Paris, 1919. The world's leaders have gathered to rebuild from the ashes of the Great War. But for one woman, the City of Light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons, for which many could pay dearly. Brought to the peace...
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- Author:Jenoff, Pam.Summary:
- Author:Johnson, DouglasSummary:
- Author:Proust, MarcelSummary:
The taste of a madeleine dipped in tea transports a man into a reverie about his old family friend Charles Swann and launches the world’s the most introspective literary masterpiece. The first of the seven-volume Remembrance of Things...
- Author:Brown, MarciaSummary:
When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.
- Author:Rosnay, Tatiana deSummary:
On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on...
- Author:Proust, MarcelSummary:
Here are the first two volumes of Proust’s monumental achievement, Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann’s Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his...
- Author:Proust, MarcelSummary:
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust is the story of a young boy's journey through life. It is suggested that the ambiguous, unnamed narrator is partially autobiographical. The narrator experiences several romances, which lead...
- Author:Menzies, Charles R.Summary:
"Small-scale, family fishing enterprises manage to persist despite a range of difficult economic and ecological changes and disruptions. Red Flags and Lace Coiffes is an ... ethnography that explores how and why family-based...
- Author:Ellul, Jacques, Vanderburg, Willem H.Summary:
Originally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Jacques Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looking for new ways of understanding our society, and also gives unique new insight...
- Author:Dubos, René J.Summary:
- Author:Luckett, Jacqueline E.Summary:
Nicole-Marie has loved all things French since she was a child. After the death of her best friend, determined to get out of her rut, she goes to Paris, leaving behind a marriage proposal. While there, Nicole chances upon an old photo...
- Author:Callan, Jamie CatSummary:
An engaging and practical guide to cultivating inner beauty, mystique, and that irresistible je ne sais quoi. We all know that French women don't get fat. But their famous joie de vivre comes from more than just body type-something...
- Author:Sexton, MarieSummary:
Sequel to The Letter Z Zach Mitchell and his lover Angelo Green are headed to Paris (along with their Coda friends Matt and Jared) to attend Jon and Cole's wedding. Matt will have to face Jared's former lover, and Angelo will have to...
- Author:Tachna, ArielSummary:
All his life, French racer Daniel Leroux has dreamed of one thing: winning the World Rally Championship. To do that, he needs a co-driver he can trust. If only he could find one…. At the end of a disastrous season, Daniel’s manager...
- Author:Freedman, RussellSummary:
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
- Author:Tachna, ArielSummary:
Offered a yearlong medical research fellowship in France, Shane Johnson has many hopes for the experience: a chance to improve his French, an opportunity to hone his research skills before starting his PhD at Baylor and the freedom to...
- Author:Gay, Marie-Louise, Homel, DavidSummary:
In the sequel to Travels With My Family, the family is on the road again -- this time to spend a year in a tiny village in southern France. They experiences the spring migration of sheep up to the mountain pastures, the annual running...
- Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:
Finalist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award. Orphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, fifteen-year-old Abdul has made a long, fraught journey from his war-torn home in Baghdad, only to end up...
- Author:Diop, Boubacar BorisSummary:
- Author:O'Brien, CharlesSummary:
Picture the Scarlet Pimpernell as a woman dealing with murder before the Terror made heads roll. It’s the eve of the French Revolution. Fiscal crisis and social tensions brew. Anne Cartier, a headstrong young vaudeville actress at...