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1) The broker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA.
It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained...
It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having followed her new husband to his native home in rustic Tuscany, Eliana distracts herself from her marital disappointments by caring for her asthmatic son, and reevaluates her life when she meets American art lover Ross Story.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Cut from the Cleveland Browns after the worst performance in the history of the NFL, Rick Dockery, desperate to play football, is hired by the Panthers of Parma, Italy, and finds himself confronted by the confusing diversity of Italian culture, language,and romance.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Learning about a mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, New York doctor Gemma, accompanied by her troublesome teen daughter and interfering mother, find themselves in a crumbling Italian villa in the midst of a disturbing culture clash.
6) Siracusa
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from each other are exposed and relationships are unraveled.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Art restorer Emily Price has never encountered anything she can’t fix—until she meets Ben, an Italian chef, who seems just right. But when Emily follows Ben home to Italy, she learns that his family is another matter... --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Returning to the Tuscan village of his childhood, Leo Pizzola is dismayed by changes in people who were once close to him, and in the wake of a local priest's spiritual crisis, Leo and his best friend stage a series of haphazard would-be miracles.
Author
Series
Rick Montoya Italian mystery volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Joining a friend for a skiing vacation in the Italian Alps, Rick Montoya reluctantly investigates the murder of an American banker and uncovers a wide range of suspects, in a case that is challenged by the victim's heiress sister.
11) Falling in love
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 24
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Attending a performance by a opera star he saved in Death at La Fenice, Brunetti learns that the singer is being stalked by an obsessed fan who subsequently attacks a fellow performer.
12) Brimstone
Author
Series
Pendergast volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a claw print scorched into the wall, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable. Has the devil come to claim his due? Some things can't be undone.
13) Beach music
Author
Publisher
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Jack McCall, an American expatriate in Rome, has been scarred by his wife's betrayal and suicide, and his desperate search for peace over the next three generations draws him into an intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family's past that can bring peace to his broken heart.
Author
Series
Ring of fire volume 15
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Held hostage by a papal usurper, 1635 uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife, Giovanna, become targets in a rescue effort by Harry Lefferts and his infamous Wrecking Crew at the same time the true pope is targeted for assassination.
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1965 Rome, aspiring actress Silvia Whitford seeks out the Italian aunt she's never met who lives in a crumbling castello where Silvia gets cast in a new horror movie, but when her aunt disappears, the film's make-believe terrors seep into reality, revealing a growing menace.
16) The abduction
Author
Series
Carnivia trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a U.S. army officer's daughter's kidnapped from an American base in Venice, Second Lieutenant Holly Boland, Venetian police captain Kat Tapo, and a genius webmaster join forces to find the missing girl and unravel a nefarious plot that reaches back to Italy's dark wartime past.
17) Return to Umbria
Author
Series
Rick Montoya Italian mystery volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Rick’s fourth investigation should not have involved crime. It begins when Rick is asked by his uncle to go to Orvieto to talk some sense into his cousin Fabrizio, whose fling with an older married woman is embarrassing the family. Rick agrees to give it a try, and plans a short but romantic weekend in Orvieto with Betta Innocenti, the woman he met in Bassano. What could go wrong? Less than a day after their arrival, his language skills draw him...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after surviving the fire that killed both his parents, Hollywood stuntman Reb Barnett is summoned to Italy, where he attempts to solve an ancient puzzle that could hold the key to the truth about his parents' deaths.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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 is conquering Fascist-era Rome with cheek and charm. A good deed leaves Sally stranded in wartime Italy, brandishing a...
Author
Series
Tuscan mystery volume 3
Publisher
Soho Crime, Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back to the station in Greve. Laura Benati, the young manager of Hotel Bella Vista, is worried-her bartender and good friend eighty-year-old Cesare Costanzi has been missing for three days. The next morning, Jimmy, co-owner of Bar All'Angolo, Gravigna's local café, where Nico is a frequent patron, runs out...
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