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Benjamin, Melanie Doerr, Anthony Furst, Alan Modiano, Patrick Némirovsky, Irène Steel, DanielleDoerr, Anthony
Summary: 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 it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DOEFurst, Alan
Summary: "After the Nazi victory over Poland in 1939, thousands of Poles were sent to Germany as slave laborers. From inside enemy territory, they found ways to get valuable information to resistance fighters in France. Paul Ricard, a French writer of detective novels, is drawn in to working in the resistance, as a spy against the Reich, and is charged with getting the information from the Polish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURNémirovsky, Irène
Summary: Ecrit dans le feu de l'Histoire, Suite française dépeint presque en direct l'Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un désordre tragique des familles françaises de toute sorte, des plus huppées aux plus modestes. Avec bonheur, Ireáne Némirovsky traque les innombrables petites lâchetés et les fragiles élans de solidarité d'une population en déroute. Cocottes larguées par leur amant, grands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Denoël 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FRENCH 468 NEMNémirovsky, Irène
Summary: A novel about life and death in occupied France during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NEMSteel, Danielle
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2016Modiano, Patrick
Summary: Born at the close of World War II, 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano was a young man in his twenties when he burst onto the Parisian literary scene with these three brilliant, angry novels about the wartime Occupation of Paris. The epigraph to his first novel, among the first to seriously question Nazi collaboration in France, reads: "In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODFurst, Alan
Summary: "From the bestselling master espionage writer, hailed by Vince Flynn as "the best in the business," comes a riveting novel about the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris. Paris, 1941. The City of Light, occupied by the Nazis, is dark and silent at night. Streetlamps are painted blue and apartment windows draped or shuttered in the blackout ordered by the Germans. But when the clouds part,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: "A novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019