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Americans France Paris Fiction Family secrets Fiction France France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction France Paris Paris (France) Fiction Paris (France) History 1940-1944 Fiction World War, 1939-1945 France Paris Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France Paris FictionFurst, Alan.
Summary: Set in the shadowy back streets and glittering salons of wartime Paris. Film producer Jean Casson, a Paris sophisticate struggles to come to terms with the uncomfortable realities of life under German occupation, as he becomes caught up in the activities of what was to become the French Resistance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FURDowning, David.
Summary: "Paris, November 1945. John Russell is walking home along the banks of the Seine on a cold and misty evening when Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin tells Russell that the American intelligence will soon be asking himto undertake some low grade espionage on their behalf--assessing the strains between different sections of the German Communist Party--and that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWRimmer, Kelly
Summary: "Twenty-five years after the end of the war, aging British secret operative Noah Ainsworth often thinks about the undercover SOE agent who saved his life when a mission went wrong during his perilous, exhilarating time in occupied France. A head injury sustained on his final operation has caused frustrating gaps in his memories, including information about the agent's identity and whether she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIMWatkins, Steve
Summary: Despite her youth and her conservative father, Nicolette becomes involved with the French Resistance, until one day she is taken from the streets of Paris, submerged in the Nazi camps, brutalized, but determined to survive and bear witness to the atrocities she has witnessed. Includes historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATPryor, Mark
Summary: "Winter 1940: With soldiers parading down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Nazi flags dangling from the Arc de Triomphe, and the Eiffel Tower defaced with German propaganda, Parisians have little to celebrate as Christmas approaches. Police Inspector Henri Lefort's wishes for a quiet holiday season are dashed when the Gestapo orders him to investigate the disappearance of Dr. Viktor Brandt, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYMacNeal, Susan Elia
Summary: "American-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope secretly navigates Nazi-occupied France to find two brave women during the darkest days of World War II in the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series--"a treat for WWII buffs and mystery lovers alike." (Booklist, on The Prime Minister's Secret Agent) Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M MACDruart, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRURyan, Renee
Summary: "Paris, 1940. German tanks rumble through the streets of Paris, forcing frightened citizens to flee. But not everyone has the luxury to leave. Camille Lacroix, a chambermaid at the world-famous Hôtel Ritz, must stay to support her family back home in Brittany. Desperate to earn money, Camille also acts as a lady's maid for longtime guest Vivian Miller, a glamorous American widow--and a Nazi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Love Inspired 2023
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Summary: Wealthy, beautiful Naneé was born with a spirit of adventure that transcends her Midwestern roots. When German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, Nanée joins the resistance. Known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding, Naneé uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety. Inspired by the real life Chicago heiress Mary Jayne...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLAFurst, Alan.
Summary: Set in the shadowy back streets and glittering salons of wartime Paris. Film producer Jean Casson, a Paris sophisticate struggles to come to terms with the uncomfortable realities of life under German occupation, as he becomes caught up in the activities of what was to become the French Resistance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURHealey, Jane
Summary: "Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted city. With her career and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts an opportunity that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HEAMiéville, China
Summary: In the chaos of wartime Marseille, 1941, American engineer--and occult disciple--Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andre Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIEPryor, Mark
Summary: "Mark Pryor's Die Around Sundown is the first entry in an exciting mystery series set in Paris during World War II, where a detective is forced to solve a murder while protecting his own secrets. Summer 1940: In German-occupied Paris, Inspector Henri Lefort has been given just five days to solve the murder of a German major that took place in the Louvre Musuem. Blocked from the crime scene but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction PryorCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PRYProse, Francine
Summary: "A richly imagined and stunningly inventive story of love, art, and betrayal in Paris of the 20's, 30's, and 40's"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRORozier, Gilles.
Summary: Recruited by the Gestapo to translate sensitive documents, a German teacher in occupied World War II France takes a daring risk to rescue a Jewish soldier and hide him at his home, along with a cache of banned books, an act that leads to their unlikely friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROZFurst, Alan.
Summary: Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest film is linked to the destinies of fascists, German Nazis, and Hollywood publicists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Furst 2012Baker, Jo
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a stunning new novel that follows an unnamed writer--Samuel Beckett--whose life and extraordinary literary gift are permanently shaped in the forge of war. When war breaks out in Europe in 1939, a young, unknown writer journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is drawn into the maelstrom. With him we experience the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Canada 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Baker 2016Skeslien Charles, Janet
Summary: "Paris, 1939. Young and ambitious Odile Souchet has it all: her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. But when the Nazis march in to occupy the city, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved Library. Together with her fellow librarians, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. When the war finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesn't really believe in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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Summary: "Clementine, sometimes known as Judge, is a 72-year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of crime has led her from the uber-wealthy perfume junkies of belle epoque Manhattan, to the scented butterflies of Costa Rica, to the spice markets of Marrakesh, and finally the bordellos of Paris, where she settles down and opens a legitimate shop bottling her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHBelfoure, Charles
Summary: In 1942 Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money -- and maybe get him killed. But if he's clever enough, he'll avoid any trouble. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2013
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Summary: "Three Hours in Paris is the story of Kate Rees, the young American markswoman who has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris on the dangerous business of trying to assassinate the Fuhrer. A country girl from rural Oregon-a grieving widow with no spy training but a vendetta and a lot of gumption-now has the state of the entire war in her hands. When the hit goes badly wrong,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Black 2020Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010