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Series
Pub. Date
℗2009
Language
English
Description
Rush hour : A wise-cracking cop from L.A. and a high-flying cop from Hong Kong join forces to track down a kidnapper.
Rush hour 2: It's vacation time for Det. Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more a little more excitement. Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy in Hong Kong. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting...
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
An honest man goes off the deep end when he discovers that his employer has been cooking the books to support a mistress. When he learns his boss is going to escape to Brussels with the money, the man steals the money to prevent his boss from taking it. After a bizarre series of events, he finds himself entangled with the woman who was his boss' mistress!
6) Gay Purr-ee
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Magnifique: that's this charming animated musical with the great Garland in one of her final roles. She's the voice of Mewsette, a French country cat who goes to Paris in the Gay '90s.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Cheated out of 15 suits by the deadbeat Viscount de Vareze, poor Parisian couturier Maurice Courtelin heads to the Chateau d'Artelines to collect the money that he is owed. Introduced as a Baron to hide the truth from de Vareze's uncle, Maurice woos the smitten Jeannette, a haughty princess who is unaware that the noble she has fallen for is just a common tailor.
8) Charade
Series
Criterion collection volume 57
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them.
10) Camille
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. Includes the 1921 silent version.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A diverse group of memorable characters find themselves in Paris during the build up to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Dreamer Anne is half-Haitian, possessed of incredible gifts, but with a past she tries to bury; Lawrence is desperate to spread his wings, develop his talents as a photographer, and escape the restrictions of his Canadian upbringing; Ellis, an American army surgeon, has lived through the trauma of the American Civil War and will...
12) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world-and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this inspiring, poignant, and delicious memoir, the founder of France's largest nonprofessional culinary institute traces her journey from the American midwest to Paris, and shares how, through painstaking work, she triumphed over French elitism. When Jane Bertch was eighteen, her mother took her on a graduation trip to Paris. Thrilled to use her high school French, Jane found her halting attempts greeted with withering condescension by every...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A joyful, aspirational, and approachable guide to embracing life the Parisian way, from American expat and founder of the French lifestyle brand Madame de la Maison. The French are known for their joie de vivre-celebrating the little things in life-a philosophy Ajiri Aki has embraced over the past ten years of living in Paris. Nigerian American Aki fell in love with Paris on her first brief visit there (only a single day) while in college. With a...
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