Cover of The Sixteen Pleasures

The Sixteen Pleasures

When book conservator Margo Harrington goes to Florence to aid in restoring the treasures damaged in the flooding of the Arno in 1966, she is entrusted with a rare book that its owner, the abbess of a convent, hopes to sell without the bishop's knowledge. (Nancy Pearl)

Subject
travel
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 384 pages

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