Arcadia Public Library

Reimaging the "Bonfire of the Vanities" through a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, this modern take on a fascinating historical story follows Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican friar who, railing against the vice and avarice of the ruling Medici family, was instrumental in their removal from power. Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar living in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century. An anti-corruption...

"Conspiración y aventura en la Estación Central de Milán, desde donde salían los trenes de deportados judíos durante la 2ª Guerra Mundial. Milán, abril de 2003. Riccardo Mezzanotte es un joven inspector de policía que acaba de incorporarse a la Sección de la Policía Ferroviaria de la Estación Central. Tiene una propensión innata a meterse en problemas y comienza a investigar un caso que no parece interesar a nadie: alguien está...

"Stella Park is elated to celebrate her best friend's wedding in the Italian countryside-and maybe she also needs this escape from her personal and her professional life. Writing recipes for a living isn't all it's cooked up to be. But the revelry is short lived when she runs into the ex she hasn't seen since she broke his heart ten years ago, Samuel Gordon. As her past gets propelled to the forefront, Stella tries not to question the choices she...

"A brilliant and darkly funny story of a friendship and its unraveling, and a powerful examination on the disruptive impact of social media on our lives. Once an ambitious and promising student at an elite university in Paris, Maia is now 26, living in Milan, and stuck in a dead-end job at a cafe and a dysfunctional relationship with an older man. Until one day her life seems to change: thanks to a friend’s recommendation, and despite not knowing...