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Summary: In 1761 a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CARBourne, Joanna.
Summary: A glittering French aristocrat is on the run, disguised as a British governess. England's top spy has a score to settle with her family. But as they're drawn inexorably into the intrigue and madness of Revolutionary Paris, they gamble on a love to which neither of them will admit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Sensation 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOUMobley, Jeannie
Summary: After the Army of the Republic destroys her town, Claudie and her sister agree to a mission to deliver a valuable stolen jewel to the resistance's leader and Claudia finds herself irresistibly drawn to the man and his cause.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MOBGrimwood, Jonathan
Summary: Follows an adventurous man, once a penniless orphan, through French society during the Enlightenment as he searches for the perfect taste, befriends Benjamin Franklin, becomes pen pals with the Marquis de Sade and Voltaire and improves contraceptive methods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIOrczy, Baroness Emmuska, 1865-1947
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Publisher / Publication Date: Project Gutenberg 2006
Donnelly, Jennifer.
Summary: An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION DONSivak, Zoe
Summary: "A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who flees to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. Sylvie de Rosiers, the biracial daughter of a rich planter in 1791 Saint-Domingue, is both a lady born to privilege and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIV SIVDickens, Charles
Summary: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2011
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Summary: During the Reign of Terror, a British nobleman in disguise makes raid after daring raid into the heart of France to save aristocrats from the guillotine, leaving his calling card--the small, blood-red flower called the pimpernel--at each rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ORCStockwin, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOStockwin, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STODickens, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset and Dunlap 1980
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Summary: The classic novel about the French Revolution and its effect upon the lives of several individuals, both French and English.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 130 FIC DICWebb, Heather
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBDickens, Charles
Contents: Great expectations. -- Hard times. -- A Christmas carol. -- A tale of two cities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICRussell, Sean.
Summary: Embarking on a mission to destroy a French frigate and gather intelligence during the height of the French Revolution, Charles Hayden of the HMS Themis discovers plans for an invasion of England before being captured by a French squadron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSOrczy, Emmuska Orczy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1907
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORCDickens, Charles
Summary: Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICPataki, Allison
Summary: "From the courtrooms to the battlefields to the alleyways of Paris, with cameos from infamous figures in French history like Robespierre and Napoleon, the Patakis craft a sweeping, action-packed novel of the French Revolution as it has never been seen before. Three years after the storming of the Bastille, Paris is emboldened with the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. The monarchy of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATErickson, Carolly
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ERIPataki, Allison
Summary: "As the French revolution ravages the country, Desiree Clary is faced with the life-altering truth that the world she has known and loved is gone and it's fallen on her to save her family from the guillotine. A chance encounter with Napoleon Bonaparte, the ambitious and charismatic young military prodigy, provides her answer. When her beloved sister Julie marries his brother Joseph, Desiree and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATTaylor, Andrew
Summary: Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYRead, Piers Paul
Summary: After leaving his home in pursuit of a military career, Sicilian nobleman Vitello Scarpia finds himself expelled from the Spanish royal guard and left to seek his fortune in Italy. Scarpia enrolls in the papal army and is soon taken up by a countess eager to have a handsome young officer at her side. She introduces Scarpia into Roman society. He is both enthralled and agitated by its mix of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2016