"It's a gem of a story."--Laura Moriarty, author "of The Chaperone"
For a small-town girl with big-city dreams, there is no address more glamorous than New York's Barbizon Hotel. Laura, a patrician beauty from Smith, arrives to work at "Mademoiselle" for the summer. Her hopelessly romantic room[...]

This book compares the impact of the League of Nations mandates system on British and French rule in African mandated territories.[...]