"After surviving a car accident off the Normandy coast, Charles Vincent, trapped in a loveless marriage, meets Aude Saint-Martin with whom he forms an instant connection as she nurses him back to health and decides, in a split second, to fight for a chance at happiness--whatever the cost."--

After her kind mentor is arrested because of his Jewish heritage, a young baker's apprentice in Normandy engages in discreet resistance activities, baking contraband loaves of bread for the hungry using surplus ingredients taken from occupying forces.

This novel follows a young man's passion through the ravages of WWII. Ludo lives with his uncle, kite maker Ambrose Fleury, in the small town of Clery in the French countryside. Ludo, like everyone in the Fleury family, has an impressive "historical memory" that earns him the ire of his teachers and arguments with Lila, the mercurial, naive daughter of Polish aristocrats and the object of his affection, isn't as keen as Ludo to rehash the country's...

In an old farmhouse nestled in the rolling, haunted landscape of Normandy, two young cousins, one French, one half-English, grow up surrounded by mysteries. One side of their lives, the innocent one, is filled with love and comforts, the rich, fragrant tastes and smells of the Norman countryside, the nurturing joys of girlish friendship. The other side is dark, intense, and disturbing: a realm of sexual tension, mystic visions, and family guilt that...

"A story told in alternating view points describes the lives and experiences of five different women, including an American expatriate thriving as a Nazi radio propagandist, who must summon all their courage as they each try to survive D-Day in France 1944."--

Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a French provincial doctor, scans her solitude with desperate eyes, like a shipwrecked sailor searching for a white sail on the distant horizon. And when Emma's ship finally comes in, it carries with it vast and tragic consequences upon which her own life and the lives of those around her are wrecked. This new translation by Francis Steegmuller was published as a part of the centenary celebration of the original publishing...

"Two cousins who have loved each other since infancy find the devotion of the years ripening into a love whose mysterious force leaves them embarrased in each other's presence." --