Kristin Hannah. The Nightingale. Mysteries Set in France Classic French Authors Reunited when the elder's husband is sent to Cara Black. Murder in Bel-Air. (other titles fight in World War II, French sisters Vianne Honore de Balzac. Pere Goriot. (other titles available in the Aimee Leduc series) Vive la France: and Isabelle find their bond as well as their available) respective beliefs tested by a world that Michael Bond. Monsieur Pamplemousee Albert Camus. The Plague. (other titles changes in horrific ways. Investigates (other titles in M. available) Fiction Set in Stephen Kiernan. The Baker’s Secret. Pamplemousee series). Colette. My Mother’s House. (other titles Abaker's apprentice in Normandy endures Dean Fuller. Death in (other titles shame and anger as her kind mentor is available) available in th eAlex Grismolet series). France targeted and arrested for his Jewish heritage, Alexandre Dumas. The Three Musketeers. a violation that compels the young woman Gary Inbinder. The Man Upon the Stair (and to engage in discreet resistance activities. others in the Inspector Lefebvre series). Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary.

Natasha Lester. The Paris Seamstress. Charles Izner. Strangled in Paris (and others Victor Hugo. Les Miserables. (other titles In 1940, Parisian seamstress Estella Bissette in the Victor Legris series). available) is forced to flee France as the Germans M. M. Longworth. The Curse of La Emmuska Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel. advance. She is bound for Manhattan with a Fontaine (and others in the Veraloque and (other titles available) few francs, one suitcase, her sewing machine Bonnet series). and a dream: to have her own atelier. Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time. Mark Pryor. The Book Artist (and others in (multiple volumes) Irne Nmirovsky. Suite Francaise and the Hugo Marston series). others. George Sand. Horace. (other titles A portrayal of daily life in German-occupied George Simenon. Maigret and the Saturday available) Frances that reveals how loyalties and Caller (and others in the Maigret series). grievances that dated before World War II Jean Paul Sartre. The Age of Reason. (other Martin Walker. The Body in the Castle Wall led to collaboration and resistance. titles available) (and others in the Bruno Courrge series). Stendhal. Julie Orringer. The Flight Portfolio. The Red and the Black. Emile Zola. Nana. (other titles available) This novel is based on Varian Fry's extraordinary effort to save the lives and work of Jewish artists fleeing the

Holocaust.

Tatiana de Rosnay. Sarah’s Key. On the 60th anniversary of the 1942 roundup of by the French police in

Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II, leading her to hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid.

