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Imagine settling back into a fragrant, foaming bath with a spellbinding new book to read... that's the gift of relaxation you'll give with the Great Escape Book Gift Basket. Even better, you'll be giving long-lasting gifts like a good work of literature, a relaxing music CD featuring the sounds of nature, and the decoupaged wooden tray in which the gifts are delivered (click the smaller image to see it enlarged). Included is a wide assortment of all-natural bath and body potions such as bath salts, aromatherapy soap, body powder, and lotion. Each month we'll feature a recently released book of critically acclaimed fiction. This makes a perfect Mother's Day gift!

About the Book:

Mademoiselle Benoir, by Christine Conrad: Tim Reinhart enters a wondrous new world the moment he buys a farmhouse in the country of France, region of Quercy, department of Lot. Or, in his marvelous words, "From the moment I saw this property, I had a bead on it. I can't completely explain why, but I had an intense feeling of belonging." He has given up his teaching life in New York and begun working as the artist he's always wanted to be. Letters written to his family back home sweep the reader up in Tim's schooling in, and awakening to, the pastoral French lifestyle. From the attention to food (meals seem to Tim a semi-religious rite) to the delightfully quirky neighbors who appear to spring straight out of a Balzac novel, we share Tim's ever-growing pleasures and adventures. But his enchantment with this foreign land becomes far more complicated when his drawings--and then Tim himself--catch the eye of Mademoiselle Benoir, a beautiful, aristocratic woman twenty years his senior. Their decision to marry sets off a cluster bomb, uncovering incendiary layers of emotional and cultural complexity on both sides of the Atlantic. As his family tries to reason with him, her family declares war, and the villagers choose sides. Will tradition triumph over love? Inspired by a true story.

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Great Escape Book Gift Basket bath01$64.99