Violette Nights in Paris


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Book 1: Midnight in Montmartre, Luc and Mia's story Book 2: Violette Nights in Paris, Mathieu and Violette's story Book 3: Bon Appétit, Chérie, Philippe and Gianna's story Can France's most famous rock star fall in love with a shy realtor? Mathieu is the biggest rock star in France. His bandmates are happy to be rolling in the money and the girls, but at the end of their European tour, the only thing he feels is depressed. His band has lost touch with their original vision. Music has lost its purity, and he needs to shut himself away to write songs from the heart. What he wants is to buy a house in the countryside, away from the chaos of Paris. Violette is almost thirty, with no dating prospects on the horizon and a mother with Alzheimer’s to take care of. When a handsome client uses her service as a real estate agent, she has no idea that he’s the lead singer of Les Slinks. Mathieu’s afraid to reveal his identity, but when the truth is out, he has more than Violette to lose. A greedy record label exec wants to replace Mathieu with a new singer. Can he fix everything and win Violette back before it’s too late? Violette Nights in Paris, a sweet/clean romance, is a standalone novel in the French Kiss romance series. keywords: Clean romance, wholesome romance, paris romance, multicultural romance, romantic comedy, paris france romantic comedy novel, rockstar romance




Violette Nights in Paris


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A Sweet & Clean Romantic Comedy set in Paris! Mathieu is the biggest rock star in France. His bandmates are happy to be rolling in the money and the girls, but at the end of their European tour, the only thing he feels is depressed. Music has lost its purity, and he wants to shut himself away to write songs from the heart. What he needs is to buy a house in the countryside, away from the chaos of Paris. Violette is almost thirty, with no dating prospects on the horizon and a mother with Alzheimer's to take care of. When a handsome client uses her service as a real estate agent, she has no idea that he's the lead singer of Les Slinks. Mathieu's afraid to reveal his identity, but when the truth is out, he has more than Violette to lose. A greedy record label exec wants to replace Mathieu with a new singer. Can he fix everything and win Violette back before it's too late? "Violette Nights in Paris" can be read as a standalone novel in the French Kiss Romance series, featuring the Deneuve siblings. It's a sweet & clean romance novel, the equivalent of a PG rating, so it's for everyone to enjoy. Also in the series, check out "Midnight in Montmartre"




Violette Nights in Paris


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Violette Noziere


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On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette’s act of "double parricide" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era—discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing? To understand the motives behind this crime and the reasons for its extraordinary impact, Sarah Maza delves into the abundant case records, re-creating the daily existence of Parisians whose lives were touched by the affair. This compulsively readable book brilliantly evokes the texture of life in 1930s Paris. It also makes an important argument about French society and culture while proposing new understandings of crime and social class in the years before World War II.




L'Appart


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Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-Pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes dozens of new recipes. When David Lebovitz began the project of updating his apartment in his adopted home city, he never imagined he would encounter so much inexplicable red tape while contending with perplexing work ethic and hours. Lebovitz maintains his distinctive sense of humor with the help of his partner Romain, peppering this renovation story with recipes from his Paris kitchen. In the midst of it all, he reveals the adventure that accompanies carving out a place for yourself in a foreign country—under baffling conditions—while never losing sight of the magic that inspired him to move to the City of Light many years ago, and to truly make his home there.




Violette


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SOE agent Violette Szabó was one of the most incredible women who operated behind enemy lines during the Second World War. The daughter of an English father and French mother, and widow of a French army officer, she was daring and courageous, conducting sabotage missions, being embroiled in gun battles and battling betrayal. On her second mission she was captured by the Nazis, interrogated and tortured, then deported to Germany where she was eventually executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. Violette was one of the first women ever to be awarded the George Cross, and her fascinating life has been immortalised in film and on the page. Written by her daughter, Violette (formerly Young, Brave and Beautiful) reveals the woman and mother behind this extraordinary hero.




Sisters of Night and Fog


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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Buzzfeed · Bookbub · BookTrib · and more! Two women, two countries. Nothing in common but a call to fight. A heart-stopping new novel based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose stunning acts of courage collide in the darkest hours of World War II. 1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family’s wishes, Virginia d’Albert-Lake decides to stay in occupied France with her French husband. She’s sure that if they keep their heads down, they’ll survive. But is surviving enough? Nineteen-year-old Violette Szabo has seen the Nazis’ evil up close and is desperate to fight them. But when she meets the man who’ll change her life only for tragedy to strike, Violette’s adrift. Until she enters the radar of Britain’s secret war organization—the Special Operations Executive—and a new fire is lit in her as she decides just how much she’s willing to risk to enlist. As Virginia and Violette navigate resistance, their clandestine deeds come to a staggering halt when they are brought together at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The decisions they make will change their lives, and the world, forever.




The Twentieth Century World


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"Living Through History" is a complete Key Stage 3 course which brings out the exciting events in history. The course is available in two different editions, Core and Foundation. Every Core title in the series has a parallel Foundation edition, and both are supported by teachers' packs.