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1) Revolution
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...
3) Invasion
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry were friends in Virginia, but now that they are both involved in the Normandy invasion, the differences in their positions is uncomfortable, for Josiah is a white infantryman and Marcus is a black transport driver, the only role the segregated army will allow him.
4) One for all
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place--its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. There, she meets a local boy named Ismael, and the two soon fall in love. But a dark mystery is about to unfold, involving a reclusive toymaker who lives in a gigantic mansion filled with mechanical beings and shadows of the past"--
Author
Publisher
Merit Press, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1789 Paris, Celie Rousseau lives on the streets stealing to survive, but when she is arrested she is given the remarkable opportunity to become an apprentice to Madame Tussaud, and as the Revolution begins, she must choose between her royal patrons and Algernon, the freedom fighter she loves.
Author
Series
Mary novels (Cynthia Hand) volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and ... queens? Mary is the queen of Scotland and the jewel of the French court. Except when she's a mouse. Yes, reader, Mary is a shapeshifter in a kingdom where Verities rule. It's a secret that could cost her a head--or a tail. Luckily, Mary has a confidant in her betrothed, Francis. But things at the gilded court take a treacherous turn after the king...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
When Katharine Tulman foils an attempt to kidnap her Uncle Tully, she finds herself caught up in international intrigue. Aware that there are people who want to turn her uncle's mechanical fish into an explosive device, and unsure of who to trust, she decides to fake her uncle's death and flee to Paris in search of Lane Moreau, her uncle's assistant.
9) My bonny light horseman: being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, in love and war
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 6
Language
English
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Description
While trying to run a respectable shipping business in 1806, teenaged Jacky Faber finds herself in France, spying for the British Crown in order to save her friends.
Author
Publisher
Walker Pub. Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When World War II breaks out seventeen-year-old Betty, an American studying in England, trains as a spy and parachutes into German-occupied France to join the Resistance, but after meeting a young American pilot she begins to realize fully the brutality of the war and their dangerous position.
11) Code name Verity
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
12) Dark destiny
Author
Series
Dark mirror novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Tory and her friends receive an urgent summons, leading the young mages known as Merlin's Irregulars to ask Rebecca Weiss, an untrained telepath from 1940, to join them in 1804 and stop Napoleon from invading England.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once mentioned the family she left behind when she moved to America...
14) The darkest hour
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
My name is Lucie Blaise. I have many aliases, but I am none of the girls you see. What I am is the newest recruit of Covert Ops. And we are here to take down Hitler.
After the Nazis killed my brother on the North African front, I volunteered at the Office of Strategic Services in Washington to do my part for the war effort. Only instead of a desk job at the OSS, I was tapped to join the Clandestine Operations--a secret espionage and sabotage organization...
Author
Series
Jewel thief (Mobley) volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After the Army of the Republic destroys her father's inn in Brittany, nineteen-year-old Claudie Durand agrees to carry out a dangerous mission for the Legion--she must smuggle a diamond into England and use it to gain military support for the counterrevolutionaries.
1792. Claudie Durand's future will be taking over the family inn, watching her sister, Mathilde, married off to the butcher's son, and living out her days alone. When the Army of the...
16) Poison priestess
Author
Series
Lady slayers volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 17th-century Paris, 19-year-old Catherine Monvoisin is a well-heeled jeweler's wife with a peculiar taste for the arcane. She lives a comfortable life, far removed from a childhood of abject destitution-until her kind spendthrift of a husband lands them both in debt. Hell-bent on avoiding a return to poverty, Catherine must rely on her prophetic visions and the grimoire gifted to her by a talented diviner to reinvent herself as a sorceress. With...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother's Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: they're not heroes of the people, as they've always claimed to be, but murderers. Herself included. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters her mother vows to...
18) The witch hunt
Author
Series
Witch haven volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Months after the devastating battle between the Sons of St. Druon and the witches of Haxahaven, Frances has built a quiet, safe life for herself, teaching young witches and tending the garden within the walls of Haxahaven Academy. But one thing nags; her magic has begun to act strangely. When an opportunity to visit Paris arises, Frances jumps at the chance to go, longing for adventure and seeking answers about her own power. --
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