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019    905559841 
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020    1410477010|q(large print : hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)893898622|z(OCoLC)905559841 
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050 10 PR6112.E94|bV55 2015 
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084    FIC044000|2bisacsh 
092    823.9200 
100 1  Ley, Rosanna,|eauthor. 
245 14 The villa /|cRosanna Ley. 
250    Large Print edition. 
264  1 Waterville, Maine :|bThorndike Press, A part of Gale, 
       Cengage Learning,|c2015. 
264  4 |c©2012 
300    653 pages (large print) ;|c22 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Thorndike Press large print women's fiction 
520    When Tess Angel receives a solicitor's letter inviting her
       to claim her inheritance -- the dilapidated but beautiful 
       Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in Sicily -- she is 
       stunned. Her only link to the island is through her mother,
       Flavia, who left Sicily following World War II and cut all
       contact with her family. Could this be Tess's chance to 
       find out why? Initially resistant to Tess going back to 
       her roots, Flavia realises the secrets from her past are 
       about to be revealed and decides to try to explain her 
       actions. She compiles a book of her family's traditional 
       Sicilian recipes as a legacy to pass on to her daughter 
       and tells her story which began in the summer of 1944 when
       she rescued an injured English pilot in the countryside 
       near her home in Cetaria and helped nurse him back to 
       health. Meanwhile, Tess's teenage daughter Ginny has lost 
       her sense of direction. She is stressed by college and by 
       her blossoming sexuality and consumed by questions that 
       she longs to ask her father -- if only she knew where he 
       was. There is also a mystery attached to The Mermaid's 
       Villa concerning the missing Il Tesoro. What is this 
       treasure and what does it have to do with her family? Tess
       must navigate a way through the prejudices of Sicilian 
       history and the opposition of her family's enemies in 
       order to find out. 
650  0 Large type books. 
650  7 FICTION / Contemporary Women.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Large type books.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00992678 
651  0 Sicily (Italy)|vFiction. 
651  7 Italy|zSicily.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204499 
655  0 Large type books. 
655  7 Fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787 
830  0 Thorndike Press large print women's fiction series. 
994    92|bCKE