De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: Springtime proffers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples. But evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swears that when he left her she was alive and well. But...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE G

Ferrante, Elena

Summary: Friends Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and has published a successful novel. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. Afloat on the sea of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cenage Learning 2016

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Ferrante, Elena

Summary: Friends Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning Gale 2016

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Ferrante, Elena

Summary: Elena and Lila are now adults; life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both once fought to escape the violence and corruption of Naples. Brilliant and bookish, Elena succeeded but has returned to be with the man she always loved. And fiery, uncontainable Lila,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cenage Learning 2016

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: Believing that Matteo, a young boy from the streets of 1930s Naples, was murdered, Commissario Ricciardi must conduct his investigation in secret since his superiors are preparing for a state visit from Benito Mussolini.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE G

Lagani, Chiara

Summary: "HBO's four-season TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend has enjoyed success with critics and viewers in the U.S.; the novel has been adapted for the stage and radio plays. Here, for the first time, it is brought to vivid life as a graphic novel by one of Italy's most beloved illustrators. For Ferrante fans, for those new to Ferrante, for readers of graphic novels, Chiara Lagani's and Elena...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LAG