Here is a list of the best books that I’ve read this year and that were published in 2015. Fiction The Truth According to Us – Annie Barrows The Sisters of Versailles – Sally Christie The Dream Lover – Elizabeth Berg The Witch of Napoli – Michael Schmicker The Mapmaker’s Children – Sarah McCoy Non-Fiction A Beginner’s Guide to Paradise – Alex Sheshunoff The Undertaker’s Daughter – Kate Mayfield Post-Traumatic…
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A Passion for Paris by David Downie
A Passion for Paris by David Downie takes us on a tour of Paris from the Père-Lachaise Cemetery to Montmartre. Instead of writing about the famous American expatriates of the 1920s, the author chose to shed light on the Romantics of the 19th century: Félix Nadar, Victor Hugo, Charles Beaudelaire, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Eugène Delacroix, Alexandre Dumas, Émile Zola, etc. David Downie guides us through the City of Light to…