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Vive la France! Bastille Day is July 14

Celebrate Bastille Day this July 14 with a selection of fiction and nonfiction books about France!

Bastille Day is the French National Day, which commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789 with the Storming of the Bastille. Known as “La Fête Nationale” (The National Celebration) and “Le quatorze juillet” (The fourteenth of July) in France, Bastille Day is marked by celebrations all over France, including a military parade and aircraft aerobatics.

France-themed books include:

Celebrate Bastille Day this July 14 with a selection of fiction and nonfiction books about France!

Bastille Day is the French National Day, which commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789 with the Storming of the Bastille. Known as “La Fête Nationale” (The National Celebration) and “Le quatorze juillet” (The fourteenth of July) in France, Bastille Day is marked by celebrations all over France, including a military parade and aircraft aerobatics.

France-themed books include:

(Click on a book for more information on it!)

Fiction

My Life        provence       painted

paris was       claude       not love

 

Memoirs

paris letters       breathless       paris a love

paris in love       garden of versailles       paris i love you

 

Nonfiction

forever paris       mastering       provence az

demon       how paris       reborn

Places to Go in 2013

Plan a trip to take this year and check out the library’s collection of travel books, DVDs, and magazines, and learn the language before you go!

Plan a trip to take this year and check out the library’s collection of travel books, DVDs, and magazines, and learn the language before you go!

TRAVEL THE WORLD

Once in a Lifetime Trips: The World’s 50 Most Extraordinary & Memorable Travel Experiences

Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic Ocean: A Guide to 50 Extraordinary Adventures for the Seasoned Traveler

The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life

Frommer’s 500 Places to See Before They Disappear

1,000 Places to See Before You Die: Collection 1

1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die

A Year of Festivals: How to Have the Time of Your Life

AFRICA

Fodor’s Complete African Safari Planner

Lonely Planet Africa

Fodor’s Morocco

The Rough Guide to Cape Town, the Winelands & the Garden Route

ASIA & THE PACIFIC

The Rough Guide to First-time Asia

Fodor’s China

Frommer’s India

Sri Lanka: The Bradt Travel Guide

Thailand’s Beaches & Islands

The Rough Guide to Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei

Frommer’s New Zealand

Fodor’s Australia

CANADA, LATIN AMERICA, & THE U.S.

Lonely Planet British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies

Frommer’s Montréal & Québec City

Frommer’s Cancún, Cozumel & the Yucatán

Granada, San Juan Del Sur & Southwest Nicaragua: A Great Destination

Puerto Rico Day by Day

Family Guide: Washington, DC

Rio de Janeiro

Fodor’s Hawaii

EUROPE

Back Roads: Ireland

Eyewitness Travel: Czech & Slovak Republics

Frommer’s Budapest & the Best of Hungary

Forever Paris: 25 Walks in the Footsteps of Chanel, Hemingway, Picasso, & More

Go Slow Italy: Special Local Places to Eat, Stay & Savor

Let’s Go: Spain & Portugal with Morocco

The Rough Guide to Portugal

The Rough Guide to Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania

Fodor’s Essential Scandinavia

The Rough Guide to Norway

Lonely Planet Western Balkans

Rick Steves’ Croatia & Slovenia

Rick Steves’ Amsterdam, Bruges & Brussels

Fodor’s Turkey

Traveling Women

Enjoy Eat, Pray, Love? Find other accounts of women’s travels abroad, courtesy of NoveList Plus.


The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy by Rachel Cusk

That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story by Marlena de Blasi

Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman

Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris

My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere by Susan Orlean

Expat: Women’s True Tales of Life Abroad by Christina Henry de Tessan

A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe edited by Faith Conlon, Ingrid Emerick, and Christina Henry De Tessan