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Avenue of spies [sound recording] : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris / by Kershaw, Alex,author.; Deakins, Mark,narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;: Read by Mark Deakins."The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during the Second World War. The leafy Avenue de Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young son Phillip at Number 11, found himself drawn into the Liberation network of the French resistance, he knew the stakes were impossibly high. Just down the road at Number 31 was the 'mad sadist' Theodor Dannecker, an Eichmann protege charged with deporting French Jews to concentration camps. And Number 84 housed the Parisian headquarters of the Gestapo, run by the most effective spy hunter in Nazi Germany. From his office at the American Hospital, itself an epicenter of Allied and Axis intrigue, Jackson smuggled fallen Allied fighter pilots safely out of France, a job complicated by the hospital director's close ties to collaborationist Vichy. After witnessing the brutal round-up of his Jewish friends, Jackson invited Liberation to officially operate out of his home at Number 11--but the noose soon began to tighten. When his secret life was discovered by his Nazi neighbors, he and his family were forced to undertake a journey into the dark heart of the war-torn continent from which there was little chance of return. Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material and extensive interviews with Phillip Jackson, Alex Kershaw recreates the City of Light during its darkest days. The untold story of the Jackson family anchors the suspenseful narrative, and Kershaw dazzles readers with the vivid immediacy of the best spy thrillers. Awash with the tense atmosphere of World War II's Europe, Avenue of Spies introduces us to the brave doctor who risked everything to defy Hitler"--Provided by publisher.; Subjects: Jackson, Sumner Waldron; Jackson, Sumner Waldron.; Americans; Audiobooks.; Physicians; Spies; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Daughters of the deer / by Daniel, Danielle,author.;: "In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ancestors in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family link to a girl murdered near Trois-Rivières in the early days of French settlement. Marie, an Algonquin woman of the Weskarini Deer Clan, lost her first husband and her children to an Iroquois raid. In the aftermath of another lethal attack, her chief begs her to remarry for the sake of the clan. Marie is a healer who honours the ways of her people, and Pierre, the green-eyed ex-soldier from France who wants her for his bride, is not the man she would choose. But her people are dwindling, wracked by white men's diseases and nearly starving every winter as the game retreats away from the white settlements. If her chief believes such a marriage will cement their alliance with the French against the Iroquois and the British, she feels she has no choice. Though she does it reluctantly, and with some fear--Marie is trading the memory of the man she loved for a man she doesn't understand at all, and whose devout Catholicism blinds him to the ways of her people. This beautiful, powerful novel brings to life women who have literally fallen through the cracks of settler histories. Especially Jeanne, the first child born of the new marriage, neither white nor Weskarini, but caught between worlds. As she reaches adolescence, it becomes clear she is two-spirited. In her mother's culture, she would have been considered blessed, her nature a sign of special wisdom. But to the settlers of New France, and even to her own father, Jeanne is unnatural, sinful--a woman to be shunned, and worse. And so, with the poignant story of Jeanne, Danielle Daniel imagines her way into the heart and mind of a woman at the origin of the long history of violence against Indigenous women and the deliberate, equally violent, disruption of First Nations culture--opening a door long jammed shut, so all of us can enter"--; Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Arranged marriage; First Nations women; First Nations; Algonquin;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The race for Paris : a novel / by Clayton, Meg Waite.;: A moving and powerfully dynamic World War II novel about two American journalists and an Englishman, who together race the Allies to Occupied Paris for the scoop of their lives. Normandy, 1944. To cover the fighting in France, Jane, a reporter for the Nashville Banner, and Liv, an Associated Press photographer, have endured enormous danger and frustrating obstacles--including strict military regulations limiting what women correspondents can do.; Subjects: Historical fiction.; War stories.; Americans; Foreign correspondents; Women journalists; World War, 1939-1945;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The dark vineyard / by Walker, Martin,1947-;: Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Arson investigation; Country life; Environmentalists; Murder; Police chiefs; Vintners; Courrèges, Bruno (Fictitious character);; © 2010., HarperCollins,; Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
21 brothers [videorecording] / by Garrett, Clayton.; MacDonald, Brian.; McGuire, Michael.; Pap, Jonathan.; Sinclair, Tom.; Spencer, Steven.; Ytinifni Pictures.;: Cinematography, Clint Tippin ; costume design, Justin Walsh.Steven Spencer, Clayton Garrett, Tom Sinclair, Jonathan Pap, Brian MacDonald.Set in W.W.1 the film follows the story of the Canada's 21st battalion as it prepares for the battle of Courcelette in September 1916.PG.DVD ; Dolby digital.Guinness World Record for longest One-shot film in history; Subjects: Feature films.; Male friendship; Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;; © c2012., Ytinifni Pictures,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
This baby / by Banks, Kate,1960-; Swiatkowska, Gabi.;: While waiting for it to be born, a young child wonders what its new sibling will be like.LSC; Subjects: Newborn infants; Brothers and sisters; Babies;; © 2011., Farrar Straus Giroux,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The children return : a Bruno, Chief of Police novel / by Walker, Martin,1947 January 23-author.; Walker, Martin,1947 January 23-Children of war.;: Includes bibliographical references.Bruno, chef de police in the French town of St Denis, is already busy with a case when the body of an undercover French Muslim cop is found in the woods, a man who called Bruno for help only hours before. But Bruno's sometime boss and rival, the Brigadier, doesn't see this investigation as a priority - there are bigger issues at stake. Bruno has other ideas. Meanwhile, a Muslim youth named Sami turns up at a French army base in Afghanistan hoping to get home to St Denis. One of Bruno's old army comrades helps to smuggle Sami back to France, but the FBI aren't far behind. Then an American woman appears in St Denis with a warrant for Sami's extradition. Bruno must unravel these multiple mysteries, amidst pressure from his bosses, and find his own way to protect his town and its people.; Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Murder; Police chiefs; Truffle culture; Courrèges, Bruno (Fictitious character);; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Private Paris / by Patterson, James,1947-; Sullivan, Mark T.;: Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Private investigators; Private security services;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Rook / by Cameron, Sharon,1970-;: In the Sunken City that was once Paris the guillotine rules again, while Sophia Bellamy from the Commonwealth across the Channel Sea tries to rescue as many of the revolution's victims as she can smuggle out, and some prisoners disappear from their cells, with a red-tipped rook feather left in their place--but who is the mysterious Red Rook and where does Sophia's wealthy fiancé, René Hasard, fit in?LSC; Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Romantic suspense fiction.; Dystopias.; Rescues; Secrecy; Political prisoners;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI

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