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2) 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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Series
Language
English
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Young private detective Aimee Leduc, hired to decipher a fifty-year-old encrypted photograph and deliver it to an old woman in the Jewish quarter of Paris, decides to investigate when she arrives at the woman's home to find a corpse with a swastika carved on its forehead.
6) Madeline
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Portrays the love affair and marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Mowrer from their Chicago meeting in 1920 to their lives during the Jazz Age in Paris, but as Ernest struggles to find his literary voice, Hadley tries to define her role in their relationship as wife, friend, and muse.
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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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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...
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Language
English
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Cara Black's Aimee Leduc mystery series transports listeners to the streets of Paris for dark crime stories. Working in her office, Aimee is surprised by Mireille, a Haitian immigrant who claims to be her sister. But before Aimee can learn more, Mireille disappears, leaving only a note behind. Following up on the note, Aimee soon becomes wrapped up in a sprawling international conspiracy.
15) The butterfly
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom.
19) Madame Bovary
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English
Description
Madame Bovary, often ranked among the greatest novels of all time, is considered Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece, with authors from Henry James to Proust to Nabokov heaping it with praise.
The novel tells the story of Madame Bovary, a commoner wife of a country doctor, and her attempts to escape the drudgery
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