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Thorndike Press large print Christian historical fiction
Mark of the lion volume no. 1
Mark of the lion volume 1
Mark of the lion volume no. 1
Mark of the lion volume 1
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English
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Torn by her love for a handsome aristocrat, a young slave girl clings to her faith in the living God for deliverance from the forces of decadent Rome.
2) Beach music
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English
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Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, is trying to find some peace after his wife's suicide. But his sister-in-law begs him to return home. Two of his old friends want his help in tracking down a classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced. Jack's journey in both Europe and the American South leads him to shocking truths.
4) Intervention
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English
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When his newborn son by his second wife is diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma, New York City forensic pathologist Jack Stapleton seeks to find a cure for his son while at the same time being drawn into a battle between the archbishop of New York and an archeologist--a battle over an ossuary which may have earthshaking implications.
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Sigma Force novels volume 9
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English
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Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to discover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.
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Caselli and Torre novels volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
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English
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"When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and her six-year-old son goes missing, Deputy Captain Colomba Caselli and Dante Torre, both still recovering from personal catastrophes, team up to solve the series of killings and abductions that ensues. As they follow the ever-more-bizarre trail of clues, one thing becomes clear: what's really going on is much darker than anyone imagined"--Adapted from book jacket.
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Español
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"En Roma, como en cualquier otra ciudad del mundo, los adolescentes quieren volar, buscan caminar 'tres metros sobre el cielo.' Las chicas como Babi se esmeran en sus estudios, hablan del último grito en moda y se preparan para encontrar al amor de sus vidas. Los chicos como Step prefieren la velocidad, la violencia, el riesgo y la camaradería de las bandas. Pero todos ellos se implican en la vida como si cada segundo fuera el último. Pertenecen...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST HISTORICAL FICTION OF 2020
"Only Katy Simpson Smith could have written a novel of such elegance, emotional power, and grace. The Everlasting, a quadruple love story spanning two millennia, is no less than the story of love itself-its frustrations and thrills, its blunders and transcendent glories. Meraviglioso."-Nathaniel Rich, author of King Zeno
From a supremely talented author comes this brilliant and inventive literary...
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Nic Costa mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
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In a deserted artist's studio in the heart of Rome, detectives stumble upon a scene of shocking brutality: two bodies, freshly killed. Looming over them is a painting that bears all the hallmarks of a Caravaggio: a brilliantly colored canvas depicting a violent tableau of beauty and depravity. This grisly discovery sends Detective Nic Costa on a desperate chase through the streets of his city--a chase that will have devastating consequences.--From...
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Minotaur Books
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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English
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Working as a private informer in Rome during the reign of Domitian, Flavia Albia is hired to investigate a fatal accident, an investigation that turns sinister when her client dies under suspicious circumstances that place Flavia's reputation at stake.
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Reincarnationist volume 1
Publisher
MIRA
Language
English
Description
After surviving a bombing in Rome, photojournalist Josh Ryder is plagued by strange memories from an ancient time that instruct him to save a woman named Sabina and, desperate for answers, he consults an expert on past life experiences.
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Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First North American edition.
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English
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Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family. Claiming the woman's son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands his return; only as the trucks depart does she realize what she has done. She is twenty-seven, with a sister who needs her constant care, a hazardous journey ahead, and now a child in her charge. Several decades later, Chiara lives alone in Rome, a self-contained...
14) The third Nero
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Minotaur Books
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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English
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"In 90 A.D., following the Saturninus revolt in Germany, the Emperor Domitian has become more paranoid about traitors and dissenters around him. This leads to several senators and even provincial governors facing charges and being executed for supposed crimes of conspiracy and insulting the emperor. Wanting to root out all the supports of Saturninus from the Senate, one of Domitian's men offers to hire Flavia Alba to do some intelligence work. Flavia...
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Nic Costa mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Description
Back in Rome after their dramatic adventures in Venice, Detectives Costa, Peroni and Leo Falcone are rebuilding their lives.
But they team up once again when faced with the sudden appearance of fresh bloodstains on a missing young boy's T-shirt in a small.
16) Ode to a banker
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Publisher
Mysterious Press
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English
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The funny, astute, and hard-boiled detective Marcus Didius Falco now ventures into a new arena, the publishing world of AD 74, to prove that ars longa, vita brevis...and murder is timeless. Can a tough detective possess the soul of a poet? After a public reading brings him rousing applause, Falco receives an offer to have his work published. But his ego takes a beating when the banker Chrysippus demands payment for putting the verse on papyrus. Hell...
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Jacqueline Kirby mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Center Point
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
At first, Jean Suttman thought she had died and gone to Heaven when she was granted the opportunity to study in Rome. But the body that's lying in the ancient subterranean Temple of Mithra-the murdered corpse of a repulsive and disliked fellow student-isn't her idea of heavenly. Now she is truly frightened, not just because small "accidents" seem to be occurring around her with disturbing regularity. It's the ever-increasing certainty that someone,...
19) Nemesis
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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English
Description
When a pair of his father's associates disappear under suspicious circumstances, informer Marcus Didius Falco of A.D. 77 Rome investigates allegations of a feud involving a group of notorious freedmen, who are receiving high-level protection from corruptrulers.
20) Ciao for now
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Publisher
Graydon House
Language
English
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Fashion means everything to Violet Luciano; so does finishing design school. When she lands a summer internship at an up-and-coming fashion brand in Rome, she knows she's got to bring her A game. The interns will be competing against each other: whoever creates the best fashion design will be offered a job at a New York label. Violet is at the top of her class, but she's one of the only students who's approaching thirty. Chasing her dream has left...
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