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(0)John Berendt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble--foundations shift, marble ornaments fall--even as efforts to preserve them are underway. This book opens in 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house, a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective--inquiring...
Author
Publisher
Viking/Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Author John Berendt chronicles the lives of baby blue jays after he notices a nest outside his office window and follows their lives from eggs to hatchlings to full grown birds.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Affable Jim Williams is hosting one of the most important parties of the Savannah Christmas season. John Kelso is a magazine reporter who finds himself amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on the party. His curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim's violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Between being Jim's buddy, cuddling up to a torch singer,...
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