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1) The broker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not whether he will be killed, but rather who will kill him first.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eliana, unhappy in her marriage to the philandering Maurizio and caring for a sick child, falls in love with Ross Story, an American who has come to Italy to work at a local art museum, but it seems as though their romance is doomed due to the laws that would award custody of her young son to her husband if she were to leave.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Lawrence travels with his mother and younger sister to Rome, fleeing torment from his estranged father, and while staying in the homes of his mother's old friends, Lawrence looks at his new life as an adventure, until his father reappears.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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In 1940s Italy, teenager Pino Lella joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps and falls for a beautiful widow, he also becomes the personal driver of one of the Third Reich's most powerful commanders.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written in just fifty-two days in the year 1839, "The Charterhouse of Parma" has since become known as Stendhal's finest work. Evidence of haste is infrequently apparent in this remarkable story, which follows the eventful life of the young Italian nobleman Fabrizio del Dongo. From his childhood in the family castle by Lake Como to the battlefields of Waterloo, Fabrizio proves himself charmingly headstrong and painfully naïve. Upon returning injured...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Top 20 Reasons He's a Slimy Jerk Bastard Jessa: To help you get over your train wreck EX, I've enclosed 20 envelopes. Each one has a reason why Sean is a jerk and not worth the dirt on your shoes. And each one has an instruction for you to do one un-Jessa-like thing a day. NO CHEATING! Ciao! -C When Jessa catches her boyfriend, Sean, making out with Natalie "the Boob Job" Stone three days before their drama club's departure to Italy, she completely...
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