Summary: Written by authors from Quebec as well as France, the majority of these stories have been published in the last decade and reflect a rich diversity of styles and themes. From Daniel Boulanger's exploration of revenge and the desire for recognition in The Hunter's Cafe, to Alain Gerber's brief and poetic You Never Die, and the sardonic tales of Frederic Fajardie and Sylvie Massicotte, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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Summary: The Queen’s Caprice—seven new stories presented in English for the first time—reveals Echenoz at the height of his talents. The author takes us on a journey across radically different places and landscapes, giving free rein to a “terrific sense of humor tinged with existential mischief” (L’Express). The title story explores a tiny corner of the French countryside; “Nelson” offers a brilliant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECHHouellebecq, Michel.
Summary: Jed Martin, acclaimed photographer, emerges from a ten-year hiatus, with a new exhibition -- the exhibition guide is to be written by French novelist Michel Houellebecq -- a self-referential feature that plays with the format of the novel, which seeks to entertain as well as impress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editions j'ai lu 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 HOU FRENCHVian, Boris
Summary: Dans un univers mêlant quotidien et onirisme, ce premier roman conte les aventures de Colin, de Chick, d’Alise et de la belle Chloé. Deux histoires d’amour s’entremêlent : Colin est un jeune homme élégant, rentier, qui met fin à son célibat en épousant Chloé, rencontrée à une fête, tandis que son ami Chick, fanatique transi du philosophe vedette Jean-Sol Partre, entretient une relation avec...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pauvert 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 VIA FRENCHJohnson, D. B. (Donald B.)
Summary: When painter Magritte buys a playful--and magical--hat, his painting enjoys a burst of creativity. Inspired by the art of French surrealist painter René Magritte.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHGilbert, Melissa
Summary: Six-year-old Daisy loves traveling the world with her father, a famous entertainer, and her teacher, Mrs. Minniear, but is lonely until her father brings home Josephine, a French bulldog that speaks and has great fashion sense.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Cécile Rey searches through many corners of 1854 New Orleans seeking a necklace, borrowed from her Tante Tay, that disappeared as she was exiting a crowded showboat. Includes facts about the 1850s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC COLMaclear, Kyo
Summary: Friends Julia and Simca belive you can never use too much butter and being a child forever is best, with this in mind the pair decide to create recipes for growing young that will be served to the busy adults around them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McClelland & Stewart Ltd 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACJio, Sarah.
Summary: "In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianc,̌ she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOParton, Dolly
Summary: "French bulldog Billy the Kid was born with an ear for music. And not just any music. He loves barking to the beat of country music! So Billy sets out to Nashville to sing his heart out. But when he meets some big bullies at the Battle of the Bow-wows, Billy worries he's barking up the wrong tree. He'll need his favorite songs ('Jowlene' and 'I Will Pawlways Love You,' of course), a group of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Summary: "Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully--he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leaving his phone, his books, and his daily life behind. But he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARRERE, EMMANUEL CARLouis, Édouard
Summary: "An autobiographical novel from the international bestselling author Édouard Louis - about success, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LOUPerec, Georges
Summary: "As his country is torn apart by social and political anarchy, A Void's protagonist, Anton Vowl, a chronic insomniac, is unaccountably found missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any indication, for any faint hint, as to his location. All that it brings to light, though, is Vowl's liking (uncannily similar to his author's) for parody,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERVerne, Jules
Summary: Professor Arronax and his two companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC VERModiano, Patrick
Summary: "As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a series of exquisitely crafted stories about such jettisoned boys at the exclusive Valvert School on the outskirts of Paris: abandoned children of privilege, left to create new family ties among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODBrock, Amber.
Summary: Set in the glamorous 1920s, this is an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a privileged Manhattan socialite's restless life and the affair with a mysterious painter that upends her world. Vera Bellington has beauty, pedigree, and a penthouse at The Angelus. Emil Hallan arrives at The Angelus to paint a mural above its glittering subterranean pool. The handsome French artist shrouds his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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Modiano, Patrick
Summary: Modiano, winner of the Prix Goncourt, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). It parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up in a Paris hotel, with that of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he'd met twenty years before, and whose mystery continues to haunt him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODCamus, Albert
Summary: From the Publisher: From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century-two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913-1960) deployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of a universe devoid of order or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMLe Clezio, J.M.G. (Jean-Marie Gustave)
Summary: While both Esther and Nejma want peace, each has a different experience during the founding of Israel; Esther is a Jewish girl who participtes in the founding, and Nejma is a Palestinian who becomes a refugee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curbstone 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LECVargas, Fred.
Summary: A small mountain community in the French Alps is horrified when a sheep is found with its throat torn out. One villager believes it may be a werewolf, and she subsequently suffers a similar death. Commissaire Adamsberg is summoned from the city to assist in the investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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Summary: "Le Divorce meets The Elegance of the Hedgehog in this hilariously entertaining mega-bestseller from France - When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Josephine Cortes is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two-confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoe;-is forced to maintain a stable family life while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PANSeuss
Summary: "Voici l'histoire de Sam-c'est moi, qui tente désespérément de faire goûter un plat étrange à un vieux grincheux têtu"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ulysses Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE Set French Seuss 2009Kelby, N. M. (Nicole M.)
Summary: White truffles in winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), who changed how we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of contradictions, kind yet imperious, food-obsessed yet rarely hungry, Escoffier was also torn between two women: the famous, beautiful, and reckless actress Sarah Bernhardt and his wife, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELMurray, Lily
Summary: "Artist Claude Monet's porcelain sculpture of a cat, named Chika, springs to life and runs through all of Monet's most famous paintings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021