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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...
4) About face
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Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Donna Leon has brought us Venice in all its aspects. Now Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals, the issue is significant. For Brunetti, it becomes so when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. (Bestseller)....
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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.
11) Good blood
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Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm.
13) Opera cat
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
When the opera diva Madame SoSo gets laryngitis, her singing cat Alma fills in for her.
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Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
651 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
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Santa Catarina, a convent near Venice, is home to over one hundred women in 1567. But with powerful forces for change raging outside the convent, and with the world of the women within threatened by a new arrival, passions, hysteria, and conflict will come to threaten their very survival.
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Dodsworth volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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Dodsworth and his duck companion have a lovely time in Rome, even though the duck tries to improve the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and takes all the coins from the Trevi Fountain.
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Geronimo is taking his Benjamin on a trip to Rome to learn the city's history (and keep him from failing fifth grade), but when they arrive they are immediately pulled into the investigation of the "ghost" of a gladiator that seems to be haunting the Colosseum and scaring tourists away.
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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.
18) Inheritance
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Natalie Danford's exquisitely written novel Inheritance asks a simple question: How well do we know our parents? One-half of the story begins after the death of Luigi Bonocchio, an Italian immigrant whose daughter, Olivia, discovers a mysterious deed among his possessions. The deed is to a house in Urbino, Italy, the hometown he barely spoke of. Intrigued, Olivia travels there. At first she is charmed by the historic city, the relatives she's not...
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Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 6
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
On a family vacation in Venice, Olivia indulges in gelato, rides in a gondola, and finds the perfect souvenir.
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Aurelio Zen mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
While on a routine assignment in the remote region of Calabria, police detective Aurelio Zen is drawn into two suspicious cases involving the disappearance of an advance scout for an American film company and a hunt for buried treasure.
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