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Sciolino, Elaine

Summary: "In the spring of 1978, as a young journalist in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river through its rich history and lively characters-a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat- dweller, a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river's light. She patrols with river police, rows with a restorer of antique boats, discovers a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2020

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Ernaux, Annie

Summary: "In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ERN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ERNAUX ERN

Searle, Sarah Winifred

Summary: Follow Joan of Arc on her journey to convince the Dauphin to let her lead the French army in the Battle of Orleans and win the Hundred Years' War. A story of faith, courage, and determination, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the life of the teenage French heroine -- brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump off the page.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOA

Walker, Ray

Summary: "An intoxicating memoir of an American who discovers a passion for French wine, and gambles everything to chase a dream of owning a vineyard in Burgundy Ray Walker had a secure career in finance until a wine-tasting vacation ignited a passion that hecouldn't stifle. Ray neglected his work, spending hours poring over ancient French winemaking texts, learning the techniques and the language,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALKER, RAY Walker

Edsel, Robert M.

Summary: Describes two Americans in Italy--one an artist, the other a scholar--who tracked down and protected historic artwork worth billions by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli in advance of the approaching Nazi army in 1943.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5345 EDS

Castor, Helen

Summary: "In Joan of Arc : a history, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOAN OF ARC CAS

Platt, Christine

Summary: "This title introduces readers to Joan of Arc and how she became France's shero by delivering the country from English domination." -- page [4] of cover

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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 944.026 PLA

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLA

Blackburn, Julia.

Summary: An account of Napoleon's six years on the island of St. Helena describes the island's strange history and recounts the stories, myths, and absurdities.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.05 BLA

Ho, Joanna

Summary: "...a moving text about the life and work of social activist and artist, Ai Weiwei. Told in...lyrical writing, this story shines a light on Ai Weiwei's journey and focuses on Safe Passage, his exhibition of thousands of life jackets at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Moved by the life jackets discarded on the shores of the Greek Island of Lesbos by people seeking safety far from home, Ai Weiwei created...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AI

Conkling, Winifred

Summary: "The ... little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb"--Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom Conkling

Silbernagel, Robert

Summary: "The Cadotte family became involved in the fur trade during the French colonial period, and members of the family played key roles after the British takeover of the region and then during the American period. They worked with the North West Company, the American Fur Company, and other firms; they served in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and in numerous conflicts involving Native...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisconsin Historical Society Press 2020

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Demi.

Summary: Shares the story of the son of a rich merchant, who abandoned all his worldly goods in order to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Tales 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 270.092 DEM

Van Cleve, Spike.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lowell Press 1982

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.664 VAN

Pollack, Pam

Summary: Documents the life of the fifteenth-century French teenage peasant who led an army into battle and became a saint.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOA

Poole, Josephine.

Summary: A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB JOAN POO

Kino, Carol

Summary: The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been forgotten since. Here, in Double Click, author Carol Kino provides us with a fascinating window into the golden era of magazine photography and the first young women's publications, bringing these two brilliant women and their remarkable...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KIN

French, Erin

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Summary: "Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad's diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. This...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 FRE

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food French

Clébert, Jean-Paul

Summary: "Paris Vagabond is an unclassifiable masterpiece, a book that purports to be a novel but, accompanied as it is by the photographs of Patrice Molinard, is as much a brilliant documentary as a work of the imagination. In rich prose, suffused with the language of the street, and brilliantly rendered in English by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Jean-Paul Clebert captures the essence of a long-gone Paris...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLE

Schiff, Stacy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2006

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Schiff, Stacy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1994

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Nardo, Don

Summary: Describes the 1431 trial of Joan of Arc, along with biographical information and facts about the political and social forces that led to her being burned at the stake as a witch.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.026 Nardo

Drake, Alicia

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 Drake

Harris, Ruth

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 232.917 HAR

Williams, Jay

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2007

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