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41) Game of mirrors
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Montalbano comes to the aid of his new neighbor, Liliana Lombardo, after the engine of her car is interfered with, the inspector can little imagine where this innocuous event will lead. It soon transpires that the young woman -- beautiful, intelligent and rather vague about the whereabouts of her husband -- is being targeted by someone with a grudge against her. But is Liliana's growing interest in Montalbano simply a product of the detective's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human destinies unexpectedly linked by desire, greed, and salvation.
43) The villa
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Language
English
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Description
Sophia Giambelli, a public relations executive for the family business, finds herself torn between personal attraction and professional rivalry when her mother announces a merger between Villa Giambelli and the MacMillan family's winery, forcing Sophia into close contact with Tyler MacMillan.
44) The snack thief
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Series
Language
English
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When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life-as...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In Donna Leons Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspector has been called on to investigate many things, from shocking to petty crimes. But in The Waters of Eternal Youth, the 25th novel in this celebrated series, Brunetti finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a case at all. Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable to swim, she went under and started to drown, only surviving thanks...
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 35
Language
English
Description
When he’s apprised at the last minute of a mandatory meeting abroad, Stone Barrington rushes off to Europe for a whirlwind tour of business and, of course, pleasure. But from the start the trip seems to be cursed, plagued by suspicious “accidents” and unfortunate events, and some of Stone’s plans go up in flames — literally. Not a believer in coincidence, Stone sets out to learn the true source of his curious misfortune and finds that what...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Maria Testa, better known to Brunetti as the nun who once cared for his mother, turns up at the Commissario's door. Maria has left her nursing convent after the suspicious deaths of five patients. Is she creating fears to justify abandoning her vocation, or is there a more sinister scenario?
50) Alibi: a novel
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
405 p. : maps (on endpapers) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1946 and Adam Miller, a U.S. Army war crimes investigator, has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother. While there, Adam falls in love with a Jewish woman scarred by her experiences during the war and a violent murder places him at the center of a web of deception, intrigue, and unexpected moral dilemmas.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In two seemingly unrelated crimes, a young Don Juan is found murdered and an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari. As Montalbano works to solve both cases, he stumbles onto Sicilyś ghastly "new age" of brutal and anonymous criminality.
Author
Series
Robert Langdon volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante's dark epic poem, Langdon races to find...
53) Kitty kitty
Author
Series
Jasmine Callihan volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Jasmine Callihan is whisked off for an extended visit to Venice, Italy, at the start of her senior year, she tries her best to stay out of trouble but gets caught up in trying to solve a murder mystery.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
460 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
American classics professor Alan Woodhull, numb since his beloved daughter was killed in a terrorist bombing seven years earlier, begins the process of reawakening to life and love when he decides to travel to Italy to attend the trial of the people responsible for Cookie's death.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Under the stifling summer sun, Venice is flooded with tourism. Commissario Guido Brunetti is planning the perfect mountain vacation where he can catch up on his reading. However, before he can go, an old friend has him look into a court corruption case. As he probes deeper, Commissario Brunetti quickly becomes embroiled in a shocking murder case that is linked to his own investigation.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Investigating the lack of a building permit for Commissioner Brunetti's apartment, a young bureaucrat uncovers a frightening secret and promptly dies from an apparently accidental fall; investigating his death in turn, Brunetti is drawn into a world of drugs, loan-sharking, and corruption.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Two seemingly unrelated deaths form the central mystery of Rounding the Mark. They will take Montalbano deep into a secret world of illicit trafficking in human lives, and the investigation will test the limits of his physical, psychological, and moral endurance. Disillusioned and no longer believing in the institution he serves, will he withdraw or delve deeper into his work?
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
vi, 215 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Enaiatollah Akbari's small village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule in early 2000, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat's remarkable and often punishing five-year ordeal, which takes him through Iran, Turkey, and Greece before he seeks political asylum in Italy at the age of fifteen. Along the way, Enaiat endures the crippling...
59) Roman stories
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity"--
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Language
English
Description
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 feminism and women's ascendancy toward his own ends. As revolutions...
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