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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 —...

Red Pill

Red Pill
  • Author(s): Hari Kunzru
  • Location(s): Paris, Berlin, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of “Red Pill” arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he...

Renoir’s Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

Renoir’s Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
  • Author(s): Catherine Hewitt
  • Location(s): Paris, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists’ most beautiful model. But behind her captivating façade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager Suzanne began, in Montmartre, posing for – and having...

RESONANCE

RESONANCE
  • Author(s): Daniel Chertoff, Michael Tobin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1922 and 1970s

1971, Paris Sophie Hadad works as a “tumbleweed” at Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, having fled a dysfunctional family and predatory professors in the U.S. When store owner George Whitman tasks Sophie with excavating the store’s basement, she...

Revolution

Revolution
  • Author(s): Jennifer Donnelly
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern, French Revolution (18th century)

BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying...

Roissy Express

Roissy Express
  • Author(s): Francois Maspero, Anaik Frantz
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Accompanied by photographer Anaik Frantz, Francois Maspero embarked on a journey along the RER, the express subway which leads through the Paris suburbs. Getting off the train at each stop, he and Frantz present a picture of daily life...

Rooftoppers

Rooftoppers
  • Author(s): Katherine Rundell
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction

Already being proclaimed a classic in children’s literature and compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva Ibbotson, Katherine Rundell’s Rooftoppers merges fantasy and historical fiction with sophisticated lyrical prose and vivid imagery that will delight middle grade...

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