Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Language: English
ISBN / Barcode: 9780805093704
An unforgettable adventure beginning where Shakespeare's "Othello" leaves off. Wounded in love, tormented by his past, Shakespeare's most complex villain is brought magnificently to life in this tale of two adversaries--one an accused killer; the other, one of the most powerful men in...
From the author of The Destroyers comes an "intricately plotted and elegantly structured" (Newsday) story of intrigue and deception, set in contemporary Venice and featuring a young American couple who have set their sights on a risky con.
When Nick Brink and his boyfriend Clay Guillory...
A womans cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leons haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel.
When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the...
When a friend of Commissario Guido Brunetti's brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work in Africa, calls on him with a request, Brunetti suspects the man has hidden motives. An American-style Christian group has begun meeting in private homes in the city, and it's possible...
Over the years, Donna Leon's best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has conquered the hearts of lovers of finely-plotted character-driven mysteries all over the world. Brunetti, both a perceptive sleuth and a principled family man, has exposed readers to Venice in all its aspects: its...
Pages 313 Pub.2003
Paperback 140x210mm
Language English
ISBN / Barcode: 9780965434324
Andrea di Robilant tells the true story of his 18th-century Venetian ancestor Andrea Memmo, a young nobleman who had a passionate love affair with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, both of whom were friends of Casanova. Memmo was forbidden to marry the illegitimate girl, but they carried on in...
Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Hardcover 464 pages
Language: English
ISBN / Barcode: 9780385739993
Teodora has always longed to visit Venice, and at last she has her chance. But strange and sinister things are afoot in the beautiful floating city. Teo is quickly subsumed into a secret world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets,...
Les mémoires de Casanova ne sont pas seulement, comme on le croit trop souvent, le catalogue de ses conquêtes, fussent-elles évoquées avec verve. Leur auteur, certes, est un aventurier, mais c'est également un homme cultivé et brillant qui parle latin et a...
The story of the four Horses of St. Mark's has been intertwined with the history of Venice from the time of their arrival in the city in the 13th century as plunder from the Venetian sack of Constantinople. Massive, superbly sculpted in nearly pure copper, with gilding that has worn to a timeless...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful and emotional novel about one woman’s quest to uncover long-buried secrets about her family—secrets she will stop at nothing to uncover, no matter the consequences. At thirty, American photojournalist Serena Stone has already...
