Henry Carter Hull

"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...

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...

A brash American expatriate confronts the profound differences between the Old and New Worlds in this classic tale. Soon after wealthy businessman Christopher Newman decides to leave America for a life of leisure in Europe, he becomes acquainted with Claire de Cintré, a beautiful widow whose family-the Bellegardes-are mainstays of the French aristocracy. Determined to win Claire's affection, Newman befriends her brother, Valentin, and pursues his...

Contemporary romance author and queen of British chick-lit Jenny Colgan takes readers on a trip to Paris, where she weaves together two parallel love stories that play out inside the city of love's premiere chocolate shop-where sometimes dreams really can come true. It's a fact that Anna Trent is a supervisor in a chocolate factory...but that doesn't necessarily mean she knows how to make chocolate. And when a fateful accident gives her the opportunity...

From super sleuth to supermodel Axelle Anderson doesn't care about fashion, in spite of her pushy fashionista aunt, Venetia. All Axelle wants to do in life is solve mysteries. But when top fashion designer Belle La Lune goes missing and Aunt Venetia becomes a prime suspect, Axelle must go undercover as a model to bring the truth into the spotlight. Who knew modeling could be such a dangerous game?

The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie is a masterfully crafted detective novel that plunges readers into the mysterious world of murder and intrigue. The story opens with Hercule Poirot receiving a desperate plea for help from Paul Renauld, a wealthy man residing in France. When Poirot and his companion, Captain Hastings, arrive at Renauld's estate, they discover him dead in a freshly dug grave on a golf course. As Poirot delves into the investigation,...

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...

"Could a temporary job". lead to forever with her boss? In this Escape to Provence story, before she formally adopts her nephew, Nathalie Fournier decides to try to find his father. Her search leads to a picturesque Provençal vineyard where she takes a temporary job--and becomes captivated by her boss, billionaire Dominic Fontesquieu. Dominic's the man of Nathalie's dreams, but can he escape the ties of his family to claim her as his own? The Escape...

The Phantom of the Opera (1910) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. Originally serialized in Le Galois, the novel was inspired by legends revolving around the Paris Opera from the early nineteenth century. Originally, a journalist, Leroux turned to fiction after reading the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. Despite its lack of success relative to Leroux's other novels, The Phantom of the Opera has become legendary through several...

"Love blooms just as war tears two people apart" in this novel about an Armenian refugee family in Nazi-occupied Paris (The New York Times). All the Light There Was is the story of an Armenian family's struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Paris in the 1940s--a lyrical, finely wrought tale of loyalty, love, and the many faces of resistance. On the day the Nazis march down the rue de Belleville, fourteen-year-old Maral Pegorian is living with...