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Paris in Disguise

Paris in Disguise
  • Author(s): Richard Wake
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): World War II

Paris is cold and hungry. The Germans are in the fourth year of their occupation, and while a Resistance movement flourishes, it is small and perilous beyond belief. The lives of Resistance radio operators can be measured in weeks,...

Paris in the Twentieth Century

Paris in the Twentieth Century
  • Author(s): Jules Verne
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Modern

In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his...

Paris Is Always a Good Idea

Paris Is Always a Good Idea
  • Author(s): Nicolas Barreau
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Then one day when an elderly gentleman trips up in her shop and knocks over a post-card stand, it seems that her wish cards are working after all. Rosalie finds out that it is Max Marchais, famed and successful...

Paris Requiem

Paris Requiem
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris, September 1940. After three months under Nazi Occupation, not much can shock Detective Eddie Giral. That is, until he finds a murder victim who was supposed to be in prison. Eddie knows, because he put him there. The...

Paris Tales

Paris Tales
  • Author(s): Helen Constantine
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

If you’ve never been to Paris, here is your chance to experience it; if you have been there, here is your chance to return. Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who...

Paris Trance

Paris Trance
  • Author(s): Geoff Dyer
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A story about two couples in their twenties in Paris enjoying life and having fun.

Parisian Life, Adventures in the City of Light

Parisian Life, Adventures in the City of Light
  • Author(s): Edith de Belleville
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various centuries

When your best girl friend is Coco Chanel, your life can’t be too dull. When your enemy is Napoléon, your life can’t be too ordinary either. And when you are flirting with Hemingway at the Ritz bar in Paris,...

Parlez-Vous Murder, Book 1 of Stranded in Provence

Parlez-Vous Murder, Book 1 of Stranded in Provence
  • Author(s): Susan Kiernan-Lewis
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

“My name is Jules Hooker. I have lived through a few crappy moments in my life—and with a name like Hooker, you can just imagine—but nothing, nothing, compares to the two intensely and world-shatteringly crappy things that happened to...

Parting Words

Parting Words
  • Author(s): Traude Ailinger
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Passions flare when amateur sleuthing meets modern policing in this cute Scottish murder mystery! When sassy Edinburgh journalist Amy Thornton infiltrates an environmental activist group, little does she know how quickly she’ll scoop a story worthy of the front...

Partita

Partita
  • Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver
  • Location(s): Kentucky, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A song without any answer in it? That’s the sound of waiting. Livia Bohusz misses her brother, Cyrus. Unmoored by his death, and the stifling silence of the family farm, eleven-year-old Livia has no choice but to survive. Her...

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