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1) A good year
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Pub. Date
2004
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A delightful, best-selling tale about the business and pleasure of wine, adapted into a Ridley Scott movie starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard.
Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncle’s vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately, the wine produced
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Franny Marten's life is unraveling. Expecting to meet her boyfriend, Marcus Marks, for dinner, she finds his wife waiting for her instead. After the initial shock wears off, Franny finds she has more in common with Clare Marks than she could ever have imagined. And, amazingly, the women become fast friends. When Franny is unexpectedly offered an all-expenses-paid invitation to a family reunion in Provence, she goes-and takes Clare along for the ride....
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Sam Levitt mysteries volume 1
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After inviting the Los Angeles Times to his impressive wine cellar to write an extensive piece on the treasures of his collection, Hollywood lawyer Danny Roth finds himself the victim of a world-class wine heist. Enter Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, wine connoisseur, and expert on cultivated crime. Called in by Roth's insurance company, Sam follows his leads - first to Bordeaux's magnificent vineyards and then to the wine collectors of Provence....
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Sam Levitt mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
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"Here is Peter Mayle at his effervescent best--his master sleuth, Sam Levitt, eating, drinking, and romancing his way through the South of France even as he investigates a case of deadly intrigue among the Riviera's jet set. Billionaire Francis Reboul is taking in the view at his coastal estate, awaiting the arrival of vacationing friends Sam Levitt and Elena Morales, when he spies a massive yacht whose passengers seem a little too interested in his...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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414 pages ; 25 cm
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"A young Parisian woman is exiled to Provence to take care of her husband's ailing grandfather during the Vichy regime, but discovers that despite the horrors of war, the paintings of Cezanne, Pisarro, Chagall, and Picasso bring to life the landscape around her and allow her once again to experience love"--
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Pub. Date
2009
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223 p. ; 22 cm.
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The story begins high above Los Angeles, at the extravagant home and equally impressive wine cellar of entertainment lawyer Danny Roth. After inviting the "Los Angeles Times" to write an extensive profile extolling the liquid treasures of his collection, Roth finds himself the victim of a world-class wine heist. Enter Sam Levitt, former corporate, cultivated crime expert, and wine connoisseur, who follows his leads as he tracks down the source of...
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Pub. Date
c2011
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386 p. ; 24 cm.
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Drawn to an older man, Eve embarks on a whirlwind romance that soon offers a new life and a new home--Les Genévriers, an old house in a charming hamlet amid the fragrant lavender fields of Provence. Their relationship becomes strained, however, as Dom grows quiet and distant and Eve feels a haunting presence. The more reluctant Dom is to tell her about his past, the more Eve is drawn to it--and to the mysterious disappearance of his beautiful ex-wife....
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Pub. Date
2002
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325 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
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While staying in Provence, Jessica Fletcher once again finds herself embroiled in a murder mystery when someone stabs Chef Bertrand with one of his customized carving knives, a crime in which Jessica herself and her new friend, Mallory, become prime suspects.
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Pub. Date
2011
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455 p. ; 23 cm.
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When local nobleman Étienne de Bremont falls to his death from a window of the family château, it sets the idyllic town of Aix-en-Provence abuzz with humors. Antoine Verlaque, the handsome and seductive chief magistrate of Aix, suspects foul play, and when he discovers that Bremont had been a close friend of his ex-girlfriend Marine, Verlaque turns to her for help. Many of Aix's local citizens could have benefited from Bremont's death. But just...
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2014.
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"The beloved author at his effervescent best: his master sleuth, Sam Levitt, eating, drinking, and romancing his way through the South of France-even as he investigates a case of deadly intrigue among the Riviera's jet set. Billionaire Francis Reboul is taking in the view at his coastal estate, awaiting the arrival of vacationing friends Sam Levitt and Elena Morales, when he spies a massive yacht whose passengers seem a little too interested in his...
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Pub. Date
2013.
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431 pages ; 22 cm.
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When Dr. Georges Moutte is found murdered, Judge Antoine Verlaque is stumped. Moutte, the director of theology at the Université d' Aix, was just about to name the recipient of an elite fellowship as well as his own successor - a highly coveted position that includes a lavish apartment in a seventeenth-century mansion - when his lips were sealed permanently. Yet Verlaque isn't convinced that any of the academics are capable of murder. Turning Provence...
17) Promises to keep
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Love in Provence volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
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211 pages ; 21 cm.
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"The painful memories from her life back in Toronto will never be distant enough, but Katherine Price finds peace under the autumn sky in the South of France...and a deepening, dizzying love with Philippe. Together, they savor the delicacies and splendor of life, toasting to a future filled with happiness and hope--a life far away from the heartache they both knew so well. But during a trip to the medieval village of Entrevaux, a strange note turns...
18) Two summers
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Pub. Date
2016.
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355 pages ; 22 cm.
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Two possible futures face Summer: either she will spend the summer in Provence with her father, uncovering family secrets, and exploring the old world, or she will stay in upstate New York, coping with her mother, and dreaming of her long time crush--and which future unfolds will depend on whether or not she answers a phone call.
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Love in Provence volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
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448 pages ; 21 cm.
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"On the evening of her twenty-second wedding anniversary, Katherine Price can't wait to celebrate. But instead of receiving an anniversary card from her husband, she finds a note asking for a divorce. Fifty-five and suddenly alone, Katherine begins the daunting task of starting over. She has her friends, her aging mother, and her career to occupy her, but the future seems to hold little promise--until, after a winter of heartbreak, Katherine is persuaded...
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"When Jean-Marc Sauvet, successful lawyer and the best friend of Aix-en-Provence's examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque, accepted a small role in a local theater's summer production of Marcel Pagnol's Cigalon, he had no idea that the lead actress would be played by the great Liliane Poncet. But Jean-Marc's excitement about rubbing elbows with one of France's legendary film stars is quickly extinguished. The lead actor, Gauthier Lesage, is rude and...
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