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"Welcome to picturesque Provence, where the Lady of the Chateau, S©♭raphine Demargelasse, has opened its elegant doors to her granddaughter Darcy and three friends. Twenty years earlier, the four girlfriends studied abroad together in France and visited the old woman on the weekends, creating the group¿́¿s deep bond. But why this sudden invitation? Amid winery tours, market visits, and fancy dinners overlooking olive groves and lavender fields,...
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Chateau Laux is a novel based on a shocking event in the lives of a first-generation family in the American colonies. Lawrence Kraymer is a young entrepreneur from Philadelphia who takes a hunting trip up along the Delaware, and in the process, stumbles on Pierre Laux, a French aristocrat living on the edge of what was then a vast wilderness. Intoxicated with this exotic family, Lawrence pursues an engagement with one of Pierre's daughters, and builds...
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Chateau Du Lac has its own story to tell. But this is a story about Fiona Macintyre who had thought life sweet and largely untroubled, perhaps things were going on the same old way but all was good.
Until she meets someone, she is sent to Thailand on business. She is invited to a party in France and experiences what life was like for those that lived in WW11 occupied France. The events that unfold have consequences for both families very existence.
Yet...
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When Russ Peterson accepts an invitation to an all-expense-paid vacation at a castle in southern France, he doesn't expect to learn he has the ability to travel through time. For a historian, it's a dream come true, offering the chance to find answers to the mysteries of the past. But it's not without risks-to Russ and to the world as he knows it. After a few short supervised visits, Russ still hasn't made up his mind about his newfound abilities....
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Whenever grief and stress rule our emotions, we can lose touch with reality. We begin to see what is not there and confuse realism with fantasy.
Margaret Anderson is a Christian who believed God would heal her mother. When her mother dies, her foundation crumbles and her world seems to be unbalanced.
She becomes angry with God for taking her mother. He had taken her father when she was only two years old. Now, she believes her fiancé is going to...
10) The Chateau
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The twisty new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalet They thought it was perfect. They were wrong...A glamorous chateau Aura and Nick don't talk about what happened in England. They've bought a chateau in France to make a fresh start, and their kids need them to stay together, whatever it costs. A couple on the brink The expat community are welcoming, but when a neighbor is murdered at a lavish party, Aura and Nick don't...
11) The Chateau
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Can young hearts ease a restless spirit?
On the shores of stunning Lake Geneva, Gina Remy is celebrating her brother's wedding - when the figure of a woman appears hovering above the water, beckoning to her. Ghostly visitations do not happen to Gina - a self-confessed control freak with her own successful property business, she prides herself on being level-headed. But as she is tormented by dreams and visions, her perfect life begins to unravel,...
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A Chateau in Hessmer contains a collection of short plays by Dr. David J. Holcombe. Lengths vary from ten-minute sketches, to more developed one-acts lasting an hour or so. Subject matter runs the gamut from penile implants to Christmas wreaths, with lots in-between. This collection compliments Dr. Holcombes previous theatrical works, Beauty and the Botox and Old South, New South, No South. Not for the faint of heart, the characters and situations...
14) The Chateau
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As the Jack-of-All-Wicked-Trades for a secretive French military intelligence agency, Kingsley Boissonneault has done it all-spied, lied, and killed under orders. But his latest assignment is quite out of the ordinary. His commanding officer's nephew has disappeared inside a sex cult, and Kingsley has been tasked with bringing him home to safety. The cult's holy book is Story of O, the infamous French novel of extreme sado-masochism. Their château...
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Can anyone really be in love with two people at the same time? Kate thinks so when she falls for Nick. But inevitably she has to choose. Escaping to Nick's château in southern France seems like the answer.
The betrayal of her beloved husband, Alastair, leaves Kate racked with guilt, but things are only going to get worse. She never imagined how fiercely loyal Alastair's best friend, Richard, would prove to be... nor the devastating consequences...
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A faded photograph will lead one young woman to a ruined French castle where she will discover the truth of her own identity . . . and the enduring mystery of love.
Traveling to France on business, Alexandra Dawson has decided to seize the opportunity to explore a mysterious piece of her own heritage-a half-burnt picture of a woman who looks eerily like her, taken more than a hundred years ago in a local castle. In the charming rural village of...
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Mrs. Thompson, widow of an English civil servant in India, had placed her older daughter Lilian in a boarding school in Le Puy, and with her younger child Mimmy went there to he near her. At their hotel was a courteous and sympathetic Frenchman, M. Lacordaire, whom she took to he the local banker, and whom she came to love. On a sight-seeing trip to the Chateau of Prince Polignac he asked her to marry him, explaining that he was the village tailor,...
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Escape to beautiful France this summer with this uplifting romantic comedy.
Where dreams come true...?
Wendy Clayton stopped believing in fairy tales a long time ago. Instead, she has a 'nice' life. Nice job. Nice flat. Absolutely no men. Until her life is turned upside-down when her elderly neighbor, Eulalie, passes away and leaves her the Château of Happily Ever Afters!
But there's a catch: she must share the sprawling French castle with Eulalie's...
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2021.
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"An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an orphan's self-reliance and wants nothing to do with war....