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Book A Mystery in Naples

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  • Author : Ermanno Rea
  • Publisher : Guernica Editions
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781550712025
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book A Mystery in Naples written by Ermanno Rea and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2003 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relentlessly asking the question Why did my friend Francesca Nobili kill herself in Naples on Good Friday in 1961? this journalist keeps a diary that blurs the line between fact and fiction. Meditations on the beauty of Naples alternate with memories of old conversations as he tries to understand how Nobili, with her fervent belief in human goodness and social progress, could have chosen death over life.

Book The Mystery of Naples

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  • Author : Edward Arthur Pancras Graham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book The Mystery of Naples written by Edward Arthur Pancras Graham and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Naples   1

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  • Author : Giada De Laurentiis
  • Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0448462567
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Naples 1 written by Giada De Laurentiis and published by Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 2013 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When their great-aunt comes to live with Alfie and his older sister Emilia, they learn that food can not only take you places but also bring you back home. In the first book in the series, Alfie and Emilia find themselves magically transported to Naples"--

Book Deadly Medicine  A Murder Mystery in Naples  Florida

Download or read book Deadly Medicine A Murder Mystery in Naples Florida written by Ray Vandenburg and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The retired couple, Don and Suzie Atchison, moves from cold Minnesota to a protected residential community in Naples, Florida. When Suzie's Alzheimer's strikes, she is admitted to a private clinic. She is on the waiting list for an ambitious health recovery program. At the same time, patients die in a suspicious manner. When a nurse goes missing, Inspector Archibald Kappakas is brought into action to investigate the nurse's disappearance from the clinic. Kappakas discovers that the director is prescribing the wrong medicine. Kappakas gets help from journalist Ellis Henning and courier Mike Garcia. By using unorthodox methods, Kappakas makes a gruesome discovery. With the assistance of Ellis and Mike, Kappakas tries to prevent Suzie from becoming the next victim. It is a race against the clock. But then Kappakas incorrectly assesses the situation and maneuvers himself into a hopeless position.

Book Naples

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  • Author : Diane Ketcham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-02
  • ISBN : 9780979755583
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Naples written by Diane Ketcham and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The teenage daughter of the chairman of the county commission is murdered a few weeks before Election Day. Cara Wicklow was blonde, beautiful and a twin. She was also the chairman's 'wild child' and was attending a local boarding school for wealthy troubled girls. Who killed Cara? Caught up in the murder investigation and a new life in Florida is transplanted New York journalist, A.J. 'Jazz' Billings. While reporting on Cara's murder and the strict school she attended, Jazz discovers a secret sorority and its dangerous initiation. Is it politics or teenage secrets that caused Cara's death? And is the sudden disappearance of the boyfriend of Jazz's new friend related? There's trouble in paradise for Jazz and her stud-dog Labrador Retriever, Willie." -- p. [4] of cover.

Book Framed in Naples

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  • Author : Jennifer Lonoff Schiff
  • Publisher : Sanibel Island Mysteries
  • Release : 2023-09-15
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Framed in Naples written by Jennifer Lonoff Schiff and published by Sanibel Island Mysteries. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When reporter Guinivere Jones is sent to cover a major art retrospective at the Baker Museum in Naples, Florida, she never suspected she'd be the star of the show-or would have to investigate another murder. Soon, however, she finds herself painted into a corner when all of the evidence points to one man as the likely killer, but those who know him best swear he was framed. Can Guin scrape away the lies and uncover the truth? Book 10 in the Sanibel Island Mystery series, FRAMED IN NAPLES features favorite characters from the previous books and contains a palette full of intrigue and romance that is sure to delight and entertain readers.

