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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Full of lighthearted humor, sumptuous food, the wisdom of an Italian mother-in-law, and all the atmosphere of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, this warm and witty memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on a three-month rite of passage in the boisterous Mediterranean city of Naples.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In London, the Metropolitan Police have set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit - a cold case squad - to catch the criminals nobody else can. Four victims. Four cases. All killers poised to strike again. In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner, convicted of forgery and theft, was pronounced dead two months ago. So why is his unscrupulous lawyer still representing a dead client? And who is the mysterious man his widow is planning to marry? On...
25) Scorpia /Book 5
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English school children.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Children's book author Claire A. Nivola explores the village of Orani, the tiny hamlet in the mountains of central Sardinia where her father lived before moving to New York during World War II.
27) Inkspell
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
When Dustfinger, the fire-eater who was brought into being from words, finds a shady storyteller to read him back into the medieval world, Farid, Dustfinger's apprentice, searches for Meggie and ends up stuck inside the book with her.
28) Inkheart
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Author
Series
I survived volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"During the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius, one boy struggles to escape. Can he survive the most devastating disaster of ancient times? In this thrilling addition to the bestselling I SURVIVED series, readers are taken back to antiquity with a young boy trying to escape as the giant Mount Vesuvius erupts. Does he have what it takes to survive the epic destruction of Pompeii?" --
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster. Merlin has asked Jack and Annie to help on another Merlin Mission. This time they head back into history to Venice, Italy, in the 1700s. With the help of some new friends, a research book, and a mysterious rhyme from Merlin, the heroes will save the beautiful city from a flood! Yet another...
31) Michelangelo
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publi
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
50p colored photos
Language
English
Description
A summary of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poetwell known for his work on the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48p.
Language
English
Description
Having Missed her chance to see him on the first Christmas, old Befana travels around Italy each year searching for the Child and leaving cookies and Christmas presents for the sleeping children.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
During World War II, on a remote Scottish Coast, Dorothy, while caring for sick and wounded Italian soldiers, is drawn to Cesare, a young man broken by the horrors of battle, until the tensions between the islanders and outsiders deepen, testing their loyalty and desire.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
More than the story of a single, savage engagement, Unsinkable traces the individual journeys of five men on one ship from Casablanca in North Africa, to Sicily and Salerno in Italy and then on to Plunkett defining moment at Anzio, where a dozen-odd German bombers bore down on the ship in an assault so savage, so prolonged, and so deadly that one Navy commander was hard-pressed to think of another destroyer that had endured what Plunkett had. After...
35) Thunderstruck
Author
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled to America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication--as the new technology is used to capture a killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
280 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteeen-year-old Sunni, her stepbrother Dean, and an art-student friend trace the footsteps of a labyrinth built in Blackhope Tower by a mysterious and brilliant sixteenth-century artist, and suddenly find themselves trapped inside his enchanted painting, trying desperately to get out.
