The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome

The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome
Author: Katrina Nannestad
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1460708121

He's the world's vaguest novelist. She's a shy and unusual child. Together, they're travelling the world, one book a time. 'QUITE SIMPLY THE BEST SORT OF READING PLEASURE FROM THE FIRST PAGE TO THE LAST' -- Raven's Parlour Bookstore For the first ten years of Freja's life, she and her mother Clementine have roamed the Arctic in search of zoological wonders. Happy, content, together. Freja and Clem. Clem and Freja. But now, everything is changing, and Clementine must send Freja away to live with her old friend Tobias, a bestselling crime writer and, quite possibly, the most absent-minded man on earth. Tobias isn't used to life with a child, and Freja isn't used to people at all, but together they'll stumble into an Italian adventure so big that it will change things forever ... Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad returns with a delicious new series about family, friendship and finding yourself. AWARDS Notable Book - CBCA Book of the Year Awards Shortlisted - 2018 Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards

The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Provence (The Girl, the Dog and the Writer, Book 2)

The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Provence (The Girl, the Dog and the Writer, Book 2)
Author: Katrina Nannestad
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 146070813X

'FANS OF ... JACQUELINE HARVEY WILL LOVE THIS BOOK' -- Kids' Book Review on The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome When Freja and Tobias arrive in Claviers, Provence, it feels like home. The hilltop village is surrounded by olive groves, lavender fields and drifts of red poppies. The market square hides a world-famous pâtisserie and an antique merry-go-round. Pippin, their precocious young neighbour, and Vivi, the beautiful chef, fill their lives with chatter and laughter and love. For a moment, the girl, the dog and the writer are happy. But a spate of criminal activity casts a cloud over the village. Freja is determined to solve the mystery and uncover the villain, but the closer she gets, the more impossible things seem to become ... Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad is back with the much-anticipated sequel to the bestselling novel The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome. PRAISE FOR THE GIRL, THE DOG AND THE WRITER SERIES 'sure to be treasured' -- Children's Book Council of Australia's Reading Time 'Fans of the Clementine Rose and Alice-Miranda series by Jacqueline Harvey will love this book' -- Kids' Book Review 'Children from eight up will really warm to this funny, sad, happy book, and many adults will be charmed too' -- The Book Bubble 'The mini world that author Katrina Nannestad has created is every child's dream. 8+ readers will love this book' -- Better Reading 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards -- Longlisted 2018 CBCA Book of the Year Awards -- Notable

The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Lucerne (The Girl, the Dog and the Writer, #3)

The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Lucerne (The Girl, the Dog and the Writer, #3)
Author: Katrina Nannestad
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1460708148

'AN ABSOLUTE DELIGHT TO READ, WITH LOTS OF CHARMING AND QUIRKY CHARACTERS' -- Better Reading Freja and her mother, Clementine, are reunited at last. Tobias and Vivi are in love. And Lucerne, their new home, is a paradise of snowy alps, sapphire lakes, white swans and delicious Swiss chocolate! Everything seems perfect, until poor Lady P appears, bandaged from head to toe after a fall -- or was it a push? Crimes break out across the city, all involving chocolate. Clementine doesn't seem her usual self. And still Freja has not solved the biggest mystery -- who is Tobias Appleby? All will be revealed in the girl, the dog and the writer's final adventure by award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad. PRAISE FOR THE GIRL, THE DOG AND THE WRITER SERIES 'sure to be treasured' -- Children's Book Council of Australia's Reading Time 'Children from eight up will really warm to this funny, sad, happy book, and many adults will be charmed too' -- The Book Bubble 'Fans of... Jacqueline Harvey will love this book' -- Kids' Book Review on The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome 'an absolute delight to read, with lots of charming and quirky characters ... The mini world that author Katrina Nannestad has created is every child's dream' -- Better Reading 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards -- Longlisted 2018 CBCA Book of the Year Awards -- Notable

The It Girl in Rome

The It Girl in Rome
Author: Katy Birchall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481463691

Anna finds herself on a class trip to Rome in this hilarious final novel in The It Girl trilogy. Anna Huntley, her friends, and her ACTUAL boyfriend (definitely requires shouting) Connor are going on a class trip to Rome! This is the ideal opportunity for Anna not only to escape the craziness of her dad’s wedding to his world-famous actress fiancée, but also to have a real romantic date with Connor. Nothing could spoil this perfect, pasta-filled chance at love—could it?

