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Author
Series
Marriage to a billionaire volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sexy second book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Marriage to a Billionaire trilogy by "one of the most exciting breakout novelists" (USA TODAY) Jennifer Probst.
To satisfy his late father's wishes, hot and single billionaire Michael Conte must find a bride—someone who will fit into his traditional family back home in Italy—and fast, so his engaged sister will be allowed to wed. With no...
To satisfy his late father's wishes, hot and single billionaire Michael Conte must find a bride—someone who will fit into his traditional family back home in Italy—and fast, so his engaged sister will be allowed to wed. With no...
Author
Series
Godfather series (Mario Puzo) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work—a lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and treachery. . . .
The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore...
The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore...
26) Sailing to Capri
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an English tycoon dies mysteriously, he leaves a note naming six people who might have wanted him dead. Daisy Kean and PI Harry Montana team up to take the suspects-and also six "red herrings"-on a Mediterranean cruise, culminating at his beautiful villa on Capri, where his will is to be read and the killer unmasked. With the beautiful seaside settings plus the beginnings of a romance between loner Montana and wary Daisy, passions flare and
...27) Loyalty
Author
Language
English
Description
Set during the rise of the Mafia in 19th-century Sicily, this epic story of good vs evil follows four individuals—a desperate lemon grower; an idealistic lawyer with a secret life; a new mother; and a reclusive goatherd under constant threat of being discovered as a Jew—as their lives collide.
28) Palazzo: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
The head of her family’s haute couture Italian leather brand, Cosima Saverio, partnering with France’s most successful handbag company, must make an impossible choice when her brother loses a hefty sum at the casino and his debt must be repaid with money or his life.
29) Roman stories
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity"--
30) Siracusa
Author
Language
English
Description
Secrets and relationships unravel for two couples vacationing on coastal Sicily in a tale told from alternating points of view that gradually reveals an affair and a precocious ten-year-old's role in the group's psychological undoing.
31) Miss you
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A wryly romantic debut story about two strangers who meet briefly as teens in Florence and whose paths cross again many times over the course of the next sixteen years, until they're finally brought back together.
Author
Series
Dodsworth volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dodsworth and his duck companion have a lovely time in Rome, even though the duck tries to improve the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and takes all the coins from the Trevi Fountain.
33) Bridge of sighs
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six years after the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns
with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.
Louis Charles (“Lucy”) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty...
with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.
Louis Charles (“Lucy”) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty...
Author
Series
Call me by your name novels volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime.
36) One thing stolen
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nadia Cara is in Florence, Italy with her family because her professor father is researching the 1966 flood, but Nadia herself is in trouble--she has turned into a kleptomaniac and she feels detached from everything, except for an elusive Italian boy whom no one but herself has seen.
Author
Series
Marriage to a billionaire volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Carina Conte starts working within her brother Michael's bakery empire, she rekindles an old crush on Michael's best friend, Max, who is also the company's new CEO.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Upon returning to Italy, fourteen-year-old Roberto struggles to survive, first on his own, then as a member of the resistance, fighting against the Nazi occupiers while yearning to reach home safely and for an end to the war.
40) The weeds
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two women—a reluctant botanist and a thief indentured to an English botanist—connected across time, catalog species growing through the jungle of the Roman Colosseum, calculating intangible threats and the ways repeated violence can upend women’s lives.
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