Jean Brassard has narrated 32 audiobooks on Listento.it by 24 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 56 ratings. The most-rated is La Chair disparue.
The Wharf of Chartrons
Summary
A family brought together by wine and old rivalries sets out for new territory during the turmoil of World War I. David and Gaspard are cousins bonded not only by blood but by an allegiance to their shared winemaking heritage. Breaking with tradition and moving their vineyards near Bordeaux threatens to upset the family - and that's only the beginning of their troubles. Short on funding, the two are forced to team up with a wealthy but morally bankrupt engineer - an alliance that may come at too high a price. Despite the odds, David and Gaspard succeed in making a new wine, which they call Clos-Marzacq. Along the way each of them falls in love - not always under the best of circumstances. And now, to cement their victories, the cousins need to secure a stronghold at the Wharf of Chartrons, the gateway for export into England and America. The Wharf of Chartrons exalts those with a love of the land - and a passion for producing great wine.
©2002 Jean-Paul Malaval; First published in France as Quai des Chartrons by Presses de la Cité, adivision of Place des Editeurs; Translation arranged by Le French Book (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
Dreams So Fleeting
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Love's reckoning... Illegitimate daughter of a great French nobleman, young Ninon was whisked from a life of cruel drudgery by the dashing Philippe, Count of Froissart. But the flame-tressed Ninon was to be misfortune's captive once again, just as Philippe was slave to his powerful title - and the marriage vow he could not break. Would the count's impassioned love be forever beyond her reach? And could she dare give her heart to Valentin, the wandering actor with the tongue of a rogue - and the face of a god?
©1985 Louisa Rawlings (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
And Their Children After Them
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August 1992. One afternoon during a heatwave in a lost valley somewhere in eastern France, with its dormant blast furnaces and its lake, 14-year-old Anthony and his cousin decide to steal a canoe to find out what it’s like on the other side at the famous nudist beach. The trip ultimately takes Anthony to his first love and a first summer that will determine everything that happens afterwards. Nicolas Mathieu conjures up a valley, an era, adolescence, and the political journey of a young generation that has to forge its own path in a dying world. Four summers and four defining moments, from “Smells Like Teen Spirit” to the 1998 World Cup, which encapsulate the hectic lives of the inhabitants of that intermediate France of medium-sized cities and their quiet residential estates, astride the countryside and the concrete expanses of the outer suburbs. And Their Children After Them is the portrait of a France far removed from the centers of globalization, alternating between decency and rage. A France where almost everybody lives, and which many people would like to forget.
©2018 Originally Published in French as Leurs Enfants Après Eux in 2018 by Actes Sud, Arles, France. © Actes Sud. Published by arrangement with Actes Sud and 2 Seas Literary Agency. English translation © 2020 by William Rodarmor (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
The Crimson Gold
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She wanted out. She wanted a new life. She wanted a trophy worthy of a master thief. She wanted to find the source of the treasured crimson gold. She wanted to face an undead emperor on his home ground and live to tell the tale. Careful what you wish for. The Crimson Gold is the third title in this ongoing Forgotten Realms series focusing specifically on the shadowed life of the iconic character class of the rogue. Each novel in the series is a stand-alone adventure, allowing readers an easy entry point into the Forgotten Realms world.
©2003 Wizards of the Coast LLC (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Queen of the Depths
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The Priests series makes a great entry point for readers new to the Forgotten Realms setting. This book in the Priests series deals with a valiant shalarin priestess who is trying to save her home and avenge her mother’s death. This series is designed to bring new readers into the world of the Forgotten Realms. The books can be read in any order.
©2005 Wizards of the Coast LLC (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
French Kiss
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Bonjour, Detective. Now watch your back. Very handsome and charming French detective Luc Moncrief joined the NYPD for a fresh start - but someone wants to make his first big case his last. Welcome to New York. BookShots Lightning-fast stories by James Patterson Novels you can devour in a few hours Impossible to stop listening All original content from James Patterson
©2016 James Patterson & Richard DiLallo (P)2016 Hachette Audio
The Lost Manuscript
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When Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Beau Rivage Hotel for her vacation on the Brittany coast, she has no idea this trip will start her on the path to unearthing a mystery. In search of something to read, she opens up her bedside table drawer in her hotel room, and inside she finds an abandoned manuscript. Halfway through the pages, an address is written. She sends pages to the address, in hopes of potentially hearing a response from the unknown author. But not before she reads the story and falls in love with it. The response, which she receives a few days later, astonishes her.... Not only does the author write back, but he confesses that he lost the manuscript 30 years prior on a flight to Montreal. And then he reveals something even more shocking - that he was not the author of the second half of the book. Anne-Lise can’t rest until she discovers who this second mystery author is and in doing so tracks down every person who has held this manuscript in their hands. Through the letters exchanged by the people whose lives the manuscript has touched, she discovers long-lost love stories and intimate secrets. Romances blossom and new friends are made. Everyone's lives are made better by this book - and isn't that the point of reading? And finally, with a plot twist you don't see coming, she uncovers the astonishing identity of the author who finished the story.
©2021 Cathy Bonidan (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Lady of Poison
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"I shall burn thee with blistering heat and with bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of beasts upon thee, with the poison of serpents of the dust..." Award-winning game designer Bruce R. Cordell brings us a tale of faith, prophecy, and destiny that can only be seen through the eyes of...The Priests.
©2004 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
The Black Bouquet
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He thought it was a game.... He thought no one would get hurt.... He thought he could trust a tanarukk bandit.... He thought he was hired for his skill and cunning.... He thought it was just another victim, just another mark.... He thought he could do his job without turning the entire city against him.... He was wrong. A series that brings to life the people who survive on the fringes and in the shadows of the Forgotten Realms world - The Rogues.
©2003 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Mistress of the Night
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Mistress of the Night is the second title in this Forgotten Realms novel series that focuses specifically on priests, the popular D&D iconic class also known as clerics. Each title chronicles priests loyal to a different deity in the Forgotten Realms pantheon. Like the preceding series, The Rogues, each novel in The Priests series is written as a stand-alone adventure, allowing new listeners an easy entry point into the Forgotten Realms world.
©2004 Wizards of the Coast LLC (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
The Christmas Mystery
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Have yourself a scary little Christmas. In the heart of the holiday season, priceless paintings have vanished from a Park Avenue murder scene. Now, dashing French detective Luc Moncrief must become a quick study in the art of the steal - before a cold-blooded killer paints the town red. Merry Christmas, Detective. BookShots Lightning-fast stories by James Patterson Novels you can devour in a few hours Impossible to stop listening All original content from James Patterson
©2016 James Patterson & Richard DiLallo (P)2016 Hachette Audio
The Alabaster Staff
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The first title in this Forgotten Realms series of stand-alone adventures. The Alabaster Staff is the first title in a Forgotten Realms series focusing specifically on the iconic character class of the rogue. Each novel in the series will be a stand-alone adventure, but the overall setting for all of the titles will be the Old Empires, an area of the Forgotten Realms world never before explored in the novels.
©2003 Wizards of the Coast LLC (P)2013 Audible, Inc.