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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Sylvia\'s Lovers  Complete Sylvia\'s Lovers Complete 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… OL1103152W
The last girls of Pompeii The last girls of Pompeii 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; … OL121825W
Take me with you Take me with you 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. OL14908926W
Inkheart Inkheart 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. OL15083710W
Darkness Darkness 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… OL15087124W
Blood Rain Blood Rain 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… OL42460W
Brimstone Brimstone 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 … OL549375W
Cartuja de Parma, La Cartuja de Parma, La 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… OL733285W
The Enchanted April The Enchanted April 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… OL8202750W