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General non-fiction
Manuel sur la grammaire italienne pour des allophones. [n.d.].
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Music
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Livret accompagné d'un texte qui relate la genèse de l'unique opéra de Beethoven, de commentaires de Berlioz et de Furtwängler,…
d'un essai sur la mise en scène, de textes qui font écho au message de l'oeuvre et d'un synopsis
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Adventure stories
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An old Cuban fisherman hooks a giant marlin after eighty-five days without a single catch. He then fights a losing…
battle with sharks who try to deprive him of his triumph. Pulitzer Prize. Italian language
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Mysteries and crime stories
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Four murders in Milan--a taxi driver, a businessman, a photographer, and an unemployed man--all have two things in common. All…
were killed with the same caliber pistol, and all were the same age. Commissioner Ambrosio is called in to investigate. Italian language
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Health and medicine
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An Italian journalist presents the stories, experiences, and confessions of men and women who suffer from AIDS, at the same…
time pointing out the effects that the fear of AIDS has had on society as a whole. Italian language
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Psychology
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The author first presented the principles of dianetics and its therapeutic value in 1950. Dianetics evolved into Scientology, an applied religious philosophy developed by the author. Italian language
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Psychology
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The author first presented the principles of dianetics and its therapeutic value in 1950. Dianetics evolved into Scientology, an applied religious philosophy developed by the author. German language
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Psychology
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The Italian journalist looks at the phenomenon of love and presents case histories of famous love stories, including those of…
Boris Pasternak, Marilyn Monroe, Svetlana Stalin, and Benito Mussolini. He also profiles "Latin lover" Marcello Mastroianni and diva Francesca Bertini, describes the love bouts of Woody Allen, and discusses the three loves of millionaire Armand Hammer. Italian language
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General fiction
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The story of a friendship between two cousins growing up in rural Lichtenstein is narrated by Georg, the younger of…
two, who idolizes the older, rough-hewn Edgar. Georg describes their lives from their Boy Scout beginnings up to maturity, when the gradual loss of innocence sends the two in different directions. German language
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Short stories
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The fear of death and the alienation that dying causes influences the people in these nineteen short stories by the…
German author. In a variety of everyday situations, people suddenly find themselves having to come to terms with human mortality. In the title story, it is the shortest day of the year, and a man keeps asking his wife over and over again what day it is. German language
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Classic fiction
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Short stories about the animals of India and the life of Mowgli the jungle boy, who was adopted by a…
wolf pack and taught the laws of the jungle by a panther and a bear. Includes both Il Libro della Giungla and Il Secondo Libro della Giungla. For grades 5-8. Italian language
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General fiction
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A British novel. Charles Wychwood, an aspiring poet, discovers an old manuscript that he believes was written by Thomas Chatterton,…
the eighteenth-century English poet who commmitted suicide at eighteen. Or did he? The story explores the themes of reality and illusion, mortality and immortality, and the ways in which past, present, and future are entwined. Italian language
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Biography
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Short profiles on ninety-nine contemporary men, mostly Italians. Includes writers such as Umberto Eco, actors such as Vittorio Gassman, and…
movie directors such as Federico Fellini. Woody Allen, Boy George, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Bruce Springsteen, and Pope John Paul II are also profiled. Italian language
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Historical fiction
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Historical novel chronicles the lives of an Italian farm family of Monferrato in birth, love, war, and death from the…
end of the Napoleonic Era to the inception of a united Italy. Italian language
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Mysteries and crime stories, Ghost and horror stories
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Casaubon, a student of philology in the 1970s, is writing a thesis on the Templars, a monastic order of knights…
officially disbanded in the 1300s, though some say it only went underground and is still active. Casaubon discusses the order with his friends, Belbo and Diotallevi, and they decide to construct a bogus "Plan for the Templars." Before long the plan they invented has become real, and what started as a joke has become a nightmare. Bestseller. Italian language
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Romance
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Romance novel set in Calabria and written in the form of letters between Angelica and Matteo--letters that evoke an echo…
of the sensuality and violence characteristic of southern Italy in the past. Italian language
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Family stories
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Describes the rise of a Chinese peasant from poverty to the position of a rich landowner, helped by his patient wife. Pulitzer Prize, 1932. Vietnamese language. 1970
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Short stories
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Collection of eleven short stories by the contemporary Vietnamese author now living in California. Includes the stories "Feeble Happiness," "Something…
like a Desperate Feeling," and "The Last Memorial Sonnet." Vietnamese language. 1988
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Literature, Literature biography
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Autobiography of an educated young Chinese woman who lives through the Japanese bombing of Chunking. She chronicles the hardships of…
the Chinese people during their struggle against the Japanese. First published in 1942. Vietnamese language. 1971
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Family stories
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A passionate peasant woman, deserted by her husband, slaves to support her three children with a devotion that achieves its reward at last in a grandchild. Vietnamese language. 1972