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"An epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II"--Provided by publisher.
"Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister...
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Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group—the fabled “Lost Generation”—that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Though deeply in...
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For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the...
5) Jackdaws
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British operative Felicity "Flick" Clariet, her confidence shaken by a previous disaster, is given the nearly impossible task of recruiting and training a group of six women, to be known as the Jackdaws, to infiltrate and destroy Europe's largest telephone exchange, sabotaging German communications in preparation for D-Day.
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Marianne Messman, a housewife, wants to escape her loveless marriage and an uncaring and unfeeling husband of 35 years. She and her husband, army sergeant major Lothar, take a trip to Paris, during which Marianne leaps off the Pont Neuf into the Seine, but she is saved from drowning by a homeless man. Angered by her behaviour Major Lothar takes a coach trip back home to Germany, expecting that a psychologist will escort Marianne home a few days later....
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"A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize...
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St. Martin's Press
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2003.
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On his own after his network is dismantled by the Nazis, American socialite spy Stephen Metcalfe sets out from Paris to Moscow to find a former lover, ballerina Svetlana Baranova, and must choose between potentially saving the free world and saving the woman he realizes he still loves.
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Cotton Malone volume 1
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2006.
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Antiquarian book dealer Cotton Malone, once an operative with the U.S. Justice Department, jumps back into the world of espionage when his former supervisor Stephanie Nelle is attacked while researching the truth behind the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been hoarded by the Knights Templar.
12) The butterfly
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Puffin Books
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2009.
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During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom.
15) The kiss
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Isabelle, the beautiful wife of a Parisian banker, and Bill, a Washington power broker, take refuge from their loveless marriages by indulging in a telephone friendship, but when they finally decide to meet in London for a few days, they experience a tragedy that has a tremendous impact on their rest of their lives.
16) House of spies
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#1 NYT Bestseller
#1 USA Bestseller
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Black Widow comes the thrilling new summer blockbuster featuring legendary spy, assassin and art restorer Gabriel Allon.
A heart-stopping tale of suspense, Daniel Silva's runaway bestseller, The Black Widow, was one of 2016's biggest novels.
...17) Eagle Strike
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Alex Rider volume 4
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Speak
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2006.
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690L
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After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
18) Honor thyself
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Actress and author Carole Barber is caught in a Paris terrorist attack and awakens from a coma with no memory of who she is, and as she struggles to rebuild her life, she finds happiness with a man from her past who never stopped loving her.
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Berkley Books
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2010.
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Eleanor of Aquitaine, accustomed to being regarded for herself, is unhappy to receive only reflected glory as the wife of France's King Louis VII in 1151, but her life changes when she encounters young Henry D'Anjou, a distant heir to the British throne, and she embarks on a secret affair while striving to win power of her own.
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