Lafont, Bernadette

Broken English( visu )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 475 libraries worldwide
Nora Wilder is a thirty-something Manhattanite plugging away at her job, but her quest for love consistently results in falling flat on her face. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman with an unabashed passion for living. Inevitably, Nora discovers she must look inward before finding a new outlook on life and love.

Les bonnes femmes( visu )
6 editions published between 1959 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 259 libraries worldwide
Four Parisian shop girls, Ginette, Rita, Jacqueline and Jane seek fulfillment and love. Rita has a fiance whose family is obsessed with social status. Jane has a boyfriend in the army, but she still enjoys herself with chance encounters. Ginette has a secret passion that keeps her away from her colleagues at nights. Jacqueline is lonely, but a mysterious motorcyclist constantly follows her.

I do Prete-moi ta main( visu )
5 editions published between 2006 and 2009 in French and held by 222 libraries worldwide
Luis is happily single, enjoys his job, and is pampered by his mother and sisters. All that changes when his family decides he should get married. Luis hatches a plot to avoid their plans: he'll hire the "perfect" woman to stand him up at the altar.v

Waiting for the moon( visu )
3 editions published between 1986 and 2006 in English and German and held by 196 libraries worldwide
An engrossing and fascinating exploration of the complex relationship of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas during a three-month period in 1936.

Two short films by François Truffaut Les Mistons ; Antoine & Colette( visu )
3 editions published between 1999 and 2002 in French and held by 121 libraries worldwide
The mischief makers in Les mistons are five boys who spend a summer pursuing and harassing a young couple in love.

Inspecteur Lavardin( visu )
7 editions published between 1986 and 2008 in French and German and held by 109 libraries worldwide
Inspecteur Lavardin arrives at a cozy, seaside village to investigate the bizarre murder of an eminent Catholic author. The usually cool sleuth is shaken when he discovers that the victim's widow is none other than his old flame.

La maman et la putain The mother and the whore( visu )
4 editions published between 1973 and 1998 in French and held by 97 libraries worldwide
Story of the obsessive sexual relationship between an intellectual, his lover, and a kinky nurse. Explores the cultural phenomenon of sex without love.

Généalogies d'un crime Genealogies of a crime( visu )
3 editions published between 1998 and 2005 in French and held by 80 libraries worldwide
Based on the case of Hermine van Hug, a 1920s psychoanalyst who believed that criminal tendencies are formed at age five and who labeled her nephew a murderer before he reached adolescence. The nephew proved her right by strangling her.

À double tour( visu )
1 edition published in 2005 in French and held by 79 libraries worldwide
A vintner brazenly carries on an affair with his beautiful neighbor right under the nose of his bitter wife. His daughter has herself caught the eye of a Hungarian ne'er do well, while his voyeur son begins to take liberties with his father's mistress. As family passions ripen, the stage is set for tragedy.

Masques( visu )
1 edition published in 2004 in French and held by 73 libraries worldwide
Roland Wolf is writing a book on the life of TV game show personality Christian Legagneur - or is he? He spends a weekend doing research for his project, in which he meets Legagneur's oddball friends and his juvenile charge who suffers from a mysterious ailment. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues as Roland searches for the answers to his "research."