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Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have...
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The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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While on summer vacation at the seaside, twelve-year-old Irene Adler meets the young Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Arsène Lupin--and when a dead body floats ashore the three young friends set out to solve the mystery.
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HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Based on true events, a heartbreaking story of love, family, hope, and survival set in post-World War II Italy-written with the heart of Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours-about poor children from the south sent to live with families in the north to survive deprivation and the harsh winters. Though Mussolini and the fascists have been defeated, the war has devastated Italy, especially the south. Seven-year-old Amerigo lives with his mother Antonietta...
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In 1900 Sardinia, a young woman's remarkable talent with a needle earns her a position as a seamstress with a wealthy family. Inside this privileged world far different from her own humble beginnings, the skilled sewer quietly takes measurements, sketches designs, mends hems--and in the silence, hears whispered secrets and stories of all those around her. Through the watchful young seamstress's eyes, this small Italian city and its residents emerge...
6) Deviation
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
First published in Italy in 1979, Luce D'Eramo's Deviation is a seminal work in Holocaust literature. It is a book that not only confronts evil head-on but expands that confrontation into a complex and intricately structured work of fiction, which has claims to standing among the greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century. Lucia is a young Italian girl from a bourgeois fascist family. In the early 1940s, when she first hears about the atrocities...
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The Modern Library
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The Betrothed is an inextricable thread in the fabric of Italian culture, one of the most influential works in the Italian literary canon, and required reading in Italian schools. Published in 1827 but set two hundred years earlier, it is considered the first iteration of the historical novel; Edgar Allen Poe declared it "a work which promises to be the commencement of a new style in novel-writing" in 1835. But, until now, it has remained relatively...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. At times darkly humorous and ironic but also profoundly moving, this novel based on a true story follows the lives of a 15 year old engineer, Subhi, and the 13 year old girl, Shams, he hopes one day to marry. It brings Jaffa vividly to life as a beautiful city by the sea where Jews,...
10) Invisible cities
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1974]
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English
Description
In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"An epic historical novel that chronicles the birth and rise of fascism in Italy, witnessed through the eyes of its founder, the terrifyingly charismatic figure who would become one of the most notorious dictators of the twentieth century, Benito Mussolini"--
13) La catadora
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Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Imaginen por un momento una mesa bien dispuesta, con platos de loza blanca llenos de comida exquisita. Imaginen unas judías verdes condimentadas con mantequilla fundida, el olor embriagador de unos pimientos asados y la textura de un Strudel de manzana y de un pan recién horneados. Al levantar la vista encontrarán a diez mujeres jóvenes y famélicas a punto de empezar a comer. Estamos en el cuartel general de Hitler y corre el año 1943; la guerra...
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Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
In March 1871 Irene's family moves from London to Evreux in Normandy, but after a strange woman warns her that her mother is in danger, Irene calls upon her friends Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes for help and soon the three young detectives are caught up in the search for an ancient relic said to be in a secret crypt beneath the streets of Paris--a Paris which is torn apart by war and currently ruled by the Commune.
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Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In London, at Christmas time in 1870, a strange message in the classified ads leads the three young detectives to murders that appear to be connected with the Scarlet Rose Gang, whose leader was killed years before.
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Whisked out of Paris ahead of the Prussian army in 1870, twelve-year-old Irene Adler is reunited in London with her friends, Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin--but Arsène's father has been arrested for murder and the kidnapping of a famous opera singer, and it is up to the three young detectives to solve the mystery.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton travels back in time to ancient Rome, the great Mayan Empire and the palace of Versailles during the age of the Sun King, where he experiences wild historical adventures.
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Series
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
From the Jurassic period and the dinosaurs, to a medieval castle, Geronimo Stilton and a few members of his family embark on an adventure through time in Professor von Volt's new time machine, the Mouse Mover 3000.
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