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A new figure suddenly enters the life of young Jacques Fauré-Meyer, heir to a wealthy family. He will put Jacques' boring world upside down. He will also have a deep impact in Jacques' feelings. An enigmatic driver. A character that initially intimidates and causes anxiety in him, but who, at the same time, with his aura of mystery fascinates and attracts him. He will turn out to be a much more important figure than what Jacques initially thought....
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This is an odd collection of short stories featuring a criminal Count's chauffeur around 1910. The stories of the heists are off-kilter, since for most of the story we are in the dark like the chauffeur, and the heist is revealed at the end of the story. The heist stories dominate the first half of the book, then the second half has the chauffeur have some adventures of his own while driving around Britain and continental Europe. The driving is the...
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I want to BEE a bus driver when I grow up! Follow a day in the life of a bus driver as a curious bee imagines what it would be like. Using simple sentences to help build confidence, this book is perfect for emerging readers! Included is a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests engaging reading and writing prompts.
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John Armitage, Lieutenant U. S. N., followed the porter into the rear car of the midnight express for Boston, and after seeing his bag deposited under a lower berth, stood for a minute in frowning indecision. A half-hour must elapse before the train started. He was not a bit sleepy, he had, in fact, dozed most of the way from Washington, and the idea of threshing about in the hot berth was not agreeable. Finally, he took a short thick pipe from his...
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Erich Kempka served as Adolf Hitler's personal driver from 1934 through to the Führer's dramatic suicide in 1945. His candid memoirs offer a unique eyewitness account of events leading up to and during the war, culminating in those dark final days in the Führer's headquarters, deep under the shattered city of Berlin.
He begins by describing his duties as a member of Hitler's personal staff in the years preceding the war, driving the Führer throughout...
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Glamorous young wife Alma Rattenbury takes her chauffeur as a lover and their scandalous relationship leads to a murder most foul.
The 1935 murder of architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury, famous for his design of the iconic Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his 30-years-younger second wife, Alma, and the family chauffeur, George Percy Stoner, her lover, riveted people.
Francis...
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Chauffeur Carol Shedrick stepped out of her limo on a busy street on a Saturday night. She was ready to open the back door and let out her neighbors and their friends who had asked her to take them out for a night on the town. Suddenly Mr. Neighbor thrust open the rear door of the limousine, and Shedrick stared in shock. In the back of her limo sat six naked people, including her neighbors. As a chauffeur for many years, Shedrick often drove for celebrities...
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2010, c2009
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Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris...
12) Graceland
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The longtime chauffeur of a corrupt Filipino politician is ambushed in a kidnapping attempt. During the confusion of the ambush, the kidnapping goes horribly wrong and the wrong girl is taken and held for ransom
13) Sabrina (2002)
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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A workaholic businessman plays a dangerous game when he decides to transfer the chauffeur's daughters affection from his feckless engaged brother to himself in order to protect the family business.
14) Dinah East
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A glamorous movie queen of the 1950s is revealed to be a man whose secret led to complicated relationships.
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2016
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Quiet lanes and country houses hold daunting secrets that only Father Brown, using his intuition and skill, will be able to work out, much to the chagrin of Inspector Sullivan. Joined by his gang of dedicated helpers; the excitable parish secretary Mrs. McCarthy, the glamorous Lady Felicia Montague and her resourceful chauffeur (and mostly former small-time crook) Sid Carter, Father Brown faces some of his most daunting cases yet.
17) Sabrina (1954)
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1954
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English
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David and Linus are brothers, running a corporate empire. Linus is all work, David is all play. When the chauffeur's daughter comes back from Paris she finds she has the attention of David, whom she has always liked, but starts to fall in love with Linus
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When widow Mrs Pargeter has her morning coffee, her intention is to admire her beautiful garden in peace and quiet. Little does she expect one of the patio's paving slabs to crack in two, revealing a human skull with a neat hole in the middle of its forehead! Mrs Pargeter decides to investigate. And who better to assist than her late husband's 'business associates', private investigator Truffler Mason and chauffeur Gary? The trio are soon certain...
19) American gigolo
Pub. Date
c2000
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English
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"Julian Kay is on the prowl and looking for someone to please. Boyish and sensual, he speaks five or six languages, and is equally comfortable as a chauffeur for a wealthy middle-aged matron, and as a translator/companion for the lonely wife of an eecutive. He is the American gigolo. But Julian's love-for-sale lifestyle turns deadly when a client is murdered and Julian becomes the prime suspect."--Container
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"It's love at first sight when Penelope Kite sees Le Chant d'Eau--The Song of Water--the stone farmhouse tucked high in the hills above the Luberon valley, complete with a garden, swimming pool, and sweeping mountain vistas. For years, Penelope put her unfaithful ex-husband and her ungrateful stepchildren first. Since taking early retirement from her job in forensics at the Home Office in England, she's been an unpaid babysitter and chauffeur for...
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