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2) The broker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
John Grisham, delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not...
4) Rampant
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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After sixteen-year-old Astrid Llewelyn survives a vicious unicorn attack, she learns that she is a descendant of the most famous unicorn hunter of all time and she must travel to Rome, Italy, to train in the ancient arts in order to carry on her family legacy and save the world from the threat posed by the reemergence of lethal unicorns.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it's a dream come true. Writing is her passion, she loves Bruni's books, and going to that romantic and magical sinking city gives her the chance to solve a long-time family mystery about a Venetian poet deep in their lineage, Isabella Di Angelo, who just might be the real author of a very famous poem. Bruni's villa on the eerie island...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
The Booker Prize-winning novel, now a critically acclaimed major motion picture, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by...
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Series
Boy series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
When Jane Harris and Cal Langdon accompany their best friends, Holly and Mark, on a planned elopement to Italy, they are forced to come to the rescue when the Italian government refuses to marry the pair without a special form.
Author
Series
Gilded wolves volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
"Returning to the dark and glamorous 19th century world of her New York Times instant bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with the final riveting tale as full of mystery and danger as ever in The Bronzed Beasts. After Séverin's seeming betrayal, the crew is fractured. Armed with only a handful of hints, Enrique, Laila, Hypnos and Zofia must find their way through the snarled, haunted waterways of Venice, Italy to locate Séverin....
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Series
The Scribner library volume SL61
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto -- of lines of...
10) Lavinia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word in the poem. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes the reader to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.--From amazon.com.
11) Inferno: a novel
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces: Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science" -- vendor summary.
12) The last promise
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Having followed her new husband to his native home in rustic Tuscany, Ellana distracts herself from her marital disappointments by caring for her asthmatic son, and reevaluates her life when she meets American art lover Ross Story.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
14) With malice
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital, unable to remember the past six weeks, including the accident that killed her best friend, if it was, in fact, an accident.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
In 1940s Italy, teenager Pino Lella joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps and falls for a beautiful widow, he also becomes the personal driver of one of the Third Reich's most powerful commanders.
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs,...
16) Angels & demons
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful...
17) Brimstone
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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Description
In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.
Author
Series
New tales of the vampires volume 2
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vittorio, a five-hundred-year-old vampire, tells the story of how he was seduced at the age of sixteen by Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies, after she saved him from being killed by her fellow vampires during a slaughter in which his entire family was wiped out.
20) I'm not scared
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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