Book The Mystery of Naples   An Account of the Life and Miracles of St  Januarius       Illustrated

Download or read book The Mystery of Naples An Account of the Life and Miracles of St Januarius Illustrated written by Edward P. GRAHAM and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Naples and the Campagna Felice

Download or read book Naples and the Campagna Felice written by Lewis Engelbach and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Troubling Love

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  • Author : Elena Ferrante
  • Publisher : Europa Editions
  • Release : 2006-09-01
  • ISBN : 1609451015
  • Pages : 137 pages

Download or read book Troubling Love written by Elena Ferrante and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman goes home to Naples after her mother’s mysterious death in a “tour de force” by the New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend (Seattle Times). Following her mother’s untimely and unexplained drowning, which was preceded by a series of strange phone calls, forty-five-year-old Delia leaves Rome and embarks on a voyage of discovery through the beguiling yet often hostile streets of her native Naples. She is searching for the truth about her family and the men in her mother’s life, past and present, including an abusive husband. What she discovers will be more unsettling than she imagines, but will also reveal truths about herself, in this psychological mystery marked by “tactile, beautifully restrained prose” (Publishers Weekly) about mothers and daughters and the complicated knot of lies and emotions that binds them. “Ferrante’s polished language belies the rawness of her imagery.” —The New Yorker “With the quick-paced mystery guiding the story, Delia explores her relationship with her mother, unraveling memories and secrets repressed since childhood and coming to terms with an upbringing filled with jealousy and violence . . . Troubling Love is vivid and powerful.” —Library Journal

Book I Will Have Vengeance

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  • Author : Maurizio De Giovanni
  • Publisher : World Noir
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781609454395
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book I Will Have Vengeance written by Maurizio De Giovanni and published by World Noir. This book was released on 2018 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naples, March 1931: a bitter wind stalks the city streets, and murder lies at its chilled heart. As one of the world's greatest tenors, Maestro Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples' famous San Carlo Theatre, the enigmatic and aloof Commissario Ricciardi is called in to investigate. Arrogant and bad-tempered, Vezzi was hated by many, but with the livelihoods of the opera at stake, who would have committed this callous act? Ricciardi, along with his loyal colleague, Maione, is determined to discover the truth. But Ricciardi carries his own secret: will it help him solve this murder?

Book Niccolo Marini Or the Mystery Solved  A Tale of Naples Life

Download or read book Niccolo Marini Or the Mystery Solved A Tale of Naples Life written by Niccolo MARINI and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mystery Train

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  • Author : Greil Marcus
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2008-03-25
  • ISBN : 110166164X
  • Pages : 1525 pages

Download or read book Mystery Train written by Greil Marcus and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 1525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now Available as an eBook Catch a train to the heart of rock ‘n’ roll with this essential study of the quintessential American art form. First published in 1975, Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train remains a benchmark study of rock ‘n’ roll and a classic in the field of music criticism. Focusing on six key artists--Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Presley--Marcus explores the evolution and impact of rock ‘n’ roll and its unique place in American culture. This sixth edition of Mystery Train includes an updated and rewritten Notes and Discographies section, exploring the evolution and continuing impact of the recordings featured in the book.

Book A Taste of Naples

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  • Author : Marlena Spieler
  • Publisher : Big City Food Biographies
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781442251250
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Taste of Naples written by Marlena Spieler and published by Big City Food Biographies. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In other places, it might seem trite or clich to say that love is an essential component of cooking, food, and dining. But in the shadow of a still-fuming Vesuvio, the love of everyday life is palpable in Naples: that passion for life is the spirit that guides Neapolitan cuisine. You can taste it in everything. To truly know Napoli and Neapolitan food, you must not stay within its city limits. The entire region may be called Campania, but it is also: Napoli. The entire region shares similar characteristics, especially in its cuisine, and its surrounding areas also grow so much of what feeds the city, bringing pleasure and sustenance to the table and to life. In this tantalizing tour of the culture and cuisine of Napoli, Marlena Spieler reveals the tastes, sights, and sounds of the city and surrounding area (including its islands) in gorgeous detail. Using her own experiences and conversations with others, both tourists and residents alike, she offers us the rich history of this unique culture and cuisine, telling the story through recipes, history, and traditions, especially the special dishes and celebrations that follow every Neapolitan throughout the year. Open its pages and step into a sensory tour of this unique city.

