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Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A graphic-novel retelling of Victor Hugo's story, in which strong Quasimodo, stowed away in the bell tower of the Cathedral of Notre Dame and treated like a monster, meets a kind Gypsy girl, Esmeralda, and becomes an unexpected hero.
Author
Series
Song of Montsegur volume 1
Publisher
Kunati
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Historical thriller focused on the 13th century Cathar crusade, the development of tarot cards, Pope Innocent IV, Saint Louis of France, the Holy Grail, based on true history"--Provided by publisher.
6) Jewels
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Sarah, a young woman of the 1930s, is raised in Manhattan and Southampton. Divorce brings her to Europe where she marries the Duke of Whitfield. Then war threatens to destroy her happiness.
7) Old Goriot
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Translation of: Pere Goriot. Focuses around the grasping Parisian society of the 1820s.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
"A gripping page-turner...a riveting reminder of sacrifices made by history's most unlikely heroes." -Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Ways We Hide
An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.
In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home during Emperor Napoleon III's renovation of Paris and while she stakes her claim in the basement she begins to write letters to her dead husband and is forced to come to terms with a secret that has been buried for thirty years.
Author
Series
Rosie volume 2
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this stunning adventure set in war-torn France-a British agent finds herself in Nazi territory-and unsure about who to trust . . .
It's the spring of 1944 and Rosie Ewing is returning to German-occupied France, by air, this time.
She's carrying a radio, half a million francs, a pistol, and two cyanide capsules to Finistere in north-west Brittany.
With D-Day looming, Rosie fears that the man who'll be meeting her on the ground tonight...
14) To the Castle
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Twelfth-century Normandy-;as a fierce battle for the crown erupts, a powerful knight and his innocent bride will discover their destinies are passionately entwined...;.
Just weeks away from taking her holy vows, Nell de Bonvile learns of her elder sister's tragic death. Swept from the convent, she is ordered to take Sybilla's place as bride to Roger de Roche, heir to Britain's most powerful earldom. Lovely, naive and totally unprepared for life outside...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut-a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once mentioned the family she left behind when she moved to America...
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