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Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
Eighteen-year-old Marianna De'Angelis has grown up on her father's fishing boat off the picturesque coast of Sicily, Italy. She traverses the nearby countryside on horseback and bicycle and works alongside her mother selling fish at market. It is a simple, happy life. But when WWII erupts and the Nazis overtake the country, Marianna's peaceful world is shattered.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
One night, Inspector Montalbano dreams of a stormy sea, which he knows represents unease and loss of control. The next day, a boat is found in the port of Vigata, and within it, the body of a disfigured corpse. The waterfront has also drawn in an eighty-five-foot luxury boat passengered by fifty carefree souls and a somewhat shadowy crew. They will have to stay in Vigata until the investigation is over--the man, it seems, was poisoned. However, right...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Early one morning, Silvio Lupanello, a big shot in the village of Vỉgta, is found dead in his car with his pants around his knees. The car happens to be parked in a rough part of town frequented by prostitutes and drug dealers, and as the news of his death spreads, the rumors begin. Enter Inspector Salvo Montalbano, Vỉgta's most respected detective. With his characteristic mix of humor, cynicism, compassion, and love of good food, Montalbano goes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Vig�ata 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, March 27 and always the same shot; the outside wall of...
Author
Series
Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
Unabridged
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Part-time CIA operative Mrs. Pollifax is dispatched to sunny Sicily to help her sometimes colleague Farrell who has been wounded and is trapped in a mountain village. But soon Mrs. Pollifax herself is a target for professional killers.
6) Loyalty
Author
Language
English
Description
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 history of Sicily--forever.
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