Cultural Region/Italy
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The October Horse: A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra
$23.99 Add to cartWith her renowned storytelling gifts in full force, Colleen McCullough delivers a breathtaking novel that proves once again that she is the top historical novelist of our time. Grand in scope and vivi… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, Colleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 20 2007
- ISBN10: 1416566651
- Language: English
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By Its Cover: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
$18.00 Add to cartIn the pages of Donna Leon’s internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries, the conversations of the Brunetti family have often turned to topics of art and literature, but books are… [more below]
- Series: The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries #23
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0802123473
- Language: English
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A Private Affair
$16.95 Read moreA powerful World War II novel about a young soldier joining the anti-German resistance in occupied Italy, this classic–which touches on everything from wartime dangers and adventures to desperate lov
- Author: Fenoglio, Beppe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681376741
- Language: English
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Doctored Evidence: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
$17.00 Add to cartWhen the body of an wealthy elderly woman is found, brutally murdered in her Venetian flat, the police suspect her maid, who has disappeared. As the runaway maid’s train is leaving Italy for Romania, … [more below]
- Series: The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries #13
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0802146015
- Language: English
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The Girl of His Dreams: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
$17.00 Add to cartWhen a friend of Commissario Guido Brunetti’s brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work in Africa, calls on him with a request, Brunetti suspects the man has hidden motives. An… [more below]
- Series: The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries #17
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 080212691X
- Language: English
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Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome
$18.99 Add to cartConspirata is “a portrait of ancient politics as a blood sport,” raves The New York Times. As he did with Imperium, Robert Harris again turns Roman history into a gripping thriller as Cicero faces a n… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0743266110
- Language: English
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Suffer the Little Children: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
$16.00 Add to cart“Donna Leon is the undisputed crime fiction queen . . . [Her] ability to capture the city’s social scene and internal politics is first-rate, as always, but this installment carries extra gravity and
- Series: The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries #16
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0802126154
- Language: English
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The House of Gazes
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2019 John Fante First Novel Prize
The critically acclaimed novel from the author of Everything Calls for Salvation, adapted into a Netflix Original series, is a powerful coming-of-age st
- Author: Mencarelli, Daniele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1609459725
- Language: English
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The Golden Egg
$18.00 Add to cartFrom “the undisputed crime fiction queen” (Baltimore Sun), one of Comissario Guido Brunetti’s most enigmatic cases: leading Donna Leon’s iconic detective from the local dry cleaner all the way to Vien
- Series: Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries (Paperback) #22
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122426
- Language: English
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Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity
$24.99 Add to cartPrue Shaw is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great… [more below]
- Author: Shaw, Prue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1631490060
- Language: English
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A Recipe from Rome
$15.99 Add to cartApril Appleby only wants two things in life: to move on from her ex-fiancé, and, as a foodie living on the north side of Chicago, to figure out the secret ingredient of her late mother’s pasta sauce.
- Author: Botten, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988133803
- Language: English
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The Garden of Finzi-Continis
$13.95 Add to cartThe haunting, classic novel of Fascist Italy on the brink of World War II, made into an Academy Award-winning film
The Finzi-Continis are an aristocratic Jewish family who live an insular life behind
- Series: Harvest/HBJ Book
- Author: Bassani, Giorgio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0156345706
- Language: English
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Through a Glass, Darkly: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
$17.00 Add to cartOn a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti and Inspector Vianello play hooky to help get Vianello’s friend Marco Ribetti–an environmental activist arrested during a protest agains
- Series: The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries #15
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09, 2015
- ISBN10: 080212383X
- Language: English
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Antony and Cleopatra
$20.00 Add to cart
A sweeping epic of ancient Rome from the #1 bestselling author of The Thorn Birds
In this breathtaking follow-up to The October Horse, Colleen McCullough turns her attention to the legendary roman… [more below]- Series: Masters of Rome
- Author: McCullough, Colleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 1416552952
- Language: English
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Empress of the Seven Hills
$17.00 Add to cartA tale of love, power and intrigue from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Diamond Eye.
Powerful, prosperous, and expanding ever farther into the untame- Series: Empress of Rome #3
- Author: Quinn, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0425242021
- Language: English
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The Unforgivable: And Other Writings
$18.95 Add to cartThrilling, stylish essays about everything from flying carpets and Doctor Zhivago to God and Shakespeare, by a rediscovered Italian writer.
Christina Campo published only two short collections of essay… [more below]- Author: Campo, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378027
- Language: English
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The Family
$19.99 Add to cart“Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.”
–Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys“One of his most satisfying works….A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of th
- Author: Puzo, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0062089153
- Language: English
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The Passenger: Rome
$22.00 Read moreFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Rome doesn’t judge you by Nicola Lagioia・The soul of the ci
- Series: Passenger #8
- Author: VV Aa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1787703541
- Language: English
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Travels in HyperReality
$18.95 Add to cart“A scintillating collection of writings by one of the most influential thinkers of our times.” —Los Angeles Times
With the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Nam
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0156913216
- Language: English
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The War Ends at Four
$18.95 Read moreThis is a bravura performance.” —Robin Lippincott, author of Blue Territory: A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell
The War Ends at Four explores the quest of a perpetual outsider looking f
- Author: Staffa, Rosanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: May 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1646033310
- Language: English
