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81) Nemesis
Author
Series
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
460 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the Reign of Terror. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching as the condemned are brought to the guillotine. Among them is Constance Courtney, Paul's mother. As he watches her brutal execution, he knows he must avoid the same fate and fulfil his promise to her--to survive, no matter what. He joins Napoleon's army and is taken to Egypt, but with the world at war and traitors in every...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
533 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xii, 352 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From international bestselling author Mario Escobar comes a story of escape, sacrifice, and hope amid the perils of the second World War.
August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris--broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiance, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father's...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 35
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie visit the Paris World's Fair of 1889 in an effort to protect four scientific pioneers from an evil sorcerer.
Author
Series
Cousins of the Dove volume Book 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
France, 1685. Catherine Gillet knows her brother, Jules, wants to protect her from the sinister threats of the French crown. But Jules is involved in a potentially deadly enterprise, one connected with an encoded document. When his actions put the whole family at risk, will Catherine find a way to save them?
Virginia, present day. Renee Talbot, a direct descendant of Catherine's, is fascinated by the document that's been part of her family legacy...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I--the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory. In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish American forces in Europe. He immediately found himself unable to communicate with troops in the field. Pershing...
90) The horsewoman
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sharing the dream of being the best horsewoman in the world, Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter champion riders, break their vow of never going up against each other when they both participate in the competitions leading up to the Olympics.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While working at the Jeu de Paume Museum, Sophie, who fled Germany after witnessing the government-sanctioned burning of modern, "degenerate" art, steals looted masterpieces from the Nazis, replacing them with forgeries with the help of her sister-in-law, risking more than her life to keep these paintings safe.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton graphic novel volume 16
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
55 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traveling to 1896 Paris, Geronimo and his friends try to stop the Pirate Cats from stealing the first cinematograph, an invention that ushered in the age of motion pictures.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
157 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this exciting adventure, the Thea Sisters are off to Paris to visit Colette's fashion-designer friend Julie. But when Julie's designs are suddenly stolen, the girls must search the city of Paris to catch the thief and save the fashion show."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A new bind-up with three exciting thrillers featuring NYPD Detective Luc Moncrief, a Paris detective who's about to learn that NYC is a whole other ballgame in the world of crime. French Twist: Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detective Luc Moncrief and Detective Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving. French Kiss: Very handsome and charming French detective Luc...
Author
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
[1986], c1947
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Physical Desc
x, 372, [14] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of two sisters' perilous journey through the wilderness near Lake Champlain to join their father at Fort William Henry is set against the backdrop of the French and Indian War.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find...
97) White bird
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Julian's Grandm�ere's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton graphic novel volume 15
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
56 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traveling to France during the reign of Louis XIII, Geronimo and his friends enlist in the "mouseketeers" only to discover that the mouse on the throne is an impostor and together they must find the real Louis.
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
xviii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After their front-line battles in North Africa and Sicily, women soldiers Frangi, Rainy, and Rio join thousands of Allies in their deadliest battle yet as they descend into the freezing water and onto the sands of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, D-Day.
100) Ghost fire
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
409 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English