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Author
Series
World War II (David L. Robbins) volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
445 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
82) Bon appétit
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An aspiring pastry chef leaves Seattle--and love's promise--to live and learn in Paris. Seeking refuge from rampant snobbery and backstabbing, 20-something Lexi befriends a motherless girl in a nearby church. And then she encounters the sweet child's "Oo la la" father.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beautiful, calculating Undine Spragg wants more than anything to be stylish. Never satisfied, she is constantly planning her next social accomplishment. In her struggle, she encounters Ralph Marvell, a gentleman from the upper class, who falls helplessly in love with her. But the restless Undine is concerned only for her own well-being, and does not understand the feelings of those who surround her.
84) In another life
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. But instead of finding solace in the region's quiet hills and medieval ruins, she falls in love with Raoul, a man whose very existence challenges everything she knows about life-and about her husband's death. As Raoul reveals the story of his past to Lia, she becomes entangled in the echoes of an ancient murder, resulting in...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment--assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"France, March 1944. Virginia Hall wasn't like the other young society women back home in Baltimore - she never wanted the debutante ball or silk gloves. Instead, she traded a safe life for adventure in Europe, and when her beloved second home is thrust into the dark days of war, she leaps in headfirst. Once she's recruited as an Allied spy, subverting the Nazis becomes her calling. But even the most cunning agent can be bested, and in wartime trusting...
87) Giovanni's room
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 372
Language
English
Description
This tale of conflicted sexual identity in the 1950s centers around the experiences of the American expatriate David, living in Paris and struggling with his feelings of attraction to other men. Unable to face the truth about himself, David proposes to Hella Lincoln. While she is in Spain mulling over his proposal, David falls in love Giovanni, an Italian bartender and must choose between a conventional life or being true to his own feelings.
88) Second chance
Author
Language
English
Description
Eccentric high fashion meets buttoned-up Madison Avenue in Danielle Steel’s captivating tale of two perfect-for-each-other people from two wildly different worlds. In a fresh, funny look at what happens when a woman who has everything finally meets her match, Danielle Steel proves that, in life and love, it’s never too late for a second chance....
SECOND CHANCE
As editor-in-chief of New York’s leading fashion magazine, Fiona...
SECOND CHANCE
As editor-in-chief of New York’s leading fashion magazine, Fiona...
89) Once upon a rose
Author
Series
La vie en rose volume 1
Publisher
[Laura Florand]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
She stole his roses. Fleeing the spotlight, burnt out rock star Layla "Belle"Dubois seeks refuge in the south of France. That old, half-forgotten heritage in a valley of roses seems like a good place to soothe a wounded heart. She certainly doesn't expect the most dangerous threat to her heart to pounce on her as soon as she sets foot on the land. He wants them back. Matt didn't mean to growl at her quite that loudly. But-his roses! She can't have...
90) Le divorce
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A witty look at French and American cultures. It begins when an American woman arrives in Paris to help her sister divorce an aristocratic husband who has taken off with another woman. The couple have a child and the two families, French and American, clash over its future. By the author of Persian Nights.
Author
Series
Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Claudia, a young American, turns up dead in the courtyard of an ancient castle in Bruno's jurisdiction, her death is assumed to be an accident related to opioid use. But her doctor persuades Bruno that things may not be so simple. Thus begins an investigation that leads Bruno to Monsieur de Bourdeille, the scholar with whom the girl had been studying, and then through that man's past. He is a renowned art historian who became extraordinarily...
Author
Publisher
Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rhys Gravenor, Great War veteran-turned-farmer, arrives in Paris in the midst of the city's liberation with a worn letter in his pocket that may have arrived years too late. As he follows the footsteps of his missing son across an unfamiliar, war-torn country, he struggles to come to terms with the incident that drove a wedge between the two of them. Joined by Charlotte Dubois, an American ambulance driver with secrets of her own. Rhys is haunted...
Author
Series
Louis Morgon thrillers volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"St. John Larrimer was a well known Wall Street investment banker who had earned returns for his wealthy clients that exceeded even their fondest hopes. But it turns out that the returns existed only in St. John's imagination. By the time his staff and associates were detained and questioned, St. John had disappeared. Louis Morgon, a long retired CIA operative now living in France, had a little money invested with a money manager who was also taken...
94) Paris, 7 a.m
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"June 1937. Elizabeth Bishop, still only a young woman and not yet one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, arrives in Paris with her college roommate. They are in search of an escape, and inspiration, far from the protective world of Vassar College where they are expected to find an impressive husband, a quiet life, and act accordingly. But the world is changing, and as they arrive in the City of Light, the larger veil of fascism...
Author
Publisher
Harper Luxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First HarperLuxe edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
It's 2015 and Ashley Madison, the secret online dating site for married and committed couples (whose motto is: "Life is short. Have an affair."), has been hacked. Thirty-two million cheaters worldwide have been exposed ... including Sophie Bloom's beloved husband, Gabe. Betrayed, she immediately leaves for Paris to meet her daughter, who is studying abroad and desperately needs her mother in the wake of her own breakup. Through helping her daughter...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This whimsical, autobiographical novel recounts Cummings' unjust incarceration at the hands of the French during World War I. Though a conscientious objector, Cummings nevertheless volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, leading to a comedy of errors that resulted in him being accused of treason and thrown into a French concentration camp in Normandy.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After four decades of what he believes to be a happy, healthy partnership, Hugo Gardner's world is overturned when he learns that his wife, Valerie, is not only requesting a divorce but has left him for a younger, more vital man. Hugo, an octogenarian political writer and retired journalist for Time, must rethink the way he's lived, and reassess how he'd like to spend his remaining years. Reconsidering past relationships in his mind, with years of...
98) The dud avocado
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
x, 260 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy's Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking. Charming, sexy, and hilarious, The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status when it was first published and it remains a timeless portrait of a woman hell-bent on living....
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
552 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted city. With her career and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts an opportunity that will change her life forever. Befriended by seasoned wartime journalist...
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