Contemporary French Life Patrick Dewitt. French Exit. Laura Madeleine. The Confectioner’s Tale: A Novel Melanie Benjamin. Mistress of the Ritz. Bankrupted by her infamous litigator husband's of Paris. The director of the luxurious Hotel Ritz in Elizabeth Adler.The Last Time I Saw Paris tabloid death, a scandal-fearing widow flees New At the famous Patisserie Clermont, a chance occupied Paris and his courageous When her husband announces he is leaving York for Paris, where her deadbeat son and she encounter with the owner's daughter has given American wife, Blanche Auzello, risk their her for another woman, Lara Lewis decides to navigate near-comic self-destructive choices. one young man a glimpse into a life he never marriage and lives to support the French proceed with a planned second honeymoon to knew existed: of sweet cream and melted Resistance during World War II. France, revisiting all the stops on her first Joanne Harris. Chocolat. A single mother and her daughter turn a provincial French town topsy chocolate, golden caramel and powdered sugar, of wedding trip – this time with a man she barely Anthony Doerr. All the Light We Cannot turvy, when they open a shop specializing in pastry light as air. knows. See. exquisite, voluptuous chocolate. Ann Mah. The Lost Vintage. A blind French girl on the run from the Muriel Barbary. The Elegance of the Hedgehog. A woman who returns to her family’s ancestral German occupation and a German orphan- The lives of fifty-four-year-old Paris concierge Blackberry Wine. A writer purchases a vineyard in Burgundy unexpectedly uncovers a turned-Resistance tracker struggle with Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal farmhouse, sight unseen, in a remote French lost diary, an unknown relative and a secret that respective beliefs after meeting on the twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed village and tries to recreate the magic of his her family has been keeping since World War II. Brittany coast. by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu. childhood summers. Five Quarters of the Orange. A woman returns to Gourmet Rhapsody. A food critic tries to recall Peter Mayle. The Diamond Caper and others. Sebastian Faulks. Paris Echo and others. the village of her youth on the banks of the Loire. the one perfect flavor he sampled in his youth. Sam Levitt and insurance investigator Elena An American historical researcher in World The Girl with No Shadow. The heroine of Chocolat Morales are on the hunt for a jewelry thief in the War II Paris and a Moroccan teen who Juliet Blackwell. The Last Carousel of Provence. moves her family to a Parisian suburb in a vain South of France. risked his life to enter France find the An artist lost to history, a family abandoned to attempt to renounce magic. realities of the Nazi occupation its secrets, and the woman whose search for The Strawberry Thief. Vianne Rocher has settled JoJo Moyes. Paris for One. transforming their ideas about sacrifice and meaning unearths it all. down. Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the place that A collection of eight short stories is happiness. Letters from Paris. Claire Broussard travels to once rejected her, has finally become her home, complemented by a novella in which a young Paris to track down the centuries old mask- where she runs her chocolate shop with her woman abandoned during a romantic mini- Ken Follett. Jackdaws. making atelier where the sculpture, known “special child.” vacation gathers the courage to embark on an On the eve of the Normandy invasion, an only as “L’inconnue, or the Unknown independent tour of Paris. all female group of spies infiltrates the Mark Helprin. Paris in the Present Tense. Woman, was created. German/French telephone system. When faced with a series of challenges to his Tatiana deRosnay. The Rain Watcher. Liam Callanan. Paris by the Book. principles, livelihood and home, Jules—a 74-year- A patriarch's birthday gathering in Paris is Alan Furst. Mission to Paris and others. When her eccentric novelist husband old maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widow, and violently disrupted by a natural disaster, revealing Alan Furst writes historical espionage with disappears, leaving behind nothing but a child of —must confront his to a charismatic young photographer hidden fears reluctant heroes--ordinary, pragmatic men hidden pair of plane tickets to Paris, Leah complex past and find a way forward. and secrets that test the limits of family bonds. and women--fighting against totalitarianism relocates to France and takes ownership of a and fascism in of the 1930s and '40s. Many Diane Johnson. Le Divorce. Ellen Sussman. . small bookstore, where she discovers clues in French Lessons of the novels are set in France. an unfinished manuscript. A young film-school dropout travels to Paris to A single day in Paris changes the lives of three aid her stepsister who is in the midst of a divorce. Americans as they each set off to explore the city John Rolfe Gardner. Somewhere in France. Jane Delury. The Balcony. Le Mariage. American expatriates and members with a French tutor, learning about language, As rages, letters home from A century-spanning portrait from the Belle of French high society navigate their interpersonal love, and loss as their lives intersect in surprising Major William Lloyd to his wife, Emma, Epoque to the present day of the inhabitants relationships. ways. on Long Island describes life as a doctor on of a French village reveals the deception, the front lines in France and his growing Antoine Laurain. The Red Notebook. despair, love and longing beneath the calm Rose Tremain. The Way I Found Her. obsession--apparent to everyone but himself After finding an abandoned handbag on the surface of ordinary lives . A thirteen year-old boy joins his mother when she with a young French nurse. street, a Parisian bookseller endeavors to find its goes to Paris for a translating job. Nina George. The Little Paris Bookshop. owner, the woman whose jottings he discovers in Graham Greene. The Tenth Man. World War I and II Eras:

From his floating bookstore along the Seine, a red notebook within the bag. The holds a prosperous French the Literary Apothecary, Jean Perdu intuits Charles Belfoure. The Paris Architect. lawyer hostage. the perfect book to heal whatever heartbreak A Parisian architect is paid handsomely to devise afflicts his customer-patients. secret hiding spaces for Jews in his Nazi-occupied

country but struggles with risking his life for a

cause he is ambivalent towards, until a personal

failure brings home their suffering.