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"Lucy Honeychurch, 'on tour' with her spinster cousin Charlotte, discovers more than frescoes and cathedrals in Florence. In their pesione they meet the Emersons, a father and son with decidedly 'free thinking' values that startle the other upper middle class lodgers. The Emersons fascinate Lucy, who realizes for the first time how claustrophobic her life has become. What begins as simply a desire for 'a room with a view,' ends with Lucy breaking...
2) Vita nuova
Author
Series
Marshal Guarnaccia mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 20 cm.
Author
Series
Sandro Cellini mysteries volume 3
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Stuck in the sweltering summer heat of Florence, private investigator Sandro Cellini delves into a case where a man seems to have vanished into thin air.
Author
Series
Sandro Cellini mysteries volume 1
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Investigating the alleged suicide of an eminent architect and Holocaust survivor, private investigator Sandro Cellini discovers links between the victim's final hours and a missing art student, a connection that triggers an urgent race to protect other possible victims.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xiii, 300 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Visiting Florence to study art history and finish her thesis on the lost works of Michelangelo, American student Kate Westcott befriends Italian student Marco. They discover three missing sculptures, only to be violently targeted by a master art thief.
Author
Series
Marshal Guarnaccia mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Marshal Guarnaccia feels out of his league when he is assigned to help track down a serial killer, especially when he assigned to work under Simonetti, a man so dedicated to achieving a conviction that he is blinded to the consequences.
9) Three fires
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Reimaging the "Bonfire of the Vanities" through a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, this modern take on a fascinating historical story follows Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican friar who, railing against the viceand avarice of the ruling Medici family, was instrumental in their removal from power.
Author
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Gina Donovan arrives in Florence on a beautiful spring morning to stay with an old friend. She is hoping for nothing more than a break from her demanding young family, but as she soon finds out, this most ancient and beautiful of cities has its dark side..."--NoveList Plus.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 24 cm
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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Florence in Ecstasy gives us an arresting new vision of a woman?s attempt to find meaning?and find herself?in an unstable world. A young woman arrives in Florence from Boston, knowing no one and speaking little Italian. But Hannah is isolated in a more profound way, estranged from her own identity after a bout with starvation that has left her life and body in ruins.
13) The bequest
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Publisher
Scarlet
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 398 pages ; 24 cm.
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After her professor's suspicious death, a PhD student uncovers dark machinations among her academic associates in this "richly atmospheric and irresistibly readable" (Joyce Carol Oates) Gothic mystery set between Scotland, Italy, and France.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
483 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces--Dante's "Inferno"--as he battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Thirteen-year-old Christa's plans for her favorite holiday are derailed when her parents announce their divorce and Christa spends Christmas in Europe with her mom, but even though her dad remains in Chicago, he sends Christa on a scavenger hunt made up of dares that send her all over Florence, Paris, and London.
16) Inferno: a novel
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Robert Langdon novels volume 4
Description
"In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces: Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science" -- vendor summary.
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