france

"Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village"--.

written in French.

The tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.

Twelve-year-old Petunia is used to living in the shadow of her fourteen-year-old half-sister, Ava, their mother's favorite, but now that the whole family has moved to Paris for a year, Pet finds herself stepping into the light, making new friends, uncovering secrets, and, inspired by the classic French dolls she has found, revealing an unexpected talent for designing dresses--and her beautiful sister does not take it well.

In 1874 Paris, painter Edgar Degas is struggling with debt after his father's death. He takes a job illustrating a small book on opera and becomes inspired by a young ballerina named Marie.

A visit to Paris gives a self-centered teenager a lesson in art, life and love, as she interacts with her aunt, Mary Cassatt.

An anthology of readings drawn from the works of eminent scholars which provides a comprehensive history of the Holocaust from the origins of anti-Judaism and antisemitism through the post-Holocaust era.

Richard Chamberlain plays Edmond Dantes, the gallant navy officer who becomes the Count of Monte Cristo. With spirited elan, this first-rate production explodes with action, bringing new life to this stirring tale of romance, revenge and retribution.

When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. There was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflict, much less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions that it would reshape the course of human events. In fact, World War I might have been avoided entirely had it not been for a small group of statesmen who, in the month after the assassination, plotted to use the murder as the trigger for a long-awaited showdown in Europe. The primary culprits, moreover, have long escaped blame.