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Greetings from somewhere volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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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English
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An assault on a pediatrician reveals a web of corruption and deception in the New York Times–bestselling, Silver Dagger Award–winning series.
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men-a young Carabiniere captain and two privates from out of town-have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked...
44) Uniform justice
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English
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Detective Commissario Guido Brunetti has been called to investigate a parent's worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy.
Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than understanding this tragedy. The young man is the...
45) Return fire
Author
Series
Moving target volume Book Two
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Just after Cassie Arroyo found the Spear of Destiny in Rome, it was stolen from her, so now she and her friend Asher must recover it--but when she used the Spear before she set the world down a dangerous path, and if she recovers it she will have to decide whether to risk using it again.
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Maeve Leahy is forced to revisit the tragic night that separated her from her twin sister nearly ten years earlier when she travels to Rome to learn about the legendary properties of a Javanese dagger she won at an auction.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Argyll, exchanging favors with a fellow art dealer, agrees to carry a mediocre painting from Paris to Rome and deliver it to its buyer, never suspecting that the errand would lead to two murders and the revelation of old, nasty secrets.
51) Pronto
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Language
English
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A bookie, a United States marshal, and a trio of thugs from Miami's underworld pay a visit to Rapallo, on the Italian Riviera.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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When two garbage collectors find the body of a local politician in the town dump frequented by whores and drug dealers, the coroner decides he died of natural causes, despite evidence to the contrary, Sicilian police inspector Salvo Montalbano decides to investigate the case on his own.
53) Slightly shady
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English
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Amanda Quick, best-selling author of Regency-era romances, has won many awards for her works including the New York Times best-selling Wicked Widow. Each work transports fans into a richly detailed world of intrigue and desire. There are now over 25 million copies of her books in print. Besieged by gambling debts, a desperate gentleman purchases a diary as a tool for blackmail. But he does not live to carry out his plans. He is murdered, and the diary...
57) Miss you
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of ONE DAY, a wryly romantic debut story about two strangers who meet briefly as teens in Florence and whose paths cross again many times over the course of the next sixteen years, until they're finally brought back together"--
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
First lovers, Miranda and Adam, meet by accident in Rome over thirty years after their break-up in the 1960s, both married to others, with grown children, and decide to take daily walks and get to know each other again in an effort to understand who they were when they were young and in love, and what matters to them now.
59) Beautiful Ruins
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English
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“Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.” — Richard Russo
The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood
...60) Inkheart
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.
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