The clearing of a cemetery stokes the fires of revolution in eighteenth-century France. Paris, 1785. An ambitious young engineer, Jean-Baptiste Baratte arrives in Paris charged with emptying the overflowing cemetery of Les Innocents, an ancient site whose stench is poisoning the neighborhood's air and water. A self-styled modern man of reason, Baratte sees his work as a chance to clear away the burden of history. But he soon suspects that the destruction...

They are the most valuable coins on earth . . . Only a handful still exist, each one worth millions . . . Now they have vanished from an impenetrable fortress . . . and the killings have begun. Somehow, impossibly, someone has invaded Fort Knox and stolen five of the world's last remaining Double Eagles -- the $20 gold coin ordered destroyed by President Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Now, one has resurfaced during an autopsy in France...

"When a yellowed deed to an apartment in Paris turns up in an old attic trunk, an estranged mother and daughter must unite to reveal the secret life of a family matriarch in this debut novel tracing one family's lineage from the Roaring Twenties to 2020"--

"Stanley Lambchop is whisked away to Paris, where he must help catch a mastermind art thief at the historical Louvre museum by posing a painting"--

"When a mysterious book by the beloved writer Jules Verne falls into the hands of three unlikely friends, they begin a treasure hunt adventure through Paris"--

French Canadian Matt faces racial tensions while playing American football in a poor Paris suburb.

In this letter to his parents, Squiggle assures them that he is being good; but the pictures show what really happened when he and his cousins visited the Luxembourg Gardens.

Scotland Yard, the F.B.I., and the secret services of other nations try to discover why prominent scientists have been disappearing.