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Series
Miss don't touch me volume 1
Publisher
NBM
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Paris, the Butcher of the Dances is on the prowl for young, loose women, and local dominatrix Agatha suddenly turns up dead. Everyone assumes it was suicide, but her sister Blanche is convinced that the Butcher is responsible. She decides to take matters into her own hands, and in her pursuit, she ends up hired into a luxury house of call-girls. She soon becomes adept at certain practices, but she does not lose sight of her ultimate goalto...
Publisher
Archie Comics
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
This is it, the final leg of Betty & Veronica's trip around the world! The BFFs are happy to be back to their old selves in The City of Light--Paris! The girls are enjoying the fine foods and even finer looking gentlemen of France--but what they'd really like is to be back in their hometown! Meanwhile, back in Riverdale there's a new love triangle brewing between foreign exchange student Banni, Dilton and... Jughead?!! Will Betty and Veronica return...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A real dive into the heart of 17th-century Paris, this story takes us into the daily life of Vincent de Paul, a devoted churchman, in search of the truth. Accompanied by young Antoine, Father Vincent travels the neighborhoods of the city, pleading his case with the richest of the rich and helping the poor. He takes in Manon, a 15-year-old orphan who is a victim of prostitution. Manon's story is connected to the disappearance of Jrme, another person...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In 1912, Matisse is feeling a little fed up. In Paris, Picasso is hogging the limelight, so Matisse decides its time for some fresh air, a little space, and a different kind of light. Thats it, hell cross the Mediterranean and start painting a new kind of nature. Hes going to Tangier. Problem is, when he finally gets there, it starts raining. In Villa de France, his palatial hotel looking down over Tangier, he has to make do with painting what he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
London milliner Vivian Tremont and her American cousin and partner, Scarlett Parker, tip their caps to their beloved shop on Portobello Road in Notting Hill and set off for Paris, where Viv cań⁰₉t wait to teach a hat-making class. But she has another reason to travel to the City of Light: to find the man she impulsively eloped with years ago and have their marriage annulled.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Rose Zadeh pleases everyone, except herself. Memories of her late Iranian-immigrant father, who valued hard work and family, keep Rose in a dead-end job as a Silicon Valley copywriter, and tethered to her guilt-trippy mom and needy sisters. As much as it would disappoint her father, Rose needs an escape. Voilà! A mandated vacation gives her the chance. Three weeks on a long-dreamed-of trip to the City of Light."--
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver and his fare, a 92-year-old woman whose warmth belies her shocking past. Charles is a taxi driver in Paris, and he is having a very bad day. Enter Madeleine, an immaculately groomed nonagenarian, who informs Charles that the trip today will not be a direct one. She is moving into a nursing home and would like to make some stops along the way...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Book
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"Ilse Lund is a French translator who lives in a beach house on stilts set on a remote spit of land off the west coast of Greenland. Restless from from the predictability of life in her quaint cottage and her isolated world circumscribed by the sea, Ilse convinces her French publisher to pay for a trip to the country whose language she translates but has never visited--France. Her mission: to translate the verses of an elderly Provençal poet known...
29) The little liar
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This sharp, compelling legal drama from an acclaimed French journalist explores why a teenage victim lied about her rape and how the disadvantaged become scapegoats. At 15, Lisa was a typical teenager, at times rebellious and impulsive, adjusting to newfound attention from boys and men. But when her demeanor takes a sudden turn, her teachers suspect something worse than adolescent moodiness. Lisa eventually confesses that she's been abused, multiple...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"An award-winning author charts the poignant journeys of African Americans abroad as she explores her own transatlantic family odyssey in this powerful global history of traveling while Black. Part historical exploration, part travel memoir, Beyond the Shores reveals poignant histories of a diverse group of African Americans who have left the United States over the course of the past century. Tying these tales together is Dr. Tamara J. Walker's personal...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate biography of legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century-including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath"--
"Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century-including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath-finally gets her due in this intimate biography.When twenty-five-year-old...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"As deadly as she is beautiful, Selina Kyle walks the razor's edge between light and darkness in Gotham City. Catwoman's back on the streets, this time - to expose a copycat pulling heists around Gotham City. But she's attracting unwanted attention from one of Gotham's most dangerous groups. The GCPD. Don't miss this and many more of the wonderful Catwoman tales, including the introduction of the Cat!--
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Johnny Craig's crisp, elegant, contemporary graphic style set a mood and a surprisingly sophisticated approach to these thirty-one EC crime and horror comics stories, which include his top murder mystery and his best terror tale. Introduction by Grand Master crime novelist Max Allan Collins