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Paris: Adult Books Read a book from the list, or one of your own choosing
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The Paris Apartment
by Lucy Foley
Arriving in Paris to stay with her brother Ben, Jess learns that he has gone missing, and to find him, starts digging into his life, realizing even though she has come to the City of Lights to escape her past, it's his future hanging in the balance.
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast.
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The Paris Daughter
by Kristin Harmel
As WWII ends, Elise returns to Paris to reunite with her daughter only to find her friend Juliette, the woman she entrusted her daughter with, has seemingly vanished without a trace, which leads Elise on a desperate search to New York—and to Juliette—one final, fateful time.
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The Golden Doves
by Martha Hall Kelly
To finally secure justice and protect the ones they love, two former female spies, American Josie Anderson and Parisian Arlette LaRue, aka the Golden Doves, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II.
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Jacqueline in Paris
by Ann Mah
During her college year abroad in postwar Paris, Jacqueline Bouvier witnesses, beneath the city's glitter and luminous beauty, the beginning of the political environment that will shape the rest of her life—and that of her future husband.
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The Paris Bookseller
by Kerri Maher
Opening her Shakespeare and Company bookstore on a quiet street in 1919 Paris, American Sylvia Beach finds her business becoming a second home for some of the most important writers of the Lost Generation until the Depression causes her to question her promise to honor the life-changing impact of books.
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Things I Wish I Told my Mother
by Sue Patterson
When Laurie, a nomadic artist, surprises her mother, an elegant perfectionist, with a dream vacation to Paris, which brings an unexpected sparkle to her eyes, mother and daughter unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes in the City of Light.
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The Beasts of Paris
by Stef Penney
In 1870 Paris during the build up to the Franco-Prussian War, a group of unforgettable characters, including a half-Haitian woman with incredible gifts and an American army surgeon, as they live through, and are buffeted by, momentous historical events that will change them forever.
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The Phoenix Crown
by Kate Quinn
Offered patronage by Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate, in 1906, Gemma, a silver-voiced soprano, and Suling, a Chinatown embroideress, when Henry disappears, along with the fabled Phoenix Crown, are brought together five years later in one last desperate quest for justice.
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The Paris Agent
by Kelly Rimmer
Piqued by her father's memories of World War II as a British SOE operative, in particular the agent who saved his life, but whose real name he never knew, Charlotte, searching for answers, uncovers the story of three female SOE operatives whose lives intersect in occupied France where a double agent controls their fate.
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The Titanic Survivors Book Club
by Timothy Schaffert
Paris bookshop owner Yorick, joining a secret society of other Titanic ticket holders who didn't board the ship, forms a book club where they can grapple with their good fortune and anxieties through heated discussions of literature, but when one of them unexpectedly dies, he wonders what fate has in store.
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There's Going to be Trouble
by Jen Silverman
Fleeing to a teaching position in Paris, Minnow falls for Charles, a young Frenchman whose activism has placed him at odds with his powerful family, but when she's pulled in a daring protect, he and his friends are planning, she unknowingly repeats a secret tragedy from her family's past.
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The Ball at Versailles
by Danielle Steel
In 1959 Paris, when they receive invitations to attend an exclusive dusk to dawn ball at the Palace of Versailles where they'll be presented to international society and royalty, four young woman find their lives forever changed during this one transcendent night.
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World
by Douglas Westerbeke
Cursed with immortality at the age of 9, but with a requirement that she stays in perpetual motion, Aubry flees Paris and embarks on a century-spanning, globe-trotting odyssey, seeking a cure and discovering a world beyond the boundaries of time and space.
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The Excitements
by C. J. Wray
Arriving in Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur for their part in the liberation of France, the 90-something Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans, use this opportunity to settle scores, avenge lost friends and pull off one last, daring heist before their illustrious careers are over.
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Star Crossed : A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler's Paris
by Heather Dune Macadam
Drawn from never-before-published family letters, archival sources and exclusive interviews, this epic true story of love and resistance during World War II follows the romance between a Catholic resistance fighter and a Holocaust victim who met in a famous Paris café before war, prejudice and disapproving families set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths.
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Esther's Notebooks
by Riad Sattouf
The author of The Arab of the Future chronicles the hilarious and heartbreaking true life of a young girl growing up in Paris. Once a week for three years, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf had a chat with his friend's outgoing young daughter, Esther, in which she told him about her family, her school, her friends, her hopes, her dreams, and her fears. After each meeting, he would create a one-page comic strip based on what she had said. Esther's Notebooks gathers 156 of those strips, spanning Esther's life from ages nine through twelve, giving us a look into the daily dramas of this thoughtful, intelligent, and high-spirited girl.
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