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Pelican Girls

Pelican Girls
  • Author(s): Julia Malye
  • Location(s): New Orleans, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 18th Century

A historical feministic epic, for readers of Barbara Kingsolver, The Matrix by Lauren Groff and Maggie Shipstead’s The Great Circle. Paris, 1720. The Hospice of La Salpêtrière is overrun with ‘difficult’ women. Halfway around the world, on the American...

Perestroika in Paris

Perestroika in Paris
  • Author(s): Jane Smiley
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals–and a young boy–whose lives intersect in Paris Paras, short for Perestroika, is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon...

Peril in Paris

Peril in Paris
  • Author(s): Katherine Woodfine, Karl James Mountford (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1900s

ALL ABOARD THE TRAIN TO PARIS! It’s 1911, and the young detectives of TAYLOR & ROSE are turning their talents to ESPIONAGE. On a case for the mysterious SECRET SERVICE BUREAU, the daring MISS SOPHIE TAYLOR and MISS LILIAN...

Personal (Jack Reacher 19)

Personal (Jack Reacher 19)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • Location(s): Paris, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he’s a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president....

Petite Anglaise

Petite Anglaise
  • Author(s): Catherine Sanderson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

She has a job in Paris, the city of her dreams, a handsome Frenchman, a beautiful bilingual toddler, and a charming apartment with breathtaking views. So why does Catherine Sanderson feel that her life is coming apart? Stuck in...

Picasso’s Lovers

Picasso’s Lovers
  • Author(s): Jeanne Mackin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Biography

‘A bold, sumptuous portrait of a great artist and the women who inspired, frustrated, loved, and loathed him… Picasso’s Lovers is an epic, sensuous delight’ Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author A vivid reimagination of the women drawn...

Piglettes

Piglettes
  • Author(s): Clementine Beauvais
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mireille, Astrid and Hakima have just been voted the three ugliest girls in school by their classmates on Facebook. But does that mean they’re going to sit around crying about it?… Well, maybe a little, but not for long!...

Poison

Poison
  • Author(s): Kathryn Harrison
  • Location(s): Versailles, Madrid, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th century

Francisca de Luarac, the daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams. Marie Louise de Bourbon, the niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of fine Spanish silk in the French Court of the...

Proud of You

Proud of You
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

A heartfelt historical saga from Mary Wood, Proud of You is a page-turning novel with a compelling mystery at its heart. Alice, an upper-class Londoner, is recruited into the Special Operations Executive and sent to Paris where she meets...

Rabble!

Rabble!
  • Author(s): Geoffrey Fox
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870's Paris Commune

1870.17-year-old apprentice bookbinder Étienne Bonin travels from revolutionary Lyon to even more revolutionary Paris seeking excitement and professional opportunity. By the spring of 1871 he is deeply committed to the insurrection for workers’ power, to a new lover —...

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