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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 […]