Lagani, Chiara

Summary: "HBO's four-season TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend has enjoyed success with critics and viewers in the U.S.; the novel has been adapted for the stage and radio plays. Here, for the first time, it is brought to vivid life as a graphic novel by one of Italy's most beloved illustrators. For Ferrante fans, for those new to Ferrante, for readers of graphic novels, Chiara Lagani's and Elena...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LAG

De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: Believing that Matteo, a young boy from the streets of 1930s Naples, was murdered, Commissario Ricciardi must conduct his investigation in secret since his superiors are preparing for a state visit from Benito Mussolini.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE G

De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: Springtime proffers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples. But evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swears that when he left her she was alive and well. But...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE G

Gentle, Mary.

Summary: In nineteenth-century Naples, librettist Conrad Scalese is recruited to write an opera that counters the black opera staged by the Prince's Men to empower the devil, a task he must complete in six weeks while facing spies and sabotage.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEN

De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: Investigating the death of a duchess in 1931 Naples, Commissario Ricciardi is assisted by Brigadier Maione to connect the victim's demise to her associates in the Neapolitan privileged social circles and the local fascist elite.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEG

Giovinazzo, Diana

Summary: "Austria 1767: Maria Carolina Charlotte-ninth daughter and sixteenth child of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria-knows her position as a Hapsburg archduchess will inevitably force her to leave her home, her family, and her beloved country. But not yet. The Hapsburg family is celebrating a great triumph: Charlotte's older sister, Josepha, has been promised to King Ferdinand IV of Naples, and will...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GIO