The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William...
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Auteur:Paris, HarperSommaire:When Ethan and Ella first land in Venice, they are in awe of all the canals and tiny little streets. They're especially excited to look for a five-hundred-year-old-mosaic near Calle Farnese that Grandpa Harry tells them about. While the...
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Auteur:Ferrante, ElenaSommaire:Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial...
- Auteur:Cusk, RachelSommaire:
Casting off another winter, Rachel Cusk and her family set out to Italy for three months in search of meaning, beauty, a cure for everything. With her husband and two children, Cusk uncovers the mystery of a foreign language, the perils...
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Auteur:Leon, DonnaSommaire:Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career elsewhere, mostly abroad. She lands in Birmingham, England, as a research fellow and assistant professor. Birmingham,...
- Auteur:Radcliffe, AnneSommaire:
Set against the backdrop of the Inquisition, this Gothic romance from British novelist Ann Radcliffe is sure to please fans of the genre. Protagonists Vincentio di Vivaldi and Ellena di Rosalba fall in love at first sight and attempt to...
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Auteur:Myers, Beverle GravesSommaire:In September of 1740, singer Tito Amato receives a curious invitation. The German composer Karl Johann Weber is rehearsing a new opera at an isolated villa nestled in the hills of the Venetian mainland. Would Tito accept the lead role?...
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Auteur:Leon, DonnaSommaire:As the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to look into a minor violation committed by the mayor's future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass political favors, but he...
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Auteur:Balson, Ronald H.Sommaire:In internationally-bestselling author Ronald H. Balson's newest audiobook, The Girl from Berlin, Liam and Catherine come to the aid of an old friend and are drawn into a property dispute in Tuscany that unearths long-buried secrets. An...
- Auteur:Hewson, DavidSommaire:
At his beloved Nonno Paolo's deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied...
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Auteur:David, SaulSommaire:In December of 1943, a group of highly trained US and Canadian soldiers capture a crucial Nazi stronghold perched atop stunningly steep cliffs. The unit, with its vast range of capabilities and mission-specific exercises, became a model...
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Auteur:HAMILTON, LynSommaire:Lara gets to extend her annual European antiquing tour when she's secretly commissioned by a reclusive billionaire to buy a certain Etruscan sculpture. But I Lara's negotiations with the sculpture's owner come to an...
- Auteur:Ondaatje, MichaelSommaire:
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief,...
- Auteur:Fitzgerald, ConorSommaire:
On a hot summer morning, Arturo Clemente is sloppily murdered in his Roman apartment by a mysterious slasher. The killing is brutal, amateurish and by all appearances random. But Clemente is no ordinary victim.
- Auteur:Atkinson, RickSommaire:
The second volume in a trilogy chronicling the liberation of Europe during World War II focuses on the Allied campaigns in Sicily and Italy, detailing the bloody battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino, as well as the June 1944...
- Auteur:Cullen, LynnSommaire:
After a scandal ends her apprenticeship with Michelangelo in 1559, artist Sofonisba Anguissola accepts an invitation from King Felipe II to become lady-in-waiting and painting teacher to his teenage bride Elisabeth. And though Sofi's...
- Auteur:Calvino, ItaloSommaire:
In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bissected lengthwise by a...
- Auteur:Moran, Jan.Sommaire:
A young widow. A husband she thought she knew. On the picturesque Italian coast of Amalfi lies a chocolatier's destiny... San Francisco, 1953: Heartbroken over the mysterious death of her husband, Celina Savoia, a second-generation...
- Auteur:Ardone, ViolaSommaire:
Seven-year-old Amerigo lives with his mother Antonietta in Naples, surviving on odd jobs and his wits. But one day, Amerigo learns that a train will take him away from the rubble-strewn streets of the city to spend the winter with a...
- Auteur:Poe, Edgar AllanSommaire:
First published in a 1846 edition of Godey's Lady's Book, The Cask of Amontillado is widely considered to be one of the most perfect short stories ever written. Told by the unreliable narrator Montresor-a man who sought vengeance...
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