The French Thief
The French Thief

Author: Camilla Stevens

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781080818297

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She was my rival.Now, she's just MINE.ANDREW MERCIERCocky. Enigmatic. Seductive as sin.Appearing when and where I least expect him. Is he just a chameleon?Or a wolf in sheep's clothing?I try to resist but the draw is just too strong. Little by little he cracks my facade.I soon learn he knows everything about me...Including the fact that I have my eye set on a valuable painting that disappeared in Occupied France during WWII. The problem is, he's after the same painting.Now he's offering to help me steal it. I soon learn some offers are too good to be true... From the corporate high rises of New York to the gorgeous sights and bright lights of Paris, find out the truth behind the betrayal in this Stand Alone book in the International Legacies Romance series. WARNING: Due to adult content, 18+ OnlyBOOKS IN THE INTERNATIONAL LEGACIES SERIES: The Italian HeirThe French Thief

Learn French with Arsène Lupin Gentleman-Thief
Learn French with Arsène Lupin Gentleman-Thief

Author: Maurice LeBlanc

Publisher: Bermuda Word

Published: 2021-03-21

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9781989643365

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Best way to learn French by reading Learn French with the famous novel from Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin: Gentleman-Cambrioleur, now adapted by Netflix into a contemporary version. This is the original version and the best way to learn French just by reading. No need to look up words with our interlinear material! We have added a word for word interlinear translation to the French text. This means that the meaning of every French word is immediately accessible, which in turn will make it much easier for you to expand your French vocabulary fast. How to learn French with this book Use the following method to learn French vocabulary fast and easy. Read the stories and re-read them until you know almost all the words. This is a fast process because there's no lookup time. Then focus on the remaining words that you still don't know by marking those in the text or noting their pages. Because of the literal and idiomatic interlinear text this is the best way to learn French reading fast. Also, contact us on shop.hyplern.com for non-translated pdf versions of this book with which you can practice reading French without the interlinear translation. The same goes for the mp3s that go with the text. The best app to learn French is also available for this book, HypLern Online. For import on Paperwhite, just ask us for a pdf once you bought the Kindle or Paperback version of this book. The HypLern project has been creating manually word-for-word translated language material since 2006. The aim of our project is to allow students to start reading the language of their choice immediately, and expand their vocabulary fast. Learn French the easy way from basics by reading from day one. Check out our HypLern interlinear Dutch, German, Russian, Spanish or other languages on Amazon as well!

The Chocolate Thief
The Chocolate Thief

Author: Laura Florand

Publisher: Kensington Books

Published: 2011-10-24

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0758279086

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When an American heiress and a French chocolatier butt heads, the business of chocolate is about to become a labor of love in this romantic comedy. Paris Breathtakingly beautiful, the City of Light seduces the senses, its cobbled streets thrumming with possibility. For American Cade Corey, it’s a dream come true, if only she can get one infuriating French chocolatier to sign on the dotted line . . . Chocolate Melting, yielding yet firm, exotic, its secrets are intimately known to Sylvain Marquis. But turn them over to a brash American waving a fistful of dollars? Jamais. Not unless there’s something much more delectable on the table . . . Stolen Pleasure Whether confections taken from a locked shop or kisses in the dark, is there anything sweeter? Praise for The Chocolate Thief “A delectable summer bonbon . . . The Chocolate Thief is for days when you lust not for wisdom, but for a bar of chocolate—at any price—and a hero who understands what is truly important: ‘Every dream I have has you in my apartment, has you in my laboratoire, has you with my babies . . . Every chocolate I’ve made since I met you, I’ve made for you.’” —Eloisa James, NPR.org “It’s like when you find that amazing piece of chocolate—you take a bite, and it sits on your tongue and melts into a pool of liquid heaven: Florand has managed to capture that emotional experience and put it into the pages of her novel.” —RT Book Reviews “[A] comfortable beach read . . . A good, fun read.” —Publishers Weekly

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

Author: Maurice Leblanc

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9781727704686

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar By Maurice Leblanc Maurice Leblanc, a contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, created the character of Arsène Lupin, who in French-speaking countries rivaled the popularity of Sherlock Holmes. Arsène Lupin is a confidence man and thief who steals only from the rich. In this collection of short stories we are first introduced to Lupin in the following nine stories: "The Arrest of Arsène Lupin," "Arsène Lupin in Prison," "The Escape of Arsène Lupin," "The Mysterious Traveller," "The Queen's Necklace," "The Seven of Hearts," "Madame Imbert's Safe," "The Black Pearl," and "Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late."

