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The Count of Monte Cristo. Vol. II by Alexandre Dumas
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great thrillers of all time. In 1853 William Thackeray wrote to a friend: 'began to read Monte Cristo at six one morning and never stopped till eleven at night.'. Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmund Dantes is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau d'If...Categorized as:
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A Feather on the Water by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor three women in postwar Germany, 1945 is a time of hope—lost and found—in this powerful novel by the bestselling author of The Woman on the Orient Express.Just weeks after World War II ends, three women from different corners of the world arrive in Germany to run a displaced-persons camp...Categorized as:
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![In the Country of Shadows (Exit Unicorns, #4) by Cindy Brandner]()
In the Country of Shadows (Exit Unicorns, #4) by Cindy Brandner
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of the award-winning Flights of Angels comes the fourth book in the Exit Unicorns series. It is the winter of 1975 in Northern Ireland and the Troubles are at their darkest hour. Casey Riordan is missing and Jamie Kirkpatrick has just returned home from two years in a Russian gulag... -
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Les Misérables - Volume 2 by Victor Hugo
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLes Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published in France in 1862, it is Victor Hugo's greatest achievement--the ultimate tale of redemption. Former prisoner Jean Valjean struggles to live virtuously after an unexpected act of forgiveness by a kindly bishop changes his life...Categorized as:
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![Les Misérables - Volume 2 by Victor Hugo]()
Les Misérables - Volume 2 by Victor Hugo
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLes Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published in France in 1862, it is Victor Hugo's greatest achievement--the ultimate tale of redemption. Former prisoner Jean Valjean struggles to live virtuously after an unexpected act of forgiveness by a kindly bishop changes his life...Categorized as:
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![An American in Paris by Siobhan Curham]()
An American in Paris by Siobhan Curham
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWalking through Montmartre that morning was like the eerie calm right before a storm. The roads were deserted. We carried on, arm in arm, and then finally, we saw them. Columns and columns of soldiers, spreading through the streets like a toxic grey vapour. ‘You must write about this,’ he whispered to me. ‘You must write about the day freedom left Paris...Categorized as:
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Ellie by Lesley Pearse
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEllie is a sweet-natured brunette, generous of heart with a sparkling smile and an accent which reveals her East End background.Bonny is beautiful and spoilt, with cascades of blonde hair, the brightest pair of blue eyes and a mouth like Cupid's bow... -
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Night Angels by Weina Dai Randel
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the author of The Last Rose of Shanghai comes a profoundly moving novel based on the true story of a diplomat and his wife who risked their lives to help Viennese Jews escape the Nazis.1938. Dr. Ho Fengshan, consul general of China, is posted in Vienna with his American wife, Grace... -
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Les Miserables I & II by Victor Hugo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsExcerpt from The Works of Victor Hugo, Vol. 2: Les Miserables Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work...Categorized as:
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La sospecha de Sofía by Paloma Sánchez-Garnica
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLa anodina vida de Sofía y Daniel cambia radicalmente cuando él recibe una carta anónima en la que se le dice que Sagrario, a la que venera, no es su verdadera madre y que si quiere conocer la verdad de su origen debe ir a París esa misma noche. Intrigado, pregunta a su padre por esta cuestión y él le recomienda que lo deje pasar, que no remueva el pasado...Categorized as:
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![The Maid's Secret by Shari J. Ryan]()
The Maid's Secret by Shari J. Ryan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCzechoslovakia, 1942: “Please don’t take him,” I plead to the Nazis.“I love you, Mila,” Ben says, hoarsely. “So much. Forever.”“Ben!” I shout as the soldiers pull him away, my heart thudding. “I love you. Please, come back.” I’m screaming at the top of my lungs as the world turns black around me.In the mountains of Bohemia, Mila, a Romani, works as a maid for an aristocratic Jewish family...Categorized as:
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![The Smallest Crack by Roberta Kagan]()
The Smallest Crack by Roberta Kagan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1933 Berlin, GermanyWhen the price for life is dishonor dipped in blood, how much is too much?Eli Kaetzel and his beautiful but timid wife Rebecca suddenly find themselves in the gaping maws of Adolf Hitler's murderous rampage. Eli knows that their only chance, however slim, for survival may lie in the hands of Gretchen, a spirited Aryan girl...Categorized as:
