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Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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Description
Paris, the most romantic city on earth, is a place of second honeymoons and newly discovered passions. It lures us with a banquet of tastes, sound, sights, and smells. And, for Lara Lewis, it is the place where she and her husband once experienced love at its best. Now it is a place where forty-something Lara believes she can rekindle her marriage. She plans the most romantic adventure: to retrace her first honeymoon with her husband, visit the same...
Author
Series
Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Not just an ordinary priest but a priest/television superstar, idolized by the people of France, loved by everyone except, of course the French hierarchy, the church, state and the Paris television community.
The Archbishop of Paris, familiar with Bishop Blackie Ryan's impressive sleuthing skills, asks Blackie's boss, the Archbishop of Chicago Sean Cardinal Cronin, for help in finding this missing priest. As usual, Cardinal Cronin resolves the matter...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When the Nazis march into Paris, an American woman uses her bookstore to aid the resistance, while a businessman chooses to sell his products to Germany-and send vital information home to the US. Can they work together for the higher good, or will it cost them everything they love?"--
25) Leap of faith
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Language
English
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Description
Marie-Ange Hawkins was torn away from her beloved French chateau after her parents died and spent the rest of her childhood on a lonely Iowa farm. She married the chateau's new owner, Comte Bernard de Beauchamp, and begins raising a family, but her life takes an ominous turn.
Author
Series
Queen of babble novels volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Things are looking up at last for Lizzie Nichols. She has a career she loves in the field of her choice (wedding gown restoration), and the love of her life, Jean-Luc, has finally proposed. Life's become a dizzying whirl of wedding gown fittings--not necessarily her own--as Lizzie prepares for her dream wedding at her fiance's chateau in the south of France. But is Lizzie really ready to embrace her new role as wife and mistress of Chateau Mirac?...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Spraggs, a wealthy family of Midwesterners, are visiting New York City to marry off their beautiful daughter Undine. While Undine's beauty catches the attention of several high-society men, she finds it difficult to fit in with the old-money social circles that rule New York. When she finally marries Ralph Marvell, she embraces a life full of frivolities, which eventually leads to her tumultuous demise. Best known for inspiring the hit series...
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 38
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Will they ever make it to the coast? It all depends on... the HESITANT HERO When Tyler Winslow is expelled from college in New York, he decides to study art in Paris. When he fails at that as well, and with no family or career to return to in the States, he settles further south in France, painting for his own pleasure and pursuing a woman he had dated in college. Jolie Vernay has no interest in Tyler, but their lives are soon entwined with those...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"The motto, 'It is never too late to be what you might have been,' haunts Mary Davis. Newly widowed, she has the notion that if she can return to Paris with her increasingly distant daughter, perhaps sheγll be able to reconcile with the past and find a new future"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Sisterchicks novels volume 5
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Robin Jones Gunn has entertained and inspired millions of readers with the lively Sisterchicks series. Each book carries fans to beautiful places and into gratifying spiritual adventures. Two 40-something friends have traveled to Paris for one whirlwind week. They will discover many unexpected blessings in the City of Lights. "Part of what I think these sisterchick characters are teaching me is that love covers a multitude of sins. Grace soothes and...
31) The double eagle
Author
Series
Tom Kirk series volume 1
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
They are the most valuable coins on earth . . .
Only a handful still exist, each one worth millions . . .
Now they have vanished from an impenetrable
fortress . . . and the killings have begun.
Somehow, impossibly, someone has invaded Fort Knox and stolen five of the world's last remaining Double Eagles -- the $20 gold coin ordered destroyed by President Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Now, one has resurfaced during an autopsy in France...
Author
Publisher
Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Rhys Gravenor, Great War veteran-turned-farmer, arrives in Paris in the midst of the city's liberation with a worn letter in his pocket that may have arrived years too late. As he follows the footsteps of his missing son across an unfamiliar, war-torn country, he struggles to come to terms with the incident that drove a wedge between the two of them. Joined by Charlotte Dubois, an American ambulance driver with secrets of her own. Rhys is haunted...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Aimie Runyan makes her contemporary women's fiction debut with this charming escape into the lavender fields of Southern France and a young woman who discovers her family's secrets and the hope for her own future"--
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta...
35) Ravelstein
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in...
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Language
English
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It's the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Four young women, all with something to prove, receive what some see as the invitation of a lifetime. Amelia Alexander, who hopes to eventually attend law school, hesitates to participate in what she sees...
37) Sweet filthy boy
Author
Series
Wild seasons volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Mia Holland isn't usually one for a fling, but after a sweet, filthy night with charming Frenchman Ansel Guillaume, she makes the wildest decision of her life. Terrified of the boring but practical path ahead of her, Mia rolls the dice and follows Ansel to France for the summer to just ... play. Playing house, playing lovers ... Mia's whole life feels like pretend until she dresses up and pulls Ansel into a provocative masquerade that finally feels...
Author
Series
Mac Reilly novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Experiencing relationship troubles with Mac during a visit to Monte Carlo, Sunny is enmeshed in a series of jewelry store robberies involving a sociopath acquaintance and a dowdy friend's makeover by movie star Allie Ray.
39) Search for love
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When she arrives at her family estate, Serenity is greeted politely, but coldly, by the aristocrat Christophe de Kergallen. But soon, her spirit begins to melt the man's cool demeanor and inflame his passion.
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