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22) Alibi: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
It is 1946, and a stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. Nothing has changed in Venice—not the beautiful palazzi, not the violins at Florian's, not the shifting water that makes the city, untouched by bombs, still seem a dream. But when Adam falls in...
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
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The body of Matteo Arconti, an innocent insurance agent from Milan, is found feet away from the office of a court magistrate also named Matteo Arconti, and Commissario Alec Bloom believes Italy's secret mafia the Ndrangheta is behind it.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Commisario Guido Brunetti works multiple cases in the middle of a Venetian summer--one involves the elderly aunt of a close associate and her dealings with a possibly fraudulent astrologer, and another involves a corrupt judge who delays trials for the right price.
Author
Language
English
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Description
After ending a bad relationship, Casey Costello, an executive chef at a morning television show, swears off men. Who has the time anyway? She's busy overseeing a rambunctious food-prep crew in a kitchen the size of a closet; trying to please high-maintenance celebrity guest chefs; and dealing with her large extended Italian American family, who believe that the solutions to life's problems involve food. And in the midst of her high-energy, stress-inducing...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2007, c1922
Language
English
Description
Four women, all dissatisfied with their everyday lives, are brought together at a castle in Portofino while on holiday, and as they become acquainted with one another they rediscover the joy of life and their true natures.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Enaiatollah Akbari, having been brought to Pakistan by his mother after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2000 and abandoned by her shortly after, endures five years of agony as he travels across borders fending for himself and in search of political asylum.
32) The Thief Lord
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord."
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Issues of religion and politics take center stage in the household of Venice's Commissario Guido Brunetti when he and his wife go undercover to investigate the possibility that a charlatan posing as a preacher has begun developing an American-style Christian sect in the city, and Brunetti's attempts to investigate the death of a gypsy child found floating in a canal are hindered by sensitivities to multicultural issues.
37) Falling in love
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Attending a performance by a opera star he saved in Death at La Fenice, Brunetti learns that the singer is being stalked by an obsessed fan who subsequently attacks a fellow performer.
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Venice, Italy, second graders Ethan and Ella hope to find a stolen gondola and a hidden mosaic before their parents realize they are missing.
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