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Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Issues of religion and politics take center stage in the household of Venice's Commissario Guido Brunetti when he and his wife go undercover to investigate the possibility that a charlatan posing as a preacher has begun developing an American-style Christian sect in the city, and Brunetti's attempts to investigate the death of a gypsy child found floating in a canal are hindered by sensitivities to multicultural issues.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Audiobooks
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (8 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
On the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico, an eleven-year-old Mixtec boy called Teo lives with his family and the animals that he has healed, but one day a Romany caravan rolls into town with a young girl who calls herself Esma, the Gypsy Queen of Lightning--it is the beginning of a life-long friendship that will change both their lives.
Author
Series
Department Q volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
All fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson wants is to become a Danish citizen and go to school like a normal teenager. But his uncle Zola rules his former gypsy clan with an iron fist. Revered as a god and feared as a devil, Zola forces the children of the clan to beg and steal for his personal gain. When Marco discovers a dead body-proving the true extent of Zola's criminal activities- he goes on the run. But his family members aren't the only ones who'll...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A novel presented from multiple viewpoints, told by the interviewees of a bereaved lover trying to collect the life story of the late Athena, a Gypsy orphan raised by a Lebanese Christian couple and shaped by journeys in Europe and the Middle East before she settled in London, where her magical gifts, cult following, and refusal to live by the rules of her time or abandon her dreams made her the victim of a witch hunt.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hovering between paralysis and delirium in a hospital bed, half-Romany private investigator Ray Lovell evaluates a case involving the missing wife of a charismatic traveling Gypsy whose hostile family is hiding a tragic secret.
Author
Series
Kronos chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.
7) The extra
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitler's favorite filmmaker a chance at life -- or a detour on the path to inevitable extermination? In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Gypsies who worked as extras for the real Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 100 min.)
Language
English
Description
Journey into the world of the Roma - a people who through the ages have been both romanticized and vilified in popular culture, politics and art, and who have endured centuries of intolerance and persecution. Visiting 11 countries and interviewing dozens of Roma artists, historians, musicians and Holocaust survivors, this revealing film documents their culturally rich but often difficult lives, taking us back to ancient times and forward to the little-known...
9) Korkoro
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 111 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
During the Second World War, a Gypsy family travels the roads of France before learning that the Vichy regime no longer gives them the right to travel freely.
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A variety of Romany musical groups and dancers perform traditional music and dances in settings created to show traditional Romany life and culture. Set in India, Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, France and Spain
11) Balkan gypsies
Series
Publisher
World Music Network
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Multiple
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Episodes include: Episode 17: The Girl Of His Dreams - The murder of a trucking entrepreneur strikes close to home when Brunetti learns that the victim was involved in shady deals with a friend's husband. Episode 18: Looks Are Deceiving - A ten-year-old Roma girl is found dead in a Venetian canal. Brunetti goes to the encampment where she lived, but his attempts to speak with the community there are futile.
13) Meridon: a novel
Author
Series
Wideacre trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
439 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
With this elaborate tapestry of a young woman's life, the Lacey family trilogy ( Wideacre and The Favored Child ) comes to a satisfying conclusion. Meridon is the lost child whose legacy is the estate of Wideacre. She and her very different sister, Dandy, were abandoned as infants and raised in a gypsy encampment, learning horsetrading and other tricks of survival. They are indentured to a circus master whose traveling show is made successful by Meridon's...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The winds of change are blowing through Paris in the winter of 1789, both for France and for our hero, a striking and mysterious Gypsy boy named Yann Margoza. He was born with a gift for knowing what people are thinking and an uncanny ability to throw his voice, and he has been using those skills while working for a rather foolish magician. That work will soon end, however, and on the night of the magician’s final performance, Yann’s life...
15) Aferim!
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Romanian
Description
Set in early nineteenth century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
269 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the help of a troupe of free-spirited freegans, three very clever internet hackers and a bunch of singing vegans, Melbourne baker Corinna and her luscious Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase to find two missing runaways.
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