As the Mother-Daughter Book Club reads Jane Eyre, the girls and some of their mothers are involved in some serious competitions, Becca finds romance when the Wyoming pen pals come for a visit, and a wedding brings the British Berkeley brothers and even Stinkerbelle to Concord.
A traveler's guide to Paris that provides maps, photographs, day trip itineraries, cutaways and floor plans of major sights, and an overview of the city's hotels, restaurants, shops, landmarks, and attractions.
Henry, Anna, and Jose, the junior members of the Silver Jaguar Society, are on a mission in Paris to recover the Mona Lisa--but when senior members of the Society are taken hostage, it is up to Henry to rescue them while continuing to pursue the missing masterpiece.
February 12, 1947 brings everyone who is anyone in Paris fashion to Avenue Montaigne to witness the first fashion show of Christian Dior, whose new look launches the genius of Haute Couture. After World War II, and the devastation of the German occupation, Paris is ready for beauty again. In the audience is Clara, a young fashion reporter who becomes a designer with the House of Dior, and this is her charming story told with elegant, fashion-design pictures.
an education in style, slang, and seduction in the great city on the Seine
Betts, Kate
"For readers of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are, My Paris Dream is a charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris, by former Vogue and Harper's Bazaar editor Kate Betts, the author of Everyday Icon : Michelle Obama and the Power of Style"--.
In the Sunken City that was once Paris the guillotine rules again, while Sophia Bellamy from the Commonwealth across the Channel Sea tries to rescue as many of the revolution's victims as she can smuggle out, and some prisoners disappear from their cells, with a red-tipped rook feather left in their place--but who is the mysterious Red Rook and where does Sophia's wealthy fiance?, Ren?e Hasard, fit in?.
the City of Light under German occupation, 1940-1944
Rosbottom, Ronald C.
2014
"On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light"--Jacket flap.
American journalist Julia Jarmond researches the brutal 1942 Nazi roundup in Paris and stumbles upon a connection between her family and one of the victims, which compels Julia to learn more about the girl's life.
Presents an illustrated retelling of Victor Hugo's novel Les Mis?erables, in which French ex-convict Jean Valjean struggles to free himself from Inspector Javert's ruthless surveillance while helping Fantine's orphaned daughter Cosette escape from poverty.
