Palombo, Alyssa
Summary: "A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family's favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici's glittering circle of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALKent, Christobel
Summary: When the wife of the leader of a Florentine political movement seemingly commits suicide, leaving behind a newborn son and a devastated husband, Detective Inspector Sandro Cellini uncovers her hidden life as a woman consumed by a deadly obsession.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENVichi, Marco
Summary: Enduring a grueling summer in nearly deserted 1963 Florence, Inspector Bordelli investigates suspicious alibis related to the death of a wealthy asthma patient, a case that is aided by his young protégé, the victim's brother, and a semi-retired petty thief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VICSummary: Same Genius. New World. Florence is thrown into chaos in the wake of the Pazzi conspiracy and Leonardo da Vinci must push the limits of his mind and body to defend the city against the forces of Rome. When the dust settles, friends are buried and rivalries are enflamed. While the Medicis go to unthinkable lengths to deal with new threats, da Vinci continues on his quest to find the fabled Book...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DAForster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curley Large Print 1993
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Summary: "A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici"-- Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and to devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OFAKent, Christobel
Summary: When private investigator Sandro Cellini is invited to attend a glamorous launch party for a luxury residence overlooking the glittering expanse of Florence, he has no idea what he's walking into. Behind the ancient and luxurious facade of Palazzo San Giorgio, there lies a series of terrible secrets; an old torture chamber, hidden for centuries in the bowels of the building, and a much more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENRushdie, Salman.
Summary: Rushdie pens the story of a European traveler and the extraordinary tale he shares with 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar the Great. The traveler claims to be the son of a Mughal princess forgotten by time. If his tale is true, what happened to the princess?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSForster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
Summary: A well-reared Edwardian girl is lead into impropriety, confusion and passion on her first visit to Florence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sound Room Publishers 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FORNabb, Magdalen
Summary: Based on a chilling true crime, The Monster of Florence follows the reopening of a cold caséa serial killer who targeted unmarried couples and terrorized Florence for two decades. Marshal Guarnaccia's job with the carabinieríthe local Florentine policéusually involves restoring stolen handbags to grateful old ladies and lost cameras to bewildered tourists. So when he is assigned to work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York, NY 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NABReid, Kathleen
Summary: "Rose Maning longs to wake up every morning in Florence, Italy, to a view of the Duomo and terra cotta rooftops dancing in the sunrise. So she flies across the pond with her best friend Zoey for a fun-filled house hunt. For the first time in her people-pleasing life, schoolteacher Rose uses her savings to do exactly what she wants to do: buy an apartment and pursue painting. Rose is passionate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Köehler Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIRushdie, Salman.
Summary: A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself "Mogor dell'Amore," the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Köz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION RushdieO'Farrell, Maggie
Summary: "A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC O'FAHellenga, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELKent, Christobel.
Summary: Investigating the alleged suicide of an eminent architect and Holocaust survivor, private investigator Sandro Cellini discovers links between the victim's final hours and a missing art student, a connection that triggers an urgent race to protect other possible victims.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENBurt, Marissa
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Christa's plans for her favorite holiday are derailed when her parents announce their divorce and Christa spends Christmas in Europe with her mom, but even though her dad remains in Chicago, he sends Christa on a scavenger hunt made up of dares that send her all over Florence, Paris, and London.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Presents three tale of love, passion, and heartbreak featuring various Blue Blood vampires and the Red Blood humans who keep them alive, including Oliver, Allegra, and Schuyler.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2010
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Summary: "In the tradition of ONE DAY, a wryly romantic debut story about two strangers who meet briefly as teens in Florence and whose paths cross again many times over the course of the next sixteen years, until they're finally brought back together"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EBECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Eberlen 2017Osborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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Summary: Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC OBSKalogridis, Jeanne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KALSnelling, Lauraine.
Summary: "As the last will of a close friend is read, three women discover that they have inherited a legacy from her: the funds to take a dream trip to Florence, Italy, in her memory. With plenty of hilarious travel mishaps along the way, this book is a story of deep friendship, of making room in our lives to celebrate and remember, of grief, of the realization that friendship keeps the memory alive,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction SnellingDunant, Sarah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNWillard, Nancy.
Summary: A greedy baker buys his wife a magic bed that flies them to the master baker, where they are given special yeast that helps their bakery become, for a while, the most popular in Florence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press 2007