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Ofrene by Gerald Green
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGerald Green's novel Holocaust, which is based on his teleplay for the 1978 NBC miniseries, seeks to put faces on the tragedy by telling the story of the experience of two German families whose lives intersect at certain points...Categorized as:
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![Reilly's Luck by Louis L'Amour]()
Reilly's Luck by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsVal Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly-a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years the each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the cities of Europe-until the day Reilly's luck ran out in a roar of gunfire... -
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![The Frost of Springtime by Rachel L. Demeter]()
The Frost of Springtime by Rachel L. Demeter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo rescue her was to rescue his own soul. On a cold Parisian night, Vicomte Aleksender de Lefèvre forges an everlasting bond with a broken girl during her darkest hour, rescuing her from a life of abuse and misery. Tormented by his own demons, he finds his first bit of solace in sheltering little Sofia Rose.But when Aleksender is drawn away by the Franco-Prussian war, the seasons pass... -
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![The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester]()
The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree generations. One chance to prove themselves. Can the women of the Bricard fashion dynasty finally rewrite their history? French countryside, Present Blythe Bricard is the daughter of famous fashion muses but that doesn't mean she wants to be one. She turned her back on that world, and her dreams, years ago...Categorized as:
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![Mendelevski's Box by Roger Swindells]()
Mendelevski's Box by Roger Swindells
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe survived Auschwitz but now Simon Mendelevski has to find out who betrayed his family September 1945. Auschwitz survivor Simon Mendelevski, penniless and unkempt, returns to Amsterdam in a desperate search for his family, friends and neighbours. Simon meets two Dutch women, both of whom have also suffered...Categorized as:
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![Il ritorno by Diana Gabaldon]()
Il ritorno by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNell'Amuleto d'ambra Claire Randall, viaggiatrice nel tempo e nello spazio, aveva incominciato a spiegare una difficile verità alla figlia Brianna: negli anni in cui era ufficialmente data per dispersa, fra il 1945 e il 1946, era in realtà precipitata, attraverso il magico cerchio di pietre di Craigh na Dun, nella Scozia del Settecento, dove si era innamorata follemente del nobile James Fraser...Categorized as:
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![Angelique and the King by Anne Golon]()
Angelique and the King by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE SUN KING AND THE QUEEN OF PLEASURE.Louis XIV was one of history's great lovers. Fought over by every exquisite woman in France, there was only one luscious jewel Louis really wanted to possess; the irresistible Angelique. But the emerald-eyed enchantress knew Louis discarded beautiful mistresses like toys. And that she would never bear...Categorized as:
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![Hidden Among the Stars by Melanie Dobson]()
Hidden Among the Stars by Melanie Dobson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the award-winning author of Catching the Wind, which Publishers Weekly called “unforgettable” and a “must-read,” comes another gripping time-slip novel about hidden treasure, a castle, and ordinary people who resisted evil in their own extraordinary way...Categorized as:
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![Stockholm 2: Children of Their City by Per Anders Fogelström]()
Stockholm 2: Children of Their City by Per Anders Fogelström
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPer Anders Fogelstroms Stockholm Series is a quintet of novels about the intertwined stories of a city and of a family; this second volume, Children of Their City, focuses on the experiences and diverging destinies of the children of Henning Nilsson, the principal character of its predecessor, City of My Dreams... -
![Kafka and the travelling doll by Jordi Sierra i Fabra]()
Kafka and the travelling doll by Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings19th Etitions - Spanish National Prize 2007 for Children and Youth Literature*. One year before his death, Franz Kafka saw in one of Berlin's park a girl who was crying because she had lost her doll. The writer calms her down by telling her that her doll had gone on a trip and that he, a doll postman, would take her a letter the next day. For three weeks, Kafka wrote a daily letter for the girl...Categorized as:
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![Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp by Michelle Moran]()
Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp by Michelle Moran
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMaria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dramatic novel, based on the woman glamorized in The Sound of Music, brings Maria to life as never before.In the 1950s, Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of a woman named Maria von Trapp...Categorized as:
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![The Three Musketeers, Vol. I by Alexandre Dumas]()
