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[2017], Lake Union Publishing Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1940s Italy, teenager Pino Lella joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, falls for a beautiful widow, and becomes the personal driver of one of the Third Reich's most powerful commanders.
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[2017]., Lake Union Publishing Call No: Historical Fic Sullivan Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In World War II Italy, seventeen-year-old Pino Lella is thrust into the war when his home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs. He joins an underground railroad that helps Jews escape Italy, and meets beautiful widow Anna. His parents try to protect Lella by forcing him to enlist as a German soldier, but he soon finds himself working as the personal driver of General Hans Leyers, one of Adolf Hitler's most powerful commanders. Pino realizes the opportunity to spy for the Allies and courageously endures the horrors of war to secretly fight for a future with Anna.
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2005., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: HISTORICAL F GAV Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the Taj Mahal.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC MCCULLOUGH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
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2019., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: Historical FIC McCullough Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Artemisia Gentileschi is only twelve when her mother dies. She is given a choice--become a nun, or commit to a life of grinding pigment for her father's paints. She chooses the paint. By seventeen, Artemisia has become one of Italy's most talented painters--but in Rome in 1610 men take whatever credit they want from women, and Artemisia's work goes unnoticed. After she is raped, she decides to take her future into her own hands.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION MCC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
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[2018], Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: REALISTIC F MCC Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: Historical Fiction FIC MCM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
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By Avi,, 1937-2022., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Fic Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Mangus the Magician and his thirteen-year-old servant, Fabrizio, are commanded to go to Venice, on pain of death, to find a book by Friar Luca Pacioli that reportedly contains a magical means of making money; but Venice is a strange and dangerous city, and someone else is also after the book. Mangus is arrested, and taken to the prison, and Fabrizio and Bianca, an orphan he has met, must find a way to secure the book, save Magnus, and themselves.
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[2014]., Adolescent, Skyscape Call No: Historical FIC Strauss Book 2 Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After being entrusted with the secret recipe for a highly desirable pigment known as Passion blue, Giulia, a young woman training as a painter in a fifteenth century convent in Italy, disguises herself as a boy and travels to Venice to reinvent herself as an artist's apprentice.
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By Gould, Sashac2011., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Mystery FIC Gould Book 1 Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When Laura della Scala's older sister drowns, Laura leaves the shelter of the convent where she has spent the last six years and enters the upper echelons of sixteenth-century Venetian society, while she searches for the truth about what happened to her sister.
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[2015]., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HISTORICAL F ELL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In fifteenth-century Florence, the dashing Venetian ambassador commissions young Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of his Platonic love, Ginevra de' Benci, a well-educated, teenaged poet in a passionless marriage, propelling her into the world of art, politics, and romance, with all of its complications.
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Ranger in TimeSummary Note: The mysterious box that Ranger the golden retriever found in the garden transports him back to first century Rome, where he must rescue Marcus, a young servant boy, and Quintus, a volunteer gladiator, from the brutal world of the Colosseum.
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c2003., Front Street Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In fourteenth-century Italy, Antonia, the daughter of Dante Alighieri, longs for a stable family and home while developing her artistic talent and seeking a place for herself in a world with limited options for women.
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c2007., Harcourt Call No: HISTORICAL F MEY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Series Title: Young Royals Volume: 5Summary Note: While her tyrannical family is out of favor in Italy, young Catherine de Medici is raised in convents, then in 1533, when she is fourteen, her uncle, Pope Clement VII, arranges for her marriage to prince Henri of France, who is destined to become king.
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-- Story of friars, flirtation and foul play2007., Bloomsbury USA Children's Books ; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.
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2014., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Historical Fiction Edition: 1st Simon Pulse har Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tasked to expose a coin counterfeiting scheme, Luca and Isolde, whose romantic attraction continues to grow, travel to Venice in 1454, where they meet an alchemist who plans to create the Philosopher's Stone, a mystical substance said to be capable of turning base metals into gold and producing the elixir of life.
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2005, c2006., Roaring Brook Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Roman mysteries Volume: bk. 8Summary Note: Suspecting their friend Jonathan is alive, Flavia, Nubia, and Lupus go to Rome for the Colosseum Games, facing wild beasts, criminals, conspirators, and gladiators, and where Nubia is called upon to make a terrible choice.
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By Gould, Sashac2013., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Historical FIC Gould Book 2 Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Renaissance Venice, Laura's marriage to Roberto is thrown into chaos when he is accused of murder, while the Segreta are under threat from the Doge's army, and loyalties are sorely tested.
