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1) 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.
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vicky Bliss, a beautiful brainy art historian, is embroiled in a mystery involving a forgery ring, meticulously produced antique jewelry and a handsome English rascal.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Mandie and her friends board an express train for Rome, she spots the vanishing women who has been following them. She decides to find out who the woman is and what she wants.
4) The weeds
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two women botanists, connected across time, confront desire, ambition, and the seeming inevitability of violence"--
Author
Series
Nancy Drew Files volume 73
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Nancy, Bess, and George take an innocent shopping spree to Rome, they become the targets of a crime spree. They accidently buy a valuable necklace for a few lire. It turns out to be stolen and someone is trying to get it back.
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.
10) To love again
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
c1980.
Language
English
Description
Isabella is shocked when her wealthy and powerful husband becomes the victim of a brutal kidnapping. Still grieving, she finally tries to love again.
12) The affair
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Rome 1961. Diana Bailey arrives on the film set of Cleopatra to begin work as a historical advisor and strikes up a friendship with Helen, a young make-up artist. As she adjusts to a new life away from her troubled marriage, Diana seeks solace in Ernesto, a charismatic member of the film crew. But as she grows closer to him, she spends less time with Helen, who is harboring a dark secret of her own.
Author
Publisher
Coward-McCann
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
Forrest, a young American businessman, has broken off with his wife when he meets the adolescent Marcello at the top of the Spanish Steps. Through a relationship not approved of by conventional morality, the two are eventually able to help each other solve the difficulties that beset their lives. -- adapted from jacket
15) Daisy Miller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, NY, who traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American Expatriate community in Rome.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Desperate for a new start in life at age fifty-two, Claire takes a chance on a trip to Rome to assist the funny, fearless nuns at a struggling convent, and confronts her own missed connection with convent life in the past as well as an old flame who reappears in her life just as she's about to make a momentous decision.
20) The sacred cut
Author
Series
Nic Costa mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
For the first time in decades Rome is paralyzed by a blizzard, and a gruesome discovery is made in the Pantheon, one of the City's most ancient and revered architectural treasures. Covered by softly falling snow is the body of a young woman--her back horribly mutilated. But before Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni of the Questura can begin a formal investigation, the US Embassy has brought in its own people, FBI agents who want the case closed down as quickly...