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Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy / by Lewis, Damien,author.;
"Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music hall diva renowned for her singing and exotic dancing, her beauty and sexuality; she was the most highly-paid female performer in Europe. When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Paris, she was banned from the stage, along with all "negroes and Jews." Yet, instead of returning to America, she vowed to stay and to fight the Nazi evil. Overnight she went from performer to Resistance spy. Drawing on a plethora of new historical material and rigorous research, including previously undisclosed letters and journals, Agent Josephine transforms the scarcely known story of Josephine Baker in wartime. As a member of the French Nurse paratroopers, a cover for her spying work, Baker participated in numerous clandestine activities and became a formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served: the US, the nation of her birth; France, the land that embraced her during her adult career; and Britain, the country from which she took her orders, as one of London's most closely-guarded secrets. Baker's secret war is a true story of unbounded courage, passion, devotion and sacrifice, and of deep and bitter tragedy, fueled by her own desire to combat the rise of Nazism and fight for a more just future"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.; Dancers; African American entertainers; Spies; World War, 1939-1945;

Bringing up bébé : one American mother discovers the wisdom of French parenting / by Druckerman, Pamela.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Child rearing; Child rearing; Parent and child; Parent and child;
© 2012., Penguin Press,

Monsieur mediocre : one American learns the high art of being everyday French / by Sothen, John von,author.;
"Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. After falling for and marrying the French waitress he meets in New York, von Sothen follows his mother's dream and moves to Paris. But fifteen years in, he's finally ready to admit his mother's Paris is mostly a fantasy. In this hilarious and delightful collection of essays, von Sothen walks us through real life in Paris--myth-busting our Parisian daydreams but also revealing the inimitable and too often invisible pleasures of family life abroad. Through these essays, you'll learn about what to do when you unwittingly commit yourself to two weeks of vacation with friends who ration snacks down to the gram and who mock you mercilessly for sleeping in; how to react when French men turn to you, the American, for fashion tips such as where to find a Maine trapper vest; and how to tell if you're being invited to a super-exclusive secret society of intellectuals or, alternately, a weird sex club. Relentlessly funny and full of incisive observations, Monsieur Mediocre is ultimately a love letter to France--to its absurdities, its history, its ideals--but it's a very French love letter: frank, smoky, unsentimental. It is a clear-eyed ode to a beautiful, complex, contradictory country from someone who both eagerly and grudgingly calls it home"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Sothen, John von.; Americans; Authors, American;

Midnight flyboys : the American bomber crews and Allied secret agents who aided the French resistance in World War II / by Henderson, Bruce,1946-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The untold history of a top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day in which American flyers and Allied spies carried out some of the most daring cloak-and-dagger operations of World War II. In 1943, the OSS -- precursor to the CIA -- came up with a plan to increase its support to the French resistance forces that were fighting the Nazis. To start, the OSS recruited some of the best American bomber pilots and crews to a secret airfield twenty miles west of London and briefed them on the intended mission. Given a choice to stay or leave, every airman volunteered for what became known as Operation Carpetbagger. Their dangerous plan called for a new kind of flying: taking their B-24 Liberator bombers in the middle of the night across the English Channel and down to extremely low altitudes in Nazi-occupied France to find drop zones in dark fields. On the ground, resistance members waited to receive steel containers filled with everything from rifles and hand grenades to medicine and bicycle tires. Some nights, the flyers also dropped Allied secret agents by parachute to assist the French partisans. Though their story remained classified for more than fifty years, the Carpetbaggers ultimately received a Presidential Unit Citation from the US military, which declared: "it is safe to say that no group of this size has made a greater contribution to the war effort." Along with other members of the wartime OSS, they were also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Based on exclusive research and interviews, the definitive story of these heroic flyers -- and of the brave secret agents and resistance leaders they aided -- can now be told. Written in Bruce Henderson's spellbinding prose, Midnight Flyboys is an astonishing tale of patriotism, courage, and sacrifice"--
Subjects: United States. Office of Strategic Services.; United States. Army Air Forces; Air pilots, Military; B-24 (Bomber); Bomber pilots; Infiltration (Military science); Resistance movements, War.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;

