Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
The marriage of opposites : a novel / Alice Hoffman (2015 historical fiction, F Hoffman) Dreaming of an exotic life in Paris while coming of age in a St. Thomas […]
Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
Under the wide and starry sky : a novel / Nancy Horan (2014 fiction, F Horan) Imagines the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson and American […]
Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
The girl from the Savoy / Hazel Gaynor (2016 historical fiction, F Gaynor) After taking a job as a chambermaid at a grand London hotel, Dolly Lane finds herself propelled […]
Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
West of sunset : a novel / Stewart O’Nan (2015 historical fiction, F O’Nan) A tale inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood finds him reflecting on past […]
Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
The Paris architect : a novel / Charles Belfoure (2013 historical fiction, F Belfoure) A Parisian architect is paid handsomely to devise secret hiding spaces for Jews in his Nazi-occupied […]
Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
Exposure / Helen Dunmore (2016 fiction, F Dunmore) A missing top-secret file poses a terrible dilemma for colleagues Giles Holloway and Simon Callington at the height of the Cold War […]
Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick
The Paris winter : a novel / Imogen Robertson (2016 fiction, F Robertson) British painter Maud Heighton, seduced by the elegance and luxury of Paris at the height of the […]