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Charles Vincent seems to have it all a beautiful wife, two successful children, and a well-paying career. Yet happiness remains out of reach. He is trapped in a loveless marriage and his job is simply a paycheck. But his life changes forever one night as he drives along the Normandy coast, heading to their lavish ćhateau for the weekend. In one terrifying moment, Charles falls asleep at the wheel and veers off the road, plunging thirty feet down...
182) Map of the heart
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Susan Wiggs returns with a deeply emotional and atmospheric story of love and family, war and secrets that moves back and forth across time, from the present day to World War II France. An accomplished photographer, widow, and mother, Camille Palmer is content with the blessings she's enjoyed. When her ageing father asks her to go with him to his native France, she has no idea that she's embarking on an adventure that will shake her complacency and...
183) Sabotage!
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Linford
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"Lauren Nichols and her sister Jessica are part of a group of friends traveling to Notre-Dame-des-Bois in France for a five-day rally of classic car enthusiasts. From the start, Lauren is strongly attracted to Rafe Corsini, a newcomer to the gang. But jealousies and rivalries soon flare, and it becomes apparent that someone is targeting members of the group by sabotaging their cars"--Publisher.
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Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the U.S. military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It's a job usually reserved for men but in the war, those...
185) A question of honor
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In this emotionally powerful new entry in the vivid period mystery series, nurse Bess Crawford investigates an old murder that occurred in India, a search for the truth that will transform her and leave her pondering a troubling question: how can facts lie? Print run 50,000.
While tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess Crawford discovers that an officer from her father's regiment who had killed five people in...
186) The balcony
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What if our homes could tell the stories of others who lived there before us? Set in a small village near Paris, The Balcony follows the inhabitants of a single estate--including a manor and a servants' cottage--over the course of several generations, from the Belle Époque to the present day, introducing us to a fascinating cast of characters. A young American au pair develops a crush on her brilliant employer. An ex-courtesan shocks the servants,...
187) Sadie X
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"Having followed the brilliant virologist Régnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day, she pushes the limits of her understanding alongside Régnier, who taught her that to study viruses, she must think infectiously, allow herself to be contaminated by dangerous ideas. By night, Sadie loses herself...
188) The light of Paris
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"The miraculous new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Eleanor Brown, whose debut, The Weird Sisters, was a sensation beloved by critics and readers alike. Madeleine is trapped--by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears--in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories,...
190) The award: a novel
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"Capturing historical events, terrifying moments of danger, tragedy, the price of war, and the invincible spirit of a woman of honor, The Award is a monumental tale from one of our most gifted storytellers--Danielle Steel's finest, most emotionally resonant novel yet. Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest...
191) Love like blood
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Little, Brown
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As DI Nicola Tanner investigates what appears to be a series of organised killings, her partner Susan is brutally murdered, leaving the detective bereft, and vengeful. Taken off the case, Tanner enlists the help of DI Tom Thorne to pursue a pair of ruthless killers and the broker handing out the deadly contracts. As the killers target their latest victim, Thorne takes the biggest risk of his career and is drawn into a horrifying and disturbing world...
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In September 1949 Jacqueline Bouvier arrives in postwar Paris to begin her junior year abroad. She's twenty years old, socially poised but financially precarious, and all too aware of her mother's expectations that she make a brilliant match. Before relenting to family pressure, she has one year to herself far away from sleepy Vassar College and the rigid social circles of New York, a year to explore and absorb the luminous beauty of the City of Light....
194) The family upstairs
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Family upstairs volume 1
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Bestselling author of "Watching You" introduces us to Libby Jones, orphaned at six months old. Now twenty-five, she's astounded to learn of an inheritance that will change her life. As Libby investigates the story of her birth parents and the dark legacy of her new home, Clemency and Lucy are headed her way to uncover, and possibly protect, secrets of their own.
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Linford
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Painting conservator Grace is excited to be joining the Christmas celebrations at a rural French chateau, along with her dress-designer sister Natasha. She's looking forward to helping her sister put on a fashion show, studying the chateau's extensive collection of paintings, taking part in a murder mystery evening - and perhaps falling in love with her hostess's son, bad-boy singer-songwriter Kai Curtis. But events soon start to take a sinister turn......
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Known for its luxurious accommodations and bespoke service, the Hotel Louis XVI has been the most lauded boutique hotel in all of Paris for decades, attracting an international clientele of the rich and famous. Now, after four years of renovations and the death of its legendary and beloved manager, it is set to reopen its doors at last. An esteemed group of loyal returning guests is set to descend upon the hotel, joined by a number of new faces who...
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Emperor series volume 3
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Delacorte Press
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Follows the exploits of Julius Caesar on the fields of battle as he leads Rome's legions on a trail of conquest that takes them beyond the city, victories that lead to unrest at home as his political adversaries rise to power in his absence.
200) The ghosts of Paris
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Billie Walker Mystery #2, following WAR WIDOW. It's 1947. The world continues to grapple with the fallout of WWII, and former war reporter Billie Walker is finding her feet as an investigator. When a wealthy client hires Billie and her assistant, Sam, to track down her missing husband, the trail leads back to London and Paris, where Billie's own painful memories also lurk. Jack Rake, Billie's wartime lover and, briefly, husband, is just one of the...
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