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Lauren’s Story: An American Dog in Paris

Lauren’s Story: An American Dog in Paris
  • Author(s): Kay Pfaltz
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction

A must for all dog lovers

Leopold’s Assassin

Leopold’s Assassin
  • Author(s): J R Rogers
  • Location(s): Brussels, Dinard, Guyana, Lima, Paris, Recife, St Malo
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1902

1902 – It is a cold and rainy Saturday morning the 15th of November in Brussels, Belgium. Gennaro Cataldo, an Italian anarchist, has traveled incognito to Brussels from London and Paris. In the Belgian capital he plans to assassinate...

Les Miserables

Les Miserables
  • Author(s): Victor Hugo
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

‘He was no longer Jean Valjean, but No. 24601’ Victor Hugo’s tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become...

Let Us Be True

Let Us Be True
  • Author(s): Alex Christofi
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958

Paris, 1958. Ralf is alone, filling his days with glasses of red wine at Jacques’ bar, waiting for life to happen to him. Then, one night, Elsa – bold, enigmatic, unpredictable – whirls into Jacques’ bar and into Ralf’s...

Libby and the Parisian Puzzle

Libby and the Parisian Puzzle
  • Author(s): Jo Clarke, Becka Moor (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mystery-lover Libby is excited but nervous when she’s sent to live with her aunt while her mother is working abroad. Aunt Agatha is the headmistress of an extraordinary travelling school that moves from country to country. Libby joins it...

Liberté

Liberté
  • Author(s): Gita Trelease
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 18th century, French Revolution

Liberté by Gita Trelease is the spell-binding sequel to the bestselling Enchanteé. Magic. Betrayal. Sacrifice. Camille Durbonne gambled everything she had to keep herself and her sister safe. But as the people of Paris starve and mobs riot, safety...

Liberty’s Fire

Liberty’s Fire
  • Author(s): Lydia Syson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

Paris, 1871. Four young people will rewrite their destinies. Paris is in revolt. After months of siege at the hands of the Prussians, a wind of change is blowing through the city, bringing with it murmurs of a new...

Life: A User’s Manual

Life: A User’s Manual
  • Author(s): Georges Perec
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his...

Light at Dusk

Light at Dusk
  • Author(s): Peter Gadol
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): post contemporary

The novel is set just a little in the future when the Far Right has gained ascendancy and skinheads rule the street. A Lebanese boy is kidnapped.

Lilac Girls

Lilac Girls
  • Author(s): Martha Hall Kelly
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris, Ravensbrück
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939–and then sets...

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