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1) Père Goriot
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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"Paris, 1819. Eugene de Rastignac, a young law student, lives at a boarding house. Also residing there is an elderly man known as "Pere" Goriot. Once wealthy, Goriot was has spent most of his fortune on his two daughters, Anastasie de Restaud and Delphine de Nucingen, and his poverty makes him a subject of mockery amongst the other boarders. Rastignac meets the daughters, and hopes to use the rivalry between the sisters to his advantage. He begins...
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Aimée Leduc investigation volume 21
Language
English
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"Parisian private investigator Aimaee Leduc has been framed for the murder of her daughter's father-now she's on the lam, and must find the real killer to clear her name in this thrilling 21st installment of Cara Black's New York Times bestselling mysteryseries. Aimaee Leduc's ex Melac, her daughter's father, has been hounding her for weeks, pressuring her to move little Chloe to Brittany, threatening to take her to court for custody-all but stalking...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Stella reached for an oyster, tipped her head, and tossed it back. It was cool and slippery, the flavor so briny it was like diving into the ocean. Oysters, she thought. Where have they been all my life? When her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one-way plane ticket and a note reading "Go to Paris." Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a traumatic childhood has kept her confined to the strict routines of her...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Expat Zoe Barlow has settled well into her artist's life among the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris. When a too-tipsy guest at her weekly poker game breaks Zoe's favorite clock, she's off to a Montparnasse flea market to bargain with the vendor Laurette for a replacement. What Zoe didn't bargain for was the lost Chagall painting that's been used like a rag to wrap her purchases! Eager to learn whether Laurette has more Chagalls lying about like trash,...
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