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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.
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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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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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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.
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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
...7) Red gold
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As the German occupation of France tightens, Jean Casson finds himself hiding from the Gestapo and running guns to combat units of the French Communist party.
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An urban antidote to A Year in Provence, Stephen Clarke's book is a laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of an expat in Paris--for Francophiles and Francophobes alike. A Year in the Merde is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an expat in Paris. Based loosely on his own experiences and with names changed to "avoid embarrassment, possible legal action and to prevent the author's legs being broken by someone in a Yves Saint...
9) The reef
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Everyman's library volume 201
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"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...
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IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 15
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In 1738, an orphaned child is given to the monks as a charity case. Although he has no smell at all himself, he possesses an absolute sense of smell. He can smell the very composition of objects, and their history.
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Greetings from somewhere volume 3
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IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"In Paris, France, twins Ethan and Ella must find a stolen painting and a secret bakery without giving themselves away"--
12) Le mariage
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Two couples, Anna-Sophie, a Parisienne antiques dealer, and her fiancee, American journalist Tim Nolinger; and Clara Holly, an American actress married to Polish director Serge Cray; become involved in a complicated web of theft, murder, wrongful arrest, seduction, and love.
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Perdita Halley, a young woman who has turned down the proposal of Alexander von Reisden, fearing marriage would impede her music career, instead begins a passionate, clandestine affair with him in Paris in 1910, until an American acquaintance arrives and turns gossip into scandal.
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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...
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Cantankerous and vinegar-tongued Grandmama, from Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, is the leading character in this Christmas novel, which unfolds in the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes off the English Channel. Grandmama arrives on a holiday visit to the home of Charlotte's parents, where a fellow guest-an outcast from her own family-is subsequently murdered. Like the heroes before her in Anne Perry's Christmas novels, Grandmama is called...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Lizzie Nichols feels her life is finally on the right track, with a career she loves, the perfect fiance, and a dream wedding in the works, but everything begins to fall apart when she finds herself falling for her fiance's best friend.
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"A hilarious romp." -Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat
The charming tale of a small French town in which the local barber, whose business is failing as his clients grow older and lose their hair, decides to become the town matchmaker.
Barber Guillaume Ladoucette has always enjoyed great success in his tiny village in southwestern France, catering to the tonsorial needs of Amour-sur-Belle's thirty-three inhabitants. But times have changed. His customers...
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"Literate crime thrillers don't get much better than this." -Publishers Weekly (starred) on L'Assassin
Peter Steiner has thoroughly impressed sophisticated thriller mavens everywhere with his critically acclaimed novels featuring ex-CIA operative Louis Morgon. Now, in what is indubitably Steiner's finest book to date, Louis attempts to solve a mystery with roots going back as far as World War II.
When Louis purchases a rundown house in Saint-Leon-sur-Dême,...
19) Point blank
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
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Beth Allen takes a job in London and is shocked to learn her new boss is Jack Thornfield, the man who broke her heart years earlier, and although she tries to keep her feelings in check, soon the sparks are flying between them again and Beth must decide if she is willing to take a chance on love again.
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