Flumeri, Elisabetta
Summary: "Escape to the winding cobblestone streets and rolling hills of Tuscany in this delicious, romantic, and charming tale of irresistible attraction and dreams fulfilled, complete with mouthwatering authentic Italian recipes--perfect for fans of Chocolat and Under the Tuscan Sun. Margherita is a spirited young woman with a passion for cooking. When her heart is broken in Rome, she returns to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLUCampbell, 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 CAMHamilton-Paterson, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMChiofalo, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The minute she sets eyes on it, Molly Pargeter knows that the Tuscan villa she has found to lease is perfect for her family's summer holiday. She is powerfully drawn to its rustic beauty and to the enigma of its absentee landlord. Never mind that her husband and teenaged daughter are vocally unenthusiastic and that her outrageously extroverted father tricks them into taking him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SUMMayes, Frances
Summary: Four American women become unexpected friends during a magical year in Tuscany marked by a writer's complicated relationship with the subject of her biography, long-postponed dreams, and shifting senses of adventure and bravery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MAYCarreras, Hernán
Summary: In this graphic version of Shakespeare's play, teenagers Romeo and Juliet, from rival families in Verona, fall deeply in love, with tragic consequences for both the Montagues and the Capulets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASummary: A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany. This unpredictable journey careers from slapstick to tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SORPerez 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)Evans, Richard Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION EVAKing, Crystal
Summary: A captivating novel of Renaissance Italy detailing the mysterious life of Bartolomeo Scappi, the legendary chef to several popes and author of one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time, and the nephew who sets out to discover his late uncle's secrets--including the identity of the noblewoman Bartolomeo loved until he died. When Bartolomeo Scappi dies in 1577, he leaves his vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIDoran, Phil
Summary: A television producer and writer recounts how he helped his wife restore a three-hundred-year-old Italian farmhouse and found unexpected renewal from the project, the region, and his eccentric new neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.5 DORHawkins, Rachel
Summary: "When Chess suggests a girls' trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato and rented by rock star Noel Gordon. In an attempt to reignite his creative spark, Noel invites up-and-coming musician, Pierce Sheldon to join him, as well as Pierce's girlfriend, Mari, and her stepsister, Lara. A chain of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAWAdler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
Summary: Learning about a mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, New York doctor Gemma, accompanied by her troublesome teen daughter and interfering mother, find themselves in a crumbling Italian villa in the midst of a disturbing culture clash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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Summary: "Art restorer Emily Price has never encountered anything she can't fix--until she meets Ben, an Italian chef, who seems just right. But when Emily follows Ben home to Italy, she learns that his family is another matter..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION REATrigiani, 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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Summary: The heroes' baseball team, the Traverse City Salmon, are playing the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. The Sprouts throw a curve ball and turn into pinch-hitting plant monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sigil Pub. 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTKeahey, John.
Summary: "Hidden Tuscany vividly displays the coastal areas of Tuscany, a territory often overlooked by visitors to Italy eager to see Chianti, Florence or Siena. Veteran journalist and Italophile John Keahey points out the keen distinctions that the western cities maintain: in food, lifestyle, and the way its artists are paving new directions in art that differ mightily from the Renaissance-rich...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.5 KEABarber, Lizzy
Summary: "There are summers that will change your life. There are summers that may end it. In the lush green hills beyond Florence sits the Villa Medici--a graceful pensione surrounded by manicured gardens. Rachel, a college student from an unfashionable London suburb, can't believe her luck in landing a summer job here. Especially when she's drawn into a circle of privileged young sophisticates,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1993
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Summary: When a secret about her business partner and lover is revealed during her family's celebration of The Feast of the Seven Fishes, Valentine Roncalli must make life-altering choices as she fights for everything she wants while sustaining her family's business and enjoying life to the fullest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013