The first floor is stocked with foreign lang mags — familiar titles, mostly in French, Spanish, and German. There are also books for les petits enfants, including no less than a dozen different translations of Mssr. Harry Potter's exploits. These are great when you're learning a language or actually want to enjoy brushing up on one.
The lower level features literature, travel guides, and a bevy of dictionaries, phrase books, and learn-a-language-in-your car discs for everything from Albanian to Thai to Palestinian Arabic. Western Euro lit dominates the fiction shelves, but nestled in the language study section are some non-traditional tomes that are fun in their own right. With my newfound free time, I'm getting back to studying Japanese, so I picked up a refresher: the first volume of Japanese in Mangaland, an "entertaining way of learning the basics."
Also grabbed the latest Paris Match. It's a win-win read: keeping up with the latest Euro gossip while working on my French!