Book The Witch of Napoli

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  • Author : Michael Schmicker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-01-02
  • ISBN : 9780990949022
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book The Witch of Napoli written by Michael Schmicker and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy 1899: Fiery-tempered, seductive medium Alessandra Poverelli levitates a table at a Spiritualist seance in Naples. A reporter photographs the miracle, and wealthy, skeptical, Jewish psychiatrist Camillo Lombardi arrives in Naples to investigate. When she materializes the ghost of his dead mother, he risks his reputation and fortune to finance a tour of the Continent, challenging the scientific and academic elite of Europe to test Alessandra's mysterious powers. She will help him rewrite Science. His fee will help her escape her sadistic husband Pigotti and start a new life in Rome. Newspapers across Europe trumpet her Cinderella story and baffling successes, and the public demands to know - does the "Queen of Spirits" really have supernatural powers? Nigel Huxley is convinced she's simply another vulgar, Italian trickster. The icy, aristocratic detective for England's Society for the Investigation of Mediums launches a plot to trap and expose her. Meanwhile, the Vatican is quietly digging up her childhood secrets, desperate to discredit her supernatural powers; her abusive husband Pigotti is coming to kill her; and the tarot cards predict catastrophe. Praised by Kirkus Reviews as an "enchanting and graceful narrative that absorbs readers from the first page," The Witch of Napoli masterfully resurrects the bitter, 19th century battle between Science and religion over the possibility of an afterlife. Michael Schmicker is an investigative journalist and co-author of The Gift: ESP: The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People (St. Martin's Press). He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Book Death in the Family

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  • Author : Tessa Wegert
  • Publisher : Berkley
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0593097890
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Death in the Family written by Tessa Wegert and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2020 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A storm-struck island. A blood-soaked bed. A missing man. In this captivating mystery that's perfect for fans of Knives Out, Senior Investigator Shana Merchant discovers that murder is a family affair. Thirteen months ago, former NYPD detective Shana Merchant barely survived being abducted by a serial killer. Now hoping to leave grisly murder cases behind, she's taken a job in her fiancé's sleepy hometown in the Thousand Islands region of Upstate New York. But as a nor'easter bears down on her new territory, Shana and fellow investigator Tim Wellington receive a call about a man missing on a private island. Shana and Tim travel to the isolated island owned by the wealthy Sinclair family to question the witnesses. They arrive to find blood on the scene and a house full of Sinclair family and friends on edge. While Tim guesses they're dealing with a runaway case, Shana is convinced that they have a murder on their hands. As the gale intensifies outside, she starts conducting interviews and discovers the Sinclairs and their guests are crawling with dark and dangerous secrets. Trapped on the island by the raging storm with only Tim whose reliability is thrown into question, the increasingly restless suspects, and her own trauma-fueled flashbacks for company, Shana will have to trust the one person her abduction destroyed her faith in--herself. But time is ticking down, because if Shana's right, a killer is in their midst and as the pressure mounts, so do the odds that they'll strike again.

