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Series
Forgotten Legion trilogy volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Physical Desc
515 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
498 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and her six-year-old son goes missing, Deputy Captain Colomba Caselli and Dante Torre, both still recovering from personal catastrophes, team up to solve the series of killings and abductions that ensues. As they follow the ever-more-bizarre trail of clues, one thing becomes clear: what's really going on is much darker than anyone imagined. -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A prima ballerina. Two American medics. And a young Jewish girl with no name... At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save Italian Jews in this breathtaking World War II novel based on real historical events"--
6) Beach music
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Formats
Description
Jack McCall, a writer who moved to Rome to flee his family, returns to South Carolina where his mother is dying and makes peace with them, including Jewish in-laws he couldn't stand and who blamed him for his wife's suicide.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
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Description
Margie Krebsbsch's husband, Carl, has been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. Hoping to reawaken his interest in romance, Margie plans a trip to Rome with the expressed purpose of tending to the neglected grave of Gussy Norlander, a Lake Wobegon boy who died in the liberation of the city in 1944. But what begins as a trip for two becomes a modern-day Canterbury Tales as more and more Wobegonians decide to go along.
10) Enemies at home
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
342 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Description
In Ancient Rome, the number of slaves was far greater than that of free citizens. As a result, often the people Romans feared most were the "enemies at home," the slaves under their own roofs. Because of this, Roman law decreed that if the head of a household was murdered at home, and the culprit wasn't quickly discovered, his slaves, all of them, guilty or not, were presumed responsible and were put to death. Without exception. When a couple is found...
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 9
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
87 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown," when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
13) The memory key
Author
Series
Commissario Alec Blume novel volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Directed to secretly monitor an investigation into the attempted murder of a former terrorist, Commissario Alec Blume also investigates an eccentric professor who is a common link between the crime and the death of a young woman.
Author
Series
Ruso mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
330 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
Resuming his medical duties in the Twentieth legion in Roman-occupied Britain, Gaius Petreius Ruso investigates an outbreak of mysterious injuries and deaths and discovers possible links to the revered Centurion Geminus and the long-awaited Emperor Hadrian.
Author
Series
Roman mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
161 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A ragged stranger and the prospect of losing her family's fortune lead Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan, Lupus, and Nubia to a seaside villa where possible danger and treasure are close at hand.
16) Nemesis
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
342 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
When a pair of his father's associates disappear under suspicious circumstances, informer Marcus Didius Falco of A.D. 77 Rome investigates allegations of a feud involving a group of notorious freedmen, who are receiving high-level protection from corrupt rulers.
17) Rome reframed
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Traveling through Europe with his parents and two younger brothers, eighth-grader Lucas misses his home in Austin, Texas, and is doing poorly in his remote schooling until an odd-looking coin thrown in the Trevi Fountain transports Lucas back to ancient Rome.
18) Angels & demons
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 1
Description
The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno—now a major film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones.
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol—seared...
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol—seared...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King's seminal debut features the man who inspired the world's oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction. On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar's reign, a young chef, Thrasius, is acquired for the exorbitant price of twenty thousand denarii. His purchaser is the infamous gourmet Marcus Gavius Apicius, wealthy beyond...
20) Lavinia
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
279 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
"In The Aeneid, Virgil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word in the poem. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes the reader to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills."--From amazon.com.
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