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- Palace of the drowned / by Mangan, Christine(Christine Rose),author.;
"It's 1966 and Frankie Croy needs a break. Having achieved success with her debut bestseller, she's been trying desperately to live up to the high expectations of her editor and fans, only to fall short with each new book. When she receives a possible career-ending review and then has a very public breakdown, she retreats to her friend's vacant palazzo in Venice in the hopes the new setting will rejuvenate her creativity and inspire her writing. But she finds that she's just as stuck. And then she meets a fellow British expat, a precocious young fan named Gilly who is eager to befriend her favorite author at all costs. An aspiring writer, Gilly worms herself into Frankie's Venetian life and the two begin an uneasy companionship. Frankie is skeptical of someone so relentlessly chipper, and Gilly tells stories that seem too good to be true, and in fact some of them are. This complicated web of desperate friendship, half-truths, and white lies-all set against a once-in-a-generation storm that inundates Venice and leaves it flooded-will lead Frankie to make a choice that is impossible to undo. A gorgeously rendered and twisted tale of art and ambition, Palace of the Drowned is a literary thriller that asks just how far one is willing to go to achieve success"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novelists; Fans (Persons); Female friendship; Truthfulness and falsehood; Ambition; Floods;
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- The lost boy of Santa Chionia / by Grames, Juliet,author.;
"Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there's no mail, either. Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don't the police come and investigate? When an old woman begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions. As an outsider, she might be the only person who can uncover the truth. Or she might be getting in over her head. As she attempts to juggle a nosy landlady, a suspiciously dashing shepherd, and a network of local families bound together by a code of silence, Francesca finds herself forced to choose between the charitable mission that brought her to Santa Chionia, and her future happiness, between truth and survival. Set in the wild heart of Calabria, a land of sheer cliff faces, ancient tradition, dazzling sunlight-and one of the world's most ruthless criminal syndicates-The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is a suspenseful puzzle mystery, a captivating romance, and an affecting portrait of a young woman in search of a meaningful life"--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Missing persons; Nineteen sixties; Secrecy; Young women;
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- Palazzo : a novel / by Steel, Danielle,author.;
"A captivating new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers"--- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Clothing trade; Siblings; Families; Family-owned business enterprises; Man-woman relationships;
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- Palazzo [text (large print)] : a novel / by Steel, Danielle,author.;
"A captivating new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers"--- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Clothing trade; Siblings; Families; Family-owned business enterprises; Man-woman relationships;
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- Inkheart / by Funke, Cornelia,1958-;
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Fiction.; Juvenile works.; Fantasy fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Books and reading; Characters and characteristics in literature; Magic; Bookbinding; Authorship; Books and reading; Characters in literature; Magic; Bookbinding; Authorship; Fantasy.; Authorship.; Bookbinding.; Books and reading.; Characters and characteristics in literature.; Magic.; Books and reading; Characters and characteristics in literature; Magic; Authorship; Books and reading; Characters in literature.; Magic; Authorship;
- © [2005], ©2003., Scholastic,
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- The first omen [videorecording] / by Braga, Sonia,1950-actor.; Free, Nell Tiger,1999-actor.; Goyer, David S.,film producer.; Ineson, Ralph,1969-actor.; Jacoby, Ben,screenwriter.; Levin, Keith,film producer.; Smith, Tim,screenwriter.; Stevenson, Arkasha,film director,screenwriter.; Thomas, Keith,1975-screenwriter.; 20th Century Studios,presenter.; Phantom Four (Firm),production company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Original score by Mark Korven ; edited by Bob Murawski, Amy E. Duddleston ; director of photography, Aaron Morton.Nell Tiger Free, Tawfeek Barhom, Sonia Braga, Ralph Ineson, Bill Nighy, Charles Dance, Mia Mcgovern Zaini.When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for brief graphic nudity, violent content, and grisly/disturbing images.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Horror films.; Feature films.; Catholic Church; Conspiracies; Good and evil; Supernatural; Satanism; Prophecies; Antichrist;
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- In the garden of monsters / by King, Crystal,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.A fresh twist on the love story of Hades and Persephone with the creepy atmosphere of 'Mexican Gothic', this historical fantasy follows a woman with no past as she enters Italy's Garden of Monsters in 1948 and begins to suspect she's the queen of the Underworld reincarnated.- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Mythological fiction.; Novels.; Hades (Greek deity); Persephone (Greek deity); Gods; Reincarnation;
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- The Villa / by Hawkins, Rachel,1979-author.;
"As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974 it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon. In an attempt to reignite his creative spark, Noel invites up-and-coming musician Pierce Sheldon to join him, as well as Pierce's girlfriend Mari and her stepsister Lara. But he also sets in motion a chain of events that leads to Mari writing one of the greatest horror novels of all time, Lara composing a platinum album--and ... Pierce's brutal murder"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Gothic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Female friendship; Murder; Secrecy; Siblings;
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- The Villa [sound recording] / by Hawkins, Rachel,1979-author.; Arserio, Shiromi,narrator.; Whelan, Julia,1984-narrator.; Wetherell, Kimberly M.,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Shiromi Arserio, Julia Whelan, and Kimberly M. Wetherell."As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974 it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon. In an attempt to reignite his creative spark, Noel invites up-and-coming musician Pierce Sheldon to join him, as well as Pierce's girlfriend Mari and her stepsister Lara. But he also sets in motion a chain of events that leads to Mari writing one of the greatest horror novels of all time, Lara composing a platinum album--and ... Pierce's brutal murder"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Psychological fiction.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Female friendship; Murder; Secrecy; Siblings;
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- Kingdom of the Wicked / by Maniscalco, Kerri.;
Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe -- witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin... desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost -- even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden.LSC- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Twin sisters; Sisters; Demonology; Murder; Witches; Magic; Serial murderers; Restaurants;
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