![]() ![]() But as Lily uncovers more about Odile's mysterious past, she discovers a dark secret, closely guarded and long hidden.īased on the true Second World War story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforgettable novel of romance, friendship, family, and of heroism found in the quietest of places. ![]() Lily is a lonely teenager desperate to escape small-town Montana. In Occupied Paris, choices as black and white as the words on a page become a murky shade of grey - choices that will put many on the wrong side of history, and the consequences of which will echo for decades to come. When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris. But then the Nazis invade Paris, and everything changes. The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in White Gloves. ![]() When war is declared, the Library is determined to remain open. Odile Souchet is obsessed with books, and her new job at the American Library in Paris is a dream come true. ![]()
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![]() Affleck starred in Bay's war film Pearl Harbor (2001), which despite negative reviews was a box office hit. In 2000, Affleck co-formed a production company named LivePlanet, which produced Project Greenlight (2001–05, 2015), a television series that provides training to first-time filmmakers. Īffleck emerged a star with Michael Bay's top-grossing science fiction film Armageddon (1998). ![]() He co-wrote the script and starred with Matt Damon in Gus Van Sant's drama film Good Will Hunting, for which they won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. ![]() In 1997, Affleck played a comics artist in Smith's art-house success Chasing Amy. He gained attention for playing the supporting part of a high-school senior in Richard Linklater's cult film Dazed and Confused (1993), after which he had his first leading role in Rich Wilkes's comedy Glory Daze (1995). He played an antisemite in the sports film School Ties (1992) and featured as a regular on the television drama Against the Grain (1993). Affleck at the premiere of his film Argo in 2012Īmerican actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck began his career as a child, appearing in several television shows, including the PBS educational program The Voyage of the Mimi (1984). ![]() ![]() She cast a beseeching glance over her shoulder at me, and her expression was no longer light. ![]() It was a single word that hung in my presently hollow mind as I watched her pretty, polka-dotted dress sway softly with her hips as she walked, her heels enhancing her amazing calves hell, she had great legs for being so petite. ![]() She stepped off the elevator, and I had no choice but to move so I could look at her fully as she departed my presence, tugging me by that invisible line she still held. How was I to deal with the fact that I wanted someone so badly for the first time? That she made me feel at all? That I wanted her light for my own? ![]() I clenched my jaw as I tried to swallow this feeling while giving a speechless nod. So big, so innocent, so angelic, almost pleading! This woman had a weapon of her own in that look alone, damn it! Was she using it on purpose? To make me a blasted slave to her? Apparently it was working because I was ready to give her whatever the hell she wanted of me with that look, ready to pledge fealty to her from my knees. Her already prominent eyes took on a new look altogether. ![]() "Maybe another time?" she offered as though she were trying to ease the disappointment that was busy lancing through my previously dormant heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() Things do NOT go well for women who can’t have children. This has made an already patriarchal, misogynistic, religious society fertility- and baby- and motherhood-obsessed. Outlawed is an alternate history western set in 1894-5, in a world where seventy years before, a disease everyone just calls ‘the Flu’ killed a huge portion of the population. Or that at least didn’t kill the one character I liked the most. ![]() It was a super fast read, read it only about three hours, and parts of it I really liked, I guess overall I just wasn’t in the mood for a story that wasn’t all HEAs all over the place. I still don’t know how I feel about this one and it’s been over a month. ![]() |