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2) The broker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the worlds most sophisticated...
3) Beach music
Author
Language
English
Description
Jack McCall, a writer who moved to Rome to flee his family, returns to South Carolina where his mother is dying and makes peace with them, including Jewish in-laws he couldn't stand and who blamed him for his wife's suicide.
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Language
English
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Description
"Emily Price, art restorer and would-be artist, finds herself in Atlanta, restoring objects recovered from a house fire. As she strives to make all the pieces of her life fit, secure a gallery opening for her own art, and care for her sister and mother, she finds herself enthralled by Chef Benito Hillam, who is in town from Italy visiting his brother Joseph, Emily's boss. Ben spends all his time cooking and repeatedly proposing marriage to Emily....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1902, this is a story of deceit and betrayal, as well as of forgiveness. Milly Theale is an heiress with a short time to live and a passion for experiencing life to its fullest. Merton Densher is the man she loves, and the magnificent, predatory Kate Croy is the woman he loves, and will conspire with against Millie.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"In Italy, the cardinal vicar of Rome is assassinated during a celebration of the pope's birthday. In Los Angeles, highly successful entertainment lawyer Harry Addison finds a desperate message on his telephone answering machine from his long-estranged brother, Daniel, a priest in the Vatican. Hours later a tour bus on which Father Daniel is traveling explodes on the road to Assisi."--BOOK JACKET. "Arriving in Rome to investigate Danny's death and...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"'See Naples and die.' To Heddi those words ring true. There is nothing more heartbreakingly beautiful than this city built on Roman ruins and set against a sleeping volcano. Despite years of navigating the narrow, winding streets of Naples's Spanish Quarter, the city never fails to instill in her the pain of longing, a desire to belong. A place she wants to call home despite being l'americano or the American. For Heddi's group of university friends,...
Author
Series
Boy series volume 3
Publisher
Avon Trade
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Jane Harris and Cal Langdon accompany their best friends, Holly and Mark, on a planned elopement to Italy, they are forced to come to the rescue when the Italian government refuses to marry the pair without a special form.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
"Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient. When something is discovered in the victim's apartment that suggests the existence of a high level conspiracy, Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere, is taking great pains to provide a ready-made...
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Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"Liz Davis' life is going exactly as planned. But just as things seem to be perfect, her whole world comes crashing down. Can she find her hilltop in this valley? The sequel to 'A Garden in Paris'"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game against Denver, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game." "With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughingstock and, of course, was immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all...
17) Alibi
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Language
English
Description
Adam Miller, a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany during World War II, travels to Venice in 1946 to meet up with his wealthy expatriate mother, and finds the city untouched, but the people deeply ravaged by the war, a fact that becomes dangerously clear when his lover Claudia, a Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust, meets up with the Venetian doctor who happens to be his mother's new suitor.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Eliana moved to Italy the future was bright with promise. But once she settled into the small village, she found her husband to be a very different man. Over time he distanced himself from her, leaving her to care for their young son.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1965 Rome, aspiring actress, Silvia Whitford, seeks out the Italian aunt she’s never met who lives in a crumbling castello where Silvia gets cast in a new horror movie, but when her aunt disappears, the film’s make-believe terrors seep into reality, revealing a growing menace.
Author
Series
Marriage to a billionaire volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English