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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A suspenseful, transporting literary thriller about a British novelist who heads to Venice after a public breakdown, by Christine Mangan, the bestselling author of Tangerine. 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...
44) Gabriella's song
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A young girl finds music all around her as she walks about the city of Venice, Italy, and she shares her song with everyone she meets.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Language
English
Description
Prosperous merchant Master Ashby travels with his daughter, his clerk, and his sister from London to Venice to investigate pirate attacks, and, once he arrives, he also agrees to look into the disappearance of a Jewish girl who has vanished from the Venetian Ghetto, uncovering a link between the two cases and finding his life in danger.
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Language
English
Description
The twenty-fifth mystery in the New York Times–bestselling series “is cause for celebration. . . . Leon brilliantly exposes the corrupt world of Venice” (Bay Area Reporter).
At a fundraising dinner for a Venetian charity, a wealthy and aristocratic patroness asks Brunetti if he will investigate the fifteen-year-old attempted drowning of her granddaughter, which left the girl...
At a fundraising dinner for a Venetian charity, a wealthy and aristocratic patroness asks Brunetti if he will investigate the fifteen-year-old attempted drowning of her granddaughter, which left the girl...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
When Nicholas Brink leaves New York City to join Clay Guillory in Italy, he thinks he knows what he's getting into. His more experienced boyfriend has come into a small inheritance from an eccentric bohemian artist: the windfall consists of counterfeit heirlooms as well as a share in a decrepit Venetian palazzo. Clay hopes to use Nick's connection to an antiques dealer to unload the fake silver on a brash, unsuspecting American. Clay's smarts and...
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Series
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English
Description
Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti is called away from dinner late one night to the death of a widow in her modest apartment. When the medical examiner rules that she died of a heart attack there seems to be no crime to solve, but Brunetti can't shake the feeling that something or someone may have triggered the heart attack. With the help of Inspector Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signora Elettra, perhaps he can find the truth - and justice....
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English
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When Emma Callum, Emily's childhood nemesis, turns to Emily for help when she as been wrongly accused of murder, Lady Emily immediately comes to Venice, where the investigation takes her from palazzi to slums, libraries, and bordellos as she must unravel a centuries-old puzzle.
Author
Series
Good thief's guide volume 4
Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
pc2011
Language
English
Description
After a particularly bad streak of luck in Vegas, Charlie has retreated to Venice, having vowed to give up a life of crime to write crime fiction full-time. But inspiration has yet to strike. And to make matters worse, Charlie's agent Victoria shows up at his door just as his prized first edition of The Maltese Falcon flies out the window with a femme-fatale burglar. Blackmailed into committing a dastardly crime in order to get his book back, Charlie...
52) Give unto others
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Series
Language
English
Description
"What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It's a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give unto Others, Donna Leon's splendid thirty-first installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series. Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti's mother, so he feels obliged to at least look into the matter privately,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in Transient Desires, the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident,...
Author
Series
Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 6
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
On a family vacation in Venice, Olivia indulges in gelato, rides in a gondola, and finds the perfect souvenir.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster.
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