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Four American debutantes attend a renowned Paris cotillion in #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel's captivating new novel.It's the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Four young women, all with something to prove, receive what some...
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"In 1919, in a small town in the province of Berry, France, under the crushing heat of summer heat wave, a war hero is being held prisoner in an abandoned barracks. In front of the door to his prison, a mangy dog barks night and day. Miles from where he is being held, in the French countryside, a young extraordinarily intelligent woman works the land the land, waiting and hoping. A judge whose principles have been sorely shaken by the war is traveling...
4) Mood indigo
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The basis of the new major movie from Michel Gondry, starring Audrey Tautou, the beloved French modern classic hailed as "the most poignant love story of our time" by Raymond Queneau
The story is simple: Boy meets girl; boy marries girl; girl falls ill on their honeymoon with a water lily on the lung, which can only be treated by being surrounded by flowers; boy goes broke desperately trying to keep his true love alive.
First published in 1947,...
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2024.
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English
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"Once, Celeste Artois had dreams of being an artist. But when the creative elite of Paris dashed those plans, she turned her talents to forgery and cons. She and the Enchantresses-her two fellow thieves and best friends-see Paris as a rich hunting ground for marks. Yet even though their hideout in Pere Lachaise cemetery is bursting with francs, Celeste cannot rest. There is always more to take. And the blood she has begun to cough into her handkerchief...
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À la recherche du temps perdu est un roman magistral de Marcel Proust qui vous emmènera dans un voyage à travers les souvenirs et les émotions d'un narrateur qui tente de retrouver sa vie perdue. Ce livre épique vous plongera dans un univers riche en détails, o les personnages sont complexes et les réflexions profondes. Il explore des thèmes tels que l'identité, la mémoire et l'amour, en vous faisant réfléchir sur la nature de la réalité...
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Ėksmo
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[2019]
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Russian
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Love burns brightest in the darkest times When Caroline Williams wakes up in Paris with no memory of her past, she finds that returning to the life she has forgotten is harder than she thought. Even her cavernous apartment on rue Cler seems to hold no clues ... As she searches, Caroline discovers a hidden stack of letters written by a young mother, Celine, during the Second World War. Captivated by Celine's desperate love for both her daughter and...
9) A fable
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 28
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An allegorical story of World War I set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment. This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works...
11) Wooden swords
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1930.
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The story of a French soldier in the Service of Supplies, loosely based on the author's own service during World War I.
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Gallimard
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©2008.
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Français
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"Ma mère, quand elle m'a raconté la première du Boléro, a dit son émotion, les cris, les bravos et les sifflets, le tumulte. Dans la même salle, quelque part, se trouvait un jeune homme qu'elle n'a jamais rencontré, Claude Lévi-Strauss. Comme lui, longtemps après, ma mère m'a confié que cette musique avait changé sa vie. Maintenant, je comprends pourquoi. Je sais ce que signifiait pour sa génération cette phrase répétée, serinée,...
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Columbia University Press
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[2022]
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English
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"Homeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky's masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirty-two. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, this final novel by the literary enfant terrible of the postrevolutionary Russian diaspora in France recounts the escapades, malaise, and love affairs of a bohemian group of Russian expatriates. The novel's protagonist and sometime narrator is Oleg, whose intense love...
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Corpus) volume 509
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Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
2019.
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Russian
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"The young Frenchman, alter ego of the author and ardent admirer of Romain Gary, embarks on a search for one of the characters in Gary's novelized autobiography "The Promise at Dawn". A certain Mr. Pekelny, a little man with a tobacco-reddish beard, haunts him. Did he die at the hands of the Nazis, like almost all Vilnius Jews, or did he manage to escape? And did he really exist? In the course of this search, the author leads the reader in the footsteps...
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Aryeh Nir
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2018.
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עברית
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"Historical novel. Two women -- a spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947 -- are brought together in a story of courage and redemption. 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate...
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A.A. Wyn
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[1948]
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English
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The second book in a trilogy which covers the pre-war, war, and post-war periods in France. Pierre Michaud is a tender, scrupulous man, who clings to outdated conceptions of the world. His sons, Frédéric and Antoine, unwittingly teach him how to live again by forcing him to accept more current notions of reality. The novel presents a wide range of characters whose behaviors range from refusal to compromise with the occupier to total collaboration...