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  • Amarcord: Marcella Remembers

  • Amarcord: Marcella Remembers 

  • Marcella Hazan 
  • Penguin Classics UK 
  • Paperback
    320 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781592404896 
  • Starred Review. In 1969 Hazan gave the private cooking class that launched her career as the Italian Julia Child. In an evocative memoir, she recounts her life from childhood to Florida Gulf Coast retirement. Hazan spent her earliest years on another coast, in Cesenatico, a village on the Adriatic;... 
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  • € 8.00 
  • The Merchant of Venice (R)

  • The Merchant of Venice (R) 

  • William Shakespeare 
  • Arcturus Pub.(no resa) 
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781398813533 
  • The Merchant of Venice tells of a Venetian merchant called Antonio who defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender. The man, Shylock, then takes the opportunity to hit back at the racism and general discrimination that he has encountered by demanding a pound of flesh from... 
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  • Miss Garnet’s Angel

  • Miss Garnet’s Angel 

  • Salley Vickers 
  • HarperCollins Publishers 
  • Paperback
    400 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780007275014 
  • The new edition of Salley Vicker’s sensational debut novel. ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’ is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any time. Julia Garnet is a teacher. Just retired, she is left... 
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  • € 8.50 
  • Sisters of Glass

  • Sisters of Glass 

  • Knopf 
  • 2012
    Pages: 160 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780375861093 
  • Maria is the younger daughter of an esteemed family on the island of Murano, the traditional home for Venetian glassmakers. Though she longs to be a glassblower herself, glassblowing is not for daughters—that is her brother's work. Maria has only one duty to perform for her family: before her... 
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  • € 8.00 
  • The Merchant of Venice

  • The Merchant of Venice 

  • Fiona Macdonald, William Shakespeare, Penko Gelev 
  • Barron's Kaplan 
  • Reading level: Ages 9-12
    Paperback: 48 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780764144462 
  • The life of Antonio, the merchant of Venice, is threatened by Shylock the moneylender, when Antonio cannot repay his debt. But Antonio is brilliantly defended in a court of law by Portia, the clever young wife of his dear friend Bassanio. Graphic Classics titles introduce many of the world’s... 
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  • € 9.50 
  • Unto Us a Son Is Given

  • Unto Us a Son Is Given 

  • Leon Donna 
  • Atlantic Books*** 
  • Hardcover
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780802129116 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 12.00 
  • Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

  • Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi 

  • Geoff Dyer 
  • Paperback
    296 pages
    Vintage Books
    Language: English
     
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780307390301 
  • In Venice, at the Biennale, a jaded, bellini-swigging journalist named Jeff Atman meets a beautiful woman and they embark on a passionate affair. In Varanasi, an unnamed journalist (who may or may not be Jeff) joins thousands of pilgrims on the banks of the holy Ganges. He intends to stay for a... 
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  • Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon

  • Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon 

  • Andrea Di Robilant 
  • Knopf 
  • Format:Hardcover
    Language:English
    Pages:384 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781400044139 
  • In 1787, the beautiful Lucia is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. We witness Lucia's painful series of miscarriages and the pressure on her to produce an... 
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