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"Nine months ago, Sadie Greene shocked friends and family by ditching her sensible office job in the Chicago suburbs and buying a sight-unseen French bicycling tour company, Oui Cycle. Now she's living the unconventional life of her dreams in the gorgeous village of Sans-Souci-sur-Mer. Sans souci means carefree, but Sadie feels enough pressure to burst a tire when hometown friends arrive for a tour, including her former boss, Dom Appleton. Sadie is...
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Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
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"Alix Leclaire has a plan: graduate high school and land her dream job as a feather artist at Mille et une Plume, where her creations will help define high fashion. Her best friend Jeanne will get a record contract and they'll take over the Paris art scene together. But then Jeanne dies. Alix is lost, until the day she feels Jeanne pushing her to the feather boutique. Soon, Alix is living a life she hardly recognizes—pursuing a passionate...
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
284 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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"During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding"--
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"Expat Zoe Barlow has settled well into her artist's life among the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris. When a too-tipsy guest at her weekly poker game breaks Zoe's favorite clock, she's off to a Montparnasse flea market to bargain with the vendor Laurette for a replacement. What Zoe didn't bargain for was the lost Chagall painting that's been used like a rag to wrap her purchases! Eager to learn whether Laurette has more Chagalls lying about like trash,...
5) The conjurer
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Series
The vine witch volume 3
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Sidra didn't murder her husband. Yet even a jinni can't wish away a wrongful imprisonment. Determined to prove her innocence, she returns to her adopted home--a French village renowned for its perfume witches--with her friends Elena and Yvette by her side. Here is where Sidra's true destiny awaits, but danger also lurks in the village's narrow lanes. On her trail is Jamra, another jinni, who's after more than revenge for the murder of his brother....
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The vine witch volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Abandoned as a child in turn-of-the-century Paris, Yvette Lenoir has longed to uncover the secrets of her magical heritage and tap her suppressed powers. But what brave and resourceful Yvette has done to survive the streets has made her a fugitive. With a price on her head, she clings to a memento from her past-what she believes to be a grimoire inherited from the mother she never knew. To unlock the secrets of her past, Yvette trusts in one woman...
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2023
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475 pages ; 21 cm
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"In 2018, Di�egane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author, once hailed as the 'Black Rimbaud,' after the book caused a scandal. Enthralled by this mystery, Di�egane decides to search for T.C. Elimane, going down a path that will force him to confront the great tragedies of history, from colonialism to the Holocaust. Alongside...
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Navona
Pub. Date
2022.
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412 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Cuando Sylvia Beach, una joven americana amante de los libros, abre Shakespeare and Company en una tranquila calle en el Par�is de 1919, no tiene ni idea de que cambiar�a el curso de la literatura. Shakespeare and Company es mucho m�as que una librer�ia. Hemingway y muchos de los escritores de la Generaci�on Perdida la consideran su segunda casa. All�i tambi�en se forjan algunas de las amistades literarias m�as importantes del siglo...
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Seix Barral (Editorial Planeta Mexicana)
Pub. Date
agosto de 2023.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 23 cm
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"Una deliciosa oda a la amistad en el corazón de Japón. Haru, un exitoso comerciante de arte de Kioto, cae rendido ante el encanto de una bellísima francesa que está de paso por la ciudad. Tiempo después, recibe un impactante mensaje en el que se le prohíbe acercarse al bebé nacido de su aventura. Dividido entre la emoción y la responsabilidad, Haru logrará mantener la terrible promesa de vivir alejado para siempre del ser al que más ama...
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Urano World Spain
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
540 pages ; 19 cm
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"Mar�ia Mart�inez se estrena en Amour (Rom�antica adulta contempor�anea) con una novela cargada de verdad y de sentimientos, que no dejar�a indiferente a nadie. . Un romance que a�una una historia de crecimiento personal y superaci�on con una trama de Navy Seals. . "Bajo el sol de la Toscana" pero con aires de la Provenza francesa. (S0(BExiste un amor por el que merece la pena esperar y luchar(S1(B. Sara est�a a punto de cumplir...
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Rashi's daughters volume 1
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xvi, 359 pages ; 22 cm
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In 1068, the scholar Salomon ben Isaac returns home to Troyes, France, to take over the family winemaking business and embark on a path that will indelibly influence the Jewish worldwriting the first Talmud commentary, and secretly teaching Talmud to his daughters. Joheved, the eldest of his three girls, finds her mind and spirit awakened by religious study, but, knowing the risk, she must keep her passion for learning and prayer hidden. When she...
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[2024]
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"Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian's house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. Holmes rushes after...
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