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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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ChevalierEvans, Richard Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION EVABaily, Ginny
Summary: Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family. Claiming the woman's son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands his return; only as the trucks depart does she realize what she has done. She is twenty-seven, with a sister who needs her constant care, a hazardous journey ahead, and now a child in her charge. Several...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAITrigiani, Adriana
Summary: Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother's great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew. . . . In the halcyon past, Domenica Cabrelli...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TRIChiofalo, Rosanna
Summary: In the fields around Tuscany in summertime, sunflowers grow in profusion--wave upon wave of gold and green standing tall against the Italian sky. But for Signora Maria Ferraro, the bright yellow blooms carry only bitter memories. Though she loved them as a child, sunflowers have come to represent the most painful episode of her life. Not even her cherished daughter, Anabella, knows what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIValmorbida, Elise
Summary: "This epic novel follows the life of a woman in the hardscrabble Italian countryside, from her girlhood through marriage and motherhood through two World Wars and during the Fascist party rule. A sweeping saga about womanhood, religion, loyalty, war, family, motherhood, and marriage, The Madonna of the Mountains is set in Italy during the 1920s to the 1950s, and follows its heroine, Maria...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Valmorbida 2017Robson, Jennifer
Summary: To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer's wife in this story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events from the most perilous days of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBLahiri, Jhumpa
Summary: "A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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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 2016Rivière, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002
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Summary: For Lucy Gray, the chance to go to Italy offers more than just gardens. Lake Como is where her father lives. Helen Madison-Tyler and her husband have moved into the Old Rectory. With her husband spending time away from home, she throws herself into caring for the garden. She needs help, and friends, and so decides to join the local Garden Club.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2006
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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 ARDRushdie, Salman.
Summary: Rushdie pens the story of a European traveler and the extraordinary tale he shares with 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar the Great. The traveler claims to be the son of a Mughal princess forgotten by time. If his tale is true, what happened to the princess?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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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 RUSAdler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
Summary: Learning about a mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, New York doctor Gemma, accompanied by her troublesome teen daughter and interfering mother, find themselves in a crumbling Italian villa in the midst of a disturbing culture clash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADLPerry, Anne
Summary: "On her first mission for MI6, the daring young photographer at the heart of bestselling author Anne Perry's thrilling 1930s mystery series travels to Mussolini's Italy to rescue the lover who betrayed her. Britain's secret service, MI6, has lost contact with its informant in northern Italy, just as important intel about the future plans of Austria and Nazi Germany is coming to light. And young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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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: Fiction Robson 2021Patterson, James
Summary: The world is watching as massive crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new pope, one who promises to be unlike any other in history. It's a turning point that may change the Church forever. Some followers are ecstatic that the movement reinvigorating the Church is about to reach the Vatican, but the leading candidate has made a legion of powerful enemies who aren't afraid to kill for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "Ginny Splinter, acclaimed radio host and advice expert, is sure her husband, Adrian, will love the special trip to Italy she's planned for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. But when Ginny presents the gift to Adrian, he surprises her with his own very different plan--a divorce. Beside herself with heartache, Ginny impulsively invites four heartbroken listeners to join her in Italy while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATForster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
Summary: "A tour of Italy takes young Lucy Honeychurch out of her predictable life in Edwardian England and places her into a new world that even her chaperoning spinster aunt cannot control. Encountering everything from unlikely traveling companions to street violence, Lucy faces the greatest challenge in understanding her own shifting emotions toward a most unsuitable suitor. Since it first appeared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and The Blue Guitar--a dazzling new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected (and completely stand-alone) territory. Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANJenner, Natalie
Summary: "In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her life. Her latest play, the only female-authored play on the London stage that season, has opened in the West End to rapturous applause from the audience. The reviewers, however, are not as impressed as the playgoers and their savage notices not only shut down the play but ruin Lowry's last chance for a dramatic career. With her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction JennerShaykh, Ḥanān
Summary: In this frank and fearless novel, acclaimed writer Hanan al-Shaykh follows the tumultuous lives and sometimes shocking choices of women successful in their careers but unlucky in love. On a sunny beach on the Italian Riviera, two thirtysomething women, Yvonne and Huda, relax by the sparkling sea. But despite the setting, as their vacation unfolds, their complicated pasts seep through to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2018