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Author
Series
Josephine novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
vii, 435 pages : map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Le Divorce meets The Elegance of the Hedgehog in this hilariously entertaining mega-bestseller from France - When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Josephine Cortes is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two-confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoe;-is forced to maintain a stable family life while making ends meet on her meager salary as a medieval history...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
55 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
""I was bored with my husband," says Anne-Marie, the irrepressible voice of Anne-Marie la Beauté, "but you know, boredom is part of love." Mostly she is speaking here of her more famous friend and colleague, the French actress Giselle Fayolle, in whose shadow she has spent her career. "My life was a near miss," she adds, before explaining that she enunciated well because "I loved to say the words." A very short novel with the power and resonance...
Author
Pub. Date
[1969]
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
These three long stories draw us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. In the title story, the heroine's serenity is shattered when she learns that her husband is having an affair. In "The Age of Discretion," a successful, happily married professor finds herself increasingly distressed by her son's absorption in his young wife and her worldly values. In "The Monologue," a rich, spoiled woman, home...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1979]
Physical Desc
139 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Why was Jules Lapie, who was spending a peaceful old age in his new house near Poissy, murdered? Maigret has a presentiment that Félicie, Lapie's maid, who went out shopping at the time of the murder, knows something, but she remains silent; her behavior irritates and intrigues the commissioner who hardly leaves her during his investigation. This young girl with a sour manner is sensitive, and to escape her hard life, she transposes into reality...
26) The oath
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1973]
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to avert a suicide, Azriel tells the saga of Kolvillag where all Jews (but one) are killed in pogroms.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1985]
Physical Desc
155 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For twenty years, jewelry thefts have been committed by the same gang, which Maigret has tried to unmask. The leader--he knows it without being able to prove it--is Manuel Palmari, a police informer in his spare time (which has also caused him to lose both legs following a settling of scores). Aline, his mistress, constitutes his only contact with the outside world, and she is closely watched by Maigret. However, despite this surveillance, Palmari...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
626 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born into Russian aristocracy, wealth, and security, Moura never had any reason to worry. But in the upheaval of the Bolshevik Revolution, her entire world crumbles. As her family and friends are being persecuted by Vladimir Lenin's ruthless police, she falls into a passionate affair with British secret agent Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart. But when he's abruptly and mysteriously deported from Russia, Moura is left alone and vulnerable. Now, she must...
30) The boy
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvii, 455 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The boy does not speak. The boy has no name. The boy, raised half-wild in the forests of southern France, sets out alone into the wilderness and the greater world beyond. Having never encountered another person aside from his mother, the boy must learn what it is to be human, to exist among people, and to live beyond simple survival. As this wild and naive child attempts to join civilization, he encounters earthquakes and car crashes, ogres, and artists,...
31) Toby alone
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Toby Lolness may be just one and a half millimeters tall, but he's the most wanted person in his world, the world of the great oak Tree. Toby's father has made a groundbreaking discovery: the Tree itself is alive, lowing with vital energy, and there may even be a world beyond it. Greedy developers itch to exploit this forbidden knowledge, risking permanent damage to their natural world. But Toby's father has refused to reveal his findings, causing...
32) My part of her
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xii, 226 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"For our unnamed confessor, the summer months spent on the Caspian Sea during the 1970s are a magically transformative experience. There, he is not the "poor relative from the North," but a welcome guest at his wealthy cousin Nilou's home and the gatekeeper of her affections. He revels in the power of orchestrating the attentions of her many admirers, granting and denying access to her would-be lovers. But in a moment of jealousy and youthful bravado,...
33) Igifu
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
110 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Scholastique Mukasonga's autobiographical stories rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, conjuring the noble cows of her home or the dew-swollen grass they graze on. In the title story, five-year-old Colomba tells of a merciless overlord, hunger or igifu, gnawing away at her belly. She searches for sap at the bud of a flower, scraps of sweet potato at the foot of her parent's bed, or a few grains of sorghum in the floor...
34) Vintage 1954
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Hubert Larnaudie invites some fellow residents of his Parisian apartment building to drink an exceptional bottle of 1954 Beaujolais, he has no idea of its special properties. The following morning, Hubert finds himself waking up in 1950s Paris, as do antique restorer Magalie, mixologist Julien, and Airbnb tenant Bob from Milwaukee, who's on his first trip to Europe. After their initial shock, the city of Edith Piaf and An American in Paris begins...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers a new translation of Flaubert's classic tale, in which the title character turns to spending and a series of affairs to combat the boredom of married life and, heartbroken and crippled by debts, takes drastic action that results in tragedy.
36) The fifth son
Author
Pub. Date
[1985]
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a Holocaust survivor's son discovers that his brooding father has been haunted for years by his role in the murder of a brutal SS officer just after the war, the son also discovers that the Nazi is still alive. What begins as a quest for his father's love becomes a reenactment of the past, as the son sets out to complete his father's act of revenge.
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