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English
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"Cantankerous and vinegar-tongued Grandmama, from Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, is the leading character in this Christmas novel, which unfolds in the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes off the English Channel. Grandmama arrives on a holiday visit to the home of Charlotte's parents, where a fellow guest--an outcast from her own family--is subsequently murdered. Like the heroes before her in Anne Perry's Christmas novels, Grandmama is...
3) A good year
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Language
English
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Max Skinner is not exactly setting the London financial world on fire--and when his supervisor steals his biggest client, it's definitely time to inspect the vineyard in Provence that his recently departed uncle left him. Heartily and happily distracted upon his arrival by the landscape, the weather, and the food- not to mention the gorgeous notaire handling the estate and the stunning owner of the local bistro- Max almost forgets about his inherited...
Author
Series
Pink Carnation novels volume 9
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Hiding intelligence clues in bad poetry that he writes from his vantage point in France, undercover agent Augustus Whittlesby is force to gain the favor of American widow Emma in order to collect information about a top-secret device being shown at a house party.
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Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Hired to be Daniel's girlfriend during a long weekend of celebrating at a beautiful chateau in the South of France, Dora finds herself face-to-face with a man from her past she has been unable to forget, for all the wrong reasons, placing her life in danger.
11) By bread alone
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Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Baking sourdough bread every day from the time she was nineteen years old, Esme remembers the innocence and heartbreak of her first love, which she experienced during a summer in rural France, but an obstacle from the more recent past prompts her to restore happiness within her family life. By the author of Blessed are the Cheesemakers. 20,000 first printing."--
Author
Publisher
Akadine Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The White company: In 1366, while England is at war with Spain, young Alleyne Edricson becomes a squire to Sir Nigel Loring and travels to France to join a bold band of archers known as the White Company.
Sir Nigel: A young squire, Sir Nigel, sets out to perform noble deeds, thereby winning honor and the hand of the woman he loves.
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
Assigned as a lady in waiting to the queen of France, the sister Henry VIII, beautiful but sheltered Mary Boleyn is drawn into the treacherous secrets and illicit love affairs of the glittering French court when she becomes the mistress of the French prince François and catches the eye of the powerful English king Henry VIII. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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English
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In the winter of 1928, still seeking some kind of resolution to the horrors of World War I, Freddie is traveling through the beautiful but forbidding French Pyrenees. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. Dazed, he stumbles through the woods, emerging in a tiny village, where he finds an inn to wait out the blizzard. There he meets Fabrissa, a lovely young woman also mourning a lost generation. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa...
Author
Series
Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
From internationally bestselling author Bernard Cornwell comes the eagerly anticipated sequel to The Archer's Tale, in his acclaimed Grail Quest series, in which a young archer sets out to avenge his family's honor on the battlefields of the Hundred Years' War and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail. 1347: a year of war and unrest. England's army is fighting in France, and its absence encourages the Scots to invade the old enemy. Thomas of Hookton,...
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