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c2019., Adults, William Morrow Call No: FIC TOD Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Bess Crawford mystery Volume: #11.Summary Note: The Armistice of November 1918 ended the fighting, but the Great War will not be over until a Peace Treaty is drawn up and signed by all parties. Representatives from the Allies are gathering in Paris, and already ominous signs of disagreement have appeared. Sister Bess Crawford, who has been working with the severely wounded in England in the war's wake, is asked to carry out a personal mission in Paris for a Matron at the London headquarters of The Queen Alexandra's. Bess is facing decisions about her own future, even as she searches for the man she is charged with helping. When she does locate Lawrence Minton, she finds a bitter and disturbed officer who has walked away from his duties at the Peace Conference and is well on his way toward an addiction to opiates. When she confronts him with the dangers of using laudanum, he tells her that he doesn't care if he lives or dies, as long as he can find oblivion. But what has changed him? What is it that haunts him? He can't confide in Bess--because the truth is so deeply buried in his mind that he can only relive it in nightmares. The officers who had shared a house with him in Paris profess to know nothing--still, Bess is reluctant to trust them even when they offer her their help. But where to begin on her own? What is driving this man to a despair so profound it can only end with death? The war? Something that happened in Paris? To prevent a tragedy, she must get at the truth as quickly as possible--which means putting herself between Lieutenant Minton and whatever is destroying him. Or is it whoever?
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2019., Adults, Grand Central Publishing Call No: FIC MEA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "At the height of World War II, five American spies risk their lives for their country, and one of their own pays the ultimate price. In 1942, a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter form the Office of Strategic Services, a counterintelligence branch of the U.S. government., asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. Handpicked by their OSS handler, the inscrutable 'man in brown,' this unusual group of men and women hail from very different backgrounds --a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and welathy businessman, a dirt=poor Midwestern fly-fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer. Each chooses to answer the call of duty, but for a secret rason of her or his own. They bond immediatly, in a group code-named Dragonfly, and take up their falase identities as they prepare to be dropped behind enemy lines in German-occupied Paris, embedded among the highest Nazi ranks. Isolated from one another except for a secret drop box, they live each harrowing day in close contact with the powerful Nazi elite who have paris under siege....Until a fatal misstep leads to the capture and the firing-squad execution of one of their team. Is everything as it seems, or is this on more elaborate act of spycraft?" --book jacket.
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2020., Adults, Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: FIC TOD Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Bess Crawford Volume: 11.5Summary Note: Years before the Great War summoned Bess Crawford to serve as a battlefield nurse, the indomitable heroine spent her childhood in India under the watchful eye of her friend and confidant, the young soldier Simon Brandon. The two formed an inseparable bond on the dangerous Northwest Frontier where her father's Regiment held the Khyber Pass against all intruders. It was Simon who taught Bess to ride and shoot, escorted her to the bazaars and the Maharani's Palace, and did his best to keep her out of trouble, after the Crawford family took an interest in the tall, angry boy with a mysterious past. But the Crawfords have long guarded secrets for Simon and he owes them a debt that runs deeper than Bess could ever know. Told through the eyes of Melinda, Richard, Clarissa, and Bess, A Hanging at Dawn pieces together a mystery at the center of Bess's family that will irrevocably change the course of her future.
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2012., Adult, St. Martin's Press Call No: FIC ROS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home during Emperor Napoleon III's renovation of Paris and while she stakes her claim in the basement she begins to write letters to her dead husband and is forced to come to terms with a secret that has been buried for thirty years.
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-- Disney's The hunchback of Notre Damec1996., 4.8; Ages 3-6, Disney Press Call No: PB ING Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Based on Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," a story in which Quasimodo, locked away in a bell tower all his life, bravely ventures out into the streets of Paris and becomes a hero.
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-- Disney's the hunchback of Notre Damec1996., Ages 4-8, Mouse Works Call No: PB DIS Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A retelling, based on the film, of how Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral in medieval Paris, saves the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.
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[2019]., Adults, Delacorte Press Call No: FIC BEN Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up residence in one of the city's most iconic sites: The Hotel Ritz. There, under a roof legendary for its unprecedented luxury and for its fabled residents--including Coco Chanel, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Cole Porter, Hemingway, Balanchine, Doris Duke, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and now Hermann Göering--the Nazis rule over a paralyzed city. But two residents of the Ritz refuse to be defeated: its director, Claude Auzello, and his beautiful American actress wife, Blanche. They not only oversee the smooth workings of the hotel, but both Blanche and Claude throw themselves fearlessly into the dangerous and clandestine workings of the French Resistance. This is a true-to-life novel of a courageous woman and her husband who put their marriage--and ultimately their lives--in jeopardy to fight for freedom. Intimate, fearless, and moving, it spins a brilliantly and unforgettably vivid human portrait at a time of unimaginable crisis and sacrifice.
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c2006., 4.0; Ages 3-6, Random House Call No: G OSB Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Magic tree house Volume: #35Summary Note: Jack and Annie visit the Paris World's Fair of 1889 in an effort to protect four scientific pioneers from an evil sorcerer.
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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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[2003]., Adult, Penguin Books Call No: YA DIC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Penguin classicsSummary Note: Presents Charles Dickens's 1859 historical novel set in Paris and London during the French Revolution, in which French nobleman Charles Darnay renounces his position in order to save the life of a servant; and contains chronology, timeline, and textual notes.
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2019., Adults, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC HOF Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a beautiful story of one Jewish child refugee's flight to safety in Nazi German and her mother's impossible decision to set her free"--