Book The Story of the Lost Child

Download or read book The Story of the Lost Child written by Elena Ferrante and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Lost Child is the long-awaited fourth volume in the Neapolitan novels (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay). The quartet traces the friendship between Elena and Lila, from their childhood in a poor neighbourhood in Naples, to their thirties, when both women are mothers but each has chosen a different path. Their lives are still inextricably linked, for better or worse, especially when it comes to the drama of a lost child. Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. She is the author of seven novels: The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter, and the quartet of Neapolitan novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child. Frantugmalia, a selection of interviews, letters and occasional writings by Ferrante, will be published in 2016. She is one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors. Ann Goldstein has translated all of Elena Ferrante’s work. She is an editor at the New Yorker and a recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Prize. Praise for Ferrante and the Neapolitan novels ‘[Ferrante’s] charting of the rivalries and sheer inscrutability of female friendship is raw. This is high stakes, subversive literature.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Ferrante is an expert above all at the rhythm of plotting...Whether it’s work, family, friends or sex–and Ferrante, perhaps thanks to her anonymity as an author, is blisteringly good on bad sex–our greatest mistakes in life aren’t isolated acts; we rehearse them over and over until we get them as badly wrong as we can.’ Independent ‘Great novels are intelligent far beyond the powers of any character or writer or individual reader, as are great friendships, in their way. These wonderful books sit at the heart of that mystery, with the warmth and power of both.’ Harper’s ‘Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time. Her voice is passionate, her view sweeping and her gaze basilisk...In these bold, gorgeous, relentless novels, Ferrante traces the deep connections between the political and the domestic. This is a new version of the way we live now—one we need, one told brilliantly, by a woman.’ New York Times Sunday Book Review ‘When I read [the Neapolitan novels] I find that I never want to stop. I feel vexed by the obstacles—my job, or acquaintances on the subway—that threaten to keep me apart from the books. I mourn separations (a year until the next one—how?). I am propelled by a ravenous will to keep going.’ New Yorker ‘The best thing I’ve read this year, far and away...She puts most other writing at the moment in the shade. She’s marvellous.’ Richard Flanagan ‘The Neapolitan series stands as a testament to the ability of great literature to challenge, flummox, enrage and excite as it entertains.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘The depth of perception Ms. Ferrante shows about her character’s conflicts and psychological states is astonishing...Her novels ring so true and are written with such empathy that they sound confessional.’ Wall Street Journal ‘The older you get, the harder it is to recapture the intoxicating sense of discovery that comes when you first read George Eliot, Nabokov, Tolstoy or Colette. But this year it came again when I read Elena Ferrante’s remarkable Neapolitan novels.’ Jane Shilling, New Statesman ‘There is nothing remotely tiring or trying about the experience of reading the Neapolitan novels, which I, and a great many others, now rank among our greatest book-related pleasures...it is writing that holds honesty dear.’ Weekend Australian ‘Dickens gave working people a voice. Ferrante, whoever she might be, presents a new paradigm for being female in the world...Ferrante’s great literary creations, Lenu and Lila, have the same emotional weight as Anne in Persuasion, Jo in Little Women, Maggie in The Mill on the Floss, Jane in Jane Eyre.’ Helen Elliott in the Monthly ‘This stunning conclusion further solidifies the Neapolitan novels as Ferrante’s masterpiece and guarantees that this reclusive author will remain far from obscure for years to come.’ Publishers Weekly ‘The Neapolitan novels are smart, thoughtful, serious literature. At the same time, they are violent, suspenseful soap operas populated with a vivid cast of scheming characters...Ferrante’s novels are deeply personal and intimate, getting to the very heart of what it means to be a woman, a friend, a daughter, a mother.’ Debrief Daily ‘Shattering and enthralling, intimate and vicious...The Neapolitan Novels are the kind of books that swallow me whole. As soon as I pick one up, I don’t want to breathe or move lest I break the spell...The Neapolitan Novels are among the most important in my reading life. I can’t recommend them highly enough.’ Readings ‘Ferrante captures the complexities of women, friendship and motherhood in ways that make your heart soar and ache in equal measures. If you haven’t already, treat yourself to this series.’ ELLE Australia ‘[Ferrante’s] Neapolitan novels contain real life – recognisable anxiety, joy, love and heartbreak. This is an incredibly difficult feat to achieve in the first place, let alone sustain, over four books. We will be talking about Elena and Lila for years to come.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘There's a bright, sinewy humanness to Ferrante’s writing that is so alive it's alarming...The Story of the Lost Child is a full emotional experience, and a fitting end to a huge, arresting series.’ New Zealand Listener ‘I was one of the many who wept and wondered over Elena Ferrante’s The Story of the Lost Child. I plan to re-read the entire series soon.’ Favourite Feminist Reads from 2016, Feminist Writers Festival

Book Goodnight Naples

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patsy Stiles Burkhart
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-11-30
  • ISBN : 9780999477502
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Goodnight Naples written by Patsy Stiles Burkhart and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the enchantment of Naples, Florida as we say goodnight to magical sights, places and adventures that make this tropical paradise so unique and endearing.