A PARIS PAIR - Their Day's Doings


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A PARIS PAIR (English) is short illustrated book for children about a brother and sister, Jeanette and Jean, who live in Paris and is ideal for children. It shows that children who live in other countries are not all that different after all. The book takes the reader through the children’s day in one-hourly blocks from waking in the morning through the day to bedtime in the evening. Each block is accompanied by a fun poem which explains what is happening plus provides a color image by Barbara Haven Brown, sister of the author. ABOUT THE AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR Beatrice Bradshaw Brown and Barbara Haven Brown lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts at the extreme tip of Cape Cod. They are both daughters of Harold Haven Brown, who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and also at the Académie Julian, and his wife, Florence Bradshaw Brown, who was educated at the Art Students League. ===================== KEYWORDS/TAGS: pair in Paris, poetry, poems, verse, childrens poems, appetite, appreciate, bandits, wails, bonne, childrens books, breeze, candles, rosy cheeks, concentrate, Corot, creamy soup, croissant, dainty, dance, déjeuner, lunch, Delicious, Dieu, dolly, dresses, engine, Frenchman, happy, great, Jean, Jeanette, lark, Louvre, Jardin du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Gardens, Minette, Mistress, Mona, omelette, Oo-là-là, rapture, Roaring, Salad, Sister, sleepy-head, Spinach, tea, teacher, tippy-toes, Titian, train, tumble, tunnels, Venus, da Vinci, wings, fairy, fairies, story, paris, life, children, a day,




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A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer ​us all. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE GUARDIAN, GARDEN & GUN "Hauser builds their life's inventory out of deconstructed personal narratives, resulting in a reading experience that's rich like a complicated dessert—not for wolfing down but for savoring in small bites." —The New York Times “Clever, heartfelt, and wrenching.” —Time “Brilliant.” —Oprah Daily Ten days after calling off their wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, they realized they'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. What if you released yourself from traditional narratives of happiness? What if you looked for ways to leave room for the unexpected? In Hauser’s case, this meant dissecting pop culture touchstone, from The Philadelphia Story to The X Files, to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. They attended a robot convention, contemplated grief at John Belushi’s gravesite, and officiated a wedding. Most importantly, they mapped the difference between the stories we’re asked to hold versus those we choose to carry. Told with the late-night barstool directness of your wisest, most bighearted friend, The Crane Wife is a book for everyone whose path doesn't look the way they thought it would; for everyone learning to find joy in the not-knowing and to build a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a new sort of home to live in.




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The Naked Soldier


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This powerful look at the French Foreign Legion explores Sloane's experiences with the brutalities, adventure, destruction, danger, and criminal encounters over his five years of service in this dehumanizing regime. Well known as the most notorious, bloody and ruthless band of mercenaries in the world, in 1998 the Legion accepted Tony Sloane at the age of 18, inviting him as an elite member of this secret and mysterious fighting force. The legend and the myths of the Legion captivated Sloane and he quickly learned that life as a legionnaire was not just about physical training, but also about pledging mind and soul to the missions and operations.







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This fall finds our ever-indecisive 16-year-old heroine at the end of her sophomore year and facing some big decisions. Prom looms on the horizon, and beyond that, three months of summer! Will Haley play Good Girl with Reese, Bad Girl with Spence, or Alterna Girl with Devon? Will the decisions she's been making all year come back to haunt her? Find out in the fourth novel of this popular interactive series!













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