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Set in Rome, The Raphael Affair features the perpetually beset General Bottando of the Italian National Art Theft Squad; his glamorous assistant, Flavia di Stefano; and Jonathan Argyll, a British art historian. When Jonathan is arrested for breaking into an obscure church in Rome, he claims that it contains a long-lost Raphael hidden under a painting by Mantini. The painting disappears—then reappears in the hands of the top British art dealer,...
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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.
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A horrific murder pitches Nic Costa and his team into a collision with US agents – and a secret that has festered for fifteen years. The snow is falling on the ancient streets of Rome. And in the heart of the city, under the Pantheon's great dome, a woman's body lies on the marble floor, carefully positioned with a gruesome carving on her back. Arriving at the scene, Detective Nic Costa is unprepared for what he finds, nor for the intervention of...
11) Dante's numbers
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386 pages ; 24 cm.
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As celebrities and paparazzi gather in Rome for the premiere of a film version of Dante's "Inferno," a man is found dead and the film's star is missing, leading Detective Nic Costa on a terrifying journey from Rome to San Francisco and beyond.
15) Beach music
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The story of Jack McCall, an American expatriate in Rome, who has been scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find peace after his wife's suicide draws him into a painful, intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family's past that can heal his anguished heart. Spanning three generations and two continents, from the contemporary ruins of the American South to the ancient ruins of Rome, from the unutterable horrors of the...
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302 pages : 1 map ; 22 cm
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This work is a novel about first lovers meeting again after more than thirty years, walking the streets of Rome and reimmersing themselves in their lost past. Miranda and Adam, high school sweethearts now in their late fifties, arrive by chance at the same time in Rome, where they once spent a summer deeply in love, blissfully living together. At an awkward reunion, the two, who parted in an atmosphere of passionate betrayal in the 1960s and haven't...
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"Paolo the dachshund is trapped. Though he lives in Rome, a city filled with history and adventure, he is confined to a hair salon. Paolo dreams of the sweet life -- la dolce vita -- in the Eternal City. And then, one day, he escapes! Paolo throws himself into the city, finding adventure at every turn. Join our hero as he discovers the wonders of Rome: the ruins, the food, the art, the opera, and -- of course -- the cats. Readers will cheer the daring...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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While visiting Rome, Toto befriends a lost cat who joins the sightseeing tour and causes a commotion before being reunited with his owner. Features some basic Italian words in the text and on lining papers.
20) Eminence
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Few novelists have written about the Catholic Church with more drama, insight, and prophecy that Morris West. His penultimate novel centers on Luca Rossini, once a young priest savagely tortured by the Argentina military in the 70's, now perhaps the Church's most powerful Cardinal. On the eve ot the papal election, the woman who saved his life and whom he never forgot, reappears in his life. The wounds of the past are reopened, and Rossini finds...
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