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The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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4) Italy
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Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Relates the experiences of children's author Giselle Potter when, at the age of seven, she toured Italy with her family's tiny theater company, The Mystic Paper Beasts.
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'A Room with a View' portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Forster''s heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians, who encourage her to take up with a well-connected boor. In the end, however, Lucy takes control of her own fate and finds love with a man whose free spirit reminds her of "a room with a view."
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Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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In this sequel to her" New York Times" bestsellers" Under the Tuscan Sun" and" Bella Tuscany," the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" ("New York Times") Frances Mayes lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany's people,
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Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Children's book author Claire A. Nivola explores the village of Orani, the tiny hamlet in the mountains of central Sardinia where her father lived before moving to New York during World War II.
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Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; many of life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up--a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married,...
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