George, Nina
Summary: Marianne is stuck in a loveless, unhappy marriage. After forty-one years, she has reached her limit, and one evening in Paris she decides to take action. Following a dramatic moment on the banks of the Seine, Marianne leaves her life behind and sets out for the coast of Brittany, also known as "the end of the world". Here she meets a cast of colorful and unforgettable locals who surprise her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOLaFevers, Robin.
Summary: "Sybella's duty as Death's assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped. Love and romance, history and magic, vengeance and salvation converge in this sequel to Grave Mercy"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC LAFLaFevers, Robin.
Summary: In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphia 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LAFSummary: Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation to France as well as a camcorder. Boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves to be a barrier for Bean. He struggles to catch his train to the south of France. He orders a seafood meal and finds the consumption of the platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Russian film director Emil,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: "A Secret History of Witches follows five generations of women -- all of whom happen to be witches -- from nineteenth-century Brittany to London during World War II. Brittany, 1821. After Grand-mère Ursule gives her life to save her family, their magic seems to die with her. Even so, they fight to keep the old ways alive, practicing half-remembered spells and arcane rites in hopes of a revival....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORBannalec, Jean-Luc
Summary: "In The Granite Coast Murders, the sixth installment of Jean-Luc Bannalec's bestselling mystery series, Commissaire Dupin returns to investigate a murder at a gorgeous Brittany beach resort. Inspector Dupin and Claire are on a two-week vacation, but while Claire seems to enjoy the quiet of the beach, Commissaire Dupin takes every opportunity to leave the beach towel. The fabulous dinners on the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANLaFevers, Robin.
Summary: Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC LAFPrice, Marjorie (Marjorie Joan)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 944.1092 PriceWynne, Phoebe
Summary: "Phoebe Wynne's The Ruins is a suspenseful, feminist Gothic coming-of-age tale with shades of Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca, and Atonement, pitched against the sun-soaked backdrop of a summer holiday on the French Riviera. Welcome to the Chateau des Sètes, a jewel of the Cote d'Azur, where long summer days bring ease, glamour, and decadence to the holidaymakers who can afford it. Ruby Ashby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WYNPatterson, Sue
Summary: Laurie surprises her mother, "Dr. Liz", with a mother-daughter vacation in Paris, France--one that brings to light a lifetime of secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: "The Killing Tide by Jean-Luc Bannalec is the fifth novel in the internationally bestselling Commissaire Dupin series. Deep sea fishers, dolphin researchers, smugglers, and an island shrouded in myth in the middle of the rough Atlantic ocean: Commissaire Dupin had sworn he would never again investigate on the ocean, but his fifth case takes him offshore, off the west coast of Brittany on a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANBrydon, James
Summary: "December 1959: A furious anticolonial war rages in Algeria. Captain Jacques le Garrec, a former detective and French Resistance hero, returns to France in disgrace. Traumatized after two years of working in the army intelligence services, he's now accused of a brutal crime. As le Garrec awaits trial in the tiny Breton town where he grew up, he is asked to look into a disturbing and unsolved...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRYGreenside, Mark.
Summary: Author and teacher Mark Greenside recounts his struggles to fit into the life of a small Celtic village in Brittany.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 944 GreDruart, Ruth
Summary: In 1963 Brittany, 18-year-old Josephine Chevalier uncovers a shocking secret about her mother that leads her to Paris where she learns the story of a forbidden love as a city fought for its freedom--and of a betrayal so deep, it changed two young lives forever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRUSkolvan (Musical group)
Contents: Gwenojennoù ar gavotten -- Joausté ar c'heisté -- Ar marc'hadour bihan -- Trip to Skye -- Er meliner -- Kozh korle -- Polkas bognolaises -- Allez oust! -- Le sous-marin s'en va.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Keltia Musique 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN SKOBradshaw, Gillian
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAPenman, Sharon Kay.
Summary: Justin de Quincy is drawn into a conspiracy when he investigates a forged document that implicates Prince John in a plot to kill his brother King Richard, a scheme that also endangers the woman Justin serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENContents: Noce tragique (3:58) -- Loup-garou (3:31) -- Le Rosier (4:43) -- Cardeuse (3:57) -- Confédération (3:47) -- Chaise ardente (3:26) -- D'ouest en est (2:51) -- Forillon (4:43) -- Petit rêve IX (1:49) -- Pauvre enfant (4:43) -- Entre ciel et terre (5:18) -- L'échafaud (1:49) -- La marche des Iroquois (2:19) -- Papineau (2:18) -- Amant volange (2:54).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN VENLaFevers, Robin
Summary: When Sybella discovers there is another trained assassin from St. Mortain's convent deep undercover in the French court, she must use every skill in her arsenal to navigate the deadly royal politics and find her sister-in-arms before her time--and that ofthe newly crowned queen--runs out.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LAFAnderson, M. T.
Summary: "Ys, city of wealth and wonder, has a history of dark secrets. Queen Malgven used magic to raise the great walls that keep Ys safe from the tumultuous sea. But after the queen's inexplicable death, her daughters drift apart. Rozenn, the heir to the throne, spends her time on the moors communing with wild animals, while Dahut, the youngest, enjoys the splendors of royal life and is eager to take...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ANDRoberts, Nora.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROBGeorge, Nina
Summary: "Marianne is stuck in a loveless, unhappy marriage. After forty-one years, she has reached her limit, and one evening in Paris she decides to take action. Following a dramatic moment on the banks of the Seine, Marianne leaves her life behind and sets out for the coast of Brittany, also known as "the end of the world." Here she meets a cast of colorful and unforgettable locals who surprise her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2017Bannalec, Jean-Luc
Summary: "Commissaire Georges Dupin, a Parisian-born caffeine junkie recently relocated from the glamour of Paris to the remote (if picturesque) Breton coast, is not happy when he is dragged from his morning croissant and coffee to the scene of a curious murder. The local village of Pont-Aven--a sleepy community by the sea where everyone knows one other and nothing much seems to happen--is in shock. The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Cutting bracken ; Brisk Bob ; Laird of Drumblair -- Melodie ; Rondes de Loudeac -- Garrett Barry's jig ; Cliffs of Moher -- Dionne reel ; Mouth of the Tobique -- Larides de Pontivy et de Josselin -- Mist covered mountains of home -- Pigeon on the gate ; Lafferty's ; Morning dew -- Suite de Loudeac -- Music for a found harmonium ; La partida ; Roumanian tune ; Calgary polka ; Leaving Brittany --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Green Linnet 1993