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L'année 1996 a vu s'éteindre à Paris ce qui fut le dernier quotidien yiddish non seulement en France, mais dans le monde entier. En effet, après le 28 juin de cette année, date du dernier numéro deUnzer Vort, il ne restait sur la planète aucun des innombrables journaux qui...
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Set in seventeenth-century France a country in the thrall of dark magic, its social fabric weakened by years of plague. Chris Womersley's City of Crows is a richly imagined and engrossing tour de force. Inspired by real-life events, it tells the story of Charlotte Picot, a young woman from the country forced to venture to the fearsome city of Paris in search of her only-remaining son, Nicolas. Fate (or coincidence) places the quick-witted charlatan...
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Danielle Steel’s powerful novel, four trauma doctors—the best and brightest in their field—confront exciting new challenges, both personally and professionally, when given an unusual opportunity.
Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco’s busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his...
Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco’s busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his...
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Chronicle Books
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2014.
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"For the home candymaker always looking for new and better formulas and for bakers of all skill levels, this is a complete collection of recipes for [the shop's] favorites, from cakes to marshmallows to ice creams and more"--Amazon.com.
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"When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more...
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La mítica última novela del Premio Nobel de Literatura Ernest Hemingway.
Publicada póstumamente en 1964, París era una fiesta es la obra más personal y reveladora de Hemingway, quien, ya en el crepúsculo de su vida, narra aquí los dorados, salvajes y fructíferos años de su juventud en el París de los años veinte, en compañía de escritores como Scott Fitzgerald o Ezra Pound, la llamada «generación perdida», según la popular denominación...
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From the incomparable John Baxter, award-winning author of the bestselling The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall, and winter.
When the common people of France revolted in 1789, one of the first ways they chose to correct the excesses of the monarchy and the church was to rename the...
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Warner Home Video
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[2007]
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What was supposed to be a splendid sightseeing tour of the City of Lights suddenly turns into a terrifying trip to the Himalayas after the gang's dream Paris vacation is completely derailed, thanks to Scooby-Doo and Shaggy's slip-up.
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While staying in post-World War II Paris with her grandfather, Tabitha Knight becomes friends with her neighbor and fellow American, Julia Child, and must clear both their names when a woman they both knew is murdered with a knife from Julia's kitchen and a note from Tabitha in her pocket.
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Bette Davis collection volume 3
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[2008]
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Henriette is the governess at the Paris home of the Duc de Praslin and his jealous wife. When governess and nobleman are drawn to each other, the Duchess erupts in fury and meets a bloody fate. Soon Henriette and the Duc face a world eager to believe the Duc murdered his wife and that the gentle Henriette was a willing accomplice.
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Wealthy, beautiful Nane�e was born with a spirit of adventure that transcends her Midwestern roots. When German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, Nan�ee joins the resistance. Known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding, Nane�e uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety. Inspired by the real life Chicago heiress Mary Jayne Gold, who worked with American journalist Varian...
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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,...
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“Is Paris burning?” is the question Hitler asked over and over as the French Second and American Fourth Divisions battered their way into the city. Few moments in history are as stirring as the Allied liberation of Paris. Yet few people are aware of how narrowly—and how miraculously—the city escaped Hitler's secret plan to reduce it to ashes. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs, in meticulous and riveting detail, the network of fateful events—day...
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Les moines ont donné l'exemple des bibliothèques aux rois. Les manuscrits qui nous conservent aujourd'hui les plus anciens monumens de la littérature païenne ont été copiés pour des gens d'église; et de même qu'il nous a fallu troubler les Romains dans leurs tombeaux, pour retrouver la mosaïque de leur vie privée, nous avons dû, pour entrer en possession des premiers titres de notre histoire, interroger exclusivement ceux qui pourtant...
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