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2016., Adult, Bitter Lemon Press Call No: MYS Fic Gio Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Aunty Poldi Volume: 1Summary Note: Recently widowed Auntie Poldi moves to Sicily in order to quietly drink herself to death with a sea view. But fate intervenes. When she finds the corpse of a young man on the beach, his face blown off with a sawn-off shotgun, she becomes a potential suspect in his murder case. Poldi soon falls for the gorgeous Commissario Montana who has been assigned to lead the case. They form an investigativeand romanticpartnership. The delightful details of this romance, and the extreme awkwardness of Poldi's retelling it to her mortified nephew, are some of the novel's many high points.
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2019., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Edition: eBook ed. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that will be his lasting legacy, The Leopard. With a firm devotion to the historical record, Lampedusa leaps effortlessly into the mind of the writer and inhabits the complicated heart of a man facing down the end of his life, struggling to make something of lasting worth, while there is still time. Achingly beautiful and elegantly conceived, Steven Price's new novel is an intensely moving story of one man's awakening to the possibilities of life, intimately woven against the transformative power of a great work of art.
![Lampedusa [eBook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT100651.JPG "Lampedusa [eBook] : a novel")
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[2001]., Adult, Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Malena Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in a small Sicilian town during WWII, the story centers on Renato, a 13-year-old boy with a coming of age fantasy life who falls hard for the town's ultra-beautiful twentysomething, Malena.
![Malèna [DVD] (2000). Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore](/Library/images/~imageCT72759.JPG "Malèna [DVD] (2000). Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore")
