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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...

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...

Sarab

Sarab
  • Author(s): Raja Alem
  • Location(s): Paris, Mecca
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1979

November 1979. Violence has broken out in the holiest site of Islam after a charismatic rebel and his devoted followers have announced the coming of the Mahdi and seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Among the insurgents is a...

Scandalous Alchemy

Scandalous Alchemy
  • Author(s): Katy Moran
  • Location(s): Fontainebleau
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Regency

Fontainebleau in 1825 is a glittering international court, rich with intrigue, passion and simmering violence. Lieutenant Colonel Kit Helford must navigate these treacherous waters to deliver the beautiful, self-destructive Princess Royal to her prospective husband. Kit’s childhood friend, Clemency...

Shakespeare and Company

Shakespeare and Company
  • Author(s): Sylvia Beach
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left...

Sharpe’s Assassin

Sharpe’s Assassin
  • Author(s): Bernard Cornwell
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1815

Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it’s been his home ever since. He’s a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable...

Sightseeing

Sightseeing
  • Author(s): Michael Onofrey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Sightseeing, a novella, 25,500 words, is set in Paris, France, time span twenty-four hours. A man, Wayne, and a woman, Diane (or maybe Diane, for her name might not be Diane), meet and pursue an instant relationship in which...

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