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The Gondola Maker

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Italian Vocabulary Builder: 2222 Italian Phrases to Learn Italian and Grow Your Vocabulary

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Italian Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Italian & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!

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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

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2000 Most Common Italian Words in Context

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Italian Phrase Book

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Intermediate Italian Short Stories: 10 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Italian & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Intermediate Italian Stories) (Italian Edition)

"I begin to sing of Pallas Athene, the glorious goddess, bright-eyed, inventive, unbending of heart, pure virgin, saviour of cities, courageous, Tritogeneia. From his awful head wise Zeus himself bare her arrayed in warlike arms of flashing gold, and...

Athena: The Origins and History of the Greek Goddess

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Conversational German Dialogues: Over 100 German Conversations and Short Stories

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Italian Phrase Book: Over 1000 Essential Italian Phrases You Don't Want to Be Without on Your Trip to Italy

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Monte Sole--Mountain of the Sun--had the bad luck to lie on the main route of withdrawal of the retreating German armies in autumn 1944. As the Allied advance stormed up Italy to the very shadow of Monte Sole, Axis frustration over their retreat and ...

Silence on Monte Sole

Barely a whisper separates the living from the lost. Nicholas rose to power from the gritty backstreets of Buenos Aires. He controlled everything around him. But the universe had something completely different in mind for Nicholas. Something shatteri...

Where the Green Star Falls

"Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam." ("Furthermore, I consider it imperative that Carthage be destroyed.") (Cato the Elder)  At its peak, the wealthy Carthaginian Empire dominated the Mediterranean against the likes of Greece and Rome, w...

Ancient Cities: The History of Carthage

In 1897 the young Italian peasant Giuseppe Musolino was falsely convicted of a crime and sentenced to 21 years at hard labor. He soon escaped, and began hunting those who had played a role in his false conviction, extracting an ominous and lethal rev...

King of the Mountains

Annie Chan. Metà cinese, metà tailandese. Figlia di una ballerina di lap dance a Bangkok.  La sua bellezza, assieme ad altre doti, l'aveva catapultata nel mondo delle escort di lusso ad Hong Kong. La sua vita era cambiata dopo che il suo amante milio...

Annie e il senatore: Una storia di giustizia privata [Annie and Senator: History of a Law-Abiding Citizen]

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Sigmund Freud: The Life and Legacy of History's Most Famous Psychiatrist

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Italian for Beginners: 15 Short Stories to Help You Learn and Enjoy Italian

Small candles nestled in a silver candelabrum are ceremoniously lit to announce the start of a medieval auction. Sadly, however, we are not in the middle ages but in the first decade of this century. The auction is a nightly event somewhere in Easter...

The Trade

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Sarcophagus

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La TSA contro il popolo

A sweeping historical adventure that's equal parts romance and thriller, K. T. Tomb's latest novel takes the listener from war-torn ancient Greece to deep sea dangers...and something far worse.  On the brink of the Roman Invasion of Greece, the city ...

The Kraken

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Italian Short Stories for Beginners

"Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate." (Louis XIV)  A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles Ri...

French Legends: The Life and Legacy of King Louis XIV

The Svalbard Passage is a rare work of fiction: the power and dramatic intensity of the writing are matched by the authenticity of the writers' extraordinary knowledge of political reality; the result is a work of imagination and prophecy. Readers of...

The Svalbard Passage

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The Poppy Broker

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Save Italy! Forget the Rest

Quando diventa moralmente giustificabile l'omicidio dei leader politici? è facile giustificare l'uccisione degli Hitler, gli Stalin e i Pol Pot nel mondo: i tiranni assassini devono essere uccisi. Ma nel caso in cui i nostri leader siano semplicement...

Omicidio Giustificato: Un thriller con Robert Paige [Justifiable Homicide: A Robert Paige Thriller], Vol. 1

When a member of the European Union is assassinated, former CIA Special Agent Jack Bishop uncovers a global conspiracy. Tensions are rising as world leaders prepare to meet in Moscow for an important economic summit that could change the face of the global economic structure. As Jack Bishop gets closer to the truth, he finds himself in a race against time to stop this global network from achieving the next step in its armageddon initiative. 

The Armageddon Initiative

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A Lovely Masquerade

"Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension." - Albert Einstein  Albert Einstein (1879-1955) needs no...

Legendary Scientists: The Life and Legacy of Albert Einstein

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Easy Italian Phrase Book

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Business Spanish

A husband obsessed with his wife's psychological unfaithfulness craves honesty and disclosure. Their confrontations broil without resolution as external stately events intervene to worsen their long-lasting, irrepressible wrangles. Conspiracy, crime,...

The Errant Child

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American Legends: The Life of Frederick Douglass

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Lacking Virtues

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The Pilot and the Underwater Beauty Queen

Change the quality of your travels to Italy with this amazing phrasebook.  This easy-to-search, easy-to-use phrasebook will help you communicate with the locals - +1000 common phrases/sentence structures included.  As an educator for more than 20 yea...

The Complete Italian Travel Phrasebook

Set in author Moris Senegor's native Turkey and throughout the Mediterranean, Appassionata is an intriguing and evocative compilation of short stories.  A young Turkish bus driver encounters more than one surprise, thanks to a small dog in the cargo ...

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