Author: Kathleen Tessaro
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Keywords: elegance
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-04
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0060522275
ISBN-13: 9780060522278

Louise C. wants what Jackie O had ... Unhappy with her looks, her life, and her empty marriage, Louise Canova needs help -- and she finds it in a secondhand bookstore. A forty-year-old encyclopedia of style titled Elegance, this slim volume by formidable French fashion expert Madame Dariaux promises to transform even the plainest of women into creatures of poise and grace. It is a fairy godmother in print, an A-to-Z manual with essential advice that Louise vows to take to heart. But within its pages lie not only clues from her past, but also powerful lessons for the future. And as the old Loui

Author: Muriel Barbery
Publisher: Europa Editions
Keywords: hedgehog, elegance
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-09-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1933372605
ISBN-13: 9781933372600

The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With humor and intelligence she scrutinizes the lives of the building’s tenants, who for their part are barely aware of her existenc

Author: Carol Wilcox Well
Publisher: Lark Book
Keywords: designs, classic, stitches, jewelry, new, elegance, beadweaving, art
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-08-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1579905331
ISBN-13: 9781579905330

“Elegant contemporary jewelry....What artist-author Wells and her 30 colleagues conjure up in more than 30 bracelets, earrings, and necklaces is nothing short of breathtaking. All the projects can be readily mastered by beginners....One hundred percent of the fundamentals, from graphic illustrations and charts to accompanying text and great color photographs.” —Booklist.

Author: Genevieve Antoine Dariaux
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: dressed, occasions, properly, wants, elegance, woman, guide
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0060757345
ISBN-13: 9780060757342

The original What Not to Wear from one of fashion’s most enduringly stylish women ... Written by French style guru Madame Genevieve Antoine Dariaux, Elegance is a classic style bible for timeless chic, grace, and poise -- every tidbit of advice today’s woman could possibly need, all at the tips of her (perfectly manicured) fingers. From Accessories to Zippers, Madame Dariaux imparts her pearls of wisdom on all things fashion-related -- and also offers advice on other crucial areas in life from shopping with girlfriends (don’t) to marriage and sex.

Authors:Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: insect, societies, strangeness, elegance, beauty, superorganism
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2008-11-17
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0393067041
ISBN-13: 9780393067040