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The French Consul's Wife
Memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia
by Jeanne Allen, Patricia Clancy, Celeste De Chabrillan, Melbourne University Publishing
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2003 by Melbourne University Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-522-85066-6, ISBN: 0-522-85066-9

"'What a subject for a film, but not, please, Meryl Streep ... Together with Dr Patricia Clancy (Melbourne University) and Jeanne Allen's (La Trobe University) elegant translation and able notes, the memoirs make for a piquant, informative, variegated and often startling read ... Miegunyah Press you've done it again.' (Derek Whitelock, Weekend Australian)A former Parisian courtesan, circus performer and dancer, Céleste de Chabrillan scan ..."






Death in the Truffle Wood(1st Edition)
(Commissaire Laviolette Mystery)
by Pierre Magnan, Patricia Clancy
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2007 by Minotaur Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-36666-7, ISBN: 0-312-36666-3

"Long a renowned crime writer in France, Pierre Magnan has won numerous prizes and has a huge popular following in his native country. Now, with this mouth-watering series debut, Magnan introduces the celebrated Commissaire Laviolette to U.S. readers. In Banon, a small, peaceful village in upper Provençe, the local community's principal source of income is the cultivation and sale of truffles. Tourists rarely venture into this remote reg ..."






The Arch of Kerguelen(1st Edition)
Voyage to the Islands of Desolation
by Jean-Paul Kauffmann, Patricia Clancy, Tom Clancy
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2000 by Four Walls Eight Windows
ISBN-13: 978-1-56858-168-2, ISBN: 1-56858-168-8

"The Kerguelens - isolated French islands in the southern Indian Ocean - were the home of the Arch of Kerguelen, a 1,000-foot-tall stone vault that had confounded navigators for centuries. Jean-Paul Kauffmann finds poetry in the isolation and strangely serene beauty of this land far from the hustle of "civilized" life, where the vast ocean dominates, where the wind reigns and solitude is interrupted only by animals scrambling in the wind ..."






The Death of Napoleon(Reprint)
by Simon Leys, Patricia Clancy
Paperback, 130 Pages, Published 1994 by Noonday Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52395-4, ISBN: 0-374-52395-9

"Napoleon has escaped St. Helena, but the impersonator he left in his place has unexpectedly passed away. Travelling incognito through the Continent, he experiences a series of bizarrre adventures that bring him face to face with the myth of Napoleon as it is disconcertingly played out in everyday life."






The Death of Napoleon(1st Edition)
by Simon Leys, Patricia Clancy
Hardcover, 129 Pages, Published 1992 by Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-13565-2, ISBN: 0-374-13565-7

"A hypothetical account of what could have happened if Napolean had not died depicts the Emperor traveling incognito through Europe experiencing a series of bizarre adventures that bring him face to face with reality."






Innocence(1st Edition)
by Pierre Magnan, Patricia A. Clancy
Hardcover, 246 Pages, Published 2001 by Harvill Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-86046-879-7, ISBN: 1-86046-879-9






An Enduring Love(Reprint)
My Life with the Shah: A Memoir
by Empress Farah Pahlavi, Patricia Clancy
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2005 by Miramax
ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-5961-4, ISBN: 1-4013-5961-2

"A moving story of the former Empress of Iran -- now in paperback. At the age of twenty-one, Farah Diba married the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi. A loving marriage, the raising of four children, and a devotion to social and cultural causes marked her early years as queen, although there were already signs of grave national diversions on the horizon. Twenty years later the dream had turned into a nightmare: demonstrations a ..."






The Murdered House(Updated)
by Pierre Magnan, Patricia Clancy
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-944872-3, ISBN: 0-09-944872-6

"In this gripping thriller set in Upper Provence, unexpected secrets set in motion adreadful unveiling of the past."






The Black Room at Longwood
Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena
by Jean-Paul Kauffmann, Patricia Clancy, Tom Clancy
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by Four Walls Eight Windows
ISBN-13: 978-1-56858-171-2, ISBN: 1-56858-171-8

"This is an unusually intelligent, elegiac book; not merely an account of Napoleon's last days in exile on the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena but a meditation on the interrelations of past and present and the shadow a figure as gigantic as Napoleon casts onto futurity. On one level, the book is a travelogue, as Jean-Paul Kauffmann revisits modern St. Helena and describes what he finds; the small-scale lives of the islanders are re ..."






The Murdered House(1st Edition)
A Mystery
by Pierre Magnan, Patricia Clancy
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by Minotaur Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-36720-6, ISBN: 0-312-36720-1

"From one of Frances’s leading crime writers, whose The Messengers of Death was named by Publishers Weekly as one of their 10 Best Mysteries of 2008, comes this exceptional classic mystery. At the turn of the century in Upper Provence, a family is violently massacred. The sole survivor of the tragedy is a three-week-old baby. Twenty years later, the orphaned survivor returns home to avenge his family’s killers. Then unexpected secrets se ..."






