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'I seem to have a life only for other people.' Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his august patron, Mrs. Newsome, is to discover what, or who, is keeping her son Chad in the notorious city of pleasure, and to bring him home. But Strether finds Chad transformed by the influence of a remarkable woman;...
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Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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291 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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Accused of shooting her partner, Aimée Leduc must also contend with the fact that someone is impersonating her, a taxman is investigating her firm, and two murders may have a connection to the youth Aimée sent to prison.
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Soho
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[2003], c2002
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322 p. : map ; 20 cm.
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Set in Paris's historic Sentier district, Aimée Leduc is called into investigate when members of a 1960s Red gang leave a trail of bodies as they search for their hidden loot--a gang that may include Aimée's long-lost mother.
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Vampire chronicles volume 6
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
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387 p. ; 25 cm.
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Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 13
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Not just an ordinary priest but a priest/television superstar, idolized by the people of France, loved by everyone except, of course the French hierarchy, the church, state and the Paris television community.
The Archbishop of Paris, familiar with Bishop Blackie Ryan's impressive sleuthing skills, asks Blackie's boss, the Archbishop of Chicago Sean Cardinal Cronin, for help in finding this missing priest. As usual, Cardinal Cronin resolves the matter...
13) Private Paris
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2016.
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"When Jack Morgan stops by Private's Paris office, he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing trip filled with fine food and sightseeing. But Jack is quickly pressed into duty after a call from his client Sherman Wilkerson, asking Jack to track down his young granddaughter who is on the run from a brutal drug dealer. Before Jack can locate her, several members of France's cultural elite are found dead--murdered in stunning, symbolic fashion....
14) What she saw
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HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2017]
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293, 11 pages ; 21 cm
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"A taut, stylish thriller set over the course of 24 hours in Paris, for fans of Chris Pavone's THE EXPATS and Olen Steinhauer's THE TOURIST"--
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2011
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242 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
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A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love, and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways.
17) The other woman
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 18
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"In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason's name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin's most closely guarded secret. Long ago, the KGB inserted a mole into the heart of the West-a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power."--Amazon.com.
19) A dash of magic
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"Twelve-year-old Rose Bliss and her siblings track down magical ingredients in Paris so Rose can compete in a baking challenge against her evil aunt and win back the family's magical cookbook"--
20) Iron magicians
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Quirk Books
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[2019]-
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volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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In a world where mana crystals power the machines that make Paris run, a talented technomagy student must track down the missing mana crystals set to power the Eiffel Tower for the upcoming Universal Exhibition of 1889.
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