The true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream. When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math...nothing stopped Sophie. When a...
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:Finalist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award. Orphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, fifteen-year-old Abdul has made a long, fraught journey from his war-torn home in Baghdad, only to end up...
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- Author:Florence TartaratSummary:
Voici l'histoire touchante d'une femme qui met en mots un parcours de vie chaotique, vécu avec dureté, intensité et vérité. Que vous soyez chrétien, juif ou bouddhiste, musulman, athée ou laïque, ce livre contient...
- Author:Valognes, AurélieSummary:
À l'école, il y a les bons élèves... et il y a Gustave.Depuis son radiateur au fond de la classe, Gustave rêve. Le garçon aimerait rapporter des bonnes notes à sa mère, malheureusement ce sont surtout les convocations du...
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Author:Broers, MichaelSummary:All previous biographies of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored words. This is the first that makes full use of his newly released personal correspondence.
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Author:Child, JuliaSummary:Here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling." From the moment she and her husband Paul, who worked for the USIS, arrived in the fall of 1948, Julia...
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Author:O'Brien, CharlesSummary:Picture the Scarlet Pimpernell as a woman dealing with murder before the Terror made heads roll. It’s the eve of the French Revolution. Fiscal crisis and social tensions brew. Anne Cartier, a headstrong young vaudeville actress at...
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Cara Black has earned a devoted international following for her gripping mysteries set in France and starring the indomitable Aimée Leduc. Here, Aimée faces her greatest challenge when she assumes guardianship of an abandoned infant all...
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
Set in 1994 Paris, Aimée Leduc fears that a 1960s Communist gang is on the loose--and her long-lost mother just may be one of them.
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
When her ex-lover returns from Egypt, Aimée accepts his marriage proposal. The next day he's found dead, and she begins tracking clues pointing toward an international conspiracy.
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
When suspicion falls on Aimée Leduc after her partner is shot, the beleaguered sleuth must race to prevent more violence.
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
Private investigator Aimée Leduc must decrypt a digitized photo from the 1940s. But when Aimée visits the historic Jewish quarter of Paris to deliver the picture, she finds its intended recipient murdered--and with a swastika carved in...
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Aimée Leduc is surprised by Mireille, a Haitian immigrant who claims to be her sister. But before Aimée can learn more, Mireille disappears, leaving only a note behind. Following up on the note, Aimée soon becomes wrapped up in a...
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
Aimée Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, supposedly an "exclusive," for dinner with a difficult client at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district. She is chagrined to see that the woman seated at the very...
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Aimée Leduc is faced with her most daunting challenge yet. Her godfather and mentor Commissaire Morbier is accused of murder, and it's up to Aimée to clear his name. But as she investigates, she uncovers a terrifying conspiracy...
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A childhood friend of Aimée, now a policewoman, is accused of shooting her partner. In order to clear her friend of the charges against her, Aimée must confront Corsican separatist terrorists, Montmarte prostitutes, a surrealist painter...
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Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants. Aimée barely escapes death in a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed in the...
- Author:Sawyer, CherylSummary:
Murder at Cirey Eight days in spring, 1735 A race against crime. When a handsome young man is shot dead on an estate in the picturesque Champagne region of France, Victor Constant, military policeman, determines to find out why. But no...
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