The Death of Napoleon(Reprint)
(New York Review Books Classics)
by Simon Leys, Patricia Clancy
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2015 by Nyrb Classics
ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-842-3, ISBN: 1-59017-842-4

""Ladies and gentlemen, alas! The Emperor is dead." The news from St Helena goes out across Europe, but in fact Napoleon has not died. By means of an ingenious escape, he has returned to the Continent, leaving an impersonator on St Helena, and it is this double who has unexpectedly and very problematically passed away. Traveling incognito, the emperor experiences a series of bizarre adventures that bring him face-to-face with the myth of ..."






Man to Man(1st Edition)
A History of Gay Photography (Male Photography)
by Pierre Borhan, Gilles Mora, Olivier Saillard, Jose Villarrubia, Patricia Clancy
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2007 by Vendome Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-86565-186-9, ISBN: 0-86565-186-8

"This volume is the first comprehensive study of homoeroticism and male homosexuality in the history of photography. Author Pierre Borhan provides a fast-paced overviw of the principal themes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century homoerotic photography.Man to Man puts photography made by, for, and of homosexuals into historical perspective. Nearly 350 works, those both well recognized and many unpublished, permit us to follow the thematic ..."






Death In The Truffle Wood
(Ulverscroft Large Print Series)
by Pierre Magnan, Patricia Clancy
Hardcover, 267 Pages, Published 2007 by Ulverscroft Large Print Books
Large Print
ISBN-13: 978-0-7531-7571-2, ISBN: 0-7531-7571-1

"Banon is a small village in Provence, where the local community's principal source of income comes from the cultivation and sale of truffles. Outsiders rarely venture to this remote region, but a small group of society's dropouts have chosen to set up home on the outskirts of the village. Then one of them is found dead in the freezer of a local hotel. When a further five bodies are discovered hanging by their feet and drained of blood i ..."






The Messengers of Death(1st Edition)
A Mystery in Provence (Commissaire Laviolette Mystery)
by Pierre Magnan, Patricia Clancy
Paperback, 311 Pages, Published 2009 by Minotaur Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-38757-0, ISBN: 0-312-38757-1

""A" Publishers Weekly "Best Mystery of 2008, " "this is the exceptional follow-up to Pierre Magnan's highly acclaimed" Death in the Truffle WoodLocal handyman Emile discovers an envelope addressed to a Mlle Veronique in a disused mailbox. Being a former postman, he dutifully purchases a stamp and mails the letter. But when the body of this same Mlle Veronique is soon found murdered, Commissaire Laviolette is coaxed out of retirement to ..."






An Enduring Love(1st Edition)
by Farah Pahlavi, Patricia Clancy
Hardcover, 715 Pages, Published 2004 by Thorndike Press
Large Print
ISBN-13: 978-0-7862-6727-9, ISBN: 0-7862-6727-5

"A New York Times Bestseller It was like a fairy tale. At twenty-one Farah Diba married Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi, the shah of Iran, and became an international celebrity. But twenty years later unrest shook the country, sending Farah and the seriously ill shah into exile. For the first time, Farah Diba tells the wrenching story of his last years, and of her love for a man and his country."






Beyond the Grave(Updated)
by Pierre Magnan, Patricia Clancy
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2003 by Random House Uk
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-944969-0, ISBN: 0-09-944969-2

"The enigmatic Séraphin Monge, having avenged the grisly massacre of his family, has disappeared. His brief sojourn in the village of his birth has touched the lives of its inhabitants, and he is mourned by the women who claim to have been in love with him. But is Séraphin dead or alive? Did he in fact perish in an avalanche? If so, how to explain the ghostly sightings of him and the miraculous events for which he is seemingly responsibl ..."






The Death of Napoleon(1st Edition)
by Simon Leys, Patricia Clancy
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2002 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42177-9, ISBN: 0-312-42177-X

"Napoleon has escaped St. Helena, but the impersonator he left in his place has unexpectedly passed away. Travelling incognito through the Continent, he experiences a series of bizarrre adventures that bring him face to face with the myth of Napoleon as it is disconcertingly played out in everyday life."






Roisin's Journey
by Patricia Clancy
Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 2013 by Patricia Clancy
ISBN-13: 978-0-9927153-0-4, ISBN: 0-9927153-0-X






Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 11(1st Edition)
by Patricia M. Clancy, Pm Clancy
Paperback, 556 Pages, Published 2002 by Center For The Study Of Language And Inf
ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-366-5, ISBN: 1-57586-366-9

"Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both languages. This volume collects papers from the eleventh annual meeting. Papers cover a broad range of topics, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse a ..."






Death in the Truffle Wood
by Pierre Magnan, Patricia Clancy
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2005 by The Harvill Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-84343-190-9, ISBN: 1-84343-190-4



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