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Name: The Sixteen Pleasures

Author: Robert Hellenga
Year: 1994
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Popularity: 2.3
Genres/categories: Fiction, Award winners, Historical fiction, Art
Culture: Italy

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Winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award for Adult Fiction in 1995.

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)
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