Watkins, Paul
Summary: After barely surviving his tour as a mountaineer in the Italian Alps of the Second World War, William Bromley settled down and made a quiet life for himself: teaching history at a London boarding school, reading, a few drinks at the pub on Friday nights. That all ends when a soldier from William's mountain regiment reappears, calling in a bargain struck during the war. William must return to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATHewson, David.
Summary: Disillusioned by the darker side of Venice, English cataloguer Daniel Forster discovers a lost musical masterpiece within a library of dusty manuscripts and is drawn into a treacherous game of deception that spans three centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEWO'Connell, J. P.
Summary: "Hotel Portofino has only been open a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its coproprietor Bella Ainsworth. She is short of staff and ready money. Her high-class guests are demanding and hard to please. And she is being targeted by a scheming and corrupt local politician, who threatens to drag her into the red-hot political cauldron of Mussolini's Italy. To make matters worse,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCOKinsella, Sophie
Summary: "Call Ava romantic, but she thinks love should be found in the real world, not on apps that filter men by height, job, or astrological sign. She believes in feelings, not algorithms. So after a recent breakup and dating app debacle, she decides to put love on hold and escapes to a remote writers' retreat in coastal Italy. She's determined to finish writing the novel she's been fantasizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINRivière, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVDunant, Sarah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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Summary: "The second book in the Penelope Kite series. After an eventful first few months in Provence, it seems Penelope is finally settling into her delightful new life, complete with a gorgeous love interest in the mayor of St. Merlot. When Penelope and the mayor Laurent Millais attend a glamorous gallery opening, a scandal-free evening is not in the cards. The evening comes to a horrifying halt when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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Summary: A woman who ditches her dating app for a writer's retreat in Italy, only to find that real love comes with its own filters.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINMcEwan, Ian.
Summary: "As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, they become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCEMaugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Summary: A wealthy young Englishwoman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUAmis, Martin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: The year is 1970, and it's a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing - twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel - is struggling to twist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIMangan, Christine (Christine Rose)
Summary: "A suspenseful, transporting literary thriller about a British novelist who heads to Venice after a public breakdown, by Christine Mangan, the bestselling author of Tangerine. It's 1966 and Frankie Croy needs a break. Having achieved success with her debut bestseller, she's been trying desperately to live up to the high expectations of her editor and fans, only to fall short with each new book....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MANHamilton-Paterson, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2004
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Summary: Ten years after sealing their young love by kissing under Venice's Bridge of Sighs, Lucy and Nate have lost touch but are suddenly brought back together, with miserable consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTWoodhouse, Sarah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOForster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curley Large Print 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOYTrinchieri, 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