01924cam a2200277 4500 1014066161 TxAuBib 20231024120000.0 221017s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781982191702 hardcover 1982191708 hardcover TxAuBib Harmel, Kristin, author. The Paris Daughter / Kristin Harmel. First Gallery Books hardcover edition. New York : Gallery Books, 2023. 376 pages : hardcover. Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life—her young daughter, playmate to Juliette’s own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette’s Librairie des Rêves, and, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood, Juliette’s world is destroyed along with it. More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend’s bookstore reduced to rubble—and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to her daughter in those last, terrible moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace, taking all the answers with her. Elise’s desperate search leads her to New York—and to Juliette—one final, fateful time. 20231024. Female friendship Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Women booksellers Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 France Fiction. Historical fiction. TXHAM