The Girl Who Reads On The Métro

Author : Christine Féret-Fleury
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250315434

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The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury Pdf

“With a cast of characters reminiscent of the French film Amélie, Féret-Fleury creates a world that is delightful and enchanting...Light and sweet as a bonbon, this little confection of a book is delicious.” —Kirkus Reviews For fans of Amélie and The Little Paris Bookshop, a modern fairytale about a French woman whose life is turned upside down when she meets a reclusive bookseller and his young daughter. Juliette leads a perfectly ordinary life in Paris, working a slow office job, dating a string of not-quite-right men, and fighting off melancholy. The only bright spots in her day are her métro rides across the city and the stories she dreams up about the strangers reading books across from her: the old lady, the math student, the amateur ornithologist, the woman in love, the girl who always tears up at page 247. One morning, avoiding the office for as long as she can, Juliette finds herself on a new block, in front of a rusty gate wedged open with a book. Unable to resist, Juliette walks through, into the bizarre and enchanting lives of Soliman and his young daughter, Zaide. Before she realizes entirely what is happening, Juliette agrees to become a passeur, Soliman’s name for the booksellers he hires to take stacks of used books out of his store and into the world, using their imagination and intuition to match books with readers. Suddenly, Juliette’s daydreaming becomes her reality, and when Soliman asks her to move in to their store to take care of Zaide while he goes away, she has to decide if she is ready to throw herself headfirst into this new life. Big-hearted, funny, and gloriously zany, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro is a delayed coming-of-age story about a young woman who dares to change her life, and a celebration of the power of books to unite us all.

Author : Reading Group Choices
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0975974475

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Reading Group Choices by Reading Group Choices Pdf

Author : Janet Evanovich
Publisher : Harper
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006223255X

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Metro Girl Low Price Ed by Janet Evanovich Pdf

Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, "Wild" Bill. Leave it to the maverick of the family to get Barney involved with high-speed car chases, a search for sunken treasure, and Sam Hooker, a NASCAR driver who’s good at revving a woman's engine. Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has "borrowed" Hooker's sixty-five-foot Hatteras and sailed off into the sunset...just when Hooker has plans for the boat. Hooker figures he'll attach himself to Barney and maybe run into scumbag Bill. And better yet, maybe he'll get lucky in love with Bill's sweetie pie sister. The pedal will have to go to metal if Barney and Hooker want to be the first to cross the finish line, save Bill, Hooker's boat...and maybe the world.

Author : Janet Evanovich
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780060584009

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Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich Pdf

Buckle your seat belts. Number one New York Times bestselling author, Janet Evanovich, is moving into the fast lane with Metro Girl, a thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blooded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed, and one very good, very sexy NASCAR driver who’s along for the ride. "Wild" Bill Barnaby's dropped off the face of the earth and big sister Alex heads for Miami, Bill's last known sighting, on a harrowing hunt to save her brother ... and maybe the world. Truth is, Alex has been bailing her brother out of trouble since they were kids. Not that Bill's a bad sort. More that he acts first and thinks later. Unfortunately, this time around, Wild Bill will be Dead Bill if Alex doesn't find him in time. Alex blasts through the bars of South Beach and points her search to Key West and Cuba, laying waste to Miami hit men, dodging Palmetto bugs big enough to eat her alive, and putting the pedal to the metal with NASCAR driver Sam Hooker. Engaged in a deadly race, Wild Bill's "borrowed" Hooker's sixty-five foot Hatteras and sailed off into the sunset ... just when Hooker has plans for the boat. Hooker figures he'll attach himself to Alex and maybe run into Bill. Maybe Hooker can salvage what's left of his vacation. And maybe Hooker'll get lucky in love with Bill's sweetie pie sister. After all, Hooker is NASCAR Guy. And NASCAR Guy is good at revving a woman’s engine. The race to the finish is hot and hard, taking Alex and Hooker into international waters, exposing a plot to grab Cuban gold and a sinister relic of the Cuban missile crises. Creative cussing and sexual innuendo included.

Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : Random House
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679604945

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The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason Pdf

Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason has crafted the haunting and profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his wrenching odyssey of discovery, decades later, as he uncovers the truth about those who helped him escape in 1944. At twenty-three, Marshall Stone was a confident, cocksure U.S. flyboy stationed in England, with several bombing raids in a B-17 under his belt. But when enemy fighters forced his plane to crash-land in a Belgian field during a mission to Germany, Marshall had to rely solely on the kindness of ordinary Belgian and French citizens to help him hide from and evade the Nazis. Decades later, restless and at the end of his career as an airline pilot, Marshall returns to the crash site and finds himself drawn back in time, unable to stop thinking about the people who risked their lives to save Allied pilots like him. Most of all, he is obsessed by the girl in the blue beret, a courageous young woman who protected and guided him in occupied Paris. Framed in spellbinding, luminous prose, Marshall’s search for her gradually unfolds, becoming a voyage of discovery that reveals truths about himself and the people he knew during the war. Deeply beautiful and impossible to put down, The Girl in the Blue Beret is an unforgettable story—intimate, affecting, exquisite—of memories, second chances, and one intrepid girl who risked it all for a stranger.

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443436489

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The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill Pdf

Finalist for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize From the author of the international bestselling, award-winning Lullabies for Little Criminals, a coming-of-age novel set on the seedy side of Montreal’s St. Laurent Boulevard Gorgeous twins Noushcka and Nicolas Tremblay live with their grandfather Loulou in a tiny, sordid apartment on St. Laurent Boulevard. They are hopelessly promiscuous, wildly funny and infectiously charming. They are also the only children of the legendary Québécois folksinger Étienne Tremblay, who was as famous for his brilliant lyrics about working-class life as he was for his philandering bon vivant lifestyle and his fall from grace. Known by the public since they were children as Little Noushcka and Little Nicolas, the two inseparable siblings have never been allowed to be ordinary. On the eve of their twentieth birthday, the twins’ self-destructive shenanigans catch up with them when Noushcka agrees to be beauty queen in the local St. Jean Baptiste Day parade. The media spotlight returns, and the attention of a relentless journalist exposes the cracks in the family’s relationships. Though Noushcka tries to leave her family behind, for better or worse, Noushcka is a Tremblay, and when tragedy strikes, home is the only place she wants to be. With all the wit and poignancy that made Baby such a beloved character in Lullabies for Little Criminals, O’Neill writes of an unusual family and what binds them together and tears them apart. The Girl Who Was Saturday Night is classic, unforgettable Heather O’Neill.

Author : Raymond Queneau
Publisher : Calder Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106007027466

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Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau Pdf

Author : Alexander Kaletski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Moscow (Russia)
ISBN : UCAL:B3462038

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Metro by Alexander Kaletski Pdf

Author : Ito Ogawa
Publisher : Alma Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Mothers and daughters
ISBN : 1846881803

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The Restaurant of Love Regained by Ito Ogawa Pdf

Returning home from work, Rinko is shocked to find that her flat is totally empty. Gone are her TV set, fridge and furniture, gone are all her kitchen tools, including the old Meiji mortar she has inherited from her grandmother and the Le Creuset casserole she has bought with her first salary. Gone, above all, is her Indian boyfriend, the maitre d' of the restaurant next door to the one she works in. She has no choice but to go back to her native village and her mother, on which she turned her back ten years ago as a fifteen-year-old girl. There she decides to open a very special restaurant, one that serves food for only one couple every day, according to their personal tastes and wishes. A concubine rediscovers her love for life, a girl is able to conquer the heart of her lover, a surly man is transformed into a loveable gentleman-all this happens at the Katatsumuri, the magic restaurant whose delicate food can heal any heartache and help its customers find love again.

