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21) Roman stories
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity"--
Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical--is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine the first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth, and a major literary...
22) Foreign affairs
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 35
Language
English
Description
When he's apprised at the last minute of a mandatory meeting abroad, Stone Barrington rushes off to Europe for a whirlwind tour of business and, of course, pleasure. But from the start the trip seems to be cursed, plagued by suspicious "accidents" and unfortunate events, and some of Stone's plans go up in flames--literally. Not a believer in coincidence, Stone sets out to learn the true source of his curious misfortune and finds that what appeared...
23) Return fire
Author
Series
Moving target volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Just after Cassie Arroyo found the Spear of Destiny in Rome, it was stolen from her, so now she and her friend Asher must recover it--but when she used the Spear before she set the world down a dangerous path, and if she recovers it she will have to decide whether to risk using it again.
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli Ex Libris
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Every Monday and Thursday, forty-something ex-carabiniere Roberto Marias crosses Rome on foot for his appointment with his psychiatrist. There he sits in silence, flooded by memories of a past that has left him devastated. A chance meeting with a woman named Emma, also ravaged by a profound guilt, begins to painfully revive him.
25) Bachelor unbound
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Kimani
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
International jeweler and sought-after bachelor Zion Blackstone felt an instant connection to Celine Michaels when he designed a unique gemstone for her. When she shows up at his house in Rome claiming kidnappers are after her, he offers the Hollywood producer's daughter his protection...and passion. But a shocking revelation could upend his once-in-a-lifetime chance with Celine...
26) No way home
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Tess Alessandro was selected for an incredible summer exchange program in Rome, where she'll take in the beautiful sights and sounds and tastes of Italy. Her Italian counterpart, Sofia, will stay with Tess's family while she's away. Sure, her host parents barely speak English, but they seem cool enough. Then Tess overhears them on a video chat with their daughter, who is brandishing a knife over Tess's sleeping parents. They tell Tess she needs to...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""Richly evocative of the charms and contradictions of Italy. Brava!"-Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author What if you found yourself in the middle of a war armed only with lipstick and a sense of humor? Abandoned as a child in Los Angeles in 1931, dust bowl refugee Sally Brady convinces a Hollywood movie star to adopt her, and grows up to be an effervescent gossip columnist secretly satirizing Europe's upper crust. By 1940 saucy Sally...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy are matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children but by his blood: he is a Spanish Pope in a city of Italians. If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic, consummate...
29) One step to you
Author
Series
Rome novels (Federico Moccia) volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this first novel in the internationally bestselling trilogy, One Step to You, two teenagers spend the best days of their lives together, but belonging to opposite worlds may eventually tear them apart forever. Just as in every other place in the world, teenagers in Rome, Italy, forge their own path separate from their parents. Some are hardworking and studious like Babi, a young girl waiting to find the love of her life. Then there are bad boys...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
When a young woman is found dead in a peat bog near the banks of the river Tiber, Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, thinks she is the victim of an ancient pagan ritual. Leo Falcone, however, knows this case is recent history and the horror is still very much alive.
31) Ciao for now
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Fashion means everything to Violet Luciano; so does finishing design school. When she lands a summer internship at an up-and-coming fashion brand in Rome, she knows she's got to bring her A game. The interns will be competing against each other: whoever creates the best fashion design will be offered a job at a New York label. Violet is at the top of her class, but she's one of the only students who's approaching thirty. Chasing her dream has left...
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Art historian Vicky Bliss may be blond and beautiful, but looks can be deceiving. She also has the brain of an Einstein, the reckless courage of a test pilot -- and no one's more savvy about fine works of art. For example: the gold pendant her boss at Munich's National Museum is currently dangling in front of her. It's an exquisite replica of a Charlemagne talisman -- and it was found, along with a note written in hieroglyphs, sewn into the suit...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a young writer's fierce ambitions and intensely tender love of women. "Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime": so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager--"our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us"--she drops out of school, gets a crappy job, sees a terrible brightness...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Emilia arrives in Rome reeling from heartbreak and reckoning with her past. What was supposed to be a romantic trip has, with the sudden end of a relationship, become a solitary one instead. As she wanders, music, art, food, and the beauty of Rome's wide piazzas and narrow streets color Emilia's dreamy, but weighty experience of the city. She considers the many facets of her life, drifting in and out of memory, following her train of thought wherever...
35) The weeds
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two women botanists, connected across time, confront desire, ambition, and the seeming inevitability of violence"--
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
La misteriosa reliquia que la restauradora de arte Marta Arbide entregó al Vaticano ha sido robada. Cuando recibe la noticia de que debe ser ella quien encabece la investigación para recuperarla, siente que la aventura y el misterio que la pusieron al límite en La luz invisible no han hecho más que comenzar. Y así es: el mismo día que Marta llega a Roma para comenzar sus pesquisas, el Papa es asesinado. Este será el arranque una frenética...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
"Una conmovedora y romántica historia que nos invita a buscar el amor desde un bar del pintoresco barrio del Trastevere Han pasado dos años desde que una joven francesa a quien no pudo o no supo retener rompió el corazón de Massimo, el dueño de un pequeño café en el centro del Trastevere. Desde entonces, en la vida de Massimo han cambiado muchas cosas, pero en el bar Tiberi, pese a las despedidas y los recién llegados, el ambiente sigue siendo...
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