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Caletti, Deb

Summary: When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it's a dream come true. Writing is her passion, she loves Bruni's books, and going to that romantic and magical sinking city gives her the chance to solve a long-time family mystery about a Venetian poet deep in their lineage, Isabella Di Angelo, who just might be the real author of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAL

Chevalier, Tracy

Summary: "It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass--but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision. When her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work supports the Rosso family fortunes....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

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Chevalier, Tracy

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Summary: "In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, Italy. As a woman, she is not meant to blow glass--but when her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work becomes the cornerstone of the Rosso family fortunes. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CHE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Chevalier

Chokshi, Roshani

Summary: "Returning to the dark and glamorous 19th century world of her New York Times instant bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with the final riveting tale as full of mystery and danger as ever in The Bronzed Beasts. After Séverin's seeming betrayal, the crew is fractured. Armed with only a handful of hints, Enrique, Laila, Hypnos and Zofia must find their way through the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHO

Leon, Donna.

Summary: In a mystery that offers an unexpected take on life in contemporary Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti plunges into the Venetian underworld of illegal African immigrants as he investigates after a street vendor is killed in a scuffle.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners/BBC Audiobooks America 2005

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Leon, Donna

Summary: An accident involving the father of a boy suspected of doing drugs finds Commissario Guido Brunetti pursuing a series of false and contradictory leads before uncovering a long-standing scam and unleashing unintentional consequences.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEO

Paris, Harper

Summary: In Venice, Italy, second graders Ethan and Ella hope to find a stolen gondola and a hidden mosaic before their parents realize they are missing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC PAR

McKay, Hilary

Summary: When eleven-year-old Rosa Mundi meets a talking cat, she discovers a world of magic that may save her from her odious aunt and uncle who leave her stranded in Venice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MCK

Leon, Donna

Summary: While trying to unlock the secrets around the death of an undocumented immigrant, Commissario Brunetti discovers that a connection to own past might just be the key.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEO

Leon, Donna

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEO
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Leon, Donna

Summary: When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding."They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no," Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently-deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto. Even though he is not sure she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LEO

Leon, Donna

Summary: 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEO

Leon, Donna

Summary: Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never was.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Leon, Donna.

Summary: Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti investigates when a Romanian housekeeper is falsely accused of murdering her employer.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners Pub. Corp. 2004

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEO

Leon, Donna.

Summary: In a mystery that offers an unexpected take on life in contemporary Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti plunges into the Venetian underworld of illegal African immigrants as he investigates after a street vendor is killed in a scuffle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEO

Leon, Donna.

Summary: Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti investigates when a Romanian housekeeper is falsely accused of murdering her employer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEO

Bowen, Rhys

Summary: "Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper ... Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet "Lettie" Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2021

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Steel, Danielle

Summary: After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at age twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Leon, Donna

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LEO

Potter, Alexandra.

Summary: Ten years after sealing their young love by kissing under Venice's Bridge of Sighs, Lucy and Nate have lost touch but are suddenly brought back together, with miserable consequences.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POT

Christer, Sam.

Summary: When ex-priest Tom Shaman takes a last-minute trip to Venice, he is enlisted by Italian investigator Valentina Morassi to trace a series of ritualistic killings through the centuries, all connected with a priceless Etruscan mosaic known as the Gates of Hell.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: HOT TITLE

Fiorato, Marina.

Summary: "Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man, more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague--and the Turkish Sultan has his revenge. But the ship also holds a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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James, Henry

Summary: Kate Croy and Merton Densher, poor and secretly engaged, try to encourage the interest of Milly Theale, a fatally ill young heiress.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAM

Steel, Danielle

Summary: After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at age twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC STE

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