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(Fictitious character) Malone, Cotton Fiction Inheritance and succession Fiction Italy Fiction Large type books Plot-your-own stories Popes Election Fiction Treasure troves Fiction Vatican City Fiction Widows Fiction États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesseDowning, Michael
Summary: Recently widowed, unhappily stuck on a pricey whiplash tour of Italy, Elizabeth Berman comes face to face with the first documented painting of a teardrop in human history, and in the presence of that tearful mother, and the arresting company of the renowned and anonymous women painted by Giotto in the Arena Chapel, she wakes up to the possibility that she is not lost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWAmis, Martin.
Summary: The year is 1970, and it's a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing - twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel - is struggling to twist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIBerry, Steve
Summary: The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled Rome for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the fourth century and Constantine the Great. Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is at Lake Como, Italy, on the trail of legendary letters between Winston Churchill and Benito...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERProbst, Jennifer
Summary: "Priscilla, Devon, and Bailey haven't been close in years, but when the sisters are forced to come together to settle their mother's estate, they discover a secret. In an old trunk, they happen upon ownership papers for a house on the Amalfi Coast, along with a love letter to their mother from an anonymous man, promising to meet her in Italy during the summer of her sixty-fifth birthday. Now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: MERLIN HAS ASKED Jack and Annie to help on another Merlin Mission. This time they head back into history to Venice, Italy. With the help of a research book, a book of magic rhymes, and a set of mysterious instructions from Merlin, the heroes will save the beautiful city from a flood! Here's another Magic Tree House book that will engage kids with history, magic, and nonstop action from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2009
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Cussler, Clive.
Summary: The husband-and-wife team of Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, but they aren't used to hunting for people--until an investigator friend of their goes missing and they promise to search for him. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils and a skeleton that could just turn the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Cussler 2011Trussoni, Danielle
Summary: "It feels like a fairy tale when Alberta 'Bert' Monte receives a letter addressed to 'Countess Alberta Montebianco' at her Hudson Valley, New York, home that claims she's inherited a noble title, money, and a castle in Italy. But her ancestry has a dark side, and Bert soon learns that her family history is particularly complicated. As Bert begins to unravel the Montebianco secrets, she begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction TrussoniBerry, Steve
Summary: "The next in New York Times top 5 bestseller Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series involves the Knights of Malta, papal conclave, and lost documents that could change history. A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest international Cotton Malone thriller. The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BERMcLaughlin, M. A.
Summary: "Verona, 1947. Textile historian Marianne Baxter comes to post-war Italy with one thing on her mind: three pristine Victorian dresses, once owned by the famous poet Christina Rossetti. Hidden away in a trunk for nearly a century, they were recently discovered at the Fondazione Museo Menigatti and Marianne's expertise is needed before they go on exhibit. Still grieving the loss of her husband,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MCLMontgomery County (N.Y.) Dept. of History & Archives
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Department. 2007
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.374746 MONWebb, Heather
Summary: "Disembarking on Ellis Island, Francesca arrives on the shores of America with her sights set on a better life than the one she left in Italy. That same day, aspiring linguist Alma reports to her first day of work at the immigrant processing center. Ellis, though, is not the refuge it first appears thanks to President Roosevelt's attempts to deter crime. Francesca and Alma will have to rely on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBRusso, Richard
Summary: "Louis Charles ('Lucy') Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he's had plenty of reasons not to be--chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSRead, Piers Paul
Summary: After leaving his home in pursuit of a military career, Sicilian nobleman Vitello Scarpia finds himself expelled from the Spanish royal guard and left to seek his fortune in Italy. Scarpia enrolls in the papal army and is soon taken up by a countess eager to have a handsome young officer at her side. She introduces Scarpia into Roman society. He is both enthralled and agitated by its mix of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REATurtledove, Harry
Summary: Senior investigator Khalid al-Zarzisi is a modern man, a product of the unsurpassed educational systems of North Africa and the Middle East. Liberal, tolerant, and above all rich, the countries and cultures of North Africa and the Middle East have dominated the globe for centuries, from the Far East to the young nations of the Sunset Lands. But one region has festered for decades: Europe, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURSummary: "With helpful advice and honest recommendations from Frommer's expert authors, you'll walk among the ancient ruins of Pompeii, float along the canals of Venice, appreciate Renaissance masterworks in Florence, explore off-the-beaten-path Puglia and live la dolce vita in Rome--as well as discover timeless wonders such as the vineyards of Tuscany and cliff-top towns perched along the Amalfi Coast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frommer Media 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "There is no dispute. The Warner Bros. Cartoons are the funniest animated shorts in all of film history, and its classic cartoon stars Bugs Bunny, Tweety and Sylvester, Porky Pig, The Road Runner, and Wile E. Coyote, to name but a few are the most popular of all time. This second collection of rarely seen gems - all presented here for the first time on Blu-ray - features twenty-five more titles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: A captivating novel of Renaissance Italy detailing the mysterious life of Bartolomeo Scappi, the legendary chef to several popes and author of one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time, and the nephew who sets out to discover his late uncle's secrets--including the identity of the noblewoman Bartolomeo loved until he died. When Bartolomeo Scappi dies in 1577, he leaves his vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCussler, Clive.
Summary: On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years ... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSVillareal, Raymond A.
Summary: This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman found in an Arizona border town, presumed to be an illegal immigrant, disappears from the town morgue. To the young CDC investigator called in to consult with the local police, it's an impossibility that threatens her understanding of medicine. Then, more bodies, dead from an inexplicable disease that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VILBerry, Steve
Summary: "A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest international Cotton Malone thriller. The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled Rome for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the 4th century and Constantine the Great. Former Justice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERAusubel, Ramona
Summary: "A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1950
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIESummary: Vanessa Scalera stars as deputy prosecutor Immacolata 'Imma' Tataranni, a workaholic with a prodigious memory who solves cases with unorthodox methods and attitude to spare. Loosely based on the novels by Italian author Mariolina Venezia and filmed in the stunning Basilicata region of southern Italy, the show is based in the city of Matera, famous for its Sassi district of ancient hillside cave...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IMMDe Paola, Tomie.
Summary: At the request of a kind duke's loving daughter, La Colomba, a pure white bird, braves the bitter winter of the northern Italian mountains to sing for the gravely ill man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 1997