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Thorndike Press large print nonfiction seriesDe Blasi, Marlena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 945 DEBDe Blasi, Marlena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike/Chivers 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 945 DEBDe Blasi, Marlena.
Summary: Krakow, 1931. A baby girl is born out of wedlock, and deposited at a remote convent in the French countryside. Amandine is raised by her governess, Solange. As global war looms, the two flee toward Solange's childhood home, and begin a perilous, years-long odyssey across Occupied France-- and deeper into the treacheries of war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEBDe Blasi, Marlena.
Summary: Author Marlena de Blasi on a journalistic assignment to the mountains of Sicily tells of the Villa Donnafugata, a castle in Sicily, and of Tosca, the villa's patroness who recounts her lifelong love story with the last prince of Sicily.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 914.5 DE BDe Blasi, Marlena.
Summary: Chronicles the life of the chef and food writer from the beginning of her relationship with Fernando through her move from St. Louis to Venice to marry him, and recounts her efforts to adjust to her marriage and to her new country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 DEBDe Blasi, Marlena.
Summary: Deemed an illegitimate child by her royal Polish family, Amandine is abandoned as a baby at a French convent. As she grows, Amandine struggles to accept her orphaned state. She longs to put together the missing pieces of her identity, but as WWII engulfs Europe, her time to find answers may be running short.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEBDe Blasi, Marlena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008