, the narrow passages, and the banks of the River Seine.

The award-winning screenplay for the classic film the New York Post hailed as “overwhelming . . . a motion picture landmark.” One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was awarded the International Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film festival and the New York Film Critics’ Award. Ostensibly the story of a love affair between a Japanese architect and a French actress visiting Japan to make a film on peace, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a stunning exploration of the influence of war on both Japanese and French culture and the conflict between love and inhumanity.

Many years ago, Jacques Tardi was introduced to American audiences with"Manhattan," a grim and grimy story of depression, madness and suicide in NewYork City. Three decades later, New York Mon Amour collects "Manhattan" andthree other tales of the Big Apple spectacular collection is this rendered byTardi with just as much panache and you-are-there detail as his reworks set inParis or the trenches of World War I. Aside from "Manhattan," the centerpiece ofthe book is the graphic novel "Cockroach Killer," written by Benjamin Legrand.This violent, surreal conspiracy thriller, starring a hapless exterminator namedWalter, remains one of the cartoonist's most startling, confounding works. Thevolume is rounded out with two short tales, both written by Dominique Grange:"So Hard" (starring John Lennon - but not that John Lennon), and "The Killing ofHung" (a story of revenge and redemption).

For almost half a century the author dreamed of France, of someday walking the Champs Elysees, and touching the Eiffel Tower. Her book, Paris, Mon Amour, is an account of one perfect week in Paris, where seeing the Mona Lisa in the famed Louvre was possible; and popping into a sidewalk café, a daily occurrence! It was intended to be a light-hearted account of that week; but became so much more as she encountered an atmosphere never before experienced. The Parisian way!

For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where cemeteries are the most popular picnic spots, the ghosts of poets, prostitutes, and pirates are palpable, and in the French Quarter, no one ever sleeps. Codrescu's essays have been called "satirical gems," "subversive," "sardonic and stunning," "funny," "gonzo," "wittily poignant," and "perverse"—here is a writer who perfectly mirrors the wild, voluptuous, bohemian character of New Orleans itself. This retrospective follows him from newcomer to near native: first seduced by the lush banana trees in his backyard and the sensual aroma of coffee at the café down the block, Codrescu soon becomes a Window Gang regular at the infamous bar Molly's on Decatur, does a stint as King of Krewe de Vieux Carré at Mardi Gras, befriends artists, musicians, and eccentrics, and exposes the city’s underbelly of corruption, warning presciently about the lack of planning for floods in a city high on its own insouciance. Alas, as we all now know, Paradise is lost. New Orleans, Mon Amour is an epic love song, a clear-eyed elegy, a cultural celebration, and a thank-you note to New Orleans in its Golden Age.

A two-century survey of exquisite Parisian photography, these cinematic black-and-white photos tell the diverse stories of Paris, from Henri Cartier-Bresson's romantic images of street life to scenes of protest and struggle during May 1968. Just as the city has served as inspiration to generations of artists, this book will stir readers to make...