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  The Lady in the Palazzo

  An Umbrian Love Story

  by Marlena De Blasi

  Marlena di Blasi seduced readers to fall in love with Venice, then Tuscany, with her popular and critically acclaimed books A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany . Now she takes readers on a journey into the heart of Orvieto, an ancient city in the less-trodden region of Umbria. Rich with history and a vivid sense of place, her tale is by turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, as... (more)
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  Marcus of Umbria

  What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl About Love

  by Justine Van der Leun

  Tired of laboring in city cubicles, Justine van der Leun sublets her studio apartment, leaves her magazine job, and moves to Collelungo, Italy, population: 200. There, in the ancient city center of a historic Umbrian village, she sets up house with the handsome local gardener she met on vacation only weeks earlier. This impulsive decision launches an eye-opening series of misadventures when village life and... (more)
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  The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria

  by Marlena De Blasi

  With the breathless anticipation that seduced her readers to fall in love with Venice and then Tuscany, Marlena de Blasi now takes us on a new journey as she moves with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, a large and ancient city in Italy's Umbria. Having neither an edge to a sea nor a face to a foreign land, it's a region less trampled by travelers and, in turn, less accepting of strangers. So de Blasi sets out to... (more)
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  Aurelio Zen Mystery: Book 1

  Ratking

  by Michael Dibdin

  In this masterpiece of psychological suspense, Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed: not the local authorities, who view him as an interloper, and certainly not Miletti's children, who seem content to let the head of the family languish in the hands of his abductors -- if he's... (more)
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  Four Seasons in Rome

  On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

  by Anthony Doerr

  Anthony Doerr has received many awards -- from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome Prize, one of the most prestigious awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and with it a stipend and a writing studio in Rome for a year. Doerr learned of the award the day he and his wife returned from the hospital with newborn... (more)
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  Timoleon Vieta Come Home

  A Sentimental Journey

  by Dan Rhodes

  Cockroft, a faded composer and socialite, lives in self-imposed exile and fantasizes of true love and extravagant suicides. Rattling around his dilapidated farmhouse in the Italian countryside, his only constant source of company is the ever-loyal Timoleon Vieta, a mongrel with the most beautiful eyes. When a handsome but surly individual arrives on the scene, Cockroft is forced to choose between his dog and this... (more)
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  The Last Enemy

  by Grace Brophy

  Rita grew up in Brooklyn, the only child of a narcissistic Italian mother and the GI she married at the end of World War II. After her mother's death, she quits her teaching job and descends upon her poor but aristocratic relatives, the Count and Countess Casati, in Assisi. It takes a while before they realize, to their chagrin, that Rita has come to stay. When the family assembles to watch the penitentes ... (more)
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  A Deadly Paradise

  by Grace Brophy

  Praise for Grace Brophy: "It's not often that an author's first book wins the coveted Tip of the Ice Pick Award."- BookPage "Believable narrative twists combined with excellent characterization, rich dialogue and a finely depicted setting."- Publishers Weekly "A terrific Italian historical police procedural."- Midwest Book Review In the peaceful Umbrian village of Paradiso, the shocking murder and... (more)
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  The Monster of Florence

  by Douglas Preston, Mario Spezi

  In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt ("Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil") and Erik Larson ("The Devil in the White City"), New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence , Italy . In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front... (more)