Summer 1946. World War Two has just come to an end and there's a yearning for renewal. A man in his thirties is sailing on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, hoping to put off the inevitable return to work. Dropping anchor in a small,...
Italy
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Auteur:Chiara, PieroSommaire: -
Auteur:Bedore, KarenSommaire:After losing her mother and fiancé, Alcinia and her father travel west to Turin in the Duchy of Savoy to begin a new life. Getting adjusted to a new way of living in Renaissance Italy, Alcinia falls in love with a mysterious bard, and...
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Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice. A literary editor obsessed with the work of a long-dead poet, Jeffrey Aspern, comes into their lives to try to ferret out his papers.
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Auteur:Stone, IrvingSommaire:A novel of Michelangelo who was the creator of David, painter of the Sistine ceiling, and architect of the dome of St. Peter's.
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Auteur:Levi, PrimoSommaire: -
Auteur:Pater, WalterSommaire:Through his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefined the practice of criticism as an...
- Auteur:Peters, ElizabethSommaire:
The smartest and sexiest sleuth around is Vicky Bliss. In the sunsplashed streets or moonlit courtyards of Rome, Vicky is out to uncover a true geius and master art thief. Someone is creating the most beautiful jewels and replacing the...
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Auteur:Teti, Vito, Loriggio, FrancescoSommaire:This is a book about a small Southern Italian village and its offshoots in Toronto. It's about bread and figs and food in general, about Carnival and pilgrimages to religious sanctuaries, about fathers, mothers and children, about...
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Auteur:Windsor, LeeSommaire:Steel Calvary is the story of the transformation from of a horse cavalry unit to one of Canada's most famous armoured regiments.Twentieth century warfare is epitomized by the image of Allied tanks growling across the countryside,...
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Auteur:Chandler, AnnSommaire:On summer vacation in Siena, Angela befriends a fiery horse and trains him to race in the Palio, despite being written off by the horse's owners.
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Auteur:HOROWITZ, AnthonySommaire:Teenage super spy Alex Rider is reeling from the discovery that his father was an assassin for the criminal organization, Scorpia. Determined to find out more he travels to Italy where he manages to infiltrate the gang. Soon he becomes...
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Auteur:Williams, Megan K.Sommaire:Far from the Tuscan Sun… is Saving Rome. Megan K. Williams, a Rome-based writer and correspondent, knows just how far. In her debut collection, Williams serves up the Eternal City as you’ve never seen it before, turning an insider’s eye...
- Auteur:Edsel, Robert M.Sommaire:
Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were...
- Auteur:Gaglia, LouSommaire:
Poor Advice as a collection reveals Lou Gaglia’s humor, imagination, and range: A woman is obsessed with pumping gas at one particular pump in one particular gas station. A six year old and his father kill over two hundred flies at a...
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Auteur:Graves Myers, BeverleSommaire:Venice, 1734: Castrato soprano Tito Amato has let fame go to his head. Neglecting his vocal practice for dubious pleasures, Tito finds himself demoted to secondary roles and overshadowed by a visiting star. When the murder of scene...
- Auteur:Robson, JenniferSommaire:
To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer's wife in this story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events from the most perilous days of World War II.
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Auteur:Pelman, BarbaraSommaire:“All the world is a narrow bridge,” states Rabbi Nachman of Bresnov. “The important thing is not to be afraid at all.” These poems, Barbara Pelman’s third collection, explore bridges both real and metaphoric: the bridge connecting...
- Auteur:McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he...
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Auteur:Neville, PeterSommaire: - Auteur:Gilman, DorothySommaire:
John Farrell, former CIA operative-turned art dealer, has apparently walked into a good deal gone wrong in Sicily. He now waits, wounded and in hiding, for the calvary--and, according to his SOS, only Mrs. Pollifax will do. Within the...
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