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1) Daisy Miller
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
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A fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, NY, who traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American Expatriate community in Rome.
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Rediscover the thrills of this classic romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen!
Newlywed Sarah Fontaine has just received the news that every wife fears: her husband of two months has died abroad in a hotel fire. Yet convinced he's still alive, Sarah forges an alliance with Nick O'Hara from the U.S. State Department that has the two of them crisscrossing Europe on...
Newlywed Sarah Fontaine has just received the news that every wife fears: her husband of two months has died abroad in a hotel fire. Yet convinced he's still alive, Sarah forges an alliance with Nick O'Hara from the U.S. State Department that has the two of them crisscrossing Europe on...
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Newly divorced Melissa Aubrey embarks on a cruise as an adjunct to the therapy she's undertaken for depression following her divorce. On the first leg of her journey, a mysterious fellow passenger entrusts her with a package and begs her to deliver it when she reaches Majorca. He tells her that the book in the package is of extreme importance and that he fears he will not live to deliver it himself. Melissa soon finds herself in grave danger, forced...
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For Stella Bled Lawrence being wealthy and stylish in 1938 is exactly what it’s cracked up to be. She’s blissfully unaware of the rising tensions in Europe even as she travels to Vienna on the eve of the Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass. Stella and her husband, Nicky, witness the night’s atrocities first hand. Even as they watch the horror, they never imagine it will touch them personally, a pair of wealthy Americans on their honeymoon...
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Stella Bled volume Book 3
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"November 1939. It's been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service. She has the languages and the tradecraft down pat, but she still has a way to go when the Earl of Bickford pulls her from her training early. The earl uses his influence to make her...
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"The beloved author at her storytelling best: four wonderful novellas of Americans abroad and Europeans in America. In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of...