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Sylvia\'s Lovers Complete
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
A powerfully moving novel of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, Sylvia's Lovers is set in the 1790s in an English seaside town. England is at war with France, and… |
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The last girls of Pompeii
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Kathryn Lasky |
In Pompeii, in the summer of A.D. 79, Julia and Sura appear to lead opposite lives. Julia is the daughter of a wealthy ship-builder; Sura is an orphan. Julia bears the Curse of Venus—a withered arm; … |
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Take me with you
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Carolyn Marsden |
Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated. |
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Inkheart
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Jane B. Mason |
When twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father's ability to read characters out of books, and read people into them, runs in her family, she risks everything to rescue her long-lost mother. |
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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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Blood Rain
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Michael Dibdin |
This highly emotionally complex thriller, *Blood Rain,* is the seventh in Dibdin's Aurelio Zen series. Zen has been posted to Sicily, home of the Mafia, a place full of death and confusion, in whic… |
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Brimstone
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Lincoln Child,Douglas Preston |
A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a hoofprint scorched into the floor, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates … |
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Cartuja de Parma, La
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Stendhal |
Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of Waterl… |
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The Enchanted April
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Elizabeth von Arnim,Margaret Tarner,Margaret Ripy,Ulrich Baer |
"A notice in The Times addressed to 'Those Who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small medieval Italian Castle to be let for the month of April'. Four very different women take up the o… |
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