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A "mesmerizing" novel of a family falling apart by the New York Times bestselling author of The Burning Girl.
Set in colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England, and narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for the truth, The Last Life is the tale of the LaBasse family, whose quiet integrity is shattered by the shots from a grandfather's rifle. As their world suddenly begins
Author
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Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1972]
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English
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Against its manager's wishes, the Beaumont Hotel shelters a killer When the Chinese Revolution exploded, General Chang was one of the most vicious military leaders, committing atrocities so savage that even his comrades in the Red Army feared him. Decades later, the aging killer has become a respected diplomat, and is on his way to New York for a United Nations summit. Although the State Department doesn't like it, Chang's status demands the finest...
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Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1982]
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English
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In the pool of the Beaumont Hotel, a teenager is found murdered and faceless Manhattan's charitable circles know no finer place for a fundraiser than the stately Beaumont Hotel, whose brilliant manager Pierre Chambrun will do whatever it takes to make Good Samaritans feel at home. This means that after popular singer Stan Nelson has completed his annual twenty-four-hour telethon for cancer research, Chambrun is loath to wake the crooner from his well-earned...
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Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1975]
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English
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When an army of freedom fighters takes the entire Beaumont hostage, Chambrun contemplates a commando attack Pierre Chambrun, the elegant manager of the Beaumont Hotel, gets the call just after breakfast: The fifteenth floor has been seized. Armed with guns, grenades, and plastic explosives, a gang of guerrillas has taken the daughters of the British ambassador hostage, and they are ready to kill to make themselves heard. For these men are combatants,...
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Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1973]
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English
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As X-rated stars descend on the Beaumont Hotel, someone takes a shot at its owner Terrified of flying, Beaumont Hotel owner George Battle hasn't seen America in seventeen years, instead spending his days on the Riviera, counting his money. But pressing business calls him back to the United States: a seven million dollar investment in the latest epic directed by Maxwell Zorn, king of highbrow celluloid smut. It's the kind of motion picture that even...
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Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1966]
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English
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A gang of jet-setting slanderers cause havoc at the stately Beaumont Hotel Under the stern eye of manager Pierre Chambrun, life at the Beaumont runs with the efficiency of a Swiss watch. So reliable is the service at New York's finest hotel that guests could set their timepieces to the movements of its bellhops. But a wrench is about to be thrown into this perfect mechanism-a redhead named Doris Standing. Standing is queen of the jet set, that...
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Company
Pub. Date
[1968]
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English
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A Nazi's widow comes to the Beaumont Hotel with death in her entourage As befits the manager of New York's finest hotel, Pierre Chambrun has certain standards for his guests at the Beaumont. Were it not for the pleading of the hotel's owner, no amount of money could persuade him to allow the Baroness Charmian Zetterstrom a room. She is the stunning young widow of a Nazi war criminal; her husband was an infamous sadist who escaped before the fall of...
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Dodd, Mead
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[1984]
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English
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A group of thugs storms the Beaumont Hotel, and only Pierre Chambrun can stop the chaos There has been trouble in Central Park. Free concerts given on the great lawn have been ending in upheaval as gangs of toughs maraud through the crowd with bats, chains, and knives-taking what they want and crushing those who stand in their way. During a performance by red-hot diva Donna Ward, the park is peaceful. But afterward, the horde descends on the Beaumont...
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Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1986]
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English
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When the eleven-year-old son of an Air Force major reports his parents missing from their Beaumont Hotel room, hotel manager Pierre Chambrun investigates. Though Air Force Intelligence seems to think the disappearance a carefully planned step in an act of treason, Chambrun wonders if his hotel is harboring a killer with diplomatic immunity.
17) The woods
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Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
As Daniel Francoeur completes his freshman year at college and begins his sophomore year, he recalls his last summer before going to college, an almost mystical idyll spent at the Francoeur's summer home.
18) The golden trap
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1967]
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English
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After a long career in espionage work, George Lovelace was ready to retire, but repeated attacks from an unknown enemy made a long retirement unlikely. Lovelace asked his long-time friend and hotel manager Pierre Chambrun whether he could wait for the final attack at his New York luxury hotel. And so the Beaumont became a glamorous trap--but would it be a trap in which Lovelace was caught, or would it close its golden teeth around Lovelace's enemies?...
19) The native
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Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
The Native focuses on Philip, one of the seven Francoeur sons, who, in his attempt to free himself from his parents' religion and culture, marries a Protestant woman. Philip soon realizes his wife is stupid and common and that his daughter yearns for the same spiritual grounding that he had spurned in his youth. This novel continues the story that started with The Family and The Country.
20) Bellefleur
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Gothic saga ; 1
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English
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A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include several millionaires, a mass murderer, a spiritual seeker who climbs into the mountains looking for God, a wealthy noctambulist who dies of a chicken...