Daughters of Rome

Daughters of Rome
Author: Kate Quinn
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2011-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101478950

A fast-paced historical novel about two women with the power to sway an empire, from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Briar Club. A.D. 69. The Roman Empire is up for the taking. Everything will change—especially the lives of two sisters with a very personal stake in the outcome. Elegant and ambitious, Cornelia embodies the essence of the perfect Roman wife. She lives to one day see her loyal husband as Emperor. Her sister Marcella is more aloof, content to witness history rather than make it. But when a bloody coup turns their world upside-down, both women must maneuver carefully just to stay alive. As Cornelia tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered dreams, Marcella discovers a hidden talent for influencing the most powerful men in Rome. In the end, though, there can only be one Emperor...and one Empress.

West of Rome

West of Rome
Author: John Fante
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2010-05-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062013181

West of Rome's two novellas, "My Dog Stupid" and "The Orgy," fulfill the promise of their rousing titles. The latter novella opens with virtuoso description: "His name was Frank Gagliano, and he did not believe in God. He was that most singular and startling craftsman of the building trade-a left-handed bricklayer. Like my father, Frank came from Torcella Peligna, a cliff-hugging town in the Abruzzi. Lean as a spider, he wore a leather cap and puttees the year around, and he was so bowlegged a dog could lope between his knees without touching them."

The Friend (National Book Award Winner)

The Friend (National Book Award Winner)
Author: Sigrid Nunez
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 073521946X

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI WATTS “A beautiful book . . . a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love.” —Wall Street Journal “A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory . . . Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” —NPR “Dry, allusive and charming . . . the comedy here writes itself.” —The New York Times The New York Times bestselling story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them. Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.

Lara's Gift

Lara's Gift
Author: Annemarie O'Brien
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-07-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307931757

In 1914 Russia, Lara is being groomed by her father to be the next kennel steward for the Count's borzoi dogs unless her mother bears a son, but her visions, although suppressed by her father, seem to suggest she has a special bond with the dogs.

Diary of a Stalker

Diary of a Stalker
Author: Electa Rome Parks
Publisher: Urban Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 159983250X

Electa Rome Parks paints a powerful portrait of a crazed fan who can't seem to close the book on the affair after a one-night-stand with a famous author—and who will stop at nothing to make him hers. Even if that means killing him. . . Bestselling author Xavier Preston is used to women throwing themselves at him. On top of being a successful writer, he's also tall, dark and sexy as sin. He's always relished the attention, in fact, and is ever-willing to entertain the erotic urges of women wanting to get between more than the covers of his novels. Except once he meets Kendall, he decides it's time to put his womanizing ways behind him and devote himself to her entirely. Well, almost. . . Gorgeous Pilar is the last decadent treat Xavier decides he'll help himself to—thinking they are both on the same "no strings" page. Except behind Pilar's fine façade beats the heart of a raving maniac—a fatally attracted fan addicted to the kind of hot loving only Xavier can give her. And she's not about to let him get away from her so easily. So what starts out as a discreet dalliance soon spirals into a deadly game of obsession and pain—which can only have one winner. . .

To Say Nothing of the Dog

To Say Nothing of the Dog
Author: Connie Willis
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 514
Release: 1998-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553575384

From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel . . . Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He’s been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop's bird stump. It’s part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years earlier. But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right—not only to save the project but to prevent altering history itself.