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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When he's appraised at the last minute of a mandatory meeting abroad, Stone Barrington rushes off to Rome for a whirlwind trip of business and, of course, pleasure. But trouble is brewing, and Stone may be facing more than he bargained for. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Songs of the seraphim volume 2
Language
English
Description
The second book in nationally bestselling Songs of the Seraphim series is a gripping metaphysical thriller in which angels partner up with assassins, from the author of Interview with the Vampire.
Barely recovered from his previous divine mission, former contract killer Toby O'Dare is once again summoned by the angel Malchiah to investigate the poisoning of a prominent nobleman and stop the haunting of a diabolical dybbuk....
Barely recovered from his previous divine mission, former contract killer Toby O'Dare is once again summoned by the angel Malchiah to investigate the poisoning of a prominent nobleman and stop the haunting of a diabolical dybbuk....
3) Woman of God
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
St. Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen. Is it possible that the new Pope is a woman? The world is watching as historic crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new Pope, one who promises to be unlike any other in the Church's history. Some followers are ecstatic, but the leading candidate has made a legion of powerful enemies. From a difficult childhood with drug addled parents, to a career as a doctor on...
Author
Series
Adventures of Bella and Harry volume 8
Publisher
Bella & Harry
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Follows two Chihuahuas, Bella and Harry, as they tour Rome, Italy with their human family.
8) The game
Author
Series
Victor the assassin volume 3
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After completing a hit on a fellow assassin in Algiers, deadly contract killer Victor is hired by the CIA for an assignment what will take him across Europe to the blood-stained streets of Rome.
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
In this alternate history, the sequel to Hannibal's Children, Rome once again rises to power after its devastating defeat by Hannibal's Carthaginian forces, but now Roman commander Marcus Scipio is confronted by a new challenge.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sarah keeps a journal of her pilgrimage to Rome with her eccentric grandmother, Z, her evolving relationship with best friend Curtis, and daily conversations with Curtis's sister and star athlete, D.J.
11) The order
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 20
Language
English
Description
Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much-needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Proposing a trip to Rome in the guise of performing an act of charity while secretly hoping to seduce her distant husband, Margie is dismayed by her husband's unwillingness and the enthusiasm of several fellow passengers, who share with Margie stories from their own pasts.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Desperate for a new start in life at age fifty-two, Claire takes a chance on a trip to Rome to assist the funny, fearless nuns at a struggling convent, and confronts her own missed connection with convent life in the past as well as an old flame who reappears in her life just as she's about to make a momentous decision.
14) 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
Magic bone volume 3
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Sparky is off to Rome! Will he be able to outsmart the cunning Italian cat who has stolen his bone, or will he have to stay in Rome forever?"--
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.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married—one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered by Lucrezia’s own brother, Cesar Borgia. She is cast in the role of murderess, temptress, incestuous lover, loose woman, femme fatale par excellence. But there is always more than...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Hardcover
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Praised by critics and readers alike for his international bestseller The Stonehenge Legacy, Sam Christer continues to weave an irresistible plot of conspiracies and murder in one of the world's most captivating cities. A woman has been arrested in the streets of Rome. She's young. She's beautiful. She's covered in blood. And she claims to be an ancient prophet in search of a mystical amulet hidden somewhere within the city. Ex-priest Tom Shaman...
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...
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