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Overture

Overture
  • Author(s): Vanessa Couchman
  • Location(s): South West France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1897-1914

She has a burning ambition, but everything conspires against her dreams. France, 1897. Born to a modest farming family, Marie-Thérèse has a remarkable singing voice and wants to become a professional singer. But too many obstacles, including her parents’...

Painting Paris

Painting Paris
  • Author(s): John Simmons
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1908 and 1937

Paris 1908. In Montmartre painters are creating works that will change the way we see life. Some do it better than others, some fall victims to the pursuit of love as well as art. But it’s a time to...

Paris

Paris
  • Author(s): Julian Green
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an extraordinary, lyrical love letter to the city, taking the reader on an imaginative journey around...

Paris Blue

Paris Blue
  • Author(s): Julie Scolnik
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 1970s

PARIS, 1976: Twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik had just arrived in the City of Light to study the flute when, from across a sea of faces in the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris, she is drawn to Luc,...

Paris by the Book

Paris by the Book
  • Author(s): Liam Callanan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Some stories are still waiting to be found. In a city of millions, it’s easy to lose someone… Twelve weeks before Leah Eady arrived in France, her husband disappeared. Early one morning, he walked out the door and never...

Paris Can’t Save Us

Paris Can’t Save Us
  • Author(s): Bella Thrower
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Paris Can’t Save Us, Claire and Luke, a couple seeking a fresh start and a chance to further Claire’s career, move to the City of Light for a year. Amidst the enchanting backdrop of the Parisian cafes and...

Paris France

Paris France
  • Author(s): Gertrude Stein
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 20th Century

In Paris France (1940)–published here with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik–Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her observations about everything from art and war to love and cooking. The result is an unforgettable glimpse into a...

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...

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