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Laura Martin is on a class trip to Rome when Mercury, a dark-eyed boy with wings on his heels, appears to give her a message, and Laura soon realizes that she is at the center of a brewing battle between the gods and goddesses--and only she and her friends can unravel the mystery behind what is happening.

"Information accompanies step-by-step instructions on how to cook Italian food."--Provided by publisher.

After being entrusted with the secret recipe for a highly desirable pigment known as Passion blue, Giulia, a young woman training as a painter in a fifteenth century convent in Italy, disguises herself as a boy and travels to Venice to reinvent herself as an artist's apprentice.

Helena Atlee sets out to explore citrus' curious past and its enduring resonance in Italian culture. This heady mixture of travel writing, history, horticulture and art offers a unique-and enormously readable-journey through Italy's cultural, culinary and political past.

In Rome during the time of Vespasian, time travelers Dawkins and Hypatia Faraday join up with Pliny the Elder who is researching dragons for his natural history encyclopedia, which seems like a harmless activity until a real fire-breathing dragon attacks them.

"Sparky is off to Rome! Will he be able to outsmart the cunning Italian cat who has stolen his bone, or will he have to stay in Rome forever?"--.

FBI Special Agent Pendergast, searching for the human villain behind the death of infamous art critic Jeremy Grove, found murdered in a crime that appears to have supernatural origins, follows the trail from New York to the Italian countryside where he learns a shocking secret.