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Giorgio's village
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Tomie dePaola |
Giorgio and his cat Puffino enjoy a day's activities in their village in Italy at the time of the Renaissance. Includes six village scenes with moving parts. |
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The smile
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Donna Jo Napoli |
In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about to be deposed, she has no inkling of the … |
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Gaudenzia, Pride of the Palio
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Marguerite Henry |
A story, based on real events, about a boy and a half-Arabian mare who enter the Palio, an annual race in Siena, Italy, with all the pageantry of a medieval contest. |
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Pretty Face
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Mary Hogan |
That's what I am. A funny girl. A friend. Nobody's girlfriend. The girl with the pretty face.Hayley wishes she could love living in Santa Monica, blocks from the beach, where every day — and everybod… |
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Inkheart
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Sonia Sander |
A tie-in to the film. Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tr… |
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Darkness
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Dacia Maraini |
"The seeds for the twelve interconnected crime stories in Darkness came from the pages of the Italian daily papers. In sparse prose that echoes the files of a police report, Dacia Maraini gives a res… |
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Mendez's Mistress
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Anne Mather |
Before meeting Joe Mendez, Rachel was a single mom coping with a difficult daughter and an irresponsible ex-husband.After meeting Joe Mendez, Rachel's life has been turned upside down! Joe's irresist… |
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
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Laurence Sterne |
In the persona of Yorick, Laurence Sterne constructs A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy to document, fictionalize and sentimentalize his own 1765 travels in Europe. The author enhances ea… |
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Raine: The Lords of Satyr
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Elizabeth Amber |
The last in a fabled line of otherworldly aristocracy, the Lords of Satyr are born to wealth, power, and a talent for sensual delight that mere mortals only dream of. Commanded to marry, these passio… |
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Ardor
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Lily Prior |
When a lonely olive grower, Arcadio Carnabuci, sows his love seeds, he cannot imagine the chaos his magic fruit will bring. While Fernanda Ponderosa, the voluptuous woman of his dreams, evades his sp… |
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Bloody Valentine
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Melissa De La Cruz |
Presents three tale of love, passion, and heartbreak featuring various Blue Blood vampires and the Red Blood humans who keep them alive, including Oliver, Allegra, and Schuyler. |
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Death of the duchess
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Elizabeth Eyre |
In the first of a new series of mysteries set in Renaissance Italy, the enigmatic Sigismondo, at once courtier, mercenary, and detective, makes his debut and finds an invaluable assistant in his inve… |
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Prince of Fire (Gabriel Allon #5)
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Daniel Silva |
Gabriel Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation: the existence of a dossier in terrorist hands that strips away his secrets, lays bare his… |
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The mermaid garden
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Santa Montefiore |
Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the beauty of the magnificent Tuscan villa that overlooks the sea just outside her small village. She likes to spy from the crumbling wall into the gardens and … |
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Timoleon Vieta come home
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Dan Rhodes |
Meet the mongrel. Timoleon Vieta. A deeply loyal, undemanding and loving companion . . . with the most beautiful eyes. He's living an idyllic existence in the Italian countryside with Cockroft, a com… |
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Sins of the House of Borgia
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Sarah Bower |
Violante isn't supposed to be here, in one of the grandest courts of Renaissance Italy. She isn't supposed to be a lady-in-waiting to the beautiful Lucrezia Borgia. But the same secretive politics th… |
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Assassin's creed
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Oliver Bowden |
"Altair embarks on a formidable mission - one that takes him throughout the Holy Land and shows him the true meaning of the Assassin's Creed. To demonstrate his commitment, Altair must defeat nine de… |
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City of Swords (Stravaganza #6)
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Mary Hoffman |
When desperately unhappy Laura, who secretly performs self-mutilation, finds her talisman and transports to Fortezza, a parallel world that resembles the Italian Renaissance city-state of Lucca, she … |
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Nonna tell me a story
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Lidia Bastianich |
America's favorite Italian-American television chef and cookbook author, Lidia Bastianich, shares the story of the Christmases she used to celebrate in Italy with her five grandchildren. When Lidia w… |
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Nicolo
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Sandra Marton |
***Orsini Brothers #4***
Nicolo Orsini has better things to do than visit some ancient Tuscan vineyard! Yet, when family and business mix, he has little choice. Then he meets Alessia Antoninni--a … |
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