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2004., HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Fic Cha Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2011., Crown Pub. Call No: 364.152 K52d Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The gripping true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-occupied Paris. Dr. Marcel Petiot was eventually charged with 27 murders, although authorities suspected the total was considerably higher. The trial became a circus, and Petiot enjoyed the spotlight. A harrowing exploration of murder, betrayal, and evil of staggering proportions.
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2021., Adult, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Fic Man Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A World War II story of female friendship, longing and sacrifice through war and loss, bringing together the present and the past. A forgotten manuscript that threatens to unravel the past… Fresne Prison, 1940: A former maid at a luxury villa on the Riviera, Margot Bisset finds herself in a prison cell with writer and French Resistance fighter Joséphine Murant. Together, they are transferred to a work camp in Germany for four years, where the secrets they share will bind them for generations to come. Paris, around about now: Evie Black lives in Paris with her teenage son, Hugo, above her botanical bookshop, La Maison Rustique. Life would be so sweet if only Evie were not mourning the great love of her life. When a letter arrives regarding the legacy of her husband’s great-aunt, Joséphine Murant, Evie clutches at an opportunity to spend one last magical summer with her son. They travel together to Joséphine’s house, now theirs, on the Côte d’Azur. Here, Evie unravels the official story of this famous novelist, and the truth of a murder a lifetime ago. Along the way, she will discover the little-known true story of the women who were enslaved by German forces in WWII. Bringing together the present and the past, The French Gift is a tender and heartbreaking story of female friendship, sacrifice and loss, and the promise of new love.
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By Furst, Alan2017., Random House Call No: Fic Fur Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Life, death, and betrayal at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris.Ã2014., Harper Call No: 944 M477h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When France fell to the Germans in June 1940, the legendary Hôtel Ritz on the Place Vendôme was the only luxury hotel of its kind allowed in the occupied city by order of Adolf Hitler. The Hôtel was simultaneously headquarters to the highest-ranking German officers, such as Reichsmarshal Hermann GÃœring, and home to exclusive patrons, including Coco Chanel. Tilar J. Mazzeo traces the history of this cultural landmark and reveals a hotbed of illicit affairs and deadly intrigue, as well as acts of defiance and treachery.
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2011., General, New York Review Books Call No: Bio N434g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: New York Review Books classics.Summary Note: Élisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky, a once popular novelist, a Russian émigré from an immensely rich family, a Jew who didnœt consider herself one and who even contributed to collaborationist periodicals, and a woman who died in Auschwitz because she was a Jew. To her daughter she was a tragic enigma and a stranger. It was to come to terms with that stranger that Gille wrote, in The Mirador, her motherœs memoirs. The first part of the book, dated 1929, the year David Golder made Némirovsky famous, takes us back to her difficult childhood in Kiev and St. Petersburg. Her father is doting, her mother a beautiful monster, while Irene herself is bookish and self-absorbed. There are pogroms and riots, parties and excursions, then revolution, from which the family flees to France, a country of moderation, freedom, and generosity,· where at last she is happy. Some thirteen years later Irène picks up her pen again. Everything has changed. Abandoned by friends and colleagues, she lives in the countryside and waits for the knock on the door. Written a decade before the publication of Suite Française made Irène Némirovsky famous once more (something Gille did not live to see), The Mirador is a haunted and a haunting book, an unflinching reckoning with the tragic past, and a triumph not only of the imagination but of love.
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2013., General, Sourcebooks Landmark Call No: Fic Bel Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money-- and maybe get him killed. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't resist. When one of his hiding spaces fails horribly, and the problem of where to hide a Jew becomes terribly personal, Lucien can no longer ignore what's at stake.
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2018., Adult, Gallery Books Call No: Fic Har Edition: Gallery Books export edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Newlywed Ruby Benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband Marcel, imagining strolls in the golden afternoon light. But war is looming on the horizon, and as France falls to the Nazis, her marriage begins to splinter. Charlotte Dacher is eleven when the Germans roll into the French capital, and when Jews are ordered to wear the yellow star, she can't imagine things getting much worse. Thomas Clarke joins the British Royal Air Force to protect his country; when his mother dies during the waning days of the Blitz, he wonders if he's making a difference. Fate brings them together, and Ruby, Charlotte, and Thomas must summon the courage to defy the Nazis-- and to open their own broken hearts-- as they fight to survive."--Publisher.
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2023., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: NEW Fic Wel Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Cleo Davenport has heard the whispers: the murmured conversations that end abruptly the second she walks into a room. Told she was an orphan, she knows the rumor-that her father is none other than the Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne. And at her childhood home at Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel, where royals, rulers, and the wealthy live, they even called her The Princess. But her life is turned upside down when she turns seventeen.
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c2007., Adult, St. Martin's Press Call No: Fic Ros Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel<U+2019> d<U+2019>Hiv<U+2019> roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Veledrome's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode."--Publisher.
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c2008., McArthur & Company Call No: Fic Nic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This is a tense, gripping novel about forbidden love. Set in Paris and Canada in the winter of 1946. While playing in the woods, children discover a severed finger and soon the corpse of a man who is the victim of a terrible crime. The murder connects the past: it's linked with the fate of the young Frenchwoman Adele who, during the war, fell in love with a German soldier and was branded a collaborator. In Canada, she hopes to forget her dark secret. But then the past rears its head - with a deadly consequence.
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By Furst, Alan2002., Random House Trade Paperbacks Call No: Fic Fur Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2019., Adult, 10:15:16, Simon & Schuster Audio Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eAudiobook title Summary Note: In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but it's his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked. Lea and Ava travel from Paris, where Lea meets her soulmate, to a convent in western France known for its silver roses; from a school in a mountaintop village where three thousand Jews were saved. Meanwhile, Ettie is in hiding, waiting to become the fighter she's destined to be. What does it mean to lose your mother? How much can one person sacrifice for love? In a world where evil can be found at every turn, we meet remarkable characters that take us on a stunning journey of loss and resistance, the fantastical and the mortal, in a place where all roads lead past the Angel of Death and love is never ending.
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