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241) The woman from Paris
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When Lord Frampton dies in a skiing accident, a beautiful young woman named Phaedra appears at his funeral--claiming to be the lord's illegitimate daughter. In his will, Lord Frampton has left the priceless Frampton suite of sapphires to this interloper, confirming her claim and outraging his three adult sons and widow. Eventually, however, Phaedra's sweet nature thaws the frosty relationships. She becomes the daughter that Antoinette Frampton never...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
A futuristic novel, written in the 1860s, describing the Paris of the 1960s, a city of cars, computers, even fax machines. The rulers are corporations, technology is god and people are expected to accept material profit as the reason for living. The novel was rejected by the publisher of the day as unrealistic.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The secret is hidden within a collection of Dior dresses.... London, 2017. There's no one Lucille loves more than her grandmother (not even her mother, she's ashamed to say). So when her beloved Granny Sylvie asks Lucille to help secure the return of something that is precious to her, she's happy to help. The next thing she knows, Lucille is on a train to Paris, tasked with retrieving a priceless Dior dress. But not everything is as it seems, and...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman Palestine. A dreamer, a romantic, an aesthete, in 1914 he leaves to...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An enchanting story about a writer remembering her short time in Paris and her reflections on friendships, relationships, and her younger self in a beautiful dual-language edition. Paris has long been romanticized as the city of light. A city with a vibrant literary and artistic expatriate community. Corina--nicknamed Puffina--is a young writer hoping to find that idealized community, but when her money runs out sooner than expected, she finds a...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In enemy-occupied Paris, as the locals go to bed starving and defeated by the war, music and laughter spills through the door of a little restaurant, crowded with German soldiers. The owner Marianne moves on weary feet between its packed tables, carrying plates of steaming, wholesome food for the enemy officers. Her smile is bright and sparkling, her welcome cordial. Nobody would guess the hatred she hides in her heart. That night, the restaurant...
247) Night train to Paris
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
©2020
Language
English
Description
Paris, 1945. Fen looked out over the rooftops as the sun was setting. The letter she was holding, written on blue paper, was the clue she'd been searching for. She wiped away a tear and pulled herself together. Who would want to murder her dearest friend? Fen Churche arrives in Paris, determined to put the horrors of the war behind her. But the city of lights has lost its spark, except inside the beautiful apartment of Fen's godmother, artist Rose...
Author
Series
Inspector Maigret volume 24, 25, 66, 67
Publisher
Galahad Books
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Murder is on the menu in this outstanding collection of four complete Simenon novels, featuring the unparalleled talents of Superintendent Maigret of the Police Judiciaire. If you have an appetite for a juicy plot, meaty characters and a sweet pay-off -- with a tasty sprinkling of clues to season the dish -- pull up a comfortable chair and feast on this four-star collection of delectable mysteries from one of the master storytellers of our time.
Maigret...
250) Novels, 1903-1911
Author
Series
Library of America volume 215
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
"This volume, the sixth and final in The Library of America's edition of the complete novels of Henry James, brings together two masterpieces of his extraordinary late period--The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904)--as well as his last extended narrative work, The Outcry (1911), a short comic novel of social manners.
"The idea for The Ambassadors came from James's friend William Dean Howells, who told of having given advice to a friend...
251) Peril in Paris
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her dashing husband, Darcy, are awaiting a bundle of joy, but an unexpected trip to Paris will thrust them straight into a tangled web of international intrigue in this all-new mystery in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series from Rhys Bowen. What a delight it is to finally be able to enjoy a simple meal again! I have been in the throes of morning sickness for the last few months as Darcy and I prepare to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Three months ago, Juliette D'Alisa's world changed. In a bittersweet series of events, her mother's health took a turn for the worse. Juliette and her brother opened their restaurant together to rave reviews, but her romance with Memphis immunologist Neil McLaren ended in anger and tears. As autumn sweeps into the Pacific Northwest, Juliette feels that she's finally on the cusp of equilibrium. The restaurant continues to thrive, and her family is...
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