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2008, Adults, Brilliance Audio Call No: AUD STE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The titanic disaster spurs 19-year-old Annabelle Worthington to leave her privileged life for one of service. Fleeing scandal brought on by the end of her marriage, she winds up in France, working in a hospital for those wounded in WWI. She almost succeeds in forgetting her past, until a chance meeting brings it all rushing back. .
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By Ball, Donna2011., Adult, Berkley Books Call No: FIC BAL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Fortysomething Sara Graves is swept off her feet by a dashing French poet, but three weeks after they are married, he dies, leaving Sara his estate in France, where she discovers a four-hundred-year-old crumbling castle complete with a family mystery, a handsome lawyer, and the unexpected possibility for a new life for Sara.
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2024., Adult, Atria Books Call No: FIC CHA Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears. 1987: When NYPL librarian and aspiring writer Wendy Peterson stumbles across a passing reference to Jessie Carson in the archives, she becomes consumed with learning her fate. In her obsessive research, she discovers that she and the elusive librarian have more in common than their work at New York's famed library, but she has no idea that their paths will converge in surprising ways across time. Based on the extraordinary little-known history of the women who received the Croix de Guerre medal for courage under fire, Miss Morgan's Book Brigade is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, the power of literature, and ultimately the courage it takes to make a change"--
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2021., Adults, Atria Books Call No: FIC SKE Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear - including her beloved library. After the invasion, as the Nazis declare a war on words and darkness falls over the City of Light, Odile and her fellow librarians join the Resistance with the best weapons they have: books. They risk their lives again and again to help their fellow Jewish readers. When the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal. Montana, 1983. Odile's solitary existence in gossipy small-town Montana is unexpectedly interrupted by Lily, her neighbor, a lonely teenager longing for adventure. As Lily uncovers more about Odile's mysterious past, they find they share a love of language, the same longings, the same lethal jealousy. Odile helps Lily navigate the troubled waters of adolescence by always recommending just the right book at the right time, never suspecting that Lily will be the one to help her reckon with her own terrible secret. Based on the true story of the American Library in Paris, The Paris Library explores the geography of resentment, the consequences of terrible choices made, and how extraordinary heroism can be found in the quietest of places"--
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By Cabot, Megc2008., Adult, William Morrow Call No: FIC CAB Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lizzie Nichols feels her life is finally on the right track, with a career she loves, the perfect fiance, and a dream wedding in the works, but everything begins to fall apart when she finds herself falling for her fiance's best friend.
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By Craft, Jerry[2023]., Ages 9-13, Quill Tree Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: GN CRA Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: New Kid Volume: #3Summary Note: "Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he isn't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together."--Provided by publisher.
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c2002., Adult, Doubleday Call No: FIC BRA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Alexandra Gordon, Kay Lenox, Jessica Pierce, and Maria Franconi, students together at the prestigious Anya Sedgwick School of Decorative Arts in Paris, go their separate ways after graduation having severed their ties of friendship, but their old ties are rekindled and the past revisited when they return to celebrate Anya Sedgwick's eighty-fifth birthday.
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2003., Adult, St. Martin's Press Call No: FIC LUD Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On his own after his network is dismantled by the Nazis, American socialite spy Stephen Metcalfe sets out from Paris to Moscow to find a former lover, ballerina Svetlana Baranova, and must choose between potentially saving the free world and saving the woman he realizes he still loves.
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[2003], c1997., Adult, Plume Call No: FIC CHE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ella Turner moves to France with her husband expecting a quiet life, begins researching her family's French ancestry, and discovers unsettling parallels between herself and a woman who lived four centuries earlier.