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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;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Emily in Paris. [videorecording] / by Bravo, Lucas,actor.; Collins, Lily,1989-actor.; Leroy-Beaulieu, Philippine,actor.; Park, Ashley,actor.; Star, Darren,1961-television director.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,publisher.;: Lily Collins, Philippine Leroy-beaulieu, Ashley Park, Lucas Bravo, Samuel Arnold, Bruno Gouery.After suddenly landing a dream job in Paris, Chicago marketing exec Emily Cooper embraces her adventurous new life. Emily says oui to possibility as she juggles work, friendships, and romance while navigating a whole new culture. This first season of the Golden Globe Award and Emmy nominated series from Darren Star, creator of Sex and the City and Younger, includes deleted scenes and three exclusive featurettes!Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.; Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Americans; Businesswomen;; For private home use only.; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The perfect nanny : a novel / by Slimani, Leïla,1981-author.; Taylor, Sam,1970-translator.; translation of:Slimani, Leïla,1981-Chanson douce.English.;: "When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau. Building tension with every page, The Perfect Nanny is a compulsive, riveting, bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity, and motherhood--and the American debut of an immensely talented writer"--; Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Nannies; Social classes; Interpersonal conflict; Families; Murder;; Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2; unAPI
New France and the fur trade / by Baldwin, Douglas,1944-;: Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index.; Subjects: Fur trade;; © 2002., Weigl,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
1,000 years of annoying the French / by Clarke, Stephen,1958-;: Includes bibliographical references (p. 518-522) and index.; © 2011, c2010., McArthur & Co.,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The easy life / by Duras, Marguerite,author.; Baes, Olivia,translator.; Ramadan, Emma,translator.; translation of:Duras, Marguerite.Vie tranquille.English.;: "For the first time in English, from the literary icon and author of the classic novel The Lover, Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a young woman's existential breakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside. The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her by. Existence on her family farm is routine, mundane. But when she learns her uncle is having an affair with her brother's wife, she decides to bring the secret out into the open and shatter the seeming tranquility of their lives. Tragedy ensues, as Francine expected, but even amidst her grief, she continues to experience a curious detachment, an inability to navigate the world as others do. Hoping to be cleansed of what ails her, she travels to the coast to visit the sea, where she finds herself fully unraveling. Lying in the sun with her toes in the sand by day and psychologically dissolving in her hotel room by night, soon her inner crisis reaches its peak and she must grapple with whether to take hold of her own existence, or instead to surrender to the easy life. An extraordinary examination of a young woman's estrangement from the world that only Marguerite Duras could have written, The Easy Life is a work of unsettling beauty and insight, and a bold, spellbinding journey into the depths of the human heart"--; Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Existentialism; Families; Neurasthenia; Young women;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Paris echo / by Faulks, Sebastian,author.;: Includes bibliographical references."An urgent and enthralling new novel about injustice and betrayal from the author of Birdsong and A Week in December. Set in 2006, Paris Echo follows Hannah, a thirty-one-year-old American post-doctoral researcher looking into the lives of women during the German Occupation of Paris in 1940-44, and Tariq, a nineteen-year-old boy who has run away from his home in Morocco, searching for sex and adventure. Through their culture clash we are taken back into the hidden Paris of the Dark Years, the Algerian War and the simmering discontents of the banlieue. As both main characters fight to preserve their integrity and their sanity, they find their future shaped by the lives of the dead, by the ghosts of the Paris Metro."--; Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Americans; Moroccans; Women historians; Immigrants;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI

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