Search Results | Jackson Public Library

Catalog Search Results

Sort by

1) Discovery in the cave

Author

Dubowski, Mark

Series

Step Into Reading Level 4
Step into reading. Step 4

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Read Description

Four boys and a dog named Robot discover a hole in the ground leading to the Lascaux Cave in France, a cave that has five rooms of paintings of ancient animals.

2) What was D-Day?

Author

Demuth, Patricia

Series

What was ?

Pub. Date

[2015]

Description

Read Description

"In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious defeats, yet D-Day, as the invasion was called, spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the Third Reich. Readers will dive into the heart of the action and discover how it was planned and carried out and how it overwhelmed the Germans who...

3) The Grand Mosque of Paris: a story of how Muslims rescued Jews during the Holocaust

Author

Ruelle, Karen Gray

Pub. Date

c2009

Description

Read Description

Presents the story of how Si Kaddour Benghabret, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, and other Muslims, gave Jews shelter and worked in the resistance to help them escape Nazi persecution during the German occupation of Paris.

4) Joan of Arc

Author

Bull, Angela

Pub. Date

2000

Edition

1st American ed.

Description

Read Description

A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.

5) Josephine: the dazzling life of Josephine Baker

Author

Powell, Patricia Hruby

Pub. Date

2014.

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Read Description

A portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.

6) Odette Toulemonde

Pub. Date

2006.

Description

Read Description

A French romantic comedy concerning an unlikely relationship between two Parisians, Variety called ODETTE TOULEMONDE "A Charmer! An adorable slice of magical realism that thumbs its cinematic nose at the intelligentsia." The title character (Catherine Frot) is a forty-year-old saleswoman, saddled with two children (an adolescent daughter and a hairdresser son), who spends her days hawking cosmetics from behind the counter of a Parisian department...

7) Who was Marie Curie?

Author

Stine, Megan

Series

Who was ?

Pub. Date

[2014]

Description

Read Description

"Born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Marie later won another Nobel for chemistry in 1911.)...

8) The man who walked between the towers

Author

Gerstein, Mordicai

Pub. Date

c2003

Edition

1st ed.

Description

Read Description

A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

9) Mornings with Monet

Author

Rosenstock, Barb

Pub. Date

[2021]

Edition

First edition.

Description

Read Description

Readers follow Claude Monet and learn about his favorite subjects to paint, his style of painting, and his studio on the Seine.

10) A tale of two cities

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

A Watermill classic
Great illustrated classics

Formats

Book, Audio, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

Read Description

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Charles Dickens', A Tale of Two Cities, begins with these famous words. On the eve of the French Revolution of 1789, the story follows Charles Darney, a French aristocrat-turned-revolutionary, and Sydney Carton, a purposeless British lawyer in love with Darney's wife, Lucie. Sydney's love for Lucie inspires him to join the Revolution alongside his friend Darney, at a time when both

...

11) The razor's edge: a novel

Author

Maugham, W. Somerset

Description

Read Description

Leaving wealth and loved ones behind, Larry Darrell journeys to the mountains of India in search of spiritual wisdom.

12) All the light we cannot see: a novel

Author

Doerr, Anthony

Formats

Book, Audio, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

Read Description

"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...

13) The nightingale

Author

Hannah, Kristin

Pub. Date

2015.

Appears on list

Sandi Poor

Formats

Book, Audio, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

Read Description

"Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope. As the war progresses, it's not only the sisters' relationship that is tested, but also...

14) The little French bistro: a novel

Author

George, Nina

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

Read Description

Marianne Messman, a housewife, wants to escape her loveless marriage and an uncaring and unfeeling husband of 35 years. She and her husband, army sergeant major Lothar, take a trip to Paris, during which Marianne leaps of the Pont Neuf into the Seine, but she is saved from drowning by a homeless man. Angered by her behaviour Major Lothar takes a coach trip back home to Germany, expecting that a psychologist will escort Marianne home a few days later....

15) The three musketeers

Author

Dumas, Alexandre

Series

d'Artagnan Romance
Great illustrated classics
The Macmillan classics 19

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

Read Description

In seventeenth-century France, young D'Artagnan initially quarrels with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.

16) France

Author

Walker, Ida

Series

Countries of the world

Pub. Date

c2012

Description

Read Description

Introduces the history, geography, culture, climate, government, economy, and other significant features of France, land of the Eiffel Tower, the Palace of Versailles, the Loire valley, and world-famous cuisine.

17) France

Author

Sonneborn, Liz

Series

Enchantment of the world. Second

Pub. Date

2013

18) All the ways we said goodbye: a novel of the Ritz Paris

Author

Williams, Beatriz

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

Read Description

An heiress, a resistance fighter, and a widow are all joined by one legendary hotel: the Ritz in Paris.

19) The steel wave: a novel of World War II

Author

Shaara, Jeff

Series

World War II

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

Read Description

A fictional account of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe chronicles the events of the World War II campaign and the personalities who took part, from the ordinary soldiers on the land and in the air, to such leaders as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley, as their efforts changed the course of the war.

20) Queen of babble gets hitched

Author

Series

Formats

Description

Big mouth. Big heart. Big wedding. Big problems.

It's the wedding of the century!

Things are looking up at last for Lizzie Nichols. She has a career she loves in the field of her choice (wedding gown restoration), and the love of her life, Jean-Luc, has finally proposed. Life's become a dizzying whirl of wedding gown fittings--not necessarily her own--as Lizzie prepares for her dream wedding at her fiancé's château in the south of France.

...

In NH Statewide Interlibrary Loan

Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by NNHLC libraries can be requested statewide to be delivered here for pickup. Click the button below to search, login with the same 14 digit barcode and password you use to login here. We will contact you when it's here for you to pick up.

Didn't find it?

Can't find what you are looking for? Send us a purchase suggestion. Submit suggestion

Navigation

Main Navigation

Filter Results

Catalog Search Results

1) Discovery in the cave

2) What was D-Day?

3) The Grand Mosque of Paris: a story of how Muslims rescued Jews during the Holocaust

4) Joan of Arc

5) Josephine: the dazzling life of Josephine Baker

6) Odette Toulemonde

7) Who was Marie Curie?

8) The man who walked between the towers

9) Mornings with Monet

10) A tale of two cities

11) The razor's edge: a novel

12) All the light we cannot see: a novel

13) The nightingale

14) The little French bistro: a novel

15) The three musketeers

16) France

17) France

18) All the ways we said goodbye: a novel of the Ritz Paris

19) The steel wave: a novel of World War II

20) Queen of babble gets hitched

In NH Statewide Interlibrary Loan

Didn't find it?