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This and That November 2017 It Happens in Paris
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The Paris Architect by Charles BelfoureA Parisian architect is paid handsomely to devise secret hiding spaces for Jews in his Nazi-occupied country but struggles with risking his life for a cause he is ambivalent towards, until a personal failure brings home their suffering.
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Letters From Paris by Juliet BlackwellReturning to the Louisiana hometown she fled as a young woman, Claire unearths an antique sculpture in an ancestor's attic that inspires her to learn about the centuries-old art of Parisian mask making and the story of a Belle +poque woman immortalized in a beautiful work of art.
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The Light of Paris by Eleanor BrownFeeling panicked by her empty life and marriage to a controlling and critical husband, misfit Madeleine discovers a revelatory journal written by her grandmother during a romantic, literary, and rebellious summer in Jazz Age Paris.
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The Race for Paris by Meg Waite ClaytonDetermined to be the first photographer to capture images of Paris' liberation from the Nazis, Liv defies orders and teams up with a fellow woman reporter and a British photojournalist to race to Paris ahead of Allied forces.
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The Loveliest Chocolate Shop In Paris by Jenny ColganAfter a fateful accident at the chocolate factory where she works, Anna Trent is given the opportunity to work for an elite Parisian chocolate shop, where she falls in love with the city and awakens to new dimensions in her life.
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A Paris Apartment by Michelle GableDiscovering a horde of treasure after relocating to a decades-shuttered apartment in Paris, continental furniture specialist April Vogt finds a cache of letters and journals by a renowned historical courtesan whose sophisticated life compels April to reevaluate her own.
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The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina GeorgePrescribing books that offer therapeutic benefits to his customers, a literary apothecary in a floating bookstore on the Seine struggles with private heartbreak before embarking on a journey of healing at the side of a blocked writer and a lovelorn chef.
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Paris Redby Maureen GibbonA tale inspired by the life of the young woman depicted in Impressionist painter Edouard Manet's Olympia follows the life of a passionate girl in mid-19th-century Paris who after accepting dinner from a handsome stranger is indoctrinated into cultural society.
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Paris In the Present Tense by Mark HelprinWhen faced with a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood and home, Jules—a 74-year-old maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widow, veteran of the war in Algeria and child of the Holocaust—must confront his complex past and find a way forward.
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A Week In Paris by Rachel HoreA talented, young, British violinist retraces her mother¡s steps in 1937 Paris and discovers a long-buried secret that forces her to rethink who she truly is and where she really belongs.
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P.S. From Parisby Marc LevyA successful British actress and an American author hide out in Paris for personal reasons and are matched up through a dating website; fate keeps pushing them together even though they are determined to just be friends.
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The Paris Spy by Susan Elia MacNealWhen one of England's most daring spies is kidnapped by the Nazis in 1942 Paris, the discovery of a mole's activity deep in the British SOE prompts codebreaker Maggie Hope's mission to unmask the traitor before the site of a planned Allied invasion is revealed.
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Paris Nocturne by Patrick ModianoAfter a teenager is hit by a car driven by a mysterious woman and a man gives him money to forget about the accident, the teenager searches for the woman and explores his memories about the event and his own past, unsure which memories are real.
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The Paris Librarian by Mark PryorWhen his friend, Paul Rogers, dies under mysterious circumstances in a locked room at the American Library in Paris, Hugo Marston decides to investigate and must return to the scene of a decades-old crime involving an American actress who was rumored to have killed an SS officer in 1944.
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The Paris Winter by Imogen Robertson"Maud Heighton came to Lafond's famous Academie to paint, and to flee the constraints of her small English town. It took all her courage to escape, but Paris, she quickly realizes, is no place for a light purse. While her fellow students enjoy the dazzling decadence of the Belle Epoque, Maud slips into poverty. Quietly starving, and dreading another cold Paris winter, Maud is hired by Christian Morel as companion to his beautiful, young sister, Sylvie. But Sylvie, Maud discovers, is not quite the darling she seems. "
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Paris, He Said by Christine SneedAspiring painter Jayne is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college and is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy lover and benefactor, Laurent Moller, who owns and operates two art galleries.
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