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Emily Andrew leads a group from Iowa on a trip to Italy and finds they are sharing their itinerary with a group of competitive aspiring romance writers. Their hotel burns to the ground, Emily's lost luggage is found, and a contest sponsored by a publishing house becomes deadly as bodies turn up dressed in Emily's favorite outfits.
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Thirteen-year-old Irene Benenati, a top soccer player on the girl's team at her Missouri school, plays on a fiercely competitive boy's soccer team during the year her family spends in Italy and experiences culture clashes both on and off the field.
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Justin's Haythe's remarkably assured debut, The Honeymoon, has been compared to the work of Ford Madox Ford and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in London and Venice at the end of the twentieth century, The Honeymoon follows a young man as he looks back on a series of events that have caused his life to unravel. Traveling through the capitals of Europe with his eccentric mother Maureen, American born Gordon Garraty has led a life of barren privilege. Only...
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Back in Venice after a long absence, Urbino Macintyre pursues a blackmailer For two years, Urbino Macintyre has been away from his beloved city, wandering the streets of Morocco in search of material for his next book. When he steps off the train and into a gondola in Venice, he knows he has come home. His first stop is to see his beloved friend, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini, a society butterfly who has two years of gossip stored up for him. But...
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"In this smart, tender, insightful novel, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin introduces two very different women who, over the course of two unforgettable weeks, learn about unbreakable bonds, unshakeable love, and the chances that come once in a lifetime-and change us forever...When Elizabeth Caldwell planned a trip to Florence with her daughter, Marina, she secretly hoped for a warm, fuzzy bonding experience worthy of a Lifetime movie. But Marina--twenty-one,...
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"August, 1943. Fourteen-year-old Massimo is all alone. Newly orphaned and fleeing from Rome after surviving the American bombing raid that killed his parents, Massimo is attacked by thugs and finds himself bloodied at the base of the Montecassino. It is there in the Benedictine abbey's shadow that a charismatic and cryptic man calling himself Pietro Houdini, the self-proclaimed 'Master Artist and confidante of the Vatican,' rescues Massimo and brings...
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Aspiring writer Adam Woods, just out of university, secures a job as assistant to reclusive Gordon Crace, a famous author living in a crumbling palazzo in Venice, but his decision to make Crace the subject of his first book puts Woods at odds with his mysterious employer who does not want his secrets told.
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"Moving between the Second World War and the present, an exhilarating debut novel in the vein of Jennifer Robson, Kate Quinn, and Natasha Lester, about two women, decades apart, whose fates converge in Florence, Italy. Only fourteen, Stella Infuriati is the youngest member of her town's resistance network during World War II. Risking torture and death, she relays messages, supplies, and weapons to partisan groups in the Tuscan hills. Her parents have...
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Stripped of her defenses...;
Italy's most desirable playboy, Gianluca Benedetti, might not initially recognize Ava Lord as the beautiful bridesmaid who stole his breath and shared his bed all those years ago, but one glimpse of the curves beneath her buttoned-up clothes and it all comes rushing back!
When a steamy kiss between them ignites a media firestorm, Gianluca whisks Ava off to the Amalfi Coast to minimize the PR scandal. Exploring the...
12) El intermediario
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Durante sus horas finales en la Casa Blanca, el presidente saliente concede un perdón de última hora a Joel Backman, corredor de poder notorio que ha pasado seis años en prisión federal por haber comprometido un sistema de vigilancia de satélite. Una vez excarcelado, Backman pasa de contrabando fuera del país, y le dan un nuevo nombre, una nueva identidad, y un nuevo hogar en Italia. Pronto, sin embargo, la Agencia Central de Inteligencia deja...
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Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian. But his hopes for a staid academic life are put on hold when he's driven from London to Venice to escape one lover and seek out another: the enigmatic Bulgarian refugee Lina Pancev. In Venice, Robert encounters a grand carnival of lust, lies, blackmail, cocktail parties, and regicide. As he chases Lina, his heart's desire, the city itself provides a priceless education in love, art,...
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"Full of true-to-life conflict, passion and guilt – highly recommended." – Readers' Favorite. In a world at war, can one woman find the courage to break with the past and follow her heart? She was in love with the wrong man. When Rachel's husband returns from the war broken and angry, Rachel soon begins to lose all hope for their future together despite all her efforts to revive a love she once thought would never die. Then she meets an officer...
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"Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild - selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and...
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Marriage to a billionaire volume 3
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The exciting bestselling author who thrilled readers with The Marriage Bargain and The Marriage Trap, Jennifer Probst rounds out her sizzling trilogy.
Carina Conte has had a crush on her brother Michael's best friend, Max Gray, since she was a teenager. Now she's earned her MBA and come to work at Michael's new venture, America's fastest-growing bakery empire. But some things never change: her family still treats her like a child. With three drop-dead...
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After his brother is killed in Vietnam, Alex Massolini drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family to travel to the small Mediterranean island of Capri, where he finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries.
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