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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| North Bay Public Library | FIC Willi | 33874003829917 | Adult - Fiction | Available | - |
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- ISBN: 0525952543
- ISBN: 9780525952541
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Physical Description:
388 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Publisher: New York : Dutton, c2012.
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| Summary, etc.: | "Secret agent Augustus Whittlesby has spent a ... Read More |
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| Subject: | Poets, English Fiction Widows Fiction Americans France Fiction Paris (France) Social life and customs 19th century Fiction |
| Genre: | Romantic suspense fiction. Spy stories. Historical fiction. |
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Summary:
"Secret agent Augustus Whittlesby has spent a decade undercover in France, posing as an insufferably bad poet. The French surveillance officers can't bear to read his work closely enough to recognize the information drowned in a sea of verbiage. New York-born Emma Morris Delagardie is a thorn in Augustus's side. An old school friend of Napoleon's stepdaughter, she came to France with her uncle, the American envoy; eloped with a Frenchman; and has been rattling around the salons of Paris ever since. Widowed for four years, she entertains herself by drinking too much champagne, holding a weekly salon, and loudly critiquing Augustus's poetry. As Napoleon pursues his plans for the invasion of England, Whittlesby hears of a top-secret device to be demonstrated at a house party at Malmaison. The catch? The only way in is with Emma, who has been asked to write a masque for the weekend's entertainment. Emma is at a crossroads: Should she return to the States or remain in France? She'll do anything to postpone the decision-even if it means teaming up with that silly poet Whittlesby to write a masque for Bonaparte's house party. But each soon learns that surface appearances are misleading. In this complicated masque within a masque, nothing goes quite as scripted- especially Augustus's feelings for Emma."--Publisher.
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