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Explores the historical event in 1803 in which Napoleon offered to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States, and then asks the reader if they would buy the territory.

In March 1871 Irene's family moves from London to Evreux in Normandy, but after a strange woman warns her that her mother is in danger, Irene calls upon her friends Ars?ne Lupin and Sherlock Holmes for help and soon the three young detectives are caught up in the search for an ancient relic said to be in a secret crypt beneath the streets of Paris--a Paris which is torn apart by war and currently ruled by the Commune.

In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France. The odds of their survival were not good. The odds of escaping, even worse. But one man had the courage to fight the odds and figure out how to negotiate the release of an unprecedented 149 prisoners.

The author was on his second World War II mission as a top-turret gunner when his plane was shot down in 1943. He was one of only two men on the plane to escape immediate death or capture. He was able to run from the plane wreck and knock on the door of an isolated farmhouse whose owners, fortunately, had a firm connection to the underground French Resistance group, Morhange, and its founder, Marcel Taillandier. Meyerowitz's escape to freedom was hair-raising and included a masquerade as a deaf-mute, a periolous trek over the Pyrenees, and a voyage aboard a fishing boat with U-boats below and Luftwaffe fighters above.

Tells of the young Englishman who gives up his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

Isla has had a crush on classmate Josh since their freshman year at the School of America in Paris, but after a chance encounter over the summer in Manhattan they return to France for their senior year where they are forced to confront challenges every young couple in love must face.

The lives of Marie-Laure, a blind girl living in Saint-Malo, and Werner, a orphan training at an elite Nazi school, intertwine during the Nazi occupation of France.

In-depth study of the French Revolution using reenactments, commentary from historians, excerpts from journals, and period art.

Examines the causes and effects of the uprisings in France in the late eighteenth century, and discusses why various groups were so opposed to the leadership of King Louis XVI.

Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and the owner of a small toy booth in the train station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message all come together to change Hugo's life forever.