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The unraveling of Julia : a psychological thriller / by Scottoline, Lisa,author.;
"Lately, Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she's cursed. She's lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. She fears her fate is written in the stars, not held in her own hands. Then a letter arrives out of the blue, informing her that she has inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard-but her benefactor is a total stranger named Emilia Rossi. Julia has no information about her biological family, so she wonders if Rossi could be a blood relative. Bewildered, she heads to Tuscany for answers. There, Julia is horrified to discover that Rossi was a paranoid recluse with delusions of grandeur, who believed herself to be a descendent of Duchess Caterina Sforza, a legendary Renaissance ruler. Julia is stunned by her uncanny resemblance to Rossi and even to Caterina, then she unearths eerie parallels between them, including an obsession with astrology. Before long, Julia suspects she's being followed, and strange things begin to happen. Not even a chance meeting with a handsome Florentine can ease her disturbed mind. When events turn deadly, she breaks with reality. Julia's harrowing struggle becomes a search for her identity, a race to save her sanity, and ultimately, a question of her very survival"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Astrology; Blessing and cursing; Families; Fate and fatalism; Grief; Inheritance and succession; Recluses; Secrecy; Survival; Widows;
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The unraveling of Julia [text (large print)] : a psychological thriller / by Scottoline, Lisa,author.;
"Lately, Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she's cursed. She's lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. She fears her fate is written in the stars, not held in her own hands. Then a letter arrives out of the blue, informing her that she has inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard-but her benefactor is a total stranger named Emilia Rossi. Julia has no information about her biological family, so she wonders if Rossi could be a blood relative. Bewildered, she heads to Tuscany for answers. There, Julia is horrified to discover that Rossi was a paranoid recluse with delusions of grandeur, who believed herself to be a descendent of Duchess Caterina Sforza, a legendary Renaissance ruler. Julia is stunned by her uncanny resemblance to Rossi and even to Caterina, then she unearths eerie parallels between them, including an obsession with astrology. Before long, Julia suspects she's being followed, and strange things begin to happen. Not even a chance meeting with a handsome Florentine can ease her disturbed mind. When events turn deadly, she breaks with reality. Julia's harrowing struggle becomes a search for her identity, a race to save her sanity, and ultimately, a question of her very survival"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Astrology; Blessing and cursing; Families; Fate and fatalism; Grief; Inheritance and succession; Recluses; Secrecy; Survival; Widows;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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All things move : learning to look in the Sistine Chapel / by Marshall, Jeannie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A deeply personal search for meaning in Michelangelo's frescoes--and an impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age. What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started visiting the Sistine Chapel frescoes. She wanted to understand their meaning and context--but in the process, she also found what she didn't know she was looking for. All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel tells the story of Marshall's relationship with one of our most cherished artworks. Interwoven with the history of its making and the Rome of today, it's an exploration of the past in the present, the street in the museum, and the way a work of art can both terrify and alchemize the soul. An impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age, All Things Move is a quietly sublime meditation on how our lives can be changed by art, if only we learn to look."--
Subjects: Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564; Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City); Art and religion; Mural painting and decoration, Italian; Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance;
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Two steps onward / by Simsion, Graeme C.,author.; Buist, Anne,author.;
Three years after life got in the way of their long-distance relationship, Californian illustrator Zoe and English engineer Martin have an unexpected opportunity to reunite- a second chance to follow in the footsteps of pilgrims in Europe. This time, they won't be walking the famous Camino de Santiago to north-west Spain but the less travelled Chemin d'Assise and Via Francigena to Rome, the mountainous path down from rural France. And rather than each setting off solo, they will accompany Zoe's old friend Camille-who, despite her terminal illness, insists she will walk the whole sixteen hundred kilometres to seek an audience with the Pope-and her not-so-ex-husband, Gilbert, who sees the trip as a gourmet tour. Then Bernhard, Martin's young nemesis from the previous trek, shows up, along with Martin's daughter, Sarah, who is having a quarter-life crisis and doesn't exactly hit it off with Zoe.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages; Engineers; Hiking; Hiking; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Terminally ill; Women artists;
