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Robert Langdon novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces--Dante's "Inferno"--as he battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle--
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English
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In common with much of his other writing, this work by the eminent English novelist and essayist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) displays an unusually perceptive view of British society in the early 20th century. Written in 1908, A Room with a View is a social comedy set in Florence, Italy, and Surrey, England. Its heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, struggling against straitlaced Victorian attitudes of arrogance, narrow-mindedness and snobbery, falls in love while...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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When Meg's grandmother dies, Meg's long-awaited trip to Florence seems to be on indefinite hold. Finally her unreliable father has her book the rip, but when she arrives in Florence, her father is not there. Instead she is met by Sophia Borelli, an aspiring writer who claims to be one of the last surviving Medicis. Sophia believes that Nora Orsini, a long dead Medici princess communicates with her through Italian Renaissance masterpieces. Both Meg...
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Marshal Guarnaccia mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
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Series
Inspector Bordelli mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Series
Sandro Cellini mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Michele Ferrara mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Series
Marshal Guarnaccia mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Long out of print, this mystery featuring Nabb's Marshal Guarnaccia finds him having to piece together the events of a tragic night 20 years earlier in order to solve a present-day murder.
12) Romola
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Series
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English
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Presents George Eliot's 1862 novel about Romola, a woman who, having grown up subservient to her scholar-father, and endured an unhappy marriage, has a passionate intellectual and spiritual awakening in Renaissance Florence.
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Marshal Guarnaccia mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Marshal Guarnaccia feels out of his league when he is assigned to help track down a serial killer, especially when he assigned to work under Simonetti, a man so dedicated to achieving a conviction that he is blinded to the consequences.
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Establishing Dibdin as a master of the historical mystery, "A Rich Full Death" begins in 1855 Florence at the hanging of Isabel Eaken. Engrossing, lively, lush with details, this evocative story has been seamlessly created from both fact and fancy, characters both imagined and real.
15) The Flood
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Florence 1986. A seemingly inexplicable attack on a church fresco of Adam and Eve brings together an unlikely couple: Julia Wellbeloved, an English art student, and Pino Fratelli, a semi-retired detective who longs to be back in the field. Their investigation leads them into the secret society that underpins the city; an elite underworld of excess violence and desire. The Flood takes the reader on a dazzling journey into the darkness in Florence's...
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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Italy, 1944: Stella stared at the envelope addressed to her, dated from the day of his death in May 1937. With a trembling hand she opened it, tears rolling down her cheeks. She read the letter that should have made it to her years ago - the letter that had been ruthlessly stolen from her. It held his last words, and it changed everything.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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In 1903, tensions between Britain and Germany are starting to loom over Europe, something that has not gone unnoticed by Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves. An agent of the Crown, Colin carries the weight of the Empire, but his focus is drawn to Italy by a series of burglaries at his daughter’s palazzo in Florence―burglaries that might have international ramifications. He and Emily travel to Tuscany where, soon after their arrival, a...
18) Infrared
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"After a troubled childhood and two failed marriages, Rena Greenblatt has achieved success as a photographer. She specializes in infrared techniques that expose her pictures' hidden landscapes and capture deeply private moments in the lives of her subjects. Away from her lover and stuck in Florence, Italy, with her infuriating stepmother and her aging father, Rena encounters both the masterpieces of the Renaissance and the banal inconveniences of...
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Series
Cesare Aldo novels volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Florence. Winter, 1536. A prominent Jewish moneylender is murdered in his home, a death with wide implications in a city powered by immense wealth. Cesare Aldo, a former soldier and now an officer of the Renaissance city's most feared criminal court, is given four days to solve the murder: catch the killer or suffer the consequences.
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Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Florence, 1965. A man is found dead in his home, a pair of scissors stuck in his throat. Only one thing is known about him - he was a loan shark who ruined and blackmailed the vulnerable men and women who would come to him for help. Inspector Bordelli prepares to launch a murder investigation but the case will be a tough one for him, arousing mixed emotions: the desire for justice competing with a deep hostility for the victim.
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