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bibliography Fiction. Historical fiction. Love stories. Novels. Romance fiction. War fiction.Melandri, Francesca
Summary: Story of Eva, a forty-year-old from Alto Adige. One night Eva receives a phone call from Reggio Calabria, in southern Italy. Vito, a carabiniere who served for years in Alto Adige, is dying and would like to see Eva one last time. Vito served in Alto Adige during the seventies, years of darkness and tension. However, that did not stop the love between Vito, and Gerda, Eva's mother, a young cook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Melandri 2016Rushdie, Salman.
Summary: A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself "Mogor dell'Amore," the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Köz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSRobson, Jennifer
Summary: Hiding from the Nazis in the guise of a Christian farmer's wife, a Jewish woman is met with suspicion by a Nazi official who harbors a vendetta against the former seminary student posing as her husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Robson 2021Flumeri, Elisabetta
Summary: "Escape to the winding cobblestone streets and rolling hills of Tuscany in this delicious, romantic, and charming tale of irresistible attraction and dreams fulfilled, complete with mouthwatering authentic Italian recipes--perfect for fans of Chocolat and Under the Tuscan Sun. Margherita is a spirited young woman with a passion for cooking. When her heart is broken in Rome, she returns to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLUDunant, Sarah.
Summary: The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNGable, Michelle
Summary: "1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotnà is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers. Despite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers, and others--now nicknamed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABSpencer, Elizabeth
Summary: Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021