Why does Vimy matter? How did a four-day battle at the midpoint of the Great War, a clash that had little strategic impact on the larger Allied war effort, become elevated to a national symbol of Canadian identity? Tim Cook, Canada’s...
France
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Author:Cook, TimSummary: -
Author:Berton, PierreSummary: - Author:Thiessen, VernSummary:
France, 1917. Four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge, waiting to find out where they'll be sent next: back home or back to the front. Along with a young nurse from Nova...
- Author:Brooke, JohnSummary:
HQ has ruled that Chief Inspector Aliette Nouvelle's failure to carry her gun directly contributed to the messy conclusion of a major murder case she'd led the previous summer. Her career now depends on a drastic about-face....
- Author:BICKEL, LennardSummary:
The story of Louis Braille, born in France in 1809, and his struggle amid harsh conditions to perfect a code of raised dots punched through sheets of paper, to fashion an alphabet that opened the world of learning to the blind.
- Author:Deborah, Priscille, Pavlowitch-Beck, JuliaSummary:
Comment se donner le droit d’exister quand son frère de neuf ans vient de mourir d’une maladie incurable? Prisonnière de ce drame familial, Priscille Deborah peine à donner un sens à sa vie. Longtemps, elle se refuse au bonheur. Jeune...
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Author:Walcott, DerekSummary:Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris. The poet himself hunts for a detail -- "a slash of pink on the inner thigh...
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Author:Faber, FelizSummary:How can love between two men possibly be responsible for a horse’s death during the Kentucky Derby? Reporter Will Yeats wants to know the truth. Seventeen years ago, a love affair between a jockey and a horse trainer and a tragic...
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Author:Johnston, A. J. B.Summary:Set in early-18th-century France, Thomas: A Secret Life is the imagined life of Thomas Pichon. We first meet Thomas as a twelve-year old in the small town of Vire, Normandy. Precociously sensuous by nature, Thomas is inclined to poetry...
- Author:Connelly, KarenSummary:
In her first book of poetry since The Small Words in My Body, which won the Pat Lowther Prize for 1990, Karen Connelly writes, in the tradition of the writer-adventurer, of vivid encounters and reflections abroad and at home,...
- Author:Furst, AlanSummary:
Set in the shadowy back streets and glittering salons of wartime Paris. Film producer Jean Casson, a Paris sophisticate struggles to come to terms with the uncomfortable realities of life under German occupation, as he becomes caught up...
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Author:Dumas, AlexandreSummary:Growing up in genteel poverty in 17th-century France, young d'Artagnan dreams of becoming a hero and sets out to join the elite company of the King's trusted Musketeers. Beautiful and deadly women, priceless treasures and scandalous...
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Author:Dumas, AlexandreSummary:During the reign of France's King Louis XIV, D'Artagnan and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richeliu.
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Author:Lebovitz, DavidSummary:An American pastry chef living in Paris shares his deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights.
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Author:Finnin, AnnSummary:"I was only an apprentice. I swear it. By all the angels in Heaven." Condemned to death by the Holy Office for sorcery, fifteen-year-old Michael de Lorraine is rescued from the flames by Abbot Francis and granted refuge at Sainte Felice...
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Author:StendhalSummary:The epic novel of the passsion between Madame de Renal and Julien Sorel. It is considered to be among the greatest literature of France.
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Author:Chee, AlexanderSummary:When Lilliet Berne is finally offered an original role at the Paris Opera, she realizes with alarm that it's based on a hidden piece of her past. As she searches for clues, she recalls her life as an orphan who went to Europe and was...
- Author:Manchette, Jean-PatrickSummary:
Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession. But the organization won't let him go--they have other plans.
- Author:Jay, GeraldSummary:
When ruthless assassin Klaus Reiner is hired to kill an American industrialist vacationing in France, he doesn't count on three tourists getting caught in the crossfire. And he certainly doesn't count on any trouble from an...
- Author:Buchanan, Cathy MarieSummary:
Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change--Paris in 1878--The Painted Girls is ultimately a tale of two remarkable girls rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of "civilized society."
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