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Art Collectors and collecting Fiction Art dealers Crimes against Italy Venice Fiction Eunuchs Turkey Fiction Istanbul (Turkey) Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Italy Italy History 1914-1945 Fiction Italy Social life and customs Fiction Manners and customs Venice (Italy) Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Yashim (Fictitious character : Goodwin) FictionSpencer, 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 SPELahiri, Jhumpa
Summary: "Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UnswoGrisham, John.
Summary: A former American football star joins the Parma Panthers to play football in a small town in Italy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRISpencer, Elizabeth
Contents: The light in the piazza -- The white azalea -- The visit -- The Pincian Gate -- Wisteria -- Knights and dragons -- The cousins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEShapiro, Jeff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAFerrante, 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 2015Wood, Laura (Laura Clare)
Summary: In 1933, seventeen-year-old Bea is invited to visit her bohemian uncle in Italy where she meets Ben, a brash young artist, who challenges her to create the perfect summer romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOOGoodwin, Jason
Summary: In 1840, after hearing rumors that a long-lost Bellini painting has resurfaced in Venice, Sultan Abdulmecid tasks Yashim, his most trusted detective, with discovering the masterpiece's whereabouts. Once in Italy, Yashim collaborates with Palewski, his friend in the Polish consulate, to infiltrate the Venice underworld and locate the missing painting. Now, Yashim must solve the Bellini mystery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOOStendhal
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elibron Classics 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.3 FIC STEGoodwin, Jason
Summary: Sent to investigate rumors that a stolen art masterpiece has resurfaced in Venice, eunuch detective Yashim delegates negotiations for the work's return to Polish ambassador Palewski, in an unexpectedly dangerous case with ties to the alluring Contessa d'Aspi d'Istria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOFiorato, Marina.
Summary: "Hidden in the language of Shakespeare's best-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing are several clues to an intriguing tale. It seems that the witty lovers Beatrice and Benedick had a previous love affair that ended bitterly. But how did they meet? Why did they part? And what brought them together again?When nineteen year old Beatrice is brought to live at her uncle's court in Sicily to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015