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One hour of fervor / by Barbery, Muriel,1969-author.; Anderson, Alison,translator.; translation of:Barbery, Muriel,1969-Une heure de ferveur.English.;
"Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer, has an affair in Japan with a French woman who becomes pregnant with his child, but who threatens to take her own life if he ever tries to see her or the child and, as time passes by, wonders if it's too late to change things"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Fathers and daughters; Man-woman relationships; Pregnant women; Promises;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Beyond the door of no return / by Diop, David,1966-author.; Taylor, Sam,1970-translator.; translation of:Diop, David,1966-Porte du voyage sans retour.English.;
"A historical novel about a French botanist's search for a mysterious woman who escaped from slavery in Senegal"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Adanson, Michel, 1727-1806; Botanists; Slavery; Women;
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Ribbons of scarlet : a novel of the French Revolution's women / by Quinn, Kate,author.; Dray, Stephanie,author.; Kamoie, Laura Croghan,author.; Knight, Eliza,author.; Perinot, Sophie,author.; Webb, Heather,1976 December 30-author.; Pataki, Allison,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references.In late eighteenth-century France, women do not have a place in politics. But as the tide of revolution rises, women from gilded salons to the streets of Paris decide otherwise-- upending a world order that has long oppressed them. Blue-blooded Sophie de Grouchy believes in democracy, education, and equal rights for women, and marries the only man in Paris who agrees. Emboldened to fight the injustices of King Louis XVI, Sophie aims to prove that an educated populace can govern itself-- but one of her students, fruit-seller Louise Audu, is hungrier for bread and vengeance than learning. When the Bastille falls and Louise leads a women's march to Versailles, the monarchy is forced to bend, but not without a fight. The king's pious sister Princess Elisabeth takes a stand to defend her brother, spirit her family to safety, and restore the old order, even at the risk of her head. But when fanatics use the newspapers to twist the revolution's ideals into a new tyranny, even the women who toppled the monarchy are threatened by the guillotine. Putting her faith in the pen, brilliant political wife Manon Roland tries to write a way out of France's blood-soaked Reign of Terror while pike-bearing Pauline Leon and steely Charlotte Corday embrace violence as the only way to save the nation. With justice corrupted by revenge, all the women must make impossible choices to survive-- unless unlikely heroine and courtesan's daughter Emilie de Sainte-Amaranthe can sway the man who controls France's fate: the fearsome Robespierre.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women;
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Bruno's challenge : and other stories of the French countryside / by Walker, Martin,1947 January 23-author.;
"Martin Walker presents his first collection of Bruno stories featuring all the familiar characters from the novels, the glories of the Périgord, and ample helpings of food and wine"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Short stories.; Courrèges, Bruno (Fictitious character); Criminal investigation; Police;
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A line to kill : a novel / by Horowitz, Anthony,1955-author.;
"When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don't expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation--or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past. Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon meet the festival's other guests--an eccentric gathering that includes a bestselling children's author, a French poet, a TV chef turned cookbook author, a blind psychic, and a war historian--along with a group of ornery locals embroiled in an escalating feud over a disruptive power line. When a local grandee is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Hawthorne and Horowitz become embroiled in the case. The island is locked down, no one is allowed on or off, and it soon becomes horribly clear that a murderer lurks in their midst. But who?"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-; Authors; Celebrities; Ex-police officers; Festivals; Islands; Murder; Private investigators; Secrecy;
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The party wall / by Leroux, Catherine,1979-author.; translation of:Leroux, Catherine,1979-Mur mitoyen.English.; Lederhendler, Lazer,1950-translator.;
Catherine Leroux's brilliant first novel in English shuffles between, and eventually ties together, stories about siblings joined in surprising ways. Reminiscent of the novels of Tom Robbins and David Mitchell, with well-evoked settings and rich characters, 'The Party Wall' establishes Leroux as one of Canada's most intelligent and innovative young authors. This book was also the winner of the Quebec bookseller's prize and the prestigious France-Quebec Prize.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Interpersonal relationships; Families;
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My husband : a novel / by Ventura, Maud,author.; Ramadan, Emma,translator.; translation of:Ventura, Maud.Mon mari.English.;
"A beautiful forty-year-old French woman is pathologically obsessed with her husband, even after fifteen years together"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Husbands; Married people;
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Adèle / by Slimani, Leïla,1981-author.; Taylor, Sam,1970-translator.; translation of:Slimani, Le{uml}ila,1981-Dans le jardin de l'ogre.English.;
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Adultery; Women journalists;
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Happy people read & drink coffee / by Martin-Lugand, Agnès,author.; translation of:Martin-Lugand, Agnès.Gens heureux lisent et boivent du café.English.; Smith, Sandra,1949-translator.;
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Widows; Coffeehouses;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Playground : a novel / by Powers, Richard,1957-author.;
The tiny atoll of French Polynesia has been chosen for humanity's next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea, but first, the island's residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Ecofiction.; Political fiction.; Novels.; Climatic changes; Friendship; Islands; Ocean;
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