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"The City of Light hides a dark past... When talented young violinist Fay Knox arrives in Paris from England, the city feels familiar to her. But not because Fay has visited Paris before. Back home, she finds an old canvas bag with a mysterious luggage tag hidden in her mother's old trunk, and soon starts to realize her connection with the streets of Paris runs deeper than she ever imagined. As Fay traces the past, she is taken back to 1937 Paris...
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Legendary storyteller and internationally best-selling author of The Triumph of Katie Byrne, Barbara Taylor Bradford returns with the spellbinding Three Weeks in Paris. As four young women cultivate their artistic talents and their friendships at a prestigious art academy, they are blissfully unaware that soon they would part as enemies. Now, years later at a school reunion, they find themselves transformed by old memories and surprising revelations...
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During eight weeks of filming the LGBTQ-masterpiece "The Throne," Nicholas Madden, one of the best actors of his generation, is upstaged by newcomer Chris Lavalle until their story line brings them closer than they thought possible as they try to figure their own conclusion.
5) Photograph
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Genesis Publications
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2015.
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Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr takes a photographic tour through his life.
6) Yo
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Cuban-born pianist-composer Roberto Fonseca has established himself as an innovative musician by blending the diverse sounds of Latin and American jazz, Afro-pop, hip-hop, soul and other shades of music from all around the world. Recorded in a single week in Paris, this is a blend of traditional acoustic instruments with elements of cutting-edge electronica?a mesmerizing musical alchemy that pays homage to Cuba's African roots while at the same time...
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How many people do you know who studied French in school or spent a year abroad in college but now regret losing the language they once loved? Maybe you're one of them. Your eyes stay glued to the subtitles during a French film. Classes seem scary, expensive, or both. A week in Paris, let alone a year in Provence, seems beyond reach. So what could keep your fervor for language alive or reignite it after such a long hiatus?
In The Heart of an Artichoke,...
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How many people do you know who studied French in school or spent a year abroad in college but now regret losing the language they once loved? Maybe you're one of them. Your eyes stay glued to the subtitles during a French film. Classes seem scary, expensive, or both. A week in Paris, let alone a year in Provence, seems beyond reach. So, what could keep your fervor for language alive or reignite it after such a long hiatus?
In “The Heart of an Artichoke”,...
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Head to Paris this Christmas and fall in love under the lights of the Eiffel Tower with best-selling author, Mandy Baggot.
Keeley Andrews knows more than anyone that you only live once. So when she receives an invitation to spend two weeks in Paris, all expenses paid, she jumps at the chance. Ethan Bouchard has had the worst eighteen months of his life. He's ready to give up on everything, including his hotel chain. So when he meets Keeley, it simply...
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School teacher Allee Bell and her best friend Tina Bandolino win a two-week trip to Paris. The day before they are to depart, Tina has an accident. Allee decides to go press on by herself, despite being a novice traveler who speaks no French.In Paris, Allee meets US Air Force Captain Paul Chevalier, who is completing a tour of duty at the US Embassy. The attraction is immediate. A strike during her first week in Paris keeps Allee from the sights...
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We express our taste and personality through the clothes we wear, how we style our hair, and how we groom ourselves. Style is individual, and it can be eternal, appealing to people throughout centuries. Fashion today means the international industry of clothing designers, manufacturers, retailers and influencers who present styles of clothing we can choose to wear-or not. From simple loincloths, which are still worn by indigenous people in the Amazon...
12) Design Flaw
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Cybersecurity meets high fashion in a stylish trip through an elite and dangerous world. Christina Yee's life has gone downhill since past glories of Fashion Week in Paris, where she was once famous for adding electronics to designer dresses. Her plan? Hack an exclusive Manhattan event put on by the iconic Princess Zenobia of Nemea. All she needs is a "borrowed" $15,000 dress, social engineering skills and a quick bypass of a supposedly secure elevator...
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"I cannot let you die for my sake."
The beautiful Zena prayed fervently that the Comte de Graumont would survive the duel with the Marquis de Sade early in the morning in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. Would he ever forgive her for embroiling him in such a dreadful, situation.
It would break her heart in two, but after this wonderful week in Paris, they would never meet, again.
Zena is really Princess Marie-Therese of Wiedenstein, a small independent...
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#1 In 2001, I was a law professor at the University of California at Davis. I was planning a special vacation with my wife, Tony, and we found a studio apartment in Paris for rent at a reasonable price. We were not world travelers, but a trip to Paris was a big deal for us.
#2 I was sick for the entire second week in Paris, and I spent it bedridden. I was unable to...
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What would you do? Stay in Paris indefinitely or return to one of two homelands: a polarized and chaotic U.S. or a let's-pretend-everything's-normal-even-though-it-isn't Sweden? After two weeks in Paris, Michelle's choice was clear, persuaded by French President Macron's reassuring leadership and the imagined thrill of frolicking in a tourist-free Paris. A series of incremental incidents that left her 'stranded' in France without income converted...
16) Sexy Liar
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Five years ago, hacker Alex McCoy had a hot-as-hell week in Paris with a CIA agent she was teamed up with, before a final night that neither of them would call their finest hour. Now, Alex's life is spent hunting down classified information behind her screen and working too many hours to count. She's miles past burnout and has decided to escape to New York City for a much-needed vacation. CIA Agent Rowan Hawke never thought he'd see Alex again after...
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With the work of journalists under fire around the world, this year's anthology of National Magazine Awards finalists and winners is a timely reminder of the power of journalism. These pieces from writers driven to explore America's fault lines include Shane Bauer's harrowing "My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard" (Mother Jones), a visceral portrait of the abuses of the carceral system, and Sarah Stillman's account of the havoc wreaked on young...
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Babbling Brooke Books
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[2022]
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"A woman with rare autoimmune disorders & a "no dating policy." A mysterious, cocky British stranger. A dream trip to Paris. What could go wrong? Christine is on her way to finally check something off her bucket list--a dream trip to Paris. With thoughts of turning thirty looming, she is determined to make this bucket list trip happen and to try to open up her "out of commission" heart in the process. Colin is a protective, dreamy British man who...
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Me Talk Pretty One Day contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays - it quite well registers as a manifesto about language itself. Wherever there's a straight line, you can be sure that Sedaris lurks beneath the text, making it jagged with laughter; and just where the fault lines fall, he sits mischievously perched at the epicenter of it all.
20) Le week-end
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Long-married British couple Nick and Meg are revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. Diffident, wistful Nick and demanding, take-charge Meg careen from harmony to disharmony as they take stock of half a lifetime of deep tenderness, and even deeper regret. An invitation from Nick's old friend Morgan, an amusingly eccentric American academic, soon leads them to a hopeful vision of what...