The Three Musketeers, Vol. I by Alexandre Dumas
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsIn March 1844 the French magazine Le Siecle, printed the first installment of a story by Alexandre Dumas. It was based, Dumas claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. The serial chronicled the adventures of D'Artagnan -- a young swordsman intent on joining the king's musketeers...Categorized as:
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![The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton]()
The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape to safety...Categorized as:
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![The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch]()
The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center.In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land... .. -
![Nemesis and the Swan by Lindsay K. Bandy]()
Nemesis and the Swan by Lindsay K. Bandy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Revolutionary Paris, the secrets behind an eerie set of brooches will either send Helene d'Aubign to the guillotine or save her lifeFrom her prison cell in revolutionary Paris, nineteen-year-old aristocrat Helene d'Aubign recalls the events that led her to choose between following in her parents' unforgivable footsteps or abandoning the man she loves...Categorized as:
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![Die roten Matrosen by Klaus Kordon]()
Die roten Matrosen by Klaus Kordon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBerlin 1918/1919. Nach vier Jahren Weltkrieg verweigern die Matrosen der kaiserlichen Marine in Kiel den Befehl zum Auslaufen und kommen nach Berlin. In der Stadt beginnt es zu brodeln. Helmut, genannt Helle, und Fritz freunden sich mit den meuternden Matrosen der Hochseeflotte an, erleben die Revolution mit, den Sieg - und auch die Niederlage...Categorized as:
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![Cast in Ice by Laura Landon]()
Cast in Ice by Laura Landon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLady Winnifred Waverley, daughter of the Duke of Townsend, walked the fringes of Society harboring a horrible secret. A secret so damning that it would shatter her entire family and destroy any chance for her younger sister Anne to find a love match... -
![The Boy in the Attic by Imogen Matthews]()
The Boy in the Attic by Imogen Matthews
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAnna opened the letter with trembling hands. ‘My darling, if you’re reading this, I haven’t managed to unravel my parents’ secret. But you can. Will you finish the search for me, find out who they were, and who you really are?’Nazi-occupied Holland, 1944. As soldiers patrol the streets, nursing student Ilse is only just surviving the terrible famine and increasingly violent German occupation...Categorized as:
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![Standartenführer's Wife by Ellie Midwood]()
Standartenführer's Wife by Ellie Midwood
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is a diary of Annalise Meissner, a young German Jew with long time ago falsified papers, living a carefree life in pre-war Berlin. A talented ballerina, she comes from a wealthy family and at first doesn’t want to concern herself with the changes her country starts undergoing under the new Nazi regime...Categorized as:
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Jo of the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Chalet School now enrols more than 30 students. Adventures of all types take place during the autumn term, including a flood that threatens the school and the spectacular recovery of an unwanted St. Bernard dog. Last but not least, Joey, Robin, and Madge have a wonderful Christmas in Innsbruck... -
![Sunday In The Park With George: A Musical by Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine]()
Sunday In The Park With George: A Musical by Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsInspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Sondheim and Lapine's musical celebrates the art of creation and the creation of art...Categorized as:
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![Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese]()
Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, this exhilarating novel of love, war, art, and family gives voice to two extraordinary women and brings to life the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimt’s most remarkable paintings...Categorized as:
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![Night Thief by Lisa Kessler]()
Night Thief by Lisa Kessler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the fall of the Mayan civilization, Kane, an immortal Night Walker, has taken refuge in France for over 800 years. The modern world holds little interest for him until the night he meets the Golden Thief and is robbed of much more than his pocket watch.Marguerite Rousseau is living a double life... -
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Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Volume One by Ashley Gardner
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA collection of the first three novels in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries series plus two Captain Lacey short stories originally published in mystery magazines... -
![Broken Promise by Laura Landon]()
Broken Promise by Laura Landon
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVictorian Romance Captain Austin Landwell lives with nightmares that torture him every day. So, when he’s given the chance to redeem himself and make the family he destroyed whole again, nothing will stand in his way except...his love for a woman who has the power to breathe life back into a heart he thought was dead... -
