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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.
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.
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
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.
6) Beach music
Author
Publisher
N.A.Talese
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Jack McCall is an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after his wife's suicide. He tells of the dark memories that haunt his family and friends, spanning Rome and South Carolina, reaching back to the terrors of the Holocaust.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Former government assassin Toby O'Dare is summoned to the fifteenth century by the angel Malchiah to investigate a case of poisoning and to search out the truth about a haunting, and the quest reconnects O'Dare with his past and offers him the promise of salvation.
8) Indigo
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2000], c1999
Language
English
Description
Jack Chambers discovers a cult-like group of his father's followers whose obsession is the pursuit of invisibility found in the color indigo, while he reunites with his half sister Louise and his father's mistress to claim their inheritance.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the gorgeous grounds of Rome's Villa Borghese park the glitterati of the movie world are gathered for a world premiere. A legendary Italian movie director has come out of retirement to create a blockbuster based on Dante's Inferno. But, as Nic Costa and his colleagues attempt to guard the precious collection of historic artifacts attached to the event, the premiere is disrupted by tragedy and a horrific murder. Is a disgruntled admirer of Dante...
12) Roman stories
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity"--
13) The weeds
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two women botanists, connected across time, confront desire, ambition, and the seeming inevitability of violence"--
"A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, signed up to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific...
15) Moving target
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Cassie Arroyo is a student in Rome, but her life changes when a secret organization, the Hastati, shoots her father--and she learns that she is a member of an ancient bloodline that enables her to use the Spear of Destiny, a legendary object that can alter the future.
16) 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.
17) The Marble Faun
Author
Language
English
Description
First Published in 1860, "The Marble Faun" is the last of the four major romances written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Published shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War, it is a romantic and fantastical tale set in an imagined Italy and revolves around the love lives of the four main characters: Miriam, a beautiful and mysterious painter, Hilda, an innocent and morally upright copyist, Kenyon, a gifted sculptor, and Donatello,...
18) When in Rome
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Beth, an ambitious young New Yorker who is disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome, where she inexplicably ignites the passions of an odd group of suitors. But when a charming reporter pursues her with equal zeal, Beth doubts his love is the real thing.
19) Roderick Hudson
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gifted American artist finds fame, fortune, and tragedy in Europe in this classic tale. Working in obscurity, sculptor Roderick Hudson finds a generous patron in Rowland Mallet, an art aficionado so captivated by the young man's work, he offers to take Hudson with him to Europe. Mallet soon falls in love with Miss Mary Garland, a distant cousin of Hudson's who lives with the family and tends to his aging mother. Unfortunately, Hudson has already...
20) Burning the Map
Author
Publisher
Red Dress Ink
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The choices Casey Evers has made in her twenty-six years aren't exactly making her happy. In fact, her life is so on course - college, law school, boyfriend, job offer - that it's actually off. So, before she slides into fourteen-hour days at a Chicago law firm, she heads to Rome and Greece with her two best friends for one last hurrah. The thing is, her best friends haven't really been all that close to her since she started seeing John two years...
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