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"Strange things are going on at the Paris Opera House: a mysterious phantom--a skeleton in dinner dress--is wreaking havoc amongst the singers and the backstage staff. When new managers take over, and dismiss the rumours of the Opera Ghost, the terror really begins. Who is the mysterious figure stalking the stage at night? How can he be everywhere at once, and enter and leave locked rooms at will? And what is his connection to the beautiful and talented...
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France, 1914. Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family's ancestral estate, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major's aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. Betrayal will shatter them both. France, 1942. Raised by her American grandmother in the Hotel Ritz, Marguerite 'Daisy' Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator,...
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Two weeks after Princess Diana's death in Paris in 1997, an illegal Haitian immigrant named Mireille walks into Aimeé Leduc's office, claiming that Aimeé's late father was also her father. Before Aimeé can learn more, Mireille disappears, leaving only a cryptic note with an address in the Latin Quarter where the indomitable Parisian detective finds the corpse of a well-dressed black man with his ear cut off.
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The shiny, new Eiffel Tower is the pride and glory of the 1889 World Exposition. Unfortunately, on one sunny afternoon, a woman collapses and dies on this Paris landmark. Victor Legris, a bookseller who happened to be on the tower at the time of the incident, is determined to find out what actually happened.
9) Panama
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In attempting to locate an American woman studying in Paris, Henry Adams finds she is somehow involved in the French Panama Canal Company scandal. Now he must locate her before she becomes its next victim.
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Private Investigator Aimée Leduc prepares to go to New York to meet a younger brother she had never previously heard of, but before she can leave, she is arrested for shooting her partner, René Friant, and as she tries to figure out who is trying to frame her, a series of murders ensue and she has a difficult time persuading the stubborn Inspector Melac of her innocence.
11) Tropic of cancer
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A semi-autobiographical, picaresque novel about the seamier side of Parisian life in the 1930s.
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"To celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Grace has planned the surprise of a lifetime for her husband--a romantic getaway to Paris. But she never expected he'd have a surprise of his own: he wants a divorce. Reeling from the shock but refusing to be broken, a devastated Grace makes the bold decision to go to Paris alone. Audrey, a young woman from London, has left behind a heartache of her own when she arrives in Paris. A job in a bookshop...
13) Le mariage
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Le Mariage introduces a proper young French woman engaged to a struggling American journalist hot on the trail of a breaking story; the theft of a valuable illuminated manuscript from a collection in New York, which rumor has it may have found its way into the hands of a reclusive film director living on the outskirts of Paris. The director's wife, an American beauty and former actress, enters a Kafkaesque nightmare as she finds herself wrongly accused...
14) Red gold
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Night soldiers volume 5
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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.
15) Foreign bodies
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In her sixth novel, Cynthia Ozick retells the story of Henry James's The Ambassadors as a photographic negative, retaining the plot but reversing the meaning.
Foreign Bodies transforms Henry James's prototype into a brilliant, utterly original, new American classic. At the core of the story is Bea Nightingale, a fiftyish divorced schoolteacher whose life has been on hold during the many years since her brief marriage. When her estranged, difficult...
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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...
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Aimee Leduc investigations volume 8
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Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc accepts the marriage proposal of her former lover, Yves, and then finds herself trying to avenge his murder, which is connected to Turkish-Kurdish politics and Islamic terrorism.
18) Madame Martine
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On a chase to retrieve her new dog, a longtime resident of Paris ascends the Eiffel Tower for the first time, discovering how much beauty she has been missing all these years and deciding to try something new each week.
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Ed Clancy and Joe Shelby are journalists with the Paris Star, relics of the print newspaper heyday, the internet age has taken them by surprise and the two friends are faced with the death of their careers and for Shelby the love of his life Faria Duclos who has left him and is now in exile.
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Good thief's guide volume 2
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Charlie Howard-globe-trotting mystery writer, professional thief, and poor decision maker-is in Paris. Flush with the success of his latest book reading, Charlie agrees to show a complete novice how to break into an apartment in the Marais. Fast-forward twenty-four hours and Charlie's hired to steal an ordinary-looking oil painting-from the exact same address. Mere coincidence? Charlie figures there's no harm in finding out-until a dead body turns...
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