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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996, [1959]
Edition
1st Touchstone ed.
Physical Desc
187 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1943, Primo Levi, a 25-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. This is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar's original feature film Luca is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface.."--Amazon.
44) Heaven and earth
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire, youth, death, and faith in a sweeping story by the international bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers Every year, after her school in Turin closes for the summer holidays, Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia and endures weeks of relentless heat and boredom. But everything changes the summer she meets the three boys who live on the farm next door:...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"At sixty-six, Lorenzo Carcaterra finds it easier to reflect on the past than ruminate on the future. "By the time you reach my age," he writes, "you have witnessed too much loss to not be aware of what lies ahead." This turn to the past inspired a poignant memoir about the women who made him the man he is today. His Italian grandmother, Nonna Maria, gave him his first taste of a loving home during the summers he spent with her as a teenager on Ischia,...
Author
Publisher
Hurst & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
x, 294 pages, 20 unpaged pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One summer's night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches--now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine. From Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy, Rosie Whitehouse follows in the footsteps of those secret passengers, uncovering their extraordinary stories--some told...
Author
Series
Whitstable Pearl mystery volume 4
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pearl receives a surprise present from her mother: an early summer break at a riverside manor house that has been recently transformed into an exclusive hotel. The building lies on the old Pilgrims Way into Canterbury, and Pearl is looking forward to the break. But when she discovers that she's actually booked in for a cookery course from the Italian celebrity chef Nico Caruso, she begins to think again... Pearl doesn't welcome instruction on cookery...
48) In your dreams
Author
Publisher
Reprise Records
Pub. Date
p2011
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
354 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a compelling account of the Eiffel Tower's creation and a superb portrait of Belle Epoque France. As Gustave Eiffel held court that summer atop his one-thousand-foot tower, a remarkable host of artists and personalities--Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Gauguin, Whistler, and Edison--traveled to Paris and the Exposition Universelle (1889 World's Fair) to mingle and make their mark.
51) Twice born
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Longing to show her son the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, an Italian professor heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo. There she discovered a long-hidden secret, which reveals a past more haunted that even her memories can disclose.
Series
Library of America volume 77-78
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©1995.
Physical Desc
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Includes selections by Ernie Pyle, William L. Shirer, Dorothy Thompson, A.J. Liebling, Edward R. Murrow, Margaret Bourke-White, Howard K. Smith, E.B. White, Brendan Gill, Richard Tregaskis, John Hersey, Homer Bigart, I.F. Stone, S.J. Perelman, Robert Sherrod, Ernest Hemingway, Irwin Shaw, Bill Mauldin, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, James Agee, and others. Includes chronology and 9 maps.
Author
Publisher
Iron Pen/Paraclete Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
109 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This collection of poems begins in the growing darkness of November, stretches through Advent and the seasons leading to Easter and to Pentecost, and ends in the budding light of the Scottish Orkney Islands, where the canonical hours measure time over centuries and where God broods over an austere and beautiful landscape. The measurement of time passing and returning, year after year, in the rhythms of the seasons and of the liturgical year, create...
55) Metro exodus
Publisher
Deep Silver
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 computer disc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Metro Exodus is a story-driven first-person shooter that blends deadly combat and stealth with exploration and survival horror in one of the most immersive game worlds ever created. Explore the Russian wilderness across vast, non-linear levels and follow a thrilling story line that spans an entire year through spring, summer and autumn to the depths of nuclear winter"--Amazon.com.
56) Mary Shelley
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xvi, 655 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mary Shelley is the definitive account of the gifted and tragic author whose escape to France at seventeen with the married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley caused great scandal in London and permanently scarred her reputation. The couple traveled, with Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont in tow, from France to Italy and Switzerland. In the summer of 1816 they rented a villa near Lord Byron's on Lake Geneva where, on a famous night of eerie thunderstorms,...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 696 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes 26 episodes of Season 9 of America's Test Kitchen, the public television cooking show filmed in the test kitchens of Cook's illustrated magazine.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 392
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xlvii, 830 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful hardcover edition of the collected stories of "one of the best short story writers who ever lived"--with a new introduction by John Banville. Widely known for her extraordinary novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of twentieth-century writers equally through her short fiction. This collection includes seventy-nine magnificent stories...
59) Luca
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (3 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixars original feature film Luca is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the waters surface."--Provided by publisher
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], ©1980-©1981
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vietnam veteran turned private investigator Thomas Magnum works as head of security on the luxurious Hawaiian estate of wealthy, but absentee owner Robin Masters. With the mansion and its amenities - including a 308 GTS Ferrari - at his disposal, Magnum investigates his cases while clashing with the estate's strict caretaker, Jonathan Higgins, an ex-British Army soldier.
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