Summary: Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers are racing against the clock and battling the forces of nature to try to save this historic city for future generations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SAVLeon, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEONorwich, John Julius
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 NORAckroyd, Peter
Summary: A glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city, embracing facts and romance, history and artists, carnival masks and leper colonies, wars and sieges, and scandals and seductions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 ACKCrowley, Roger
Summary: Draws on firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers to offer a complete history of Venice's centuries-long reign as a naval power and maritime trading empire.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Andrews, Robert
Summary: Written by locals, Fodor's Essential Italy annual travel guidebook offers expert advice and insider tips for all tastes and budgets. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this travel guide will help you plan your trip with ease and make the most out of their visit to Italy. Join Fodor's in exploring one of the most exciting and delicious countries in Europe. With inviting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of Internet Brands, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL EUROPEPatrick, Phaedra
Summary: "Ginny Splinter, acclaimed radio host and advice expert, is sure her husband, Adrian, will love the special trip to Italy she's planned for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. But when Ginny presents the gift to Adrian, he surprises her with his own very different plan--a divorce. Beside herself with heartache, Ginny impulsively invites four heartbroken listeners to join her in Italy while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: "In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro's mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval map to survive into modernity. And in its time, this groundbreaking mappamundi provided the most detailed description of the known world, incorporating accurate observation, and geographic reality, urging viewers to see water...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 912.09 SMALeon, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEOColes, Polly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.311 COLDe Blasi, Marlena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 945 DEBBegley, Louis.
Contents: Preface / by Louis Begley and Anka Muhlstein -- The keys to Venice / by Anka Muhlstein -- The only way to enter Venice / by Louis Begley -- Venice : reflections of a novelist / by Louis Begley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.53104 BEGDe 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 DEBLeon, 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.
Format: text
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 LEONewmark, Elle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NEWShakespeare, William
Summary: Antonio promises money to help his friend Bassanio woo Portia. He borrows the sum needed from the cruel Shylock, but there will be a dreadful penalty if the loan is not repaid.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAShakespeare, William
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spark Publishing 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Play ShakespeareStrachan, Donald
Summary: "Say ciao to the Italy of your dreams--eat homemade pasta in an unmarked family-run trattoria, skip the lines at the iconic museums and other famous sights, pay less for lodging (even if you pick a deluxe hotel, thanks to our savvy travel hacks), and shop in the boutiques that hold the real treasures. Our authors have personally visited every hotel, shop, restaurant, attraction, and nightspot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FrommerMedia LLC 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The cubs are excited about going on a family trip, until they find out the destination is not Grizzlyland, but a tour of Bear Country's National Parks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BERHinds, Kathryn
Summary: Examines the history, culture, religion, society, and achievements of the Italian city of Venice, from its founding to its surrender to Napoleon at the end of the eighteenth century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Benchmark Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 945.31 HINLeon, Donna
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.311 LEOSepeda, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2009