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Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cut from the Cleveland Browns after the worst performance in the history of the NFL, Rick Dockery, desperate to play football, is hired by the Panthers of Parma, Italy, and finds himself confronted by the confusing diversity of Italian culture, language, and romance.
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
Series
Otto Prohaska novels volume 3
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (13 hr., 45 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Follow the continuing adventures of Naval Lieutenant Otto Prohaska in the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is the summer of 1916, and as luck would have it, Otto is assigned to the nascent, unreliable, and utterly terrifying Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Flying Service. Otto's aerial chauffeur is the self-willed Sergeant-Pilot Toth, with whom he can only communicate in broken Latin -- although when all else fails, screaming may...
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.
45) Eat, pray, love
Publisher
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
16 film reels of 16 on 8 (133 min., 11,970 ft.) : nonanamorphic wide-screen, sd. (opt, Dolby SR, digital, Dolby SR-D, SDDS, DTS), col. ; 35 mm.
Language
English
Description
"A woman who once made it her goal in life to marry and rear a family finds her priorities suddenly shifting in Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt's adaptation of author Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir. In the eyes of many, Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) was a woman who had it all, a loving husband, a great career, and a weekend home, but sometimes one realizes too little too late that they haven't gotten what they truly wanted from life. On the heels...
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...
47) Red tails
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground. Featuring jaw-dropping aerial action and thrilling special effects, Red Tails is a breathtaking tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history.
48) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD version
Physical Desc
1 DVD Disc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The epic story of Judah Ben-Hur, a prince who is enslaved by the Romans after being betrayed by his adopted brother Messala.
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...
50) 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.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When curious natural phenomena occur across the Roman Empire in 35 A.D., Emperor Tiberius sends his best warrior to Palestine to investigate the rumored resurrection of a rabbi named Jesus.
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.