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Publisher / Publication Date: Plurigraf 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.563 ValigSpencer, 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 SPEHansen, Grace
Summary: Learn about one of the wonders of the world: Rome's awesome Colosseum!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Kids 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 937.632 HANMann, Elizabeth.
Summary: Describes the building of the Colosseum in ancient Rome, and tells how it was used.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mikaya Press ; Willowdale, Ont. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 937.6 MANO'Connor, Jim
Summary: Describes the construction and history of the Colosseum, the largest oval amphitheater in the center of Rome, Italy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, An Imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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Summary: A suspicious accident leads Commissario Guido Brunetti to uncover a longstanding scam with disturbing unintended consequences Surprised, if not dismayed, to discover from his superior, Vice-Questore Patta, that leaks are emanating from the Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is surprised more consequentially by the appearance of a friend of his wife's, fearful that her son is using drugs and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEOWolf, Hubert.
Summary: A true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent. In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 WOLSteves, Rick
Summary: Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves! This colorful, compact guidebook is perfect for spending a week or less in Rome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel, Hachette Book Group 2023
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Summary: Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under arcane Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEOStilton, Geronimo
Summary: Collects three graphic novels featuring stories of Geronimo Stilton's time traveling adventures, as he visits the Coliseum, the Sphinx, and the discovery of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STIHarvey, Jacqueline
Summary: Kensy and Max are now agents-in-training at Pharos, a covert international spy network. Christmas break sees the twins back at Alexandria for training and a celebration like no other, but where are their parents and why can't they come home? Thankfully, a school trip to Rome provides a welcome distraction. Amid the history and culture of Italy's capital, they discover a runaway boy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series Harvey 2020Stilton, Geronimo
Summary: Geronimo Stilton travels back in time to try and stop the Pirate Cats from infliltrating the Roman Senate and taking credit for building Rome's largest amphitheater, the Colosseum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2009
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STIBarrett, Anthony
Summary: "Nero became Emperor in A.D 54. On the evening of July 18, 64 A. D., it seems that a lamp was left unextinguished in a stall still heaped with piles of combustible material. Whether this was accidental or deliberate we cannot now determine, and normally it would not have led to anything that would have attracted even local attention. But there was a gusty wind that night, and the flickering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937 BARSummary: DK Eyewitness Travel Family Guide Rome offers you the best things to see and do on a family vacation to Rome and the country of Italy. Each spread bursts with family-focused travel tips and ideas for activities that will engage children, from exploring the Colosseum to touring the Roman Forum to discovering the catacombs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Limited 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bookroom 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.5632 KAHSteves, Rick
Summary: A series of self-guided tours around the city of Rome including the Vatican Museum and St. Peter's Basilica, and the ancient ruins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel, an imprint of Perseus Books 2017
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Summary: Retells in graphic novel format Shakespeare's tragedy of two star-crossed youths who fall in love despite the tensions between their warring families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Pr 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 741.5 HINAndrews, Robert
Summary: Written by locals, Fodor's Essential Italy annual travel guidebook offers expert advice and insider tips for all tastes and budgets. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this travel guide will help you plan your trip with ease and make the most out of their visit to Italy. Join Fodor's in exploring one of the most exciting and delicious countries in Europe. With inviting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of Internet Brands, Inc. 2019
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Summary: Describes points of interest in Rome, recommends restaurants and hotels, and includes advice on shopping and public transportation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd 2016
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Summary: "Koichi Hirose heads to Europe to find an aspiring gangster named Giorno Giovanna, the secret son of Dio Brando, scourge of the Joestar family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JOJEveritt, Anthony
Summary: "The Roman emperor Nero has long been the very image of a bad ruler--cruel, vain, and incompetent. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. He supposedly set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. Afterward he cleared the charred ruins of the city center and, in their place, built a vast palace. Historians of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NERO EVEMacdonald, Fiona
Summary: An illustrated survey of the construction and history of the Colosseum, the enormous oval amphitheater that has stood in Rome for 1,900 years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribo 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 937 MACMcGregor, James H. (James Harvey)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2005