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The orphan's song [sound recording] / by Kate, Lauren,author.; Campbell, Cassandra,narrator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.; Books on Tape, Inc.,publisher.;
Read by Cassandra Campbell.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Orphans; Secrecy; Man-woman relationships;
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Glorious exploits : a novel / by Lennon, Ferdia,author.;
"Set in Syracuse, Sicily, during the Peloponnesian War but told in contemporary Irish dialect, Glorious Exploits follows Lampo and Gelon, best friends since childhood. Thrilled to have survived the Athenians' recent invasion and as shocked by the Syracusan victory as everyone else, these unemployed potters are in a mood to celebrate. Of course, they hate the Athenians. Still, that doesn't mean you can't love the theatre of their great playwright Euripides, does it? Realizing that if the Athenians are as doomed as everyone says, this might be their last chance to hear Euripides's poetry, they go down to the quarry where the Athenian prisoners are being held and offer extra rations to any prisoner who can recite his work, a decision that sets into motion an extraordinary series of events. A novel that asks big questions about war and its aftermath, Glorious Exploits is a story as hopeful and playful as it is tragic"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Euripides;
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The mystery of the mosaic / by Paris, Harper.; Calo, Marcos.;
"Ages 5-7"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Twins; Theft;
© c2014., Little Simon,
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Still life / by Winman, Sarah,1964-author.;
1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the wreckage and relive memories of the time she encountered EM Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view. Evelyn's talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses' mind that will shape the trajectory of his life -and of those who love him - for the next four decades.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Art historians; Families; Fate and fatalism; Life change events; Reminiscing; Soldiers; Strangers; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Sniper fire : the fight for Ortona / by Webb, Jonathan,1950-;
A dramatic account of Canada's first major triumph of World War II -- the December 1943 battle for Ortona Italy.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Infantry Division, 1st; Ortona, Battle of, Ortona, Italy, 1943; World War, 1939-1945; Soldiers;
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Thea Stilton and the Roman holiday / by Stilton, Thea.; Brambilla, Valeria.; Pellizzari, Barbara.; Cairoli, Valeria.; Dami, Elisabetta.; Heim, Julia.;
Appeals to 2nd-4th graders.Reading level grade 4.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Thea Sisters (Fictitious characters); Mice; Sisters;
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Oriana : a novel of Oriana Fallaci / by Rubis, Anastasia,author.;
'Oriana' is a debut novel about the glamorous and fearless Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, whom Christiane Amanpour has called her role model, and who holds a place beside Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters when naming world-class interviewers. This novel tells the story of one of the first women to break through the glass ceiling of male-dominated journalism, a woman who wasnt afraid to speak truth to power and who revolutionized her field, all while trying to balance her career with love and happiness.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Fallaci, Oriana; Man-woman relationships; Poets, Greek (Modern); Women journalists;
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The city of the living / by Lagioia, Nicola,1973-author.; Goldstein, Ann,1949-translator.; translation of:Lagioia, Nicola,1973-Città dei vivi.English.;
In March 2016, in a nondescript apartment on the outskirts of Rome, Manuel Foffo and Marco Prato, two "ordinary" young men from good families, brutally murdered twenty-three year old Luca Varani. News of the seemingly inexplicable crime sent shockwaves through Rome and beyond. What motivated such extreme violence? Were the killers evil or in the grip of societal evils? Did they know what they were doing? Or were they possessed? And if the latter, possessed by what? Based on months of interviews, court documentation, and correspondence with the killers themselves, The City of the Living is not only a fast-paced, revelatory thriller in the style of Lisa Taddeo's Animal, it is also a descent into the dark heart of Rome--a city that is unlivable and yet teeming with life, overrun by rats and wild animals, and plagued by corruption, drugs, and violence. Yet, the Eternal City is also a place that, more than any other in the world, seems to inspire a sense of absolute freedom in its inhabitants. Proceeding in concentric circles, Nicola Lagioia leads us through a maze of betrayed expectations, sexual confusion, inability to grow up, economic grievances, crises of identity--progressively tightening the focus of the analysis to locate the breaking point after which anything is possible. As hypnotic as Erik Larson's Devil in the White City, an heir to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and destined to cast on spell on fans of the Morbid podcast, The City of the Living is Nicola Lagioia's most gripping, bestselling, and critically acclaimed novel to-date. Razor-sharp, unputdownable, devastating, it is the story not only of a crime but of human nature itself; of the tension between responsibility and guilt, between the drive to oppress and the desire to be free; of who we are and who we can become.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Varani, Luca, 1993-2016; Assassination;
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Apron strings : navigating food and family in France, Italy, and China / by Wong, Jan,author.;
"Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn't keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up. On their journey, Jan and Sam live and cook with locals, seeing how globalization is changing food, families, and cultures. In southeast France, they move in with a family sheltering undocumented migrants. From Bernadette, the housekeeper, they learn classic French family fare such as blanquette de veau. In a hamlet in the heart of Italy's Slow Food country, the locals teach them how to make authentic spaghetti alle vongole and a proper risotto with leeks. In Shanghai, they cook firecracker chicken and scallion pancakes with the nouveaux riches and their migrant maids, who are part of the biggest demographic shift in world history. Along the way, mother and son explore their sometimes-fraught relationship, uniting--and occasionally clashing--over their mutual love of cooking. A memoir about family, an exploration of the globalization of food cultures, and a meditation on the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, Apron Strings is complex, unpredictable, and unexpectedly hilarious."--
Subjects: Wong, Jan; Food; International cooking.; Globalization.; Families.;
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The ghosts of Rome / by O'Connor, Joseph,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The Escape Line's collapse would leave thousands stranded. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, its architect and the acknowledged leader of The Choir, broods inside the Vatican, paralyzed by the perils of keeping his Roman underground railroad functioning. Meanwhile, SS Commander Paul Hauptmann has been tasked with destroying the entire operation, and the price of failure is high-his wife and children are under Gestapo lock-and-key in Berlin. Into this deliriously thrilling melee steps Contessa Giovanna Landini, a reckless, audacious, and magnetic member of the Italian Resistance who has the nerve to challenge Hauptmann's authority"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; O'Flaherty, Hugh, 1898-1963; Catholic Church; Diplomats; Escapes; Faith; Friendship; Priests; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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