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Authors, American 20th century Biography Brunetti, Guido (Fictitious character) Cooking Italy Venice Cooking, Italian FICTION Mystery & Detective International Mystery & Crime Leon, Donna Leon, Donna Characters Police Italy Venice Fiction Venice (Italy) Guidebooks Venice (Italy) ToursLeon, Donna
Summary: Of all the trademarks of Venice—and there are many, from the gilded Basilica of San Marco to the melancholy Bridge of Sighs—none is more ubiquitous than the gondola. The internationally acclaimed “American with the Venetian heart,” Donna Leon, tells its fascinating story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.5 LEOLeon, Donna
Summary: A suspicious accident leads Commissario Guido Brunetti to uncover a longstanding scam with disturbing unintended consequences Surprised, if not dismayed, to discover from his superior, Vice-Questore Patta, that leaks are emanating from the Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is surprised more consequentially by the appearance of a friend of his wife's, fearful that her son is using drugs and...
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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 LEOLeon, Donna
Summary: "The internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties. In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, Donna Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her than been planned. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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Summary: The author of the Commissario Guido Brunetti series presents more than fifty humorous, passionate, and insightful essays about her life in Venice that also explore her family history, her former life in New Jersey, and the idea of the Italian man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.311 LEOLeon, Donna
Summary: Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under arcane Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEOPianaro, Roberta.
Summary: Recipes inspired by the fictional Venetian detective, Guido Brunetti.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5945 PIASepeda, Toni.
Summary: Follow the footsteps of Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon's internationally best selling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice's churches, markets, bars, cafes and palazzos. Important locations from the best-selling novels are highlighted and major themes and characters are explored, all accompanied by poignant excerpts from the novels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2009