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Corsair
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781472157874

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Metropolitain by Andrew Martin Pdf

'An utterly enjoyable voyage under Paris' - Christopher Howse, THE OLDIE Andrew Martin has been described as 'the laureate of railways', having written many books with railway themes. But Andrew has always been obsessed with the Paris Metro, hence Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro, the first English history of the Metro for the general reader. Metropolitain is as stylish as the Metro itself and laced with cultural references. Andrew explains why Last Tango in Paris is a great Metro film, and what the Metro chase scene in the classic thriller, Le Samourai, says about Parisian culture. He describes how he came to appreciate the beauty of Guimard's sinuous green Metro entrances when he bought a lily of the valley and observed it flowering on his desk. We meet Andrew's half-English, half-French friend, Julian, who runs a society dedicated to Metro history. He tells Andrew, 'A Metro station is like the wine cellar of chateau, which is a very nice thing to be reminded of.' The book takes the reader on a constant tour of Paris, both underground and over. But Paris, and the Metro, is changing, undergoing a huge expansion. This, and the imminence of the Paris Olympics, make this a timely title.

Author : Paritosh Uttam
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Blind
ISBN : 9780143066811

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Metro Reads: Dreams In Prussian Blue by Paritosh Uttam Pdf

'Listen, Michael. This is serious. This is your best chance to help me ...us. If you waste this, it's all over.' 'What's all over?' 'Everything. Between us.' 'Naina?' 'Five minutes, that's all you have. I kid you not.' First-year student Naina is utterly smitten by her senior, Michael, acknowledged genius and resident rebel of the Fine Arts College, Mumbai. So when he proposes that they drop out of college and live-in, she readily agrees. But life with Michael soon turns into an emotional rollercoaster. Temperamental, opinionated and incredibly selfish, he expects Naina to run the household so that he is free to paint. Naina tries her hand at several odd jobs, but when an accident leaves Michael blind, their life together begins to come undone as she can only helplessly watch. And in trying to pull it together, Naina is driven to being what she has never been-a liar and a cheat. Will Michael forgive her when he learns the truth? Will she forgive him for what he has done to her?

Author : Partha Sarathi Basu
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143067993

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Metro Reads: With Or Without You by Partha Sarathi Basu Pdf

I want to play a game with you. A game? Yes. Hope I can trust you. Of course. She handed over a small envelope and said, Open this the day I tell you to. And if you open it earlier, I will come to know about it. What is in it? A time bomb. Aarav will do anything to get to the top of his organization. He will betray his colleagues; submit incorrect reports; sleep with the sexy and crafty Sonali; even abandon his disapproving wife in the middle of a romantic trip to London. Sonali uses his ambitious streak, promising to take him right to where he wants to be, if he does what she says. In his mad scramble to the top, does Aarav know what he is getting into? Is it as rosy up there as he imagined? What is Sonali's real game?

Author : Bharat Wakhlu,Bharat
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780143414605

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Metro Reads: Close Call In Kashmir by Bharat Wakhlu,Bharat Pdf

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : riverrun
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Québec (Québec)
ISBN : 1784290165

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The Girl who was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill Pdf

An enchanting story of twins, fame, and heartache by the much-praised author of Lullabies for Little Criminals.

Author : Erin M. Pushman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350119420

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How to Read Like a Writer by Erin M. Pushman Pdf

“Reliably insightful.” – Publishers Weekly The first step to becoming a successful writer is to become a successful reader. Helping you develop your critical skills How to Read Like a Writer is an accessible and effective step-by-step guide to how careful reading can help you improve your craft as a creative writer, whatever genre you are writing in. Across 10 lessons – each pairing published readings with practical critical and creative exercises – this book helps writers master such key elements of their craft as: · Genre – from fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry to hybrid genres such as graphic narratives and online forms · Plot, conflict, theme and image · Developing characters – physical descriptions, psychological depths and actions · Narrators and points of view – 1st, 2nd and 3rd person narratives · Scenes and settings – time, space and place · Structure and form – length, organization and media · Language, subtext and style