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"American photographer Cady Drake shoots local merry-go-rounds, a hobby inspired by a carved wooden rabbit gifted to her following her troubled years in foster care ... Cady can't refuse a freelance assignment documenting the antique carousels of Paris. While there, she hopes to track down the true origins of her rabbit, which she has always believed to be carved by French carousel maker Gustave Bayol"--
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"New York City/Paris, 1942: When American model Jessica May arrives in Europe to cover the war as a photojournalist for Vogue, most of the soldiers are determined to make her life as difficult as possible. But three friendships change that. Journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules. Captain Dan Hallworth keeps her safe in dangerous places so she can capture the stories that truly matter. And most important of all, the love of a...
5) Framed
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When journalist Gabrielle Fleming tours Great Britain with her sister Janice and photographer Jarod Walls, she unexpectedly becomes involved in an international intrigue.
6) The fragment
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Franciscan Media
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English
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It's 1923, and a resilient Paris is starting to recover from the ravages of World War I and the Spanish flu epidemic. Enter young Muriel Ross, an amateur American photographer tasked with documenting the antiques that her employer, U.S. Senator Tom Bryan, has traveled to France in order to acquire. Events take a dangerous turn when she discovers that the senator is on a mission far more momentous--and potentially deadly--than a mere shopping trip....
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Black Cat
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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"Summer 1967. The turmoil of Mao's Cultural Revolution is spilling over into Hong Kong as war rages in nearby Vietnam. White Ghost Girls is the story of Frankie and Kate, two American sisters living in a foreign land in a chaotic time. With their war-photographer father off in Vietnam, Marianne, their beautiful but remote mother, keeps the family in Hong Kong, frightened of losing her husband to a mistress or to the addiction of war itself." "Although...
8) Bahamarama
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Zachary Chasteen mysteries volume 1
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English
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Having served two years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Zack Chasteen hopes to reunite with his girlfriend in the Bahamas, but when his trip turns dangerous, he turns to a police superintendent and a Taino mystic for help.
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Atria Books
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English
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Armed with only a camera and determination, thirty year old photojournalist Molly Drake arrives in modern-day Cambodia to cover the U.S. military search for the remains of an American pilot, shot down during the Vietnam war. When she spots a flight helmet among Khmer Rouge victims, diplomatic powers force her and archaeologists off the dig. But just as a typhoon looms offshore, an expatriot guides them to the runis of an ancient city, where they search...
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Wealthy, beautiful Naneé was born with a spirit of adventure. For her, learning to fly is freedom. When German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, this woman with an adorable dog and a generous heart joins the resistance. Known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding, Naneé uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety. Photographer Edouard Moss has escaped Germany with his young...
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Viking
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[2002]
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English
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Set partly in London and partly in South Carolina, Girl from the South follows the fortunes of a small group of the young and the single, the children, in fact, of sixties swingers. They have, it seems, infinite opportunity, but are bedeviled by indecision, by the breadth of choice, by the inflexibility of tradition and by the consequences of their parents' careless marital history.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was written in 1933 by Gertrude Stein in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was her lover. It is a fascinating insight into the art scene in Paris as the couple were friends with Paul Câezanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. They begin the war years in England but return to France, volunteering for the American Fund for the French Wounded, driving around France, helping the wounded...
13) Salvador
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
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English
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Richard Boyle, a journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship.
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Pan
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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For Ned Giles, a 17-year-old amateur photographer, a nightmare of harrowing misadventures begins the day he signs on to the 'Great Apache Expedition'. He is one of dozens of men hoping to free the son of a wealthy Mexican rancher kidnapped by a chillingly ferocious band of Apaches. A huntsman has captured one of their number, a wild young Apache girl, and they plan to use her as ransom. Like an animal, she bites and spits at anyone who comes near...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into the country under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of a Texas oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth through the lens of his camera. Photography--and fate--introduce...