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1) Three fires
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Reimaging the "Bonfire of the Vanities" through a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, this modern take on a fascinating historical story follows Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican friar who, railing against the vice and avarice of the ruling Medici family, was instrumental in their removal from power.
Author
Series
A Sandro Cellini mystery volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 340
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xliii, 379 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
4) The smile
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
260 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about to be deposed, she has no idea of the romance and sorrow that will ensue.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As the last will of a close friend is read, three women discover that they have inherited a legacy from her: the funds to take a dream trip to Florence, Italy, in her memory. With plenty of hilarious travel mishaps along the way, this book is a story of deep friendship, of making room in our lives to celebrate and remember, of grief, of the realization that friendship keeps the memory alive, and the sweet discovery of unexpected romance"--
7) Miss you
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
685 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A witty, poignant, and uplifting story of two lives crisscrossing over the years, with near miss after near miss.
What if you just walked by the love of your life, but didn't even know it? Tess is in Florence on vacation before starting university in London. Gus is on holiday with his parents after a tragedy shattered their lives seven months ago, and is planning for medical school in London. Chance brings these eighteen-year-olds together for a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
France, 1939. At the dawn of World War II, Anne Guichard, a young archivist employed at the Louvre, arrives home to find her brother missing. While she works to discover his whereabouts, refugees begin flooding into Paris and German artillery fire rattles the city. Once they reach Paris, the Nazis will stop at nothing to get their hands on the Louvre's art collection. Anne is quickly sent to the Castle of Chambord, where the Louvre's most precious...