Yuma Public Library

Internationally bestselling author Edward Rutherfurd has enchanted millions of readers with his sweeping, multigenerational dramas that illuminate the great achievements and travails throughout history. In this breathtaking saga of love, war, art, and intrigue, Rutherfurd has set his sights on the most magnificent city in the world: Paris.Moving back and forth in time across centuries, the story unfolds through intimate and vivid tales of self-discovery,...

Phryne Fisher, a private investigator in 1920s Paris, must deal with problems on the domestic front, while looking into the suspicious deaths of two soldiers who were part of a group that inadvertently witnessed a murder while on leave in the City of Lights during World War I.

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic portrait of Paris that leaps through centuries as it weaves the tales of families whose fates are forever entwined with the City of Lights. The breathtaking multigenerational saga takes listeners on a journey through thousands of years of glorious Parisian history, through intimate and vivid tales of characters both fictional and true, and with the sights, scents, and tastes of Paris...

"Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut-a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according...

"Paris, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle against fascism and communism, while in Spain the war has already begun. Alan Furst, whom Vince Flynn has called ́the most talented espionage novelist of our generation,́ now gives us a taut, suspenseful, romantic, and richly rendered novel of spies and secret operatives in Paris and New York, in Warsaw and Odessa, on the...