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The Swiss nurse : a novel / by Escobar, Mario,1971-author.; Abernathy, Gretchen,translator.; translation of:Escobar, Mario,1971-Maternidad de Elna.English.;
Includes bibliographical references."The true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and WWII"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Eidenbenz, Elisabeth, 1913-2011; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; World War, 1939-1945;
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Angélique / by Musso, Guillaume,author.; Eyre, Rosie,translator.; translation of:Musso, Guillaume.Angélique.English.;
"Paris, Christmas 2021. After a heart attack, Mathias Taillefer wakes up in the hospital with a stranger at his bedside. The mysterious girl reveals herself to be Louise Collange, a volunteer who has come to play the cello for patients. When she finds out that Mathias is a cop, she asks him to look into a very special case. Her mother, a former ballerina at the Paris Opera Ballet, died last year after falling from her balcony, and Louise has a hunch she was pushed. Though hesitant at first, Mathias agrees to help her, sending them both headfirst into a deadly chain of events. And at the center of it all, a woman named Angélique, whose angelic intentions may not be all they seem. Feverous, surprising, and uplifting, Musso's newest novel is a labyrinth of emotions where nothing is certain from one page to the next"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Identity (Psychology); Manipulative behavior; Mothers; Murder; Police; Resentment; Secrecy; Students; Women violinists;
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Parrot and Olivier in America / by Carey, Peter,1943-;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859; Aristocracy (Social class); French; Male friendship; Master and servant; Voyages and travels;
© 2010., Random House Canada,
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The crimson field [videorecording] / by Chaplin, Oona,1986-actor.; Clark, Richard,film director.; Evans, David,film director.; Norris, Hermione,actor.; O'Sullivan, Thaddeus,1947-film director.; Oldham, Marianne,actor.; Rankin, Richard,actor.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Hermione Norris, Oona Chaplin, Richard Rankin, Marianne Oldham, Alice St. Clair.In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, doctors, nurses, and volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches of WWI. The hospital is a frontier: between the battlefield and home front but also between the old rules, hierarchies, class distinctions, and a new way of thinking.PG.DVD, widescreen presentation ; stereo.
Subjects: Historical television programs.; Medical drama.; Medical television programs.; Military hospitals; Television mini-series.; World War, 1914-1918;
For private home use only.
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You can't stay here forever : a novel / by Lin, Katherine,author.;
Desperate to obliterate her past, a young widow flees California for the French Riviera in this compelling debut. 'You Can't Stay Here Forever' explores the slippery nature of marriage, the push and pull between friends, and the interplay of race and privilege, seen through the eyes of a young Asian American woman. Goodreads Giveaway.#diversity.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Asian American women; Best friends; Grief; Interpersonal relations; Interracial marriage; Minority women lawyers; Vacations; Widows;
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The madwomen of Paris : a novel / by Epstein, Jennifer Cody,author.;
"A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris's notorious women's asylum, where she must fight to reclaim dangerous memories-and even more perilously, her sanity-in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland. "I didn't see her the day she came to the asylum. Looking back, this sometimes strikes me as unlikely. Impossible, even, given how utterly her arrival would upend the already chaotic order of things at the Salpêtrière-not to mention change the course of my own life there." When Josephine arrives at the Salpêtrière she is covered in blood and badly bruised. Suffering from near-complete amnesia, she is diagnosed with what the Paris papers are calling "the epidemic of the age": hysteria. It is a disease so baffling and widespread that Doctor Jean-Martine Charcot, the asylum's famous director, devotes many of his popular public lectures to the malady. To Charcot's delight, Josephine also proves extraordinarily susceptible to hypnosis, the tool he uses to unlock hysteria's myriad (and often sensational) symptoms. Soon Charcot is regularly featuring Josephine on his stage, entrancing the young woman into fantastical acts and hallucinatory fits before enraptured audiences and eager newsmen-many of whom feature her on their paper's front pages. For Laure, a lonely asylum attendant assigned to Josephine's care, Charcot's diagnosis seems a godsend. A former hysteric herself, she knows better than most that life in the Salpêtrière's Hysteria Ward is far easier than in its dreaded Lunacy division, from which few inmates ever return. But as Josephine's fame as Charcot's "star hysteric" grows, her memory starts to return-and with it, images of a horrific crime she believes she's committed. Haunted by these visions, and helplessly trapped in Charcot's hypnotic web, she starts spiraling into actual insanity. Desperate to save the girl she has grown to love, Laure plots their escape from the Salpêtrière and its doctors. First, though, she must confirm whether Joséphine is actually a madwoman, soon to be consigned to the Salpêtrière's brutal Lunacy Ward-or a murderer, destined for the guillotine. Both are dark possibilities-but not nearly as dark as what Laure will unearth when she sets out to discover the truth"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Charcot, J. M. (Jean Martin), 1825-1893; Salpêtrière (Hospital); Hysteria; Mentally ill women; Psychiatric hospital patients; Psychiatric hospitals;
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Crosses in the sky : Jean de Brébeuf and the destruction of Huronia / by Bourrie, Mark,1957-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This is the story of the collision of two worlds. In the early 1600s, the Jesuits -- the Catholic Church's most ferocious warriors for Christ -- tried to create their own nation on the Great Lakes and turn the Huron (Wendat) Confederacy into a model Jesuit state. At the centre of their campaign was missionary Jean de Brébeuf, a mystic who sought to die a martyr's death. He lived among a proud people who valued kindness and rights for all, especially women. In the end, Huronia was destroyed. Brébeuf became a Catholic saint, and the Jesuit's "martyrdom" became one of the founding myths of Canada. In this first secular biography of Brébeuf, historian Mark Bourrie recounts the missionary's fascinating life and tells the tragic story of the remarkable people he lived among. Drawing on the letters and documents of the time -- including Brébeuf's accounts of his bizarre spirituality -- and modern studies of the Jesuits, Bourrie shows how Huron leaders tried to navigate this new world and the people struggled to cope as their nation came apart. Riveting, clearly told, and deeply researched, Crosses in the Sky is an essential addition to -- and expansion of -- Canadian history."--Front cover flap.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint, 1593-1649.; Jesuits; Missionaries; Huron-Wendat; Huron-Wendat;
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The prince and the dressmaker / by Wang, Jen,1984-;
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Subjects: Graphic novels.; Princes; Dressmakers; Cross-dressing; Secrecy; Friendship;
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The stars turned inside out : a novel / by Jacobs, Nova,author.;
"The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy, and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; European Organization for Nuclear Research; Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland); Murder; Physicists; Secrecy; Women private investigators;
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Weed & Wine. by Richman Cohen, Rebecca,film director.; Cargo Film & Releasing (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Cargo Film & Releasing in 2020.Kev and his son Cona are descendants of outlaws who labored to make themselves legal purveyors of sun-grown, craft cannabis in Humboldt County, California. In the south of France, Hélène and her son Aurélien produce renowned, biodynamic wines on a vineyard that they’ve fought for centuries to keep in their family. In this sumptuous and moving film, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Rebecca Richman Cohen parallels the profound joys and deep uncertainties of two farming families as they fight to protect their legacy, their craft, and their land.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Food industry and trade.; Instructional films.; Agriculture.; Computer science.; Documentary films.; California.; Farmers.; France.; Wine and wine making.; Marijuana.;
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