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"Whether you want to visit the Colosseum in Rome, go designer shopping in Milan, or hike the Cinque Terre, the local Fodor's travel experts in Italy are here to help! Fodor's Essential Italy 2024 guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos."--...
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"Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild - selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and...
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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies returns with her first short story collection since the publication of her number one New York Times bestseller, Unaccustomed Earth--a major literary event and a tour de force. Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity. An immigrant family confronts the devastating aftershocks of racial violence. A young...
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"Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he's done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia"--Container....
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"Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland both narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign and sets a new standard in the chronicling of war. Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into southern Italy in September 1943, expecting to drive Axis forces north and liberate Rome by Christmas. Italy quickly surrendered but German divisions fiercely...
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Lonely Planet Southern Italy is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Wander through Pompeii, a town frozen in time, wake up to the sound of a Neapolitan street market, or gaze at the Mediterranean, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of southern Italy and begin your journey now!
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"August, 1943. Fourteen-year-old Massimo is all alone. Newly orphaned and fleeing from Rome after surviving the American bombing raid that killed his parents, Massimo is attacked by thugs and finds himself bloodied at the base of the Montecassino. It is there in the Benedictine abbey's shadow that a charismatic and cryptic man calling himself Pietro Houdini, the self-proclaimed 'Master Artist and confidante of the Vatican,' rescues Massimo and brings...
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Make the most of your trip to Florence and Tuscany with DK Eyewitness Top 10. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Florence and Tuscany have to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about.--
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Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
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"Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a trailblazing criminal detective on the Italian police force, is on sick leave, recovering from her recent brush with death in pursuit of a killer. But none of her colleagues-not even her partner, Inspector Marini-know that her Alzheimer's is getting worse, and that Teresa is unsure she will ever return to work. Teresa's plans for retirement are shelved, however, when she is urgently summoned to meet with serial...
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"I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author." -Elizabeth Gilbert
The debut novel that redefined the coming-of-age genre, now with an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Maria Semple.
Stylish, suburban Katherine is just eighteen years old when she is introduced to Professor Jacob Goldman, his rambling home and his large eccentric family,...
The debut novel that redefined the coming-of-age genre, now with an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Maria Semple.
Stylish, suburban Katherine is just eighteen years old when she is introduced to Professor Jacob Goldman, his rambling home and his large eccentric family,...
15) Top 10 Venice
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Romantic bridges and scene-stealing canals; historic palaces and world-class galleries; delectable cuisine and characterful markets: Venice is a city like no other. Make the most of your trip to this watery wonderland with DK Eyewitness Top 10. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Venice has to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable;...
16) Sardinia
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Lonely Planet's Sardinia is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Explore Cagliari's Il Castello, find a secluded cove on the Costa Smeralda, and walk the shores of Golfo di Orosei; all with your trusted travel companion.
17) Top 10 Rome
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"Make the most of your trip to this iconic city with DK Eyewitness Top 10. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Rome has to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about."--Publisher's description.
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An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains is a cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental. Adapting an award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray, through observant detail and stunning landscape photography, the profound relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as children in an Alpine village. Years later, the estranged...
20) Ferrari
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"It's the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their volatile marriage has been battered by the loss of their son, Dino, a year earlier. Ferrari struggles to acknowledge his son Piero with Lina Lardi. Meanwhile, his drivers' passion to win pushes them to the edge as they launch into the treacherous 1,000-mile...
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