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Cooking for Picasso : a novel / by Aubray, Camille,author.;: "For readers of Paula McLain, Nancy Horan, and Melanie Benjamin, this captivating novel is inspired by a little-known interlude in the artist's life. The French Riviera, spring 1936: It's off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Cafe Paradis. A mysterious new patron who's slipped out of Paris and is traveling under a different name has made an unusual request--to have his lunch served to him at thenearby villa he's secretly rented, where he wishes to remain incognito. Pablo Picasso is at a momentous crossroads in his personal and professional life--and for him, art and women are always entwined. The spirited Ondine, chafing under her family's authority and nursing a broken heart, is just beginning to discover her own talents and appetites. Her encounter with Picasso will continue to affect her life for many decades onward, as the great artist and the talented young chef each pursue their own passions and destiny. New York, present day: Celine, a Hollywood makeup artist who's come home for the holidays, learns from her mother, Julie, that Grandmother Ondine once cooked for Picasso. Prompted by her mother's enigmatic stories and the hint of more family secrets yet to be uncovered, Celine carries out Julie's wishes and embarks on a voyage to the very town where Ondine and Picasso first met. In the lush, heady atmosphere of the Côte d'Azur, and with the help of several eccentric fellow guests attending a rigorous cooking class at her hotel, Celine discovers truths about art, culture, cuisine, and love that enable her to embrace her own future. Featuring an array of both fictional characters and the French Riviera's most famous historical residents,set against the breathtaking scenery of the South of France, Cooking for Picasso is a touching, delectable, and wise story, illuminating the powers of trust, money, art, and creativity in the choices that men and women make, as they seek a path toward love, success, and joie de vivre."--; Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973; Women cooks; Cooking;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The Paris showroom / by Blackwell, Juliet,author.;: Includes bibliographical references."In Nazi-occupied Paris, a talented artisan must fight for her life by designing for her enemies. From New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell comes an extraordinary story about holding on to hope when all seems lost. Capucine Benoit works alongside her father to produce fans of rare feathers, beads, and intricate pleating for the haute couture fashion houses. But after the Germans invade Paris in June 1940, Capucine and her father must focus on mere survival-until they are betrayed to the secret police and arrested for his political beliefs. When Capucine saves herself from deportation to Auschwitz by highlighting her connections to Parisian design houses, she is sent to a little-known prison camp located in the heart of Paris, within the Lévitan department store. There, hundreds of prisoners work to sort through, repair, and put on display the massive quantities of art, furniture, and household goods looted from Jewish homes and businesses. Forced to wait on German officials and their wives and mistresses, Capucine struggles to hold her tongue in order to survive, remembering happier days spent in the art salons, ateliers, and jazz clubs of Montmartre in the 1920s. Capucine's estranged daughter, Mathilde, remains in the care of her conservative paternal grandparents, who are prospering under the Nazi occupation. But after her mother is arrested and then a childhood friend goes missing, the usually obedient Mathilde finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of Paris's Résistance fighters. As her mind opens to new ways of looking at the world, Mathilde also begins to see her unconventional mother in a different light. When an old acquaintance arrives to go "shopping" at the Lévitan department store on the arm of a Nazi officer and secretly offers to help Capucine get in touch with Mathilde, this seeming act of kindness could have dangerous consequences"--; Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mothers and daughters; World War, 1939-1945;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Spy smuggler : Paul Lelaud, France, 1942-1944 / by Eldridge, Jim,1944-;: A story about the French Resistance during the Second World War, viewed through the eyes of thirteen year old Paul Lelaud.LSC; Subjects: Historical fiction.; Teenage boys; World War, 1939-1945;; © 2007, c2004., Scholastic Canada,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
D-day [sound recording (CD)] : the Battle for Normandy / by Beevor, Antony,1946-; Stewart, Cameron.;: Subjects: Audiobooks.; World War, 1939-1945;; © p2009., Penguin Audio,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Serotonin / by Houellebecq, Michel,author.; Whiteside, Shaun,translator.; translation of:Houellebecq, Michel.Sérotonine.English.;: "Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional failures, the aging hedonist and agricultural engineer Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is "dying of sadness." He hates his young girlfriend, and the feeling is almost certainly mutual; his career is pretty much over; and he has to keep himself thoroughly medicated to cope with day-to-day life. Suffocating in the rampant loneliness, consumerism, hedonism, and sprawl of the city, Labrouste decides to head for the hills, returning to Normandy, where he once worked promoting regional cheeses and where he was once in love, and even--it now seems--happy. There he finds a countryside devastated by globalization and by European agricultural policies, and encounters farmers longing, like Labrouste himself, for an impossible return to a simpler age. As the farmers prepare for what might be an armed insurrection, it becomes clear that the health of one miserable body and of a suffering body politic are not so different, and that all parties may be rushing toward a catastrophe that a whole drugstore's worth of antidepressants won't make bearable."--; Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Depressed persons; Man-woman relationships; Agriculture;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The magic of Monet's garden : his planting plans and color harmonies / by Fell, Derek;: Subjects: Monet, Claude, 1840-1926; Gardens; Gardens in art;; © 2007., Firefly Books,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Mad, bad & dangerous to know / by Ahmed, Samira(Fiction writer);: Includes bibliographical references.August in Paris. This holiday with her professor parents should be a dream trip for budding art historian Khayyam Maquet-- American, French, Indian, Muslim. But her maybe-ex-boyfriend is ghosting her, she might have just blown her chance at getting into her dream college, and all she really wants is to be back home in Chicago figuring out her messy life. Two hundred years before Khayyam's summer of discontent, Leila is struggling to survive and keep her true love hidden from the Pasha who has 'gifted' her with favored status in his harem. Two lives: one to be uncovered; the other transformed.LSC; Subjects: Art; Muslims; Racially mixed people; Americans;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
At Vimy Ridge : Canada's greatest World War I victory / by Brewster, Hugh.;: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Subjects: Vimy Ridge, Battle of, France, 1917;; © c2006., Scholastic Canada,; Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2; unAPI

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