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The Comfort of Strangers is an exquisitely crafted gothic novella. On holiday, Colin and Maria wander the ancient streets of Venice and frequently lose their way. When they are accosted by a man with a strange and alluring story to tell, they soon become entwined in a fantasy of violence and erotic obsession.
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224 pages ; 21 cm
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Nine-year-old Lawrence watches protectively over his mother and little sister, especially when, feeling endangered by their estranged father, his mother decides the three of them must leave their life in England to seek refuge in Rome.
10) Still life
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"From the acclaimed author of Tin Man comes a captivating, lively new novel of people brought together across four decades of love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster"--
11) Hotel Portofino
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A heady historical drama about a British family who opens an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the Roaring Twenties. Hotel Portofino has been opne for only a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its owner Bella Ainsworth. Her high-class guests are demanding and heard to plase. And she's being targeted by a scheming and corrupt local politican, who threatens to drag her into the red-hot cauldron of Mussolini's...
12) Bad: a novel
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375 pages ; 22 cm.
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After stealing her twin Beth's identity, Alvina Knightly flees Sicily to evade the police and pursue her new boyfriend, who has vanished with Beth's stolen riches.
When Alvie Knightly discovers that her hit man boyfriend has driven off with the Lamborghini and two million euros, she does what any heartbroken, deserted, amateur assassin would do: she drinks everything in the mini-bar, trashes her hotel room, and steals her twin siter's identity. Then...
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"Call Ava romantic, but she thinks love should be found in the real world, not on apps that filter men by height, job, or astrological sign. She believes in feelings, not algorithms. So after a recent breakup and dating app debacle, she decides to put love on hold and escapes to a remote writers' retreat in coastal Italy. She's determined to finish writing the novel she's been fantasizing about, even though it means leaving her close-knit group of...
14) Mad: a novel
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xii, 334 pages ; 24 cm.
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"In this compulsively readable debut, set between London and Sicily over one blood-drenched week in the dead of summer, an identical twin reveals the crazy lies and twists she'll go through to not only steal her sister's perfect life, but to keep on living it. Alvie Knightly is a trainwreck: aimless, haphazard, and pretty much constantly drunk. Alvie's existence is made even more futile in contrast to that of her identical and perfect twin sister,...
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