Search Results: Returned 7 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 7
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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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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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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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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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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.
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2008., Primary, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A young journalist goes to Venice, Italy, to interview a famous violinist, who tells the story of his parents' incarceration by the Nazis, and explains why they can no longer listen to the music of Mozart.
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2011, c2009., Delacorte Press Call No: FANTASY F LOV Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1899, eleven-year-old Teodora goes with her scientist parents from Naples to Venice, Italy, which is falling victim to a series of violent natural disasters, and once there she is drawn into a web of mysterious adventures involving mermaids, an ancient prophecy, and the possible destruction of the city itself.
