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French Exit

French Exit
  • Author(s): Patrick deWitt
  • Location(s): Paris, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Frances Price – tart widow, possessive mother and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then...

French Kissing

French Kissing
  • Author(s): Lynne Shelby
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna is English and lives in London. Alexandre is French and lives in Paris. They have been penfriends for fifteen years – since they met on a school exchange trip. When Alex’s work as a photographer brings him to...

French Restoration

French Restoration
  • Author(s): Sara Claridge
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Chantal Chevalier is determined to win the interior design contract for Chateau Vauquelin, if only to stop wealthy hotelier Alex Kirkwood from destroying its magical splendour and turning the place into a bland playground for the rich and famous....

French Windows

French Windows
  • Author(s): Antoine Laurain
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nathalia Guitry was a successful photographer. Until the day she caught a murder on camera. At therapy, Doctor Faber suggests a way out of her creative block: she must write stories about the people she sees in the building...

Fresh Air and Empty Streets

Fresh Air and Empty Streets
  • Author(s): Oliver Cable
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Fifteen years after Alexander left his wife and young child to pursue the life of an artist in Paris, his son Felix is on his doorstep, looking for answers. On a journey through smoky jazz bars, artists’ studios and...

From a Paris Balcony

From a Paris Balcony
  • Author(s): Ella Carey
  • Location(s): Paris, Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2015 looking back

Secrets of Paris Book 3 The small green chest was concealed at the back of her father’s wardrobe. Its hinges were made of brass that must once have shone, but now the surface was roughened and dull. As she...

Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible

Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible
  • Author(s): Suzanne Kamata
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Aiko Cassidy is fifteen and lives with her sculptor mother in a small Midwestern town. For most of her young life, Aiko, who has cerebral palsy, has been her mother’s muse. But now, she no longer wants to pose...

Geography Of The Heart

Geography Of The Heart
  • Author(s): Fenton Johnson
  • Location(s): Paris, Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

In this poignant memoir, the author interweaves two fascinating stories: his own upbringing as the youngest of nine children of a Kentucky whiskey maker and that of his lover Larry Rose, the only child of German Jews, survivors of...

Getting Lost

Getting Lost
  • Author(s): Annie Ernaux
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1989

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was...

Gilded Wolves

Gilded Wolves
  • Author(s): Roshani Chokshi
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1889

Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than...

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