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Audio Editions mystery masters Commissario Brunetti 24 Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery (Audio Partners Publishing Corp.) ; 13 Girls survive graphic novels Greetings from somewhere 2 Library of America 344 Neapolitan novels 4 Pendergast 5 Reeya Rai: adventurous inventor The Waratah Inn 2Ferrante, Elena
Summary: Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; many of life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up -- a prison of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FERFerrante, Elena
Summary: The brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila have made life's great discoveries, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up-- a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Now, in a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous-- and in a world undergoing epochal change-- Lila and Elena clash,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Ferrante 2015De Giovanni, Maurizio
Summary: "A Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery that packs a real punch. Years ago, Vinnie Sannino left Naples on a ship bound for America, where he found fame and wealth as a boxer. But his gilded life in the new world came to an abrupt end when, during a fight, with a heavy punch to the head of his opponent, Vinnie killed a man in the ring. Now, Vinnie's back in Italy, pining for the woman he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE GTrinchieri, Camilla
Summary: "Set in the heart of Tuscan wine country, Camilla Trinchieri's new mystery introduces Nico Doyle, a former NYPD homicide detective who's just looking for space to grieve when he finds himself pulled into a local muder investigation. Mourning the loss of his wife, Rita, former NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle moves to her hometown of Gravigna in the wine-soaked region of Chianti. Half-Italian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime, an imprint of Soho Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRIPerez Marquez, Barbara
Summary: Twelve-year-old Paulina is delivering bread to her new friend Fabia's home when Mount Vesuvius begins erupting, but when Fabia's father leaves to help fellow Pompeii residents evacuate, the girls make their way through the city, helping others where they can. Includes facts about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAR (GRAPHIC NOVELL)Simon, Christine
Summary: Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population 212) Signor Speranza has a problem: unless he can come up with 70,000 euros to fix the town's pipes, the water commission will shut off the water to the village and all its residents will be forced to disperse. So in a bid to boost tourism, and revenue, he spreads a harmless rumor that movie star Dante Rinaldi will be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC SIMPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PrestMirren, Lilly
Summary: "After her grandmother's death, Reeda Summer decides to try to solve a family mystery and run from her troubled marriage; following the clues in her grandmother's journals to Italy. Under the Italian sky, Reeda discovers that the joy she was searching for was hidden inside her all along. And instead of running from her problems, she embraces the healing she needs to face them."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lab Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIRAraki, Hirohiko
Summary: Secco and Bruno Bucciarati are going head-to-head, quickly shifting between traveling underground and through zippers with their Stand powers in an attempt to gain the upper hand. Bucciarati has never faced a threat like this, but will the mysterious changes to his body and his enemy's overwhelming power crush him, or can he eke out a win just in time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JOJSummary: Rick Stevens is your perfect travel partner, guiding you through 60 hours of discoveries in his favorite European cities, villages, and off-the-beaten-path destinations. The complete DVD set brings you every one of Rick's half-hour TV shows- plus his highly acclaimed, hour-long TV specials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914 RICCaletti, Deb
Summary: When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it's a dream come true. Writing is her passion, she loves Bruni's books, and going to that romantic and magical sinking city gives her the chance to solve a long-time family mystery about a Venetian poet deep in their lineage, Isabella Di Angelo, who just might be the real author of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CALAmin, Anita Nahta
Summary: Reeya Rai and her friend Finlay discover a priceless ivory peacock in a cave near the Roman site her parents are studying, and Reeya must come up with a way to retrieve the nearly inaccessible artefact before the greedy Dr. Acker finds it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AMICampbell, Karen
Summary: "Trapped in Tuscany as war rages along the Gothic Line, Vittoria Guidi doesn't understand where her allegiances should lie. With her Scots-Italian father or Fascist mother? With Mussolini, or her King? With the life she wants, or is told to live? As Germans occupy the mountains surrounding Barga and American Buffalo soldiers draw near, loyalties are tested and families torn apart. Frank Chapel,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Circus 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMSabatinelli, Elisa
Summary: When a greedy entrepreneur searching for a legendary pearl forces Hector's family to close their tourist expedition business in an Italian coastal town, Hector decides to thwart the man's plans and save the sea, his family, and his dream of becoming a deep-sea diver, just like his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Comet Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SABSpencer, Elizabeth
Summary: Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPETrigiani, Adriana
Summary: Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother's great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew. . . . In the halcyon past, Domenica Cabrelli...
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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 TRIParis, Harper
Summary: In Venice, Italy, second graders Ethan and Ella hope to find a stolen gondola and a hidden mosaic before their parents realize they are missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC PARScottoline, 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: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SCOLeon, Donna
Summary: Attending a performance by a opera star he saved in Death at La Fenice, Brunetti learns that the singer is being stalked by an obsessed fan who subsequently attacks a fellow performer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEO1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Scottoline, 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 SCOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCOChiofalo, Rosanna
Summary: In the fields around Tuscany in summertime, sunflowers grow in profusion--wave upon wave of gold and green standing tall against the Italian sky. But for Signora Maria Ferraro, the bright yellow blooms carry only bitter memories. Though she loved them as a child, sunflowers have come to represent the most painful episode of her life. Not even her cherished daughter, Anabella, knows what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti investigates when a Romanian housekeeper is falsely accused of murdering her employer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners Pub. Corp. 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEOScottoline, Lisa
Summary: "#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ScottolineBowen, Rhys
Summary: "Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper . . . Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet "Lettie" Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021