Camilleri, Andrea
Summary: "Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigata in that time. Engineer Ernesto Sabatello, while rummaging in the attic of his house, finds some films shot by his father from 1958 to 1963, always on the same day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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Summary: "From the international bestselling author of The Children's Train comes a heartrending coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centuries-old tradition to win the right to control her own life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARDScottoline, Lisa
Summary: Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and even the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SCOSummary: It is the haunting, hypnotic tale of a mysterious disappearance set in a little Sicilian village on the edge of a forest. Thirteen-year-old Luna, always dreaming, has a crush on her handsome classmate Giuseppe; they begin a tentative romance. But one day Giuseppe fails to show up at school. As the days pass with no sign of him, Luna tries to raise concern with family and friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SICSummary: In this prequel series to Detective Montalbano, watch the genesis of the friendships, the rivalries and the romance as the players arrive to take their places in the beautiful Sicilian town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: All the beloved, irascible Auntie Poldi wanted from her Sicilian retirement was time to enjoy the sunshine, a free-flowing supply of wine, and a sultry romance with Chief Inspector Vito Montana. But then her idyll is rudely disrupted by the last person she wants to see on her doorstep: John Owenya, detective inspector with the Tanzanian Ministry of Home Affairs, who is also her estranged lying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: After the resounding success of Eternal, Lisa Scottoline delivers Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. Franco dreams of owning a lemon farm, even though only noblemen own farms in the rigid class system of Palermo. He works hard and does whatever the Baron demands, including arranging the kidnapping of a little boy. Gaetano, an idealistic young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SCOSummary: In this prequel series to Detective Montalbano, watch the genesis of the friendships, the rivalries and the romance as the players arrive to take their places in the beautiful Sicilian town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUSummary: In this prequel series to Detective Montalbano, watch the genesis of the friendships, the rivalries and the romance as the players arrive to take their places in the beautiful Sicilian town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUSummary: A ballet based on Shakespeare's tragicomedy that focuses on King Leontes, who accuses his boyhood friend of betrayal, condemns his wife for adultery, and banishes his newborn daughter. The story is taken up fifteen years later when the wronged and innocent parties are re-united with the king who has since come to his senses and now lives in a state of perpetual grief and regret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA WINScottoline, Lisa
Summary: Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and even the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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Summary: "1870s Sicily. Much to the displeasure of Vigàta's stubborn populace, the town has just been unified under the Kingdom of Italy. The regional representative from the Italian government is hell-bent on producing a mediocre opera, The Brewer of Preston, in their new municipal theater and the Vigàtese are revving up to wreak havoc on opening night"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Camilleri 2015Giordano, Mario
Summary: When prosecco-loving Auntie Poldi retired to Sicily from Germany, she never dreamt her tranquil days would be interrupted by murder. But Sicily had other plans, and Poldi found herself honor-bound to solve the disappearance of her beloved (and cute) handyman. Now, she's finally ready for some peace and quiet--interrupted by romantic encounters with handsome Chief Inspector Montana, of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Summary: Inspector Montalbano's investigation into a series of odd kidnappings involving bank employees who are released hours later is complicated by a missing business owner suspected of arson, a secret affair, and a dead body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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Summary: Set in the 1860s, a story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOMCamilleri, Andrea.
Summary: The moody Inspector Montalbano is further beset by the existential questions that have been plaguing him of late. But he doesn't have much time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man--shot at point-blank range in the face with his pants down--commands his attention. Add two evasive, beautiful women as prime suspects, some dirty cocaine, mysterious computer codes, and a series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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Summary: Laura Biel's new life in Sicily looks like the perfect fairy tale of wealth and luxury. But with a threat of her kidnapping, Laura is about to discover what it means to be married to the most dangerous man in Italy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: After leaving his home in pursuit of a military career, Sicilian nobleman Vitello Scarpia finds himself expelled from the Spanish royal guard and left to seek his fortune in Italy. Scarpia enrolls in the papal army and is soon taken up by a countess eager to have a handsome young officer at her side. She introduces Scarpia into Roman society. He is both enthralled and agitated by its mix of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 0000
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Summary: "A new novel, set in North Africa and Sicily at the end of World War II, by the author Julian Barnes called one of the best British writers to emerge in the last decade"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOUShaara, Jeff
Summary: As the forces of Nazi Germany overrun the nations of Europe and America is drawn into the war by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American troops and their British allies launch a campaign to stop Hitler on battlefields ranging from the deserts of North Africa to the rugged mountains of Sicily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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Summary: "In this highly anticipated second book in the Talents Trilogy, the world of the dead is closer than you think. Agrigento, Sicily, 1883. With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished. His only hope of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine-long-hidden, thought lost-which might not even exist. But when a body is discovered in the shadow of Cairndale, a body wreathed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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Piazza, Jo
Summary: "Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024