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Mademoiselle Eiffel by Aimie K. Runyan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of The School for German Brides and A Bakery in Paris, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century Paris tells the story of Claire Eiffel, a woman who played a significant role in maintaining her family’s legacy and their iconic contributions to the city of Paris...Categorized as:
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The Swan-Daughter by Carol McGrath
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Swan Daughter is a true 11th C tale of elopement and a love triangle by best-selling author of The Handfasted Wife, Carol McGrath. A marriage made in Heaven or Hell. 1075 and Dowager Queen Edith has died... -
![O Quarto Arcano - O Anjo Negro by Florencia Bonelli, Isabel Fraga]()
O Quarto Arcano - O Anjo Negro by Florencia Bonelli, Isabel Fraga
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNo princípio do século XIX, diferentes processos revolucionários espalham-se pelas colónias espanholas da América, desejosas de se tornarem independentes da Coroa de Espanha. Buenos Aires será uma das primeiras capitais a concretizar esse sonho. É nesse contexto que decorre o romance de Florencia Bonelli, a mais popular autora histórico-romântica do panorama literário latino-americano... -
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Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiří Weil
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn the roof of Prague's concert hall, Julius Schlesinger, aspiring SS officer, is charged with the removal of the statue of the Jew Mendelssohn--but which one is he? Remembering his course on "racial science," Schlesinger instructs his men to pull down the statue with the biggest nose. Only as the statue topples does he recognize the face of Richard Wagner... -
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The Girl with the Golden Scissors by Julia Drosten, Deborah Rachel Langton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Lioness of Morocco and The Elephant Keeper’s Daughter, the story of an ambitious young woman discovering friendship, love, and her own identity on the eve of World War I. Christmas 1889. A baby is born in the early hours at Vienna General Hospital, only to be abandoned by her unwed mother and entrusted to a foundling home and its loving caretaker...Categorized as:
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![All Human Wisdom by Pierre Lemaitre]()
All Human Wisdom by Pierre Lemaitre
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFebruary, 1927. The great and the good of Paris gather to attend the funeral of the powerful millionaire, Marcel Péricourt. His daughter, Madeleine, is poised to take charge of his financial empire, but it seems fate has other plans for her. Her young son, Paul, with one unexpected and tragic act, will place Madeleine on the path to ruin and degradation... -
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![Spy Line by Len Deighton]()
Spy Line by Len Deighton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBritish agent Bernard Samson finds himself inexplicably hunted as a traitor, forced to abandon his life, his job, his position, and plunge into hiding in the most dangerous and darkest corner of Berlin. What is happening? What has he done? Nothing makes sense until Samson discovers that the Secret Service has known all along where he is. In fact, they have never taken him off the payroll... -
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The School at the Chalet by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen Madge Bettany sets up a school in the Austrian Tyrol, her sister Joey is among the first pupils. From small beginnings, it grows rapidly, enjoying all sorts of exciting adventures and mishaps... -
![Sabotaje by Arturo Pérez-Reverte]()
Sabotaje by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings¿Es el Guernica que conocemos el verdadero cuadro que pintó Picasso?¿Qué hacía Falcó en París en la primavera de 1937?Arturo Pérez-Reverte y Lorenzo Falcó vuelven con una historia de sabotaje... -
![Circle Of Shadows by Imogen Robertson]()
Circle Of Shadows by Imogen Robertson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGermany, 1784. Daniel Clode cannot say whether or not he killed the woman. They were found together in a locked room, dressed for the Carnival. But what of the strange madness he feels, and how did she drown on dry land? Harriet Westerman knows Daniel is not a murderer; her sister would not have married such a man... -
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The First Actress by C.W. Gortner, Gabrielle de Cuir
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe tumultuous life of the legendary French star Sarah Bernhardt--the world's first modern actress and international celebrity--dazzles in this stunning novel for readers of Love and Ruin and Mistress of the Ritz...Categorized as:
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![The Violinist of Venice: A Story of Vivaldi by Alyssa Palombo]()
The Violinist of Venice: A Story of Vivaldi by Alyssa Palombo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA sweeping historical novel of composer and priest Antonio Vivaldi, a secret wealthy mistress, and their passion for music and each other Like most 18th century Venetians, Adriana d'Amato adores music-except her strict merchant father has forbidden her to cultivate her gift for the violin...
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