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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Language
English
Description
Jack, a neurotic American interior designer, vacationing in Europe with his girlfriend Marion, a French photographer, begins to regret ever leaving New York when the couple stops in Paris where meetings with her eccentric parents and friends, and countless encounters with her former lovers, have him wondering if their relationship can survive.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Venice for Lovers is a memorable collaboration by two fine stylists who have fashioned their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Begley and Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In her contribution to the book, Muhlstein charmingly describes how she and her husband dine at the same restaurant every night for years on end, and how becoming friends...
5) The enemy
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novel volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former army cop Jack Reacher finds himself questioning the instincts that made him an elite soldier when his latest case forces him to choose between obeying the law and becoming a renegade.
6) French kiss
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1995
Language
English
Description
When Kate's fiance is in Paris, he falls for a French woman. She flies to France to win him back with the help of Luc, whom she meets on the plane. As they search across France for her fiance, Kate and Luc begin to fall in love.
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Language
English
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Description
Paris, the most romantic city on earth, is a place of second honeymoons and newly discovered passions. It lures us with a banquet of tastes, sound, sights, and smells. And, for Lara Lewis, it is the place where she and her husband once experienced love at its best. Now it is a place where forty-something Lara believes she can rekindle her marriage. She plans the most romantic adventure: to retrace her first honeymoon with her husband, visit the same...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Four mysterious words prompt antiques dealer Precious Rafferty to embark on a quest across Europe to uncover their meaning. Preshy, at age thirty-eight, loves her American-in-Paris life, but thinks that she'll never be swept off her feet-until she meets Bennett James. As their whirlwind courtship progresses, though, she realizes that there is much about his business life in Shanghai she doesn't know. Then she receives an urgent message from Lily Song,...
11) The virgin blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small, close-knit community of Lisle-sur-Tarn. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and learns French. In vain. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, which leads to her encounter with the town's wolfish librarian. Isabelle du Moulin, known as Le Rousse due to her fiery red hair, is tormented and shunned in the village suspected of witchcraft and reviled for her association...
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Language
English
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Description
Former operative Cotton Malone, working at a secondhand bookshop in Copenhagen, gets caught up with a American Secret Service agent when he breaks into Cotton's store while outrunning a pair of assassins, and joins the man on a mission to uncover the truth about the death of Cotton's millionaire friend's son and details about a secret organization that is trying to find Napoleon's hidden treasures as well as take down the global economy.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Alexandra Gordon, Kay Lenox, Jessica Pierce, and Maria Franconi, students together at the prestigious Anya Sedgwick School of Decorative Arts in Paris, go their separate ways after graduation having severed their ties of friendship, but their old ties are rekindled and the past revisited when they return to celebrate Anya Sedgwick's eighty-fifth birthday.
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Series
Language
English
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Sunny Alvarez and Mac Reilly always seem to find trouble in the south of France. This time, all the trouble began in Monte Carlo.
Sunny's relationship with Mac is in jeopardy and Monte Carlo beckons. Soon Sunny is pulled into a web of intrigue involving a series of robberies of high-end jewelry stores. Then there's her wanna-be-new-friend, who turns out to be a sociopath, involved in the sale of sex and in blackmail. Plus there's Sunny's old friend,...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Not just an ordinary priest but a priest/television superstar, idolized by the people of France, loved by everyone except, of course the French hierarchy, the church, state and the Paris television community.
The Archbishop of Paris, familiar with Bishop Blackie Ryan's impressive sleuthing skills, asks Blackie's boss, the Archbishop of Chicago Sean Cardinal Cronin, for help in finding this missing priest. As usual, Cardinal Cronin resolves the matter...
17) Le divorce
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
California girl Isabel Walker arrives in Paris to visit her stepsister Roxy on the same day Roxy's French husband Charles-Henri leaves her for another woman and it is not long before both sets of parents are also involved in the marital discord, much of which revolves around possession of a valuable wedding gift.
18) The reef
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 201
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The author of The House of Mirth explores the nature of romance as the love affairs of four Americans dramatically intertwine in early twentieth-century France. This novel explores the complicated nature of love, its limitations and its possibilities, through the intertwining love stories of four Americans. George Darrow is a diplomat in London when he runs into an old flame at a dinner party. Anna Leath left George to marry another man, but she...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2011, c2007
Language
English
Description
College professor Harry Hicks, ousted from his job and his family after a romantic mistake, flees to Paris where he is forced to take a job as a night watchman for a sinister operation, and he thinks life is looking up when he meets Margit, a cultivated, Hungarian émigré, until he notices all the people who have wronged him in the past are dying.
20) L'assassin
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Distracted by the news that his beloved has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, former CIA field agent Louis Morgon tries to ignore the simplicity of the evidence when his house suffers a minor break-in, but Morgon quickly learns that the motives are not what they might seem.
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