Rebman, Nick
Summary: Details the Paris Peace Conference, the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, and its aftereffects on Germany from the perspectives of those involved. Additional features include a bullet-point summary of the events, compelling narrative descriptions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, questions to spark critical thinking, sources to guide further research, historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.3 REBSummary: Paris disarmament conference, closing session.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1931
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Jenoff, Pam
Summary: Paris, 1919. Margot Rosenthal has arrived in France with her father, a German diplomat. She initially resents being trapped in the congested capital, where she is still considered the enemy. But as she contemplates returning to Berlin and a life she hardly knows anymore, she decides that being in Paris is not so bad after all. Bored and torn between duty and the desire to be free, Margot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENGoddard, Robert
Summary: "Four years of horrific fighting have finally ended on the battlefield, but in the spring of 1919, Paris is filled with delegates from around the world who are still trying to hammer out the terms of peace. One such delegate is British diplomat Sir Henry Maxted, in charge of liaising with the Brazilians regarding seized ships. But before a deal is reached, Sir Henry turns up dead outside a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODStewart, David O
Summary: After four years of horror The Great War has ended, and President Woodrow Wilson's arrival in Paris in December 1918 unites the city in ecstatic celebration. Major Jamie Fraser, an army physician who has spent ten months tending American soldiers, is among the crowd that throngs the Place de la Concorde for Wilson's visit. As an expert on the Spanish influenza, Fraser is also called in to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEGoddard, Robert
Summary: "Internationally bestselling author Robert Goddard has been called "a master of the sly double- and triple-cross" (Seattle Times). In the third installment of the James Maxted thriller series, starring a dashing Royal Flying Corps veteran turned secret service operative, the truth about allegiances has never been less certain. The Treaty of Versailles has finally been signed, officially ending...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODSpurling, Hilary.
Summary: It is hard to believe today that Matisse was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat; he simply pushed on from one innovation to the next, and left the world to draw its own conclusions. Unfortunately, these were generally false and often damaging. Throughout his life and afterward people fantasized about his models and circulated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATISSE, HENRI SPUCale, John
Contents: CD1/DVD1. Autobiography (4:39) -- Oh la la (2:38) -- Evidence (3:24) -- Magazines (3:36) -- Model Beirut recital (3:29) -- Streets of Laredo (2:40) -- Dr. Mudd (3:46) -- Leaving it up to you (5:43) -- Caribbean sunset (4:40) -- The hunt (3:45) -- Fear is the man's best friend (3:44) -- Heartbreak hotel (4:01) -- Paris 1919 (3:49) -- Waiting for the man (6:09) -- Mercenaries (Ready for war)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CALCale, John
Contents: disc 1. On a wedding anniversary (3:42) -- Lie still, sleep becalmed (4:21) -- Do not go gentle into that good night (3:38) -- Cordoba (3:22) -- Buffalo ballet (2:50) -- A child's Christmas in Wales (3:06) -- Darling I need you (3:22) -- Guts (3:03) -- Ship of fools (3:44) -- Leaving it up to you (3:32) -- The ballad of Cable Hogue (2:55) -- Chinese envoy (3:15) -- Dying on the vine (3:51) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CALGuinn, Jeff
Summary: "A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GUIGoddard, Robert
Summary: July 1919. Ex-flying ace James 'Max' Maxted's attempt to uncover the secret behind the death of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, murdered while serving as an adviser with the British delegation to the Paris peace conference, has seemingly ended in failure -- and his own death. The trail uncovered by him leads to Japan and a mysterious prisoner held by Sir Henry Maxted's old enemy, Count Tomura....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODMantle, Burns
Contents: Introduction -- Season in review -- Abraham Lincoln / John Drinkwater -- Beyond the horizon / Eugene O'Neill -- Famous Mrs. Fair / James Forbes -- Declassee / Zoe Akins -- Jane Clegg / St. John Ervine -- Jest / Sem Benelli (American adaptation by Edward Sheldon) -- Wedding bells / Salisbury Field -- Mamma's affair / Rachel Barton Butler -- Adam and Eva / Guy Bolton and George Middleton --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small, Maynard & Co. 1920
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESMaher, Kerri
Summary: "Discover the dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in the White Gloves. When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAHJenoff, Pam.
Summary: Paris, 1919. The world's leaders have gathered to rebuild from the ashes of the Great War. But for one woman, the City of Light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons, for which many could pay dearly. Brought to the peace conference by her father, a German diplomat, Margot Rosenthal initially resents being trapped in the congested French capital, where she is still looked upon as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2013
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Summary: In the early 20th century, America had a dozen national parks, but they were a haphazard patchwork of special places under the supervision of different federal agencies. This episode traces how the conservation movement pushed the government to establish one unified agency to oversee all the parks. This led to the establishment of the National Park Service in 1916. Its first director, Stephen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Paris Combo
Contents: On n'a pas besoin -- Moi, mon Game et ma conscience -- Je Geve encore -- Les portes de l'ennul -- IrGenGee -- Interlude potzi -- Istanbul -- Le roi de la foret -- St. ExubGerant -- Si j'avais GetGe -- Ainsi soit-il -- Valse d'amour -- Obliques -- Je suis un if -- Berry-bouy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tinder Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN PARCohen-Solal, Annie
Summary: "A groundbreaking new study of Pablo Picasso that reveals how the artist fought to overcome the stigma he faced as a foreigner in France"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO COHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B PICASSO COHBrickell, Francesca Cartier
Summary: "The captivating story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather's humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon - as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives." -- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BRIRichardson, John
Summary: A comprehensive biography of Spanish painter and sculptor, Pablo Picasso, that chronicles his life and works from the time he left Paris in 1917 to 1932, the artist's fiftieth birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RICReid, Anna
Summary: Overlapping with and overshadowed by the First World War, the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War was one of the most ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. Launched in the summer of 1918, it drew in 180,000 troops from sixteen different countries in theaters ranging from the Caspian Sea to the Arctic and from Poland to the Pacific. Though little remembered today, it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basics Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 REIHilton, Paris
Summary: In this deeply personal memoir, the ultimate It Girl shares, for the first time, the hidden history that traumatized and defined her and how she rose above a series of heart-wrenching challenges to find healing, lasting love, and a life of meaning and purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILTON, PARIS HILParis, Jackie.
Contents: It's only a paper moon -- I've got a pocketful of dreams -- You're getting to be a habit with me -- It's a pity to say goodnight -- I'll get by -- This is my night to dream -- It could happen to you -- We three -- Until the real thing comes along -- This year's kisses -- Someone's rocking my dreamboat -- On a slow boat to China.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collectors' Choice Music 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PARSummary: The years between the World Wars generated self-doubt and ideological crisis as Britain contemplated the devastation of World War I and the decline of empire that would transform the British novel. "The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins," wrote D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover. This program examines the evolution of the British novel during the period 1919-39, spotlighting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: "The Eiffel Tower and the Louvre are among the many must-see sights in Paris, but DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Paris will show you so much more. Walk along the banks and bridges of the River Seine, the tree-lined Champs-©lys©♭es, and the intricate back streets of the Montmartre neighborhood with your guide in hand to really embrace the culture of the most glamorous and romantic city in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017