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23) The enemy
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Jack Reacher novels volume 8
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An elite military cop, Jack Reacher was one of the army's brightest stars. He is on the case after a general is found dead, and within hours the general's wife is murdered.
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Mac Reilly novels volume 3
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Experiencing relationship troubles with Mac during a visit to Monte Carlo, Sunny is enmeshed in a series of jewelry store robberies involving a sociopath acquaintance and a dowdy friend's makeover by movie star Allie Ray.
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"The motto, 'It is never too late to be what you might have been,' haunts Mary Davis. Newly widowed, she has the notion that if she can return to Paris with her increasingly distant daughter, perhaps she'll be able to reconcile with the past and find a new future"--Provided by publisher.
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After the death of her Cuban abuela and the divorce of her parents, Isabella Fields moves in with her dad and his new wife in France. There she feels like an outsider in her father's new life. The upside? Her father's house is located only 30 minutes away from the restaurant of world-famous Chef Pascal Grattard, who runs a prestigious and competitive international kitchen apprenticeship. The prize job at Chef Grattard's renowned restaurant also represents...
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The romance of two Americans in Paris, both staying at the Ritz hotel. He is Peter Haskell, 44, a pharmaceutical executive working on a cancer cure who is the father of three sons. She is Olivia Thatcher, 34, wife of a U.S. senator with presidential ambitions, and she is grieving for her son, dead from cancer.
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"When Lucy Stone arrives at a sprawling French chateau with the whole family, it should be the trip of a lifetime--especially because she's about to watch her oldest daughter, Elizabeth, marry the man of her dreams. But while navigating the vast estate owned by her wealthy in-laws-to-be, the mother of the bride has a creeping feeling that Elizabeth's fairytale nuptials are destined to become a nightmare. Maternal instincts are validated the moment...
30) Love à la mode
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2018.
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High school juniors Rosie Radeke and Henry Yi, both enrolled in an elite cooking program in Paris, must balance rivalry and romance.
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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...
32) The ambassadors
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2011
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xlvii, 518 pages ; 21 cm
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Sent by his fiancée to seek her son who has run away with an entrancing Parisian woman, Lambert Strether finds himself nearly as bewitched by the culture and women of Europe as his would-be son-in-law. Strether gets chased or dragged across provincial France by a slew of influences intent either on drawing the pair of bachelors home to Boston or showing him the world, and winds up testing his patience along with his own illusions.
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Normandy, 1944. To cover the fighting in France, Jane, a reporter for the Nashville Banner, and Liv, an Associated Press photographer, have already had to endure enormous danger and frustrating obstacles -- including strict military regulations limiting what women correspondents can do. Even so, Liv wants more. Encouraged by her husband, the editor of a New York newspaper, she's determined to be the first photographer to reach Paris with the Allies,...
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"An artist lost to history, a family abandoned to its secrets, and the woman whose search for meaning unearths it all. American photographer Cady Drake shoots local merry-go-rounds, a hobby inspired by a carved wooden rabbit gifted to her following her troubled years in foster care. Now at a crisis point in her life, Cady can't refuse a freelance assignment documenting the antique carousels of Paris. While there, she hopes to track down the true origins...
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Can't get enough of the Gilded Age fast talkers, débutantes, and social climbers who populate Edith Wharton's exquisitely wrought novels? Fans of The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence will love The Custom of the Country, which details country girl Undine Spragg's attempt to take a bite out of Big Apple high society.
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2002
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325 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
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While staying in Provence, Jessica Fletcher once again finds herself embroiled in a murder mystery when someone stabs Chef Bertrand with one of his customized carving knives, a crime in which Jessica herself and her new friend, Mallory, become prime suspects.
38) In another life
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[2016]
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358 pages ; 21 cm.
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Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. But instead of finding solace in the region's quiet hills and medieval ruins, she falls in love with Raoul, a man whose very existence challenges everything she knows about life-and about her husband's death. As Raoul reveals the story of his past to Lia, she becomes entangled in the echoes of an ancient murder, resulting in...
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Max Maguire, a twenty-nine-year-old female detective with the New York Police Department, flies to France to attend the wedding of her friend, Chloé Marceau, at a grand estate east of Paris in the Champagne region. There Max meets an older man, the urbane Olivier Chaumont, and experiences a fairy-tale evening. But when Chloé's widowed aunt, the beautiful and successful Léa de Saint-Pern, is found murdered, Max and Olivier are snapped back into...
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"A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smith's Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the summer after graduation. When charismatic alumna Betsy Rutherford delivers a rousing speech at the Smith College Club in April of 1917, looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine, Kate is too busy earning her living to even think of taking up the call. But when her...
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