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By Katerin Katerinov. 1994
By Ernest Hemingway. 1989
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 languageBy Renato Olivieri. 1989
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 languageBy Enzo Biagi. 1989
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 languageBy L. Ron Hubbard. 1986
By Enzo Biagi. 1988
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 languageBy Rudyard Kipling. 1987
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 languageBy Peter Ackroyd. 1989
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 languageBy Roberto D'Agostino. 1988
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 languageBy Rosetta Loy. 1987
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 languageBy Umberto Eco. 1988
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 languageBy Enzo Siciliano. 1984
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 languageBy Stephen Hawking. 1988
The famous theoretical physicist, affected by Lou Gehrig's disease since graduate school, is best known for his inquiries into the…
nature of black holes. This work recaps modern physicists' attempts to understand how and why the universe exists. Hawking claims that these attempts reach ever closer to a single theory that, if complete and convincing, would enable us to "know the mind of God." Italian languageBy Pietro Ghilarducci. 1981
By Francesco Mazzei. 1983
Biography of the infamous Valeria Messalina, wife of the Roman emperor Claudius. Her immoral and corrupt behavior during eight years…
as empress culminated in her execution, by order of her own husband. Italian languageBy Pier Vittorio Tondelli. 1985
By Fulvio Tomizza. 1985
Collection of twenty-three stories, written over a period of three decades, by the celebrated Italian author. The stories reflect the…
character of various Italian regions at different times, including the author's native Istria, as well as Trieste and Friuli. Italian languageBy Giorgio Scerbanenco. 1985
Enzo attempts to save Roberta, an industiral magnate's daughter, from the hands of an unscrupulous clinic for the wealthy, where…
she has been sent to undergo a cure for alcoholism. Italian languageBy Frederick Forsyth. 1986
Set in 1987, the novel concerns a Soviet plot to gain sympathy for Britain's Labour party by exploiting the nuclear…
freeze issue. The plan is to explode a tiny nuclear bomb smuggled in pieces into England and blame the Americans. One tenacious British agent, John Preston, stands in the way. Italian languageBy Paolo Scandaletti. 1981