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The Ball at Versailles

The Ball at Versailles
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): Paris, Versailles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1958

The Ball at Versailles is a sparkling, captivating tale of four young women and one life-changing night, from the billion copy bestselling author, Danielle Steel. 1958. The Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will go down in...

The Ballerinas

The Ballerinas
  • Author(s): Rachel Kapelke-Dale
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day and early 2000s

Thirteen years ago, Delphine abandoned her prestigious soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg––taking with her a secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux....

The Beaten Track

The Beaten Track
  • Author(s): Louise Mangos
  • Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...

The Betrayal

The Betrayal
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

Paris, 1938. Twin sisters are divided by fierce loyalties and by a terrible secret. The drums of war are beating and France is poised, ready to fall. One sister is an aviatrix, the other is a socialite and they both...

The Black Swan of Paris

The Black Swan of Paris
  • Author(s): Karen Robards
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris, 1944 Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, her position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian...

The Book of Proper Names

The Book of Proper Names
  • Author(s): Amélie Nothomb, Shaun Whiteside (translator)
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From France’s ‘literary lioness’ (Elle), The Book of Proper Names is the story of the hapless orphan girl, Plectrude. Raised by her aunt, and unaware of the dark secret behind her past, she is a troubled but dreamy child...

The Bookseller

The Bookseller
  • Author(s): Mark Pryor
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Max—an elderly Paris bookstall owner—is abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks on helplessly, powerless to do anything to stop the kidnapper. Marston launches a search, enlisting the help of semiretired CIA agent...

The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Identity
  • Author(s): Robert Ludlum
  • Location(s): Paris, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The first in the Bourne trilogy. (From the back cover): He has no past. And he may not have a future. All he knows is that he was fished out of the Mediterranean, his body riddled with bullets. Evidence...

The Caretakers

The Caretakers
  • Author(s): Amanda Bestor-Siegal
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary (2015)

In the smart Parisian suburb of Maisons-Larue, in the wake of the Paris 2015 terrorist attacks, an au pair is arrested after the sudden and suspicious death of her nine-year-old charge… The truth behind what happened is unravelled through...

The Chanel Sisters

The Chanel Sisters
  • Author(s): Judithe Little
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th century

The unforgettable story of the sisters who changed fashion forever. For readers who fell in love with THE PARIS WIFE and THE AGE OF LIGHT. Gabrielle and Antoinette know they’re destined for something better. Abandoned to a convent orphanage,...

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