Frank Carlson Library

Describes the celebration of Christmas in Italy and Vatican City, including carols, recipes, crafts and more.

"Trapped in Tuscany as war rages along the Gothic Line, Vittoria Guidi doesn't understand where her allegiances should lie. With her Scots-Italian father or Fascist mother? With Mussolini, or her King? With the life she wants, or is told to live? As Germans occupy the mountains surrounding Barga and American Buffalo soldiers draw near, loyalties are tested and families torn apart. Frank Chapel, a young, black soldier fighting for a country that refuses...

Running a billion-dollar hedge fund doesn't leave a lot of time for fun in the sun, but that doesn't brother James Brannigan. After spending his youth helping his windowed father raise six younger brothers, James channeled all his need to have control into business. So when he learns that his father left him a tiny winery on the Amalif Coast, he's not thrilled. A trip t Italy is the last thing his busy schedule needs, but the winery has to go. Which...

"Mermaid Annika is from the sea, and it is there she must return after her quest to find the stars. New to this world, her purity and beauty are nothing less than breathtaking, along with her graceful athleticism, as her five new friends discovered when they retrieved the Fire Star. Now, through space and time, traveler Sawyer King has brought the guardians to the island of Capri, where the Water Star is hidden. And as he watches Annika in her element,...

The epic love story about Ernest Hemingway and the romance which inspired him to write his masterpiece "A farewell To arms". A story of desperate love and imminent danger, it chronicles the relationship between the 18-year old Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky, the medical aide who nursed him back to health after a devastating battlefield injury.

A collection of three Italian folktales about a man and his two greedy brothers, five animals who fight their greatest enemy, and a poor mother and son who end up living in luxury.