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Author
Series
Cotton Malone volume 5
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
Awakened by a housebreaking stranger who is revealed to be a friend of Henrik Thorvaldsen and the father of a young man he once tried to save, Cotton Malone flees with the intruder when they are pursued by a shadowy organization.
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 8
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.
3) Sarah's key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an article on this dark episode and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
423 p.
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Fulfilling her mother's dying wish, anthropologist Susannah Connolly travels from her lifelong home on the Connecticut shoreline to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses, find a mysterious saint linked to her family's history, and fall in love with an American journalist-rancher with a spirited but troubled daughter.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school juniors Rosie Radeke and Henry Yi, both enrolled in an elite cooking program in Paris, must balance rivalry and romance.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the Nazis march into Paris, an American woman uses her bookstore to aid the resistance, while a businessman chooses to sell his products to Germany--and send vital information home to the US. Can they work together for the higher good, or will it cost them everything they love?"--
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
511 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a freelance assignment documenting the antique carousels of Paris, American photographer Cady Drake longs to restore the dilapidated carousel at Chateau Clement. Digging deeper into the past unearthing century-old photographs of the carousel and its creators, she might be the one person who can bring the past to light and reunite a family torn apart"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A veteran of the Great War, Jake Barnes is both physically and emotionally wounded, leaving him unable to be intimate. Even so, he pines after Lady Brett Ashley, a promiscuous twice-divorced woman. As feelings are hurt and punches are thrown, their lives and the lives of their friends and lovers become tangled as they journey from Paris to Spain and struggle with the repercussions that come from surviving the First World War. Sometimes referred to...
12) Leap of faith
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up desolate under the eye of a resentful great-aunt on an Iowa farm, Marie-Ange Hawkins dreams of returning to the French chateau where she lived before she was orphaned, but when she finally does so, she learns a devastating truth.
13) A good woman
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamor of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. When she is betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
453 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Bond has always been a bookworm, which is why she fled Florida - and her unstable, alcoholic mother - for a quiet life leading Jane Austen-themed tours through the British countryside. But on New Year's Eve, everything comes crashing down when she arrives back at her London flat to find her mother, Marla, waiting for her. Marla's brought two things with her: a black eye from her ex-boyfriend and an envelope. Its contents? The deed to an apartment...
15) Tropic of Cancer
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of Bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...