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  • Where has she gone
    Author:
    Ricci, Nino
    Summary:

    Set in Toronto and Italy, this powerful sequel to In a Glass House explores the sometimes forbidden aspect of desire and one's longing for what is unrecoverable. Victor Innocente remeets his half-sister in Toronto, shortly after...
  • War in my town
    Author:
    Graziani, E.
    Summary:

    Bruna is the youngest of seven children, living an idyllic life in a small Italian village in northern Tuscany. Though the Second World War has been raging in Europe for some time, the dangers haven’t seemed to reach her, and the...
  • Unveiling
    Author:
    Wolfe, Suzanne M.
    Summary:

    Still reeling from her recent divorce, Rachel Piers steps off the plane in Rome, prepared to embark on a demanding art restoration project that could enhance her reputation as a rising star in her profession. As she uncovers layers of...
  • Uniform justice
    Author:
    Leon, Donna
    Summary:

    When Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a presumed suicide in Venice's elite military academy, his inquiries are immediately met with a wall of silence. The young man is the son of a doctor and former...
  • Troubling love
    Author:
    Ferrante, Elena
    Summary:

    Following her mother's mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling and...
  • Transgression
    Author:
    Wooller, Geraldine
    Summary:

    Eleanor is returning to Italy after a fifteen-year absence. She is out to lay old ghosts to rest and to examine at a distance the grief that stalks her. The journey leads her to seek out old acquaintances: some she can take up with...
  • The war with Hannibal
    Author:
    Livy
    Summary:

    Livy chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal, complete with elephants, crossing the Alps; the panic as they...
  • The Thief Lord
    Author:
    FUNKE, Cornelia Caroline
    Summary:

    Two orphaned brothers are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of Venice. The brothers' freedom is threatened by a bungling detective hired by their aunt. They find shelter in an old, disused cinema...
  • The story of the lost child
    Author:
    Ferrante, Elena
    Summary:

    Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Through all of life's discoveries, vagaries, and losses, the women's friendship has remained the gravitational center of...
  • The Roman
    Author:
    Reynard, Sylvain
    Summary:

    Raven and her sister, Cara, are at the mercy of a small detachment of Florentine vampyres, who are delivering them as a peace offering to the feared Curia in Rome. Though she's unsure William survived the coup that toppled his...
  • The Renaissance
    Author:
    Durant, Will
    Summary:

    This volume chronicles the history of Italy from 1304 to 1576. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter Italy's early poets, art, politics, religion, wars, Da Vinci, the Borgias, and much more.
  • The pot of gold, and other plays.
    Author:
    Plautus, Titus Maccius
    Summary:

    Plautus's broad humor, shown in some of the earliest surviving Latin plays, reflects Roman manners and contemporary life. This briliant collection includes: The Pot of Gold (Aulularia), The Prisoners (Captivi), The Brothers Menaechmus (...
  • The Portrait of a Lady
    Author:
    James, Henry
    Summary:

    Following the death of her father, Isabel Archer leaves the comforts of Albany, New York to stay with her aunt Lydia Touchett at her London estate. There she meets Lydia's rich husband, David, her cousin Ralph, and the Touchetts's proud...
  • The portrait of a lady
    Author:
    James, Henry
    Summary:

    An American heiress newly arrived in Europe, Isabel does not look to a man to furnish her with destiny. But then she becomes utterly captivated by the languid charms of Gilbert Osmond. 
  • The perfect circle
    Author:
    Quiviger, Pascale
    Summary:

    Marianne, a young Montrealer, has come to live in Tuscany to draw and write and examine her life. Here she meets Marco, a temptingly seductive man who still lives in his mother's house and who's not prepared to commit himself to...
  • The name of the rose
    Author:
    Eco, Umberto
    Summary:

    The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William...
  • The lost daughter
    Author:
    Ferrante, Elena
    Summary:

    Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial...
  • The jewels of paradise
    Author:
    Leon, Donna
    Summary:

    Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career elsewhere, mostly abroad. She lands in Birmingham, England, as a research fellow and assistant professor. Birmingham,...
  • The iron tongue of midnight : a Tito Amato mystery book 4
    Author:
    Myers, Beverle Graves
    Summary:

    In September of 1740, singer Tito Amato receives a curious invitation. The German composer Karl Johann Weber is rehearsing a new opera at an isolated villa nestled in the hills of the Venetian mainland. Would Tito accept the lead role?...
  • The golden egg
    Author:
    Leon, Donna
    Summary:

    As the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to look into a minor violation committed by the mayor's future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass political favors, but he...

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