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Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
While on a routine assignment in the remote region of Calabria, police detective Aurelio Zen is drawn into two suspicious cases involving the disappearance of an advance scout for an American film company and a hunt for buried treasure.
25) The last promise
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Eliana moved to Italy the future was bright with promise. But once she settled into the small village, she found her husband to be a very different man. Over time he distanced himself from her, leaving her to care for their young son.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Held hostage by a papal usurper, 1635 uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife, Giovanna, become targets in a rescue effort by Harry Lefferts and his infamous Wrecking Crew at the same time the true pope is targeted for assassination.
27) A secret affair
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bill Fitzgerald, a television foreign correspondent, falls in love with a married American woman while on vacation in Venice.
Author
Series
Boy series volume 3
Publisher
Avon Trade
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Jane Harris and Cal Langdon accompany their best friends, Holly and Mark, on a planned elopement to Italy, they are forced to come to the rescue when the Italian government refuses to marry the pair without a special form.
Author
Series
Commissario Alec Blume novels volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Arturo Clemente is sloppily murdered in his Roman apartment by a mysterious slasher. Police inspector Alec Blume has a favorite suspect, but the investigation is already being manipulated by both the Senate and the Fusco crime ring. As the details of the case continue to trickle out, Blume soon realizes he is being watched from on high--and that solving this crime may be the least of his worries. As the mob tightens its grip on the city, and with...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 230
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Henry James' 1902 novel, set in London and Venice, in which Milly Theale, a young heiress with a short time to live, sets out to make her life worthwhile--as Merton Densher and Kate Croy set forth on a plan of betrayal.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Emily Price, art restorer and would-be artist, finds herself in Atlanta, restoring objects recovered from a house fire. As she strives to make all the pieces of her life fit, secure a gallery opening for her own art, and care for her sister and mother, she finds herself enthralled by Chef Benito Hillam, who is in town from Italy visiting his brother Joseph, Emily's boss. Ben spends all his time cooking and repeatedly proposing marriage to Emily....
32) Bridge of sighs
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Louis Charles ("Lucy") Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he's had plenty of reasons not to be--chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and...
Author
Publisher
Whitson, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Mary Davis, Liz’s widowed mother has returned to Paris and made peace with the past, but now she struggles with conflicted feelings about the two men in her life—Parisian Jean-Marc, the first love who’s never forgotten her and Luca Santo, the Italian who’s introduced Mary to new adventures. Liz Davis’s carefully constructed world—and her engagement to Jeffrey Scott—have already begun to crumble when an unexpected phone call summons...
34) Irish stew!
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 7
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
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 fiancée,...
Author
Series
Tuscan mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Though it took some time to settle into his new life in Gravigna, Italy, following the death of his wife, Nico Doyle has figured a thing or two out. The locals have not only welcomed him, but are giving him rave reviews on his contributions to the menu at Sotto il Fico, and his budding relationship with Nelli is healing old wounds. When Nico receives a phone call late at night, he tries to ignore it. A phone call at that time could only mean trouble....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild - selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and...
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Set in 1960s Italy, this stylish, atmospheric debut spins a bewitching web of ruthless ambition, family secrets, and the consequences of forbidden love, as an ambitious American actress snags the starring role in a mysterious horror movie shooting on location in a crumbling medieval castle outside Rome… Readers who enjoy the moody gothic allure of Kate Morton and Silvia Moreno-Garcia or the immersive settings of Lucinda Riley and Fiona Davis will...
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