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Bandit Love (World Noir) Best Price: $4.70 Massimo Carlotto, who has achieved as much fame for his noir mysteries involving the Mafia in... | Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy) Best Price: $45.00 Zinedine Zidane
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Via delle Oche (De Luca Trilogy, Book 3) Best Price: $5.00 Police Commisario (Inspector) De Luca is one of those cops who would like nothing more than to... | A Sun for the Dying Best Price: $7.96 Jean-Claude Izzo (1945-2000) was born in Marseilles to immigrant parents, giving him the life of... | Heliopolis Best Price: $2.00 Raised in Brazil, Japan, and the UK, author James Scudamore sets this novel in Sao Paulo, a city... | The Chill (Europa Editions) Best Price: $5.00 The last novella written by acclaimed Italian author Romano Bilenchi before his death in 1989,... | Via delle Oche (De Luca Trilogy, Book 3) Best Price: $8.13 It is 1948. Italy?s fate is soon to be decided in bitterly contested national elections. A man... |
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(BANDIT LOVE) BY Carlotto, Massimo ( AUTHOR )paperback{Bandit Love} on 28 Sep, 2010 | First Execution Best Price: $2.85 Fans of metafiction will get a real workout with this novel by Domenico Starnone, who in 2001... | The Man in the Wooden Hat Best Price: $5.75 Esteemed novelist Jane Gardam follows up on the success of Old Filth, her highly successful 2005... | Limassol Best Price: $0.39 In this novel by Yishai Sarid, an unnamed speaker "draws the horse" of Israeli society... | The Shadow of What We Were Best Price: $7.70 I was stymied by this short book at first, and even after completing it, I was not sure exactly... |
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Love Burns Best Price: $11.95 I almost put this novel aside when I discovered its irregular punctuation and total lack of... | Departure Lounge Best Price: $6.00 (4.5 stars) A day after playing billiards with Rory Jones, an arrogant, fly-by-night developer... | The Butterfly Workshop Best Price: $40.00 What a wonderful message to send to our young readers. I read this book aloud for three nights... | The Girl on the Via Flaminia Best Price: $8.04 The liberation of Rome during World War II was not a "liberation" to many of its... | The People on Privilege Hill Best Price: $6.48 Memories, and in many cases, the memories of the aged, infuse this collection of fourteen... |