The Orchid Thief
The Orchid Thief

Author: Susan Orlean

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2011-07-20

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0307795292

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the reader—will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion. In this new edition, coming fifteen years after its initial publication and twenty years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable world, and the route by which it was brought to the screen in the film Adaptation, in a new retrospective essay. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for The Orchid Thief “Stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy . . . The Orchid Thief shows [Orlean’s] gifts in full bloom.”—The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.”—Los Angeles Times “Orlean’s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose . . . is fast becoming one of our national treasures.”—The Washington Post Book World “Orlean’s gifts [are] her ear for the self-skewing dialogue, her eye for the incongruous, convincing detail, and her Didion-like deftness in description.”—Boston Sunday Globe “A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates some virtues that made America great.”—The Wall Street Journal

The Archive Thief
The Archive Thief

Author: Lisa Moses Leff

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 019938097X

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In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York. In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs Szajkowski's story in all its ambiguity. Born into poverty in Russian Poland, Szajkowski first made his name in Paris as a communist journalist. In the late 1930s, as he saw the threats to Jewish safety rising in Europe, he broke with the party and committed himself to defending his people in a new way, as a scholar associated with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Following a harrowing 1941 escape from France and U.S. army service, Szajkowski struggled to remake his life as a historian, eking out a living as a YIVO archivist in postwar New York. His scholarly output was tremendous nevertheless; he published scores of studies on French Jewish history that opened up new ways of thinking about Jewish emancipation, modernization, and the rise of modern antisemitism. But underlying Szajkowski's scholarly accomplishments were the documents he stole, moved, and eventually sold to American and Israeli research libraries, where they remain today. Part detective story, part analysis of the construction of history, The Archive Thief offers a window into the debates over the rightful ownership of contested Jewish archives and the powerful ideological, economic, and psychological forces that have made Jewish scholars care so deeply about preserving the remnants of their past.

Arsène Lupin vs. Sherlock Holmes
Arsène Lupin vs. Sherlock Holmes

Author: Maurice Leblanc

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2022-02-11

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0486850595

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Gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin conspires to match wits with the great Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes in Maurice Leblanc’s second collection of short stories. Brilliantly capturing each character's extraordinary skills, Leblanc offers readers an array of entertaining adventures. The eight tales include “Lottery Ticket No. 514,” “Sherlock Holmes Opens Hostilities,” “Second Arrest of Arsène Lupin,” “The Jewish Lamp,” and others. Mystery lovers will find Lupin and Holmes the most cunning duo in crime fiction.

Thieves of Paris
Thieves of Paris

Author: Helen Schwartz

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-07

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13:

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When France surrenders to Germany in 1940 and Nazi forces occupy France, soldier Max St Denis flees to his childhood home, the Rothschild estate at Ferrières. Max sees a way to redeem himself from his days as a car thief when he's entrusted to transport valuable paintings to safety, including an Ingres family portrait dear to him. Overtaken and almost killed by Nazi art looters, he vows to get the portrait back. He needs the assistance of two daring women who condemn his recklessness and self-centered motives. After he agrees to work with Rose Valland, the only French person at the Jeu de Paume depot for looted art, she locates the portrait but lays down strict conditions for stealing it. To meet those, he bargains for the aid of Hannah Ziegler, a beautiful Hungarian Zionist smuggling Jews out of Paris. He commits his wits and daring, his fluency in German, and his blond coloring to fool the occupiers. Max has watched "authorized" Nazi looters, Vichy-French officials and opportunistic French citizens vying to out-steal each other. As oppression of Jews grows and deportations begin, Max improvises new strategies of theft to save the very lives of Jews. Max embraces his role as the best thief of Paris.