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21) Tropic of cancer
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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Saucy, brash, irreverent-The Book Of Phoebe is an extraordinary novel about a young woman's six-month sojourn in Paris, where she has a baby, falls madly in love, and discovers a great deal about the capacities of the human heart.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Emily Proudman's life is in chaos. She's just lost her acting agent and her job in one miserable day. Scott Denny has a problem. Even though he's a successful CEO, neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can come close to fixing it. He's at a breaking point. Until he meets Emily. Emily is friendly and agreeable. Emily is desperate. Emily is perfect. Scott offers Emily what seems the perfect summer job as a housekeeper and nanny on his remote...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Eleanor Roosevelt agrees to attend a meeting in 1941 at which a French/German resistance group plans to outline its plot to assassinate Hitler, but she realizes there is more going on than meets the eye when the German representative to the assembly is found murdered at their supposedly secret meeting site.
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Language
English
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E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, essayist, painter, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous paintings and drawings. He is remembered as an unsurpassed voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular, even today. Cummings attended Harvard, receiving both his bachelor's and master's by 1916. A year later, he enlisted in the...
26) 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.
27) In Another Life
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
She has fallen for a man who shouldn't exist Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. But instead of finding solace in the region's quiet hills and medieval ruins, she falls in love with Raoul, a man whose very existence challenges everything she knows about life-and about her husband's death. As Raoul reveals the story of his past to Lia, she becomes entangled in...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"A tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliff-hanger; an opaline vision of Americans in France. . . . A Sport and a Pastime succeeds as art must. It tells us about ourselves." -The New York Times Book Review Twenty-year-old Yale dropout Phillip Dean is traveling Europe aimlessly in a borrowed car with little money, until stopping for a few days in a church-quiet town near Dijon, where he meets Anne-Marie Costallat, a young shop assistant. She...
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It is Christmas of 2002. Joseph Steiner, a New York television executive, has just lost his job in the economic downturn that followed 9/11. America is about to invade Iraq, and the world is losing sympathy for its only superpower. As for Steiner, his run of good luck and privilege seems to be coming to an end. Steiner and his wife Mary, a severe yet alluring former fashion editor who now publishes left-wing political books, are visiting Paris,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses, putting the broken pieces of herself back together while rediscovering her own joie de vivre -- a lust for life, art, and steamy sex. "Artful, feminist, and emotionally gripping. The Unbreakables is a remarkable tribute to a woman's strength in the face of heartbreak and adversity." -- Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient The worst birthday ever...
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