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62) Hugo
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Tells the tale of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. When Hugo encounters a broken machine, an eccentric girl, and the cold, reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The Three musketeers: The young ambitious Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris aspiring to join the Musketeers. He meets Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and faces villains, romance, adventure, and intrigue. To save the honor of the Queen, he and the others set off on a perilous journey. In the end, he proves he is worthy, and joins the Musketeers like his friends.
The Four musketeers: Villainous Cardinal Richelieu continues his machinations to eliminate...
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When the young amateur naturalist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831, he had no idea what lay in store on his five-year voyage across the world. Darwin was disenchanted, moved, scandalised and awestruck by the vast discoveries that he made on his journey. On his return, he wrote his famous and controversial theory on the evolution of species. This long, perilous exploration was a journey that changed a man, and in doing so, the course...
Author
Series
Hôtel étrange volume 1
Publisher
Sarbacane
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Dérangés dans leur hibernation par une colonne d'hôtes inattendus, Marietta et le personnel de l'Hôtel Étrange sont stupéfaits d'apprendre que c'est déjà le 21 mars. Pourtant, dehors, l'hiver semble encore bien installé et la neige ne cesse de tomber. Inquiets de l'absence de Monsieur Printemps, ils décident de partir à sa recherche. Guidés par leur ami Célestin vers l'antre de Monsieur Hiver qu'ils soupçonnent de séquestrer son frère,...
69) Nagrada: roman
Author
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Russian
Description
Gaelle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family, and send them to a detention camp for deportation to an unknown, ominous fate. The local German military commandant makes Gaelle's family estate outside Lyon into his headquarters. Her father and brother are killed by the...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When the Nazis march onto the cobbled streets of Colmar on November 1st 1940, Josef, a Jewish violin maker, gathers his wife and daughters closely to him and tells them everything will be alright. But one year later, oldest daughter Sarah must be the first to make her escape in a perilous journey across France via Paris to Poitiers. Ralf, a German deserter, risks his life to save her along the way. But when Ralf is captured, further along the journey,...
Author
Publisher
Flammarion
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
"La France est noyée sous une tempête diluvienne qui lui donne des airs, en ce dernier jour de 1999, de fin du monde. Alexandre, reclus dans sa ferme du Lot où il a grandi avec ses trois soeurs, semble redouter davantage l'arrivée des gendarmes. Seul dans la nuit noire, il va revivre la fin d'un autre monde, les derniers jours de cette vie paysanne et en retrait qui lui paraissait immuable enfant. Entre l'homme et la nature, la relation n'a cessé...
72) Dilili à Paris
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Travel to the upper reaches and lower depths of Paris in the Belle Epoque with Dilili, a graceful young girl with eagle-eyed smarts as she investigates the mysterious plot of the Master Men. Together with Orel, a delivery boy who ferries her around the sweeping photorealistic and jewel-toned landscape as only expert animator Michel Ocelot could conceive, Dilili will stop at nothing until justice is restored. Our super sleuths journey through a turn-of-the-century...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Women took part in perilous resistance missions during World War II alongside a much larger number of male resistance agents. This book presents the lives of eight women who, at profound risk to themselves, chose to challenge the Third Reich, hailing from diverse regions of the world"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Willard Sterne Randall documents an unrelenting struggle for economic independence from Britain, overlapping two armed conflicts spanning a decades-long unofficial global trade war. Throughout this perilous period, the contest was all about free trade. Neither Thomas Jefferson nor any other Founding Father could divine that the Revolutionary...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world' Tash Aw, Paris Review Books of the Year Sanmao: author, adventurer, pioneer. Born in China in 1943, she moved from Chongqing to Taiwan, Spain to Germany, the Canary Islands to Central America, and, for several years in the 1970s,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"'Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents' (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author), Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens--Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name...
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting middle-grade biography about Sophie Blanchard, the first woman to work as a professional aeronaut in France in the late 1700s, set against the thrilling backdrop of early flight. Before Amelia Earhart, there was Sophie Blanchard, the first woman to earn her living in the air. While no one knows the fate of Earhart, a terrified crowd of thousands looked on as French aeronaut Sophie Blanchard met her end in a tragic blaze of glory over the...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Follow the thrilling escapades as World War I ends and young Indy gets entangled in adventures with famous--and infamous--figures like Ernest Hemingway, Woodrow Wilson, Louis Armstrong and Al Capone during some of the most vibrant years of the 20th century.
Author
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Look. Smell. Taste. Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France could be made in California. A dream dashed four times in merciless succession until it was ultimately realized in a stunning blind tasting in Paris. In that tasting, in the year of America's bicentennial, California wines took their place as the leading wines of the world. For the first time, Briscoe tells the complete and dramatic...
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