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Inheritance

by Pierre Corbeil ...

In an America that is as French as ours is English, Pierre-Henri Lemoyne has to choose among his naval career, taking on his father's mantle as chief of a major enterprise, or responding to a mysterious offer from his uncle in Asia. Rival families plot, a mysterious murder complicates the issue, and Lemoyne travels desperately to meet all his obligations. For lovers of alternate history, this ... Read more

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In an America that is as French as ours is English, Pierre-Henri Lemoyne has to choose among his naval career, taking on his father's mantle as chief of a major enterprise, or responding to a mysterious offer from his uncle in Asia. Rival families plot, a mysterious murder complicates the issue, and Lemoyne travels desperately to meet all his obligations. For lovers of alternate history, this
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Twisted

by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman, Joseph Jomo Pierre ...

Growing up, Nancy believed in magic despite a hand-me-down life in a small town. So it’s no wonder the buzzing excitement of Toronto and its allure of freedom was a likely choice for her new home, the place she finds herself years later selling her body for drugs. Nancy is further from freedom than ever under the wings of Sikes, a drug dealer and pimp.When she meets Oliver, a seventeen-year-old ... Read more

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Growing up, Nancy believed in magic despite a hand-me-down life in a small town. So it’s no wonder the buzzing excitement of Toronto and its allure of freedom was a likely choice for her new home, the place she finds herself years later selling her body for drugs. Nancy is further from freedom than ever under the wings of Sikes, a drug dealer and pimp.When she meets Oliver, a seventeen-year-old
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The Black Count

Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)

by Tom Reiss ...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “richly imagined biography” (The New York Times Book Review) of General Alex Dumas, who rose from slavery to command vast armies in the French Revolutionary Wars—and whose exploits were immortalized in his son’s novels The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers“Fascinating [and] entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal“Remarkable.... ... Read more

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “richly imagined biography” (The New York Times Book Review) of General Alex Dumas, who rose from slavery to command vast armies in the French Revolutionary Wars—and whose exploits were immortalized in his son’s novels The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers“Fascinating [and] entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal“Remarkable....
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King Leopold's Ghost

A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

by Adam Hochschild ...

The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." — Christian Science Monitor“As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread.” — Los Angeles Times Book ReviewA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A New Y... ... Read more

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The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." — Christian Science Monitor“As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread.” — Los Angeles Times Book ReviewA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A New Y...
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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

by Gil Courtemanche ...

“Look, for people who’re going to be dead soon, we’re not doing too badly.”“The novel of the year” is what La Presse called this extraordinary book, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A first work of fiction by one of French Canada’s most admired journalists, Gil Courtemanche, it was first published in Quebec in 2000, spent more than a year on ... Read more

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“Look, for people who’re going to be dead soon, we’re not doing too badly.”“The novel of the year” is what La Presse called this extraordinary book, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A first work of fiction by one of French Canada’s most admired journalists, Gil Courtemanche, it was first published in Quebec in 2000, spent more than a year on
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Memoirs of a World War I Nurse

by Nora Elizabeth Daly ...

Nora's memoirs describe her time spent training during her tour of duty through WWI France. Nora dutifully recorded her experiences, emotions and her growing relationship with the man who would eventually become her husband. ... Read more

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Nora's memoirs describe her time spent training during her tour of duty through WWI France. Nora dutifully recorded her experiences, emotions and her growing relationship with the man who would eventually become her husband.
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Victoire

My Mother's Mother

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by Maryse Condé ...

From the winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature (the alternative to the Nobel Prize) and critically acclaimed author of the classic historical novel Segu, Maryse Condé has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel.Maryse Condé’s personal journey of discovery and revelation becomes ours as we learn of Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza ... Read more

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From the winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature (the alternative to the Nobel Prize) and critically acclaimed author of the classic historical novel Segu, Maryse Condé has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel.Maryse Condé’s personal journey of discovery and revelation becomes ours as we learn of Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza
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Between Meals

An Appetite for Paris

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New Yorker staff writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir, Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris."There would come a time when, if I had compared my life to a cake, the sojourns in Paris would have presented the chocolate filling. The intervening layers were plain sponge."In his nostalgic review of his Rabelaisian initiation into ... Read more

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New Yorker staff writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir, Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris."There would come a time when, if I had compared my life to a cake, the sojourns in Paris would have presented the chocolate filling. The intervening layers were plain sponge."In his nostalgic review of his Rabelaisian initiation into
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Rumrunners: The Smugglers from St. Pierre and Miquelon and the Burin Peninsula from Prohibition to Present Day

The Smugglers from St. Pierre and Miquelon and the Burin Peninsula from Prohibition to Present Day

by J. P. Andrieux ...

Rumrunners is a history of the smuggling trade between the French Island colonies of St. Pierre and Miquelon and the United States, the Bahamas, and Newfoundland. The distribution of contraband alcohol has always been an element of the culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. However, with the advent of the American Prohibition era (1919–1933), the French Islands’ illegal practice took on worldwide ... Read more

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Rumrunners is a history of the smuggling trade between the French Island colonies of St. Pierre and Miquelon and the United States, the Bahamas, and Newfoundland. The distribution of contraband alcohol has always been an element of the culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. However, with the advent of the American Prohibition era (1919–1933), the French Islands’ illegal practice took on worldwide
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Novels in Three Lines

by Félix Fénéon ...

A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINALNovels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English, is the ... Read more

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A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINALNovels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English, is the
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J'accuse…! (I Accuse): Letter to the President of the Republic

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by Émile Zola ...

This carefully crafted ebook: “J'accuse...! (I Accuse): Letter to the President of the Republic (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents."J'accuse" was an open letter published on 13 January 1898 in the newspaper L'Aurore by Émile Zola.In the letter, Zola addressed President of France Félix Faure, and accused the government of anti-Semitism and ... Read more

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This carefully crafted ebook: “J'accuse...! (I Accuse): Letter to the President of the Republic (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents."J'accuse" was an open letter published on 13 January 1898 in the newspaper L'Aurore by Émile Zola.In the letter, Zola addressed President of France Félix Faure, and accused the government of anti-Semitism and
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50 Reasons to Hate the French

Vive la Difference!

by Jules Eden, Alex Clarke ...

You shuddered when the U.S. Congress renamed French fries. You sighed when the French rejected the European Constitution they’d written themselves. But come on, admit it: deep down there’s something in all of us that likes to take a swipe at our Gallic friends. This ebook provides you with fifty painstakingly researched, wittily written reasons to back up your views.From sinking the Rainbow ... Read more

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You shuddered when the U.S. Congress renamed French fries. You sighed when the French rejected the European Constitution they’d written themselves. But come on, admit it: deep down there’s something in all of us that likes to take a swipe at our Gallic friends. This ebook provides you with fifty painstakingly researched, wittily written reasons to back up your views.From sinking the Rainbow
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