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The merchant of Venice

1995
Presents the full text of Shakespeare's dark comedy about young lovers and a Jewish money lender who demands a pound of flesh in payment for a debt.

Venice

a new history
2012
Draws on rare archival material and newly translated documents to chronicle the city's rise from a humble lagoon refuge to its apex as a maritime empire and Renaissance epicenter to its rebirth as a modern tourist hub.

Death in Venice

1995
An unabridged republication of the 1912 German novella about a middle-aged man's quest for love and beauty in the midst of decaying splendor.

Looking for Marco Polo

2009
Eleven-year-old Mark's father, an anthropologist, disappears in the Gobi desert while tracing Marco Polo's ancient route from Italy to China, and when Mark gets a bad asthma attack, Doc Hornaday pays a visit and tells Mark tales of Marco Polo to bolster the boy's courage.

Sisters of glass

2012
Presents in verse the story of Maria who wishes to become a glassblower but her father will not allow it and is instead given the responsibility of marrying into nobility. A new young glassblower arrives on the island of Murano and when Maria is drawn to him, her already existing web of emotions becomes even more complicated.

For the love of Venice

1998
Spending the summer in Venice with his family turns confusing for Percy when he meets a beautiful, politically radical Venetian girl who wants him to help sabotage his father's engineering project in order to drive tourists out of the city.

Anna Maria's gift

2010
In 1715 Italy, eight-year-old Anna Maria Lombardini arrives at a Venice orphanage with little but the special violin her father made for her, but when her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi, favors her over a fellow student, the beloved instrument winds up in a canal. Includes glossary and historical note.

The isle of masks

2008
Jason, Rick, and Julia follow a trail of clues and codes into the past, arriving in eighteenth-century Venice, where they search for the inventions of Kilmore Cove's most famous citizen, Peter Dedalus, who has hidden in the past to protect the mystery of the Doors to Time.

Death in Venice

&, A man and his dog = Der Tod in Venedig ; &, Herr und Hund
2001
Contains the English and German translations of two novellas by Thomas Mann.

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