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"Posing as a librarian in Lisbon while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence during WWII, Ava . . . connects with a woman who runs a printing press in occupied France through coded messages that bring hope in the face of war"--Provided by publisher.

"Follow the . . . rise of France's hot-shot striker, Kylian Mbapp?, from his breakthrough season in a young Monaco side and his goal in 2018's World Cup final to his big-money move to Paris Saint-Germain"--Back cover.

World War II in Europe rages as librarian spies Ava and Elaine continue working for the Allies: the U.S. military brings Ava to Lisbon to pose as a librarian, but really to gather intelligence for them, while Elaine starts working for the Resistance in occupied France running a printing press the Nazis desperately want to shut down.

As the whispers of revolution in Paris swirl around the port city of Marseille, Gilles Etienne, a clerk at the local soap factory, finds himself caught up in the furor for freedom. He and his friends soon plan to march to Paris to dethrone the monarchy, but everything changes when he meets Marie-Caroline Daubin, the beautiful daughter of the owner of the factory where he works. Marie-Caroline is a royalist, but the two begin to fall for one another even as they are on opposing sides. When Gilles catches Marie-Caroline in a dangerous secret that could cost her and her family their lives, and he starts to question the methods of his friends, the two soon find themselves in grave danger.

A graphic novel that looks at the childhood and teen years of French illustrator and comic designer, P?n?lope Bagieu.

Despite her youth and her conservative father, Nicolette becomes involved with the French Resistance, until one day she is taken from the streets of Paris, submerged in the Nazi camps, brutalized, but determined to survive and bear witness to the atrocities she has witnessed. Includes historical note.

"French university student Andr? Jouret is fed up with the Nazi occupation of his country, so he teams up with friends Michel and Victoire to fight back, despite warnings from his father and school officials. Once they find themselves sabataging Nazi trucks and delivering secret, heavy packages, it looks like they may bei in over their heads. But is it too late?"--Back cover.

"Marie Curie stunned the scientific world when her research uncovered two elements, polonium and radium. This accessible graphic biography gives readers a look at her collaborations with Pierre Curie, her medical work during World War I, and more"--OCLC.

"This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore"--Provided by publisher.

"In late eighteenth-century France, women do not have a place in politics. But as the tide of revolution rises, women decide otherwise, upending a world order that has long oppressed them"--OCLC.