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1) The broker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not whether he will be killed, but rather who will kill him first.
5) Brimstone
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Series
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.
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Language
English
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Description
In 1965 Rome, aspiring actress Silvia Whitford seeks out the Italian aunt she's never met who lives in a crumbling castello where Silvia gets cast in a new horror movie, but when her aunt disappears, the film's make-believe terrors seep into reality, revealing a growing menace.
10) Siracusa
Author
Language
English
Description
"An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from each other are exposed and relationships are unraveled. New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine--Finn, his wife Taylor, and their daughter Snow."From the beginning," says Taylor,...
11) Falling in love
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Series
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English
Description
Brunetti and his wife, Paola, attend an early performance, and Flavia receives a standing ovation. Back in her dressing room, she finds bouquets of yellow roses, too many roses. Every surface of the room is covered with them. An anonymous fan has been showering Flavia with these beautiful gifts in London, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, and now, Venice, but she no longer feels flattered. A few nights later, invited by Brunetti to dine at his in-laws' palazzo,...
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English
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Description
"When Anna, now living in California, is contacted by the Italian lover she knew decades before, she recalls their affair and the child she gave up for adoption. As the episode returns to haunt her--threatening the life she's built, including her marriage--the story moves back in time to her youth in Europe. Rome, 1979. Anna, twenty-two and living abroad, is involved with a man already engaged to be married. When she meets and befriends his fianc?e,...
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Language
English
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Description
"After ending a bad relationship, Casey Costello, an executive chef at a morning television show, swears off men. Who has the time anyway? She's busy overseeing a rambunctious food-prep crew in a kitchen the size of a closet; trying to please high-maintenance celebrity guest chefs; and dealing with her large extended Italian American family, who believe that the solutions to life's problems involve food. And in the midst of her high-energy, stress-inducing...
16) Breathing room
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 369 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
17) Good blood
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
18) Alibi: a novel
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a historical thriller set in postwar Venice, Adam Miller, a U.S. Army war crimes investigator, confronts a city still at war with itself and haunted by the atrocities of the recent past when he falls in love with a Jewish woman.
19) The food of love
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enchanted by Italy's rich culture, first-time American visitor Laura finds herself falling for the handsome Tomasso, who woos her with magnificent meals and hides the fact that shy, enamored Bruno is actually the chef.
Author
Series
Boy series volume 3
Publisher
Avon Trade
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
328, [14] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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