| International Standard Book Number |
9781400345274 (epub)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781400345281
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781400345267 (paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
140034526X (paperback)
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| Personal Name |
Cambron, Kristy, author.
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| Title Statement |
The French kitchen : a novel / Kristy Cambron.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
369 pages ; 22 cm.
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| General Note |
Includes discussion questions.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"As Paris rebuilds in the aftermath of World War II, one ex-pat uses the skills she learned in French kitchens during the war to bring long-held secrets to light"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Paris, 1952 -- An ex-pat wife living in Paris signs up for a cookery class taught by an American chef with an indomitable wit and decidedly French airs -- an instructor by name of Julia Child. Amongst classes of the L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes, with pots and pans and prim Paris wives learning to saute in the French way, Kat Fontaine learns much more than she bargained for. Still haunted by the years she spent serving in the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII, Kat soon finds a simple cookery class unearths the tangle of gut-wrenching memories of war and questions about the high-ranking society husband whose past is as murky as her own. But when the puzzle pieces start to come together--and her carefully crafted Paris world begins to fall apart -- Kat must confront her own secrets against the mounting suspicions of the husband she thought she knew . . . Rue, 1943 -- Deep in the heart of Nazi-controlled northern France, Manon Altier shifts between working for the enemy by day -- as a French chef at the famous Chateau du Broutel, where names like Himmler, Rommel, and Goebbels frequent the guest list -- and running with underground networks against the Vichy regime at night. Working undercover to filter information to agents within the burgeoning OSS, Manon digs deep into the glitz and glamour of a Nazi stronghold that has her teetering on the edge of being discovered at any turn. But when an intriguing stranger appears at the chateau claiming to work with the French Resistance, Manon must lean on her instincts to judge whether to run and hide or stand firm -- even as a terrifying discovery tests her resolve to continue the fight.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Family secrets Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Secrecy Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Americans France Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women cooks Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Missing in action Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Paris (France) History 1944- Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Christian fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
War fiction.
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