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Author
Series
Happy people read and drink coffee volume 1
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Diane is the owner of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee, a literary café in Paris. When her husband and daughter die in a car accident, her life is overturned and the world as she knows it instantly disappears. Trapped by her memories, she moves to a small town on the Irish coast. There she falls into a surprising and tumultuous romance with Edward, a taciturn photographer who lives next door.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues--gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest--visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Sole--local...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Eugene and Tatiana fell in love that summer ten years ago-- but separated never knowing what could have been. One busy morning on the Paris metro Eugene and Tatiana meet again, no longer the same teenagers they once were. Does meeting again now change everything? With their lives ahead of them, can Eugene and Tatiana find a way to be together after everything? -- adapted from jacket
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of young Fabrizio del Dongo as he joins Napoleon's army just before the Battle of Waterloo, and struggles to keep hidden his love for Clelia amid the intrigues and secrets of the small court of Parma.
8) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take is...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
10) Thieves
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
What happened last night? Ella can't seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger's mansion, and she sure as heck doesn't know why she's woken up in her bed surrounded by a magpie's nest of objects that aren't her own. And she can't stop thinking about her huge crush on Madeleine, who she definitely can't tell about her sudden penchant for kleptomania... But does Maddy have secrets of her own? Can they piece...
11) Love actually
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
France, 1984. Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love, Thomas. Their hidden affair during their last year of high school was carried on without ever acknowledging each other in the halls. Stealing steal time to meet in secret, Philippe and Thomas carry on a passionate, world-altering affair. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Sous les arbres volume 2
Publisher
Magnetic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Winter is here, and snow covers the woods like a cold blanket. Mr. Fox has his enormous scarf to keep him warm, but it is almost TOO big -- he can't help but trip over it and get caught on tree branches all the time. But as embarrassing as that is, it is even more humiliating when trying to catch the eye of a beautiful lady!"--
14) Always never
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After forty years of being madly in love, Ana and Zeno are finally retiring and giving their romance a chance to bloom while they both still have time left. A unique but relatable love story told in reverse, with each chapter stepping further back through the decades of touch and go courting, showing both the heartbreaking moments that kept the two lovers apart and the beautiful moments that kept their flame alive"--Provided by publisher.
15) Boy meets Maria
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Taiga dreams of becoming an actor, so the first thing he does upon entering high school is join the drama club. There, he meets the beautiful, enigmatic Maria and immediately falls in love with her. Not long after, Taiga is told that she is actually a boy--but is that all there is to Maria's story? The late PEYO debuted with this beautifully illustrated, single-volume tale exploring the nature of personal expression and the fluidity of the power of...
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