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Vacation under the volcano / by Osborne, Mary Pope.;
Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash."RL: 2.2, 006-009"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Jack (Fictitious character from Osborne); Annie (Fictitious character from Osborne); Time travel; Tree houses;
© c1998., Random House,
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Colosseum [videorecording] / by Beattie, Ian,1965-actor.; Cargill, Robert R.,1973-narrator.; Mariotti, Alexander,actor.; Reiné, Roel,television director.; Scott, Campbell,actor.; History Channel (Television network),production company,broadcaster.; Lions Gate Home Entertainment,publisher.;
Narrated by Robert R. Cargill ; Alexander Mariotti, Ian Beattie, Campbell Scott.This eight-part documentary vividly brings to life the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through the lens of one of the most exhilarating and brutal arenas in the history of humanity-the Colosseum. From the savage truth of a gladiator's life as a slave-warrior to the fascinating ways Rome's Emperors used the vast amphitheater to demonstrate total power, “Colosseum” offers a unique and personal look inside history's most iconic empire.14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Nonfiction television programs.; Historical television programs.; Television mini-series.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Commodus, Emperor of Rome, 161-192.; Colosseum (Rome, Italy); Church history; Gladiators.; Hand-to-hand fighting.; Human-animal relationships.; Women gladiators.;
For private home use only.
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The homemade god : a novel / by Joyce, Rachel,author.;
"There is a heatwave across Europe, and four siblings have gathered at their family's lake house to seek answers about their father, a famous artist, who recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish his long-awaited masterpiece. Now he is dead. And there is no sign of his final painting. As the siblings try to piece together what happened, they spend the summer in a state of lawlessness: living under the same roof for the first time in decades, forced to confront the buried wounds they incurred as his children, and waiting for answers. Though they have always been close, the things they learn that summer-about themselves, and their father-will drive them apart before they can truly understand his legacy. Meanwhile, their stepmother's enigmatic presence looms over the house. Is she the force that will finally destroy the family for good?"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Artists; Dwellings; Families; Father and child; Fathers; May-December romances; Painters; Siblings; Stepmothers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Saltwater : a novel / by Hays, Katy,1982-author.;
"From New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters comes an electrifying thriller about an opulent family and their mysterious assistant whose annual retreat to Italy is shattered by the resurfacing of a decades-old murder. The world was shocked by playwright Sarah Lingate's death thirty years ago at a Moorish, whitewashed villa on the island of Capri. Absolved of the crime, the Lingate family maintains that what happened that night was a tragic accident, and every July they come back to prove it's true. This time, Helen Lingate, sole heir to the family fortune, has a plan. Tightly controlled by her father, Helen enlists the help of the family assistant, Lorna Silva, to free herself from her family's grip. But behind closed doors, the legendary Lingate family unity is at a breaking point. Upon arrival to their villa in Capri, a gift is waiting for them: the necklace Sarah was wearing the night she died. In the aftermath, the paranoid, insular Lingates begin to unravel. As the investigation into her mother's death is reopened, Helen begins to lose trust in everyone around her: her controlling father Richard, drug-addled aunt Naomi, aloof uncle Marcus, and even Lorna, whose past she realizes is frustratingly opaque. And as they fracture, the long-hidden truth about that night and the secrets they've kept from one another boil to the surface-and they might not leave the island alive. On glittering Capri, anything can be a mirage. And one thing is true: no one holds a grudge like family"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Death; Families; Family secrets; Islands; Missing persons; Murder; Secrecy;
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Operation Husky : the Canadian invasion of Sicily, July 10-August 7, 1943 / by Zuehlke, Mark.;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Subjects: Canada. Canadian Army; Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Infantry Division, 1st; Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Tank Brigade, 1st; Operation Husky, 1943.; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2008., Douglas & McIntyre,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The liberator [sound recording] / by Kershaw, Alex.; Sanders, Fred.;
Read by Fred Sanders.
Subjects: Sparks, Felix Laurence, 1917-2007.; United States. Army; United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 157th. Battalion, 3rd.; Audiobooks.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© p2012., Random House Audio,
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