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Borgia family Fiction Church and state Fiction FICTION / Action & Adventure FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense FICTION / War & Military Intelligence officers United States Fiction Italy Italy History German occupation, 1943-1945 Fiction Renaissance Italy Rome Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Italy FictionScottoline, Lisa
Summary: Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and even the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCOSmith, Martin Cruz
Summary: A poor fisherman named Cenzo comes across a girl's body, floating in the lagoon. He carries her into his boat and soon discovers that she is very much alive, and very much in trouble. Born to a wealthy Jewish family who has been captured and deported by the Nazis, Guilia is on the run after she was found hiding in a local hospital. Cenzo decides it's the right thing to do to help her escape,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Smith 2016Smith, Martin Cruz
Summary: In a suspenseful World War II love story set against the beauty, mystery, and danger of occupied Venice in 1945, a fisherman finds a young woman floating in the lagoon and chooses to protect the Jewish woman rather than hand her over to the Nazis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SMIPoole, Sara
Summary: A year after helping Rodrigo Borgia to become Pope Alexander VI, court poisoner Francesca is charged with safeguarding his position, an agenda that exposes her to a violent plot to destroy the Borgia family and seize control of the Catholic Church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POOSmith, Martin Cruz
Summary: "The highly anticipated new standalone novel from Martin Cruz Smith, whom The Washington Post has declared "that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction," The Girl from Venice is a suspenseful World War II love story set against the beauty, mystery, and danger of occupied Venice. Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIPoole, Sara
Summary: Borgia court poisoner Francesca Giordano joins forces with her lover, Cesare Borgia, to discover unravel a conspiracy that threatens Christendom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POOCollins, Max Allan.
Summary: Running a casino for the mob in the early 1970s, former Mafia hit man Michael Satariano refuses an order to kill a particularly violent mobster and is subsequently framed for the man's murder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLStephenson, Neal.
Summary: In the wake of a power struggle between the throne-seeking Tories and Whigs in early eighteenth-century England, Daniel Waterhouse teams up with Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group that uses time bombs to kill Natural Philosophers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEBrandreth, Benet
Summary: Venice, 1586.William Shakespeare is disguised as a steward to the English Ambassador. He and his actor friends, Oldcastle and Hemming, possess a deadly secret: the names of the Catholic spies in England who seek to destroy Queen Elizabeth. Before long the Popes agents begin to close in on them, so fleeing the city is the players only option.In Verona, Aemelia, the daughter of a Duke, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABerry, 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 BERDunant, Sarah.
Summary: "By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy are matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children but by his blood: he is a Spanish Pope in a city of Italians. If...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: In 1946, special agent James Cronley Jr. uncovers evidence of a stolen fortune in the hands of Odessa while tracking down two escaped Nazi war criminals.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIRollins, James
Summary: "The second installment in the bestselling gothic series, about an ancient order who speak the truth behind Christ's miracles and strive to protect the world from evil - from the winning writerly combo of James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLBaldacci, David
Summary: WWII veteran Aloysius Archer is fresh out of prison and heads to California, where there's money to be made if you're hard-working, lucky, a criminal, or all three.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BALGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Promoted and placed in charge of a top-secret spy operation for a fledgling Central Intelligence Agency, James Cronley discovers links between the former German intelligence chief and the Mossad before receiving shocking intelligence from an undercover agent.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014