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"When Danielle Martons father is killed during the early days of the German Occupation, her mother sends her to live in a quiet farming town near Limoges in Vichy France. Now called Marie-Jeanne Chantier, Danielle struggles to balance the truth of whats happened to her family and her country with the lies she must tell to keep herself safe. At first, shes bitter about being left behind by her mother, and horrified at having to milk the cow and memorize...
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Fools' Guild mysteries volume 8
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"Only a fool would pass this one up." --Laurie R. King In 1205, Theophilos--a fool by trade, a family man by choice, and a spy by design--belongs, along with his family, to the Fools' Guild, a group that secretly maintains the fragile order of society. In Toulouse, that order is threatened when, unexpectedly, a man claiming to be a full brother of the ruling count is found one morning in a local bordello next to a dead whore, killed with his own sword....
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1870: The Prussians are at the city gates, intent to starve Paris into submission. Lisette Vigneau--headstrong, willful, and often ignored by her wealthy parents--awaits the outcome of the war from her parents' grand home in the Place Royale in the very heart of the city. When an excursion throws her into the path of a revolutionary National Guardsman, Théodore Fournier, her destiny is forever changed. She gives up her life of luxury to join in the...
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Catherine LeVendeur mysteries volume 3
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The theft of an Anglo-Saxon religious relic and the murder of a Jewish merchant threaten to disrupt the peace between Christians and Jews in medieval Paris, and Catherine and her husband, Edgar are desperate to solve the crimes.
86) A dwarf kingdom
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 15
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Henri Castang is feeling at loose ends after being forced into retirement from the European Community's Police Judiciaire, so when his wife Vera inherits a house in Biarritz, the couple decides to settle in, not knowing the property is the target of an unscrupulous land developer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
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"In this thoughtful coming-of-age memoir, a young sociologist reflects on her Moroccan immigrant parents, their journey to France, and how growing up an outsider shaped her identity. Imbued with tenderness for her family and a critical view of the challenges facing French North African immigrants, Kaoutar Harchi's probing account illustrates the deeply personal effects of political issues. Mixed with happy memories of her childhood home in eastern...
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"For half a century, the French writer Annie Ernaux has transgressed the boundaries of what stories are considered worth telling, what subjects worth exploring. In this probing meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a ubiquitous feature of modern life that has received scant attention in literature. Recording her visits to a store near Paris for over a year, she captures the world that exists within its...
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On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his brother King Charles, who had gone mad. As panic seized Paris, an investigation began. In charge was the Provost of Paris, Guillaume de Tignonville, the city's chief law enforcement officer, and one of history's first detectives. As de Tignonville began to investigate, he realized...
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"Poppy Banks would rather be writing mysteries than writing listicles for her dead-end job at Thought Buzz. But after a series of rejections, she's ready to accept life on the sidelines as a plus-size woman. Her aunt Margot is the one person unwilling to give up on her niece's dreams and tells her so at their secret yearly lunches. But all of Poppy's beliefs about herself are challenged when her beloved aunt dies and leaves her niece a grand surprise--a...
92) France
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"Most people have heard of Paris, France, but there is so much more to this large, lovely European country! From the Eiffel Tower to the shores of the Mediterranean, the most amazing parts of France are highlighted in this colorful book. A kid narrator embarks on a road trip and brings readers along to see the art, history, and geography of France. Accessible main text supports elementary social studies curricula as well as global cultural studies,...
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They say Ľon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris Conservatory, there's no way an impoverished musician can make his way in 1890s Paris without an outside patron. Young gossip columnist Marcel Proust takes Ľon under his wing, and the boys game their way through an extravagant new world. When the larger-than-life Count Robert de Montesquiou-̌Fzensac offers...
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"Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school...[Bertie's] job depresses her, but not as much as the fact that Kate has recently decided to move...When Bertie's attempts to make Kate stay fail, she suggests the next-best thing: a trip to Paris...One night in Paris, they meet a strange man in a bar who offers them a private tour of the Louvre. The women find themselves alone in the museum, where nothing is quite as it seems. Caught up in...
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The bestselling saga of crime and international intrigue that lifted the gangster novel to astonishing new heights Dragged from the dank, rat-infested prison cell where he has spent the past few months, Buonaparte Sartene is given a choice: Join the French Resistance or rot in jail for the next seven years. The adopted son of a Corsican Mafia family, Sartene is a thief with a capacity for violence and a knack for subterfuge-valuable tools in the fight...
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Travels with my family volume 2
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Charlie and his family move to a rural village in France where farmers gather their mushrooms in the fields, boys play soccer in the streets, sheep roam in the pastures, and good friends are easy to meet.
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In the spring of 1939, on the eve of her thirteenth birthday, a girl sits in a waiting room in Marseilles. Ilse is half Jewish; her mother has sent her out of Germany to a place she hopes will afford her daughter absolute safety. But instead, Ilse’s journey takes her deep into the landscape of war: first to Morocco, then to Paris under the threat of Nazi invasion. Traveling across borders, blown by circumstances beyond her control, Ilse must use...
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"Few things shocked the world more in the terrible month of June 1940 than seeing Marshal Philippe Pétain-a highly decorated hero of the first world war-shaking hands with Hitler. Pausing to look at the cameras, he announced that France would henceforth collaborate with Germany. "This is my policy," he intoned. "My ministers are responsible to me. It is I alone who will be judged by History." Five years later, in July 1945, Pétain was put on trial...
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San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown. His patronage offers the women the chance of a lifetime, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a devastating...
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Ragny, in danger from her own father who has murdered her mother, disguises herself as Roderick the Beardless in the last days of the ninth century and proves to be a formidable warrior against the Viking raiders, but she faces a test of love and loyalty when her secret is discovered.
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