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Between Two Fires
Between Two Fires Christopher Buehlman · 2012 · ★ 4.3 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…” The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising… Shares France
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Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica John Kendrick Bangs · 1895 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares France with this book.
The Room on Rue Amelie
The Room on Rue Amelie Kristin Harmel · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 431p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A moving and entrancing novel set in Paris during World War II about an American woman, a dashing pilot, and a young Jewish girl whose fates unexpectedly entwine—perfect for the fans of Kristen Hannah’s The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls, this is “an emotional, heart-breaking, inspiring tribute to the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love” (Mariah Stewart,… Shares France
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Fantômas Pierre Souvestre · 1900 · ★ 3.7 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate “One episode simply melts away as the next takes over” (The New York Times) in this deliciously sinister turn-of-the-century tale of a French evil genius run rampant. Three appalling crimes leave all of Paris aghast: the Marquise de Langruen is hacked to death, the Princess Sonia is robbed, and Lord Beltham is found dead, stuffed into a trunk. Inspector Juve knows that all the clues point to one… Shares France
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Melusine Lynne Reid Banks · 1988 · ★ 4.0 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A teenaged boy becomes embroiled in the mysterious life of a farm girl while on vacation in the south of France. Shares France
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The werewolf of Paris Guy Endore · 1933 · ★ 3.6 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares France with this book.
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The road to vengeance Judson Roberts · 2008 · ★ 4.2 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Hafdan's training as a Viking warrior leads him to fight in bloody battles between nations--and gives him conflicted feelings about his killer instincts. Shares France
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Uncle Bernac Arthur Conan Doyle · 1897 · ★ 4.3 · 140p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's dramatic tale of historical fiction set during the Napoleonic wars. Shares France
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Nine Coaches Waiting Mary Stewart · 1958 · ★ 4.1 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Linda Martin, an English woman is hired to be a governess for a young French boy. But a strange terror coiled in the shadows behind the brooding elegance of the huge Château Valmy. It lay there like some dark and twisted thing -- waiting, watching, ready to strike. Was it only chance encounter than had brought the lovely governess to the château? Or was it something planned? She only knew… Shares France
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D-Day Bryan Perrett · 2008 · ★ 3.8 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate It's 1944, and Andy Pope's platoon is crossing the English channel to reach the beaches of Normandy. This is D-Day - the biggest invasion in history. Ordered to cut off the Germans' line of retreat, Andy's company comes under sustained attach until, as the only officer left unwounded, he finds himself in command and fighting for survival. [kh]. Shares France
A Secret History of Witches
A Secret History of Witches Louisa Morgan · 2017 · 484p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "From early 19th century Brittany to London during the Second World War, five generations of witches fight the battles of their time, deciding how far they are willing to go to protect their family, their heritage, and ultimately, all of our futures. After Grand-mère Ursule gives her life to save her tribe, her magic seems to dies with her. Even so, her family keeps the Old Faith, practicing the… Shares France
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The Capitalist Peter Steiner · 2016 · ★ 3.4 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares France with this book.
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Madam, Will You Talk? Mary Stewart · 1954 · ★ 4.1 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Widow Charity Selborne had been greatly looking forward to her driving holiday through France with her old friend Louise - long, leisurely days under the hot sun, enjoying the beauty of the parched Provencal landscape. But when Charity arrived at a plush resort in the picturesque French resort town of Avignon, she had no way of knowing that she was to become the principal player in the last act… Shares France
The Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden Ernest Hemingway · 1986 · ★ 4.0 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1986, charts the life of a young American writer and his glamorous wife as they explore gender, sexuality, and desire—all while falling in love with the same woman.A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from… Shares France
The Book of Lost Names
The Book of Lost Names Kristin Harmel · 2020 · ★ 4.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in more than sixty years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva remembers… Shares France
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The Werewolf of Paris Guy Endore · 2010 · ★ 3.6 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 294 p. : 24 cm Shares France
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Le petit chaperon rouge Charles Perrault · 1896 · ★ 3.2 · 27p · ≈ 54m · Challenging Caperucita Roja lleva una torta y un tarrito de mantequilla hacia la casa de su abuela, pero en el camino se encuentra con el Lobo. Por trampas, el Lobo se las come a Caperucita Roja y su abuela. Little Red Riding Hood is taking a cake and little pot of butter to her grandmother's house, but on the way she meets the Wolf. By trickery, the Wolf eats both Little Red Riding Hood and her… Shares France
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Cast iron Peter May · 2017 · 406p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Peter May's new thriller--the red-hot finale to the cold-case Enzo Files"-- "In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the west of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains--bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime. No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod… Shares France

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