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Berest, Anne Ernaux, Annie Ewen, Pamela Binnings Healey, Jane Orringer, Julie Robuck, ErikaEwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Élysées, Coco Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich's High Command in the Hotel Ritz. Surrounded by the enemy, she wages a private war of her own to wrestle full control of her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer. With anti-Semitism on the rise, he has escaped to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWERobuck, Erika
Summary: "A heart-stopping new novel, based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose stunning acts of courage collide in the darkest hours of WWII, from the bestselling author of The Invisible Woman. Two women, two countries. Nothing in common but a call to resist. 1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family's wishes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBHealey, Jane
Summary: "Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted city. With her career and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts an opportunity that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HEAEwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: "Pamela Binnings Ewen's newest novel reveals the story of Émilienne, once the most beautiful, sought-after woman in Paris during the Belle Époque, the era of peaceful years just before World War I. As a girl, Émilienne fights her way through poverty in Montmartre, drawn to the lights of Paris below. Soon, she stars at the Folies Bergère, mistress of kings and princes, known as the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWEBerest, Anne
Summary: "Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERErnaux, Annie
Summary: "A daughter must come to terms with her formative years as she writes an unflinching portrait of her father, a cafe owner whose life has become very alien to her."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2012
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERNOrringer, Julie
Summary: In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019