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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...

Paris Requiem

Paris Requiem
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris, September 1940. After three months under Nazi Occupation, not much can shock Detective Eddie Giral. That is, until he finds a murder victim who was supposed to be in prison. Eddie knows, because he put him there. The...

Paris Tales

Paris Tales
  • Author(s): Helen Constantine
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

If you’ve never been to Paris, here is your chance to experience it; if you have been there, here is your chance to return. Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who...

Paris Trance

Paris Trance
  • Author(s): Geoff Dyer
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A story about two couples in their twenties in Paris enjoying life and having fun.

Parisian Life, Adventures in the City of Light

Parisian Life, Adventures in the City of Light
  • Author(s): Edith de Belleville
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various centuries

When your best girl friend is Coco Chanel, your life can’t be too dull. When your enemy is Napoléon, your life can’t be too ordinary either. And when you are flirting with Hemingway at the Ritz bar in Paris,...

Parlez-Vous Murder, Book 1 of Stranded in Provence

Parlez-Vous Murder, Book 1 of Stranded in Provence
  • Author(s): Susan Kiernan-Lewis
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

“My name is Jules Hooker. I have lived through a few crappy moments in my life—and with a name like Hooker, you can just imagine—but nothing, nothing, compares to the two intensely and world-shatteringly crappy things that happened to...

Peaks and Bandits

Peaks and Bandits
  • Author(s): Alf Bonnevie Bryn
  • Location(s): Corsica
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): early 20th century

In 1909, while dreaming of the Himalaya, Norwegian mountaineer Alf Bonnevie Bryn and a fellow young climber, the Australian George Ingle Finch, set their sights on Corsica to build their experience. The events of this memorable trip form the...

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
  • Author(s): Simon Rowe
  • Location(s): Japan, Australia, Austria, Cambodia, France, Hong Kong, Malaysia (Malaya), New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Current

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is short fiction for busy people who love to travel. Six of the stories are set in Japan, and the others in Hong Kong, East Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, France, Austria, the...

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...

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