A murder most French / by Cambridge, Colleen,author.;
Tabitha Knight investigates the sudden death of a chef at a cooking school who poured himself a glass of wine from a rare vintage bottle.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Child, Julia; Americans; Cooks; Murder; Poisoning;

The French dispatch [videorecording] / by Anderson, Wes,1969-screenwriter,film producer,film director.; Brody, Adrien,actor.; Chalamet, Timothée,actor.; Dafoe, Willem,actor.; Dawson, Jeremy(Producer),film producer.; Friend, Rupert,actor.; Huston, Anjelica,actor.; McDormand, Frances,actor.; Moss, Elisabeth,1982-actor.; Murray, Bill,1950 September 21-actor.; Norton, Edward,actor.; Rales, Steven,film producer.; Ronan, Saoirse,1994-actor.; Schreiber, Liev,actor.; Seydoux, Léa,1985-actor.; Swinton, Tilda,actor.; Toro, Benicio del,1967-actor.; Waltz, Christopher,actor.; Wilson, Owen,1968-actor.; Wright, Jeffrey(Jeffrey Charles),1965-actor.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Searchlight Pictures,production company.;
Timothee Chalamet, Lea Seydoux, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Elizabeth Moss, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Owen Wilson, Christopher Waltz, Benicio Del Toro, Frances Mcdormand, Liev Schreiber, Anjelica Huston, Saoirse Ronan, Jeffrey Wright, Rupert Friend.A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in 'The French Dispatch.'.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Anthology films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Romantic comedy films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Artists; College students; Journalists; Kidnapping; Love-letters; Man-woman relationships; Police; Prisons;
For private home use only.

A fashionably French murder / by Cambridge, Colleen,author.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: A MURDER MOST FRENCH, ISBN 9781496739629. American expat Tabitha Knight has found a new life in postwar Paris, along with a delightful friend in aspiring chef Julia Child. Yet there are perils in peacetime too, as a killer infiltrates one of the citys most famous fashion houses.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Child, Julia; Fashion shows; Murder; Poisoning;

American horror story. [videorecording] / by Lady Gaga,actor.; Bassett, Angela,actor.; Bates, Kathy,1948-actor.; McDermott, Dylan,actor.; Peters, Evan,1987-actor.; FX Networks, LLC,broadcaster.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc,publisher.;
Dylan McDermott, Evan Peters, Lady Gaga, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett.Hoping to begin a new life in a North Carolina farmhouse, Shelby and Matt Miller flee Los Angeles only to find murder, mayhem and madness.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Horror television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Ghosts; Haunted places; Murder;
For private home use only.

My week with Marilyn [videorecording] / by Branagh, Kenneth.; Clark, Colin,1932-Prince, the showgirl, and me.Videorecording.; Curtis, Simon,1960-; Hodges, Adrian.; Ormond, Julia.; Redmayne, Eddie,1982-; Watson, Emma,1990-; Williams, Michelle,1980-; Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.; Alliance Films.; Trademark Films.; Weinstein Company.;
Director of photography, Ben Smithard ; score composed and conducted by Conrad Pope ; piano soloist, Lang Lang ; Marilyn's theme by Alexandre Desplat ; music supervisors, Maggie Rodford, Dana Sano.Eddie Redmayne, Emma Watson, Julia Ormond, Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Williams.In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD,region 1, anamorphic widescreen presentation (2.35:1), Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Clark, Colin, 1932-; Clark, Colin, 1932-; Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962; Prince and the showgirl (Motion picture); Biographical films.; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Motion picture studios;
© c2011., Weinstein Company ; Distributed by Alliance Films,

BlacKKKlansman [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Washington, John David; Driver, Adam; Harrier, Laura; Baldwin, Alec; Burke, Robert John; Whitlock Jr., Isiah;
John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Alec Baldwin, Robert John Burke, Isiah Whitlock Jr..Director, Spike Lee.Blu-ray.OFRB rating: 14A.Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.
Subjects: Comedy.; Comedy.;
© 2018., Universal,

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