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The Age of Light

The Age of Light
  • Author(s): Whitney Scharer
  • Location(s): Europe, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s- 1940s

‘I’d rather take a picture than be one,’ Lee Miller declares, as she arrives in Paris one cool day in 1929. Lee has left behind her life in New York and a successful modelling career at Vogue to pursue...

The Alice Network

The Alice Network
  • Author(s): Kate Quinn
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are...

The Art of Losing

The Art of Losing
  • Author(s): Alice Zeniter, Frank Wynne (Translator)
  • Location(s): Algeria, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Naïma has always known that her family came from Algeria – but up until now, that meant very little to her. Born and raised in France, her knowledge of that foreign country is limited to what she’s learned from...

The Art of Murder

The Art of Murder
  • Author(s): Carol McKee Jones
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Murder, romance, Paris. A classic crime novel featuring betrayal and revenge set in the City of Light. Antique dealer, Liam, flees to Paris when a deal goes wrong. He meets Alouette, an ex-nightclub singer, who takes him in when...

The Art of Traveling Strangers

The Art of Traveling Strangers
  • Author(s): Zoe Disigny
  • Location(s): Italy, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

THE ART OF TRAVELING STRANGERS takes place in the 1980s and is about an art history professor named Claire who experiences a series of devastating losses, making her desperate to escape her shattered reality by taking a job as...

The Art of Vanishing

The Art of Vanishing
  • Author(s): Morgan Pager
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary and WW1

Jean’s life is the same day in and day out. Frozen in time by his painter father, the legendary Henri Matisse, Jean observes the ebb and flow of museum guests as they take in the works of his father...

The Artist

The Artist
  • Author(s): Lucy Steeds
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920

PROVENCE, 1920 Ettie moves through the remote farmhouse, silently creating the conditions that make her uncle’s artistic genius possible. Joseph, an aspiring journalist, has been invited to the house. He believes he’ll make his name by interviewing the reclusive...

The Awkward Squad

The Awkward Squad
  • Author(s): Sophie Hénaff
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing “one bullet too many”, Anne Capestan is expecting the worst when she is summoned to H.Q. to learn her fate. Instead, she is surprised to be told that...

The Ball at Versailles

The Ball at Versailles
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): Paris, Versailles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1958

The Ball at Versailles is a sparkling, captivating tale of four young women and one life-changing night, from the billion copy bestselling author, Danielle Steel. 1958. The Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will go down in...

The Ballerinas

The Ballerinas
  • Author(s): Rachel Kapelke-Dale
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day and early 2000s

Thirteen years ago, Delphine abandoned her prestigious soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg––taking with her a secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux....

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