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"Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up - to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? - he's not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig...
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Not just an ordinary priest but a priest/television superstar, idolized by the people of France, loved by everyone except, of course the French hierarchy, the church, state and the Paris television community.
The Archbishop of Paris, familiar with Bishop Blackie Ryan's impressive sleuthing skills, asks Blackie's boss, the Archbishop of Chicago Sean Cardinal Cronin, for help in finding this missing priest. As usual, Cardinal Cronin resolves the matter...
23) The black widow
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 16
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English
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Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin, is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again. They call him Saladin, a terrorist mastermind whose...
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Commissaire Adamsberg investigates the death of three men linked by their childhood at an orphanage in Nîmes, all killed by the venom of the recluse spider, in the new novel by the #1 bestselling French crime writer.
A murder in Paris brings Commissaire Adamsberg out of the Icelandic mists of his previous investigation and unexpectedly into the region of Nîmes, where three old men have died of spider bites. The recluse has a sneaky attack, but...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 19
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English
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The kidnapping of a mysterious girl from her Swiss boarding school ignites a secret war between Israeli intelligence chief Gabriel Allon and an old enemy who would transform the future of the Middle East.
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J'ai lu policier volume 7461
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Editions J'ai lu
Pub. Date
c2001
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Français
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Legendary storyteller and internationally best-selling author of The Triumph of Katie Byrne, Barbara Taylor Bradford returns with the spellbinding Three Weeks in Paris. As four young women cultivate their artistic talents and their friendships at a prestigious art academy, they are blissfully unaware that soon they would part as enemies. Now, years later at a school reunion, they find themselves transformed by old memories and surprising revelations...
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David R. Godine
Pub. Date
2009.
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Second edition.
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English
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From the confessions of a racing cyclist to the plans of an avenging murderer, from a young ethnographer obsessed with a Sumatran tribe to an eccentric English millionaire, who has devised the ultimate pastime, Life: A User's Manual is a symphony of human irony, portraying the mixed marriages of fortunes, passions and despairs, betrayals and bereavements, of hundreds of lives in Paris and around the world.
The apartment block's one hundred rooms...
32) Gourmet rhapsody
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A great food critic who can make or destroy the reputation of a chef with a stroke of his pen, Pierre Arthens faces his imminent death by trying to recall the one perfect flavor he sampled in his youth, a flavor that he believes forms the ultimate truth of his life.
33) Cocaine
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Ronin
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2016.
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English
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"Cocaine is the story of a young man who runs off to Paris to seek fame, fortune, and fun. Pitigrilli?s classic novel charts the comedy and pathos of a young man's tragic trajectory. Tito Arnaudi is a dandified hero with several mistresses he juggles. A failed medical student, Tito is hired as a journalist in Paris, where he investigates cocaine dens and invents lurid scandals and gruesome deaths that he sells to newspapers as his own life becomes...
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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First edition.
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English
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After the death of her son, Madeleine accepts a request from the ministry to aid in the war effort and, returning to France, confronts the devastation of World War II as she fights to take down the Nazis, find her husband and ultimately survive against inconceivable odds.
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Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
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First Pegasus Books edition.
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English
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"After a year away from Paris, Kiki Button is delighted to be back in the City of Lights. But danger threatens her return as she is pulled into another spy mission--one that brings her ever closer to the rising fascist threat in Europe"--
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Aristokittens volume 2
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Disney Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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First hardcover edition, First paperback edition.
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English
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While hosting a Dog Biscuit Bake-Off in honor of their new puppy friends, a trio of siblings--the Aristokittens--are pitted against each other, which threatens to make this contest a furry fiasco!
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Timekeepers volume 3
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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First American edition.
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English
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"Traveling back to the 1889 World's Fair to witness the unveiling of the newly built Eiffel Tower, the Timekeepers discover DeLay is up to his old tricks and must stop him from changing the course of history"--
40) Private Paris
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2016
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English
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While visiting Private's Paris office, Jack Morgan finds himself in pursuit of a client's granddaughter, who is on the run from a drug dealer and investigating the deaths of several of France's cultural elite.
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