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Two star-crossed lovers--Enza and Ciro--meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever. Set during the years preceding and during World War I.
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A young man and his Italian teacher form an unlikely friendship in this novel of hope, heartbreak and the Italian-American experience.
Fresh out of college, Carter Quinn has returned to his home in North Providence, Rhode Island, unsure of just about everything except his plans to go to Italy and pursue the woman of his dreams. To do that, he needs to learn to speak Italian, and there's only one man who can teach him—if Carter
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Demon catchers of Milan trilogy volume 1
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After surviving being possessed by a demon, sixteen-year-old Mia leaves her family in New York to stay with cousins in Milan, Italy, where she must study her family's heritage of demon catching in order to stay alive.
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Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten, but not far enough to escape from the world's troubles. At the center of the island's life is a café draped with bougainvillea called the House at the Edge of Night, where the community gathers to gossip and talk. Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, finds his destiny on the island with his beautiful wife, Pina, whose fierce intelligence, grace, and unwavering love...
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In this stunning debut novel, a young woman tells the story behind two elderly sisters' estrangement, unraveling family secrets stretching back a century and across the Atlantic to early 20th century Italy. For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents--moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's...
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"The innocence of childhood collides with the stark aftermath of war in this wrenching and ultimately redemptive tale of family, seemingly impossible choices, and the winding paths to destiny, which sometimes take us to places far beyond our imaginings." - Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Before We Were Yours and The Book of Lost Friends Based on true events, a heartbreaking story of love, family, hope, and survival set in post-World...
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Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten, but not far enough to escape from the world's troubles. Spanning nearly a century, through secrets and mysteries, trials and sacrifice, this beautiful and haunting novel follows the lives of the Esposito family and the other islanders who live and love on Castellamare: a cruel count and his bewitching wife, a priest who loves scandal, a prisoner of war turned poet, an outcast...
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Demon catchers of Milan trilogy volume 2
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"Mia Della Torre is happy to be settled in Milan, learning her family's ancient trade of demon hunting, and able to put her fear of her own, personal demon aside--until she falls in love and realizes how much more than her own happiness is at stake"--
10) A Roman rhapsody
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"Famed for its natural beauty and rich history, Sardinia in 1968 is notorious, too, for the bandits who kidnap wealthy landowners for ransom. Eleven-year-old Alba Fresu's brother, and her father, Bruno, are abducted by criminals who mistake Bruno for a rich man. After a grueling journey through the countryside, the two are eventually released--but the experience leaves Alba shaken and unable to readjust to normal life, or to give voice to her inner...
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Llamarse Luce no es nada fácil, sobre todo si tu carácter no es precisamente el más luminoso. Pero peor aún es apellidarse Di Notte, una de las muchas bromas del calamidad de su padre. Si además vives en Nápoles e ir a trabajar en Vespa se convierte cada día en una aventura, si eres abogada, licenciada cum laude, pero en la oficina solo te encargas del papeleo, y si tu familia es un desastre... Es comprensible que, de vez en cuando, se te inflen...
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"Inspired by true events, [this novel] tells the story of a Jewish family and their community during the Fascist regime in Italy, when Benito Mussolini introduced his draconian race laws. Culminating with the tragic outbreak of World War II, Levi's novel of loss and courage recounts the history of mid-century Europe through the eyes and lives of ordinary people living in extraordinary times."--Back cover.
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"A hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel. At the heart of the story is an absence, an abyss that draws everyone nearer to its edge, created by the departure of a family's wayward only son, Michele, who has fled from Italy to England to escape the dangers and threats of his radical political ties. This novel is part epistolary: his mother writes letters to him, nagging him; his sister Angelica writes to him too; so does Mara, his former lover, who...
14) A winter's night
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The story of the Brunis, a family of farmers from the Italian Padan plain who have worked the land since time immemorial, and the homeless multitudes, travelers, and tinkers roaming Europe during the hardscrabble nineteen twenties and thirties.
15) Me and you
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To quell the anxiety of his concerned, socially conscious parents, Lorenzo tells them he's been invited on an exclusive ski vacation. His real plan: for one blessed week, Lorenzo will retreat to a forgotten cellar in his family's apartment building, where he will live in perfect isolation, keeping the adult world at bay. When his estranged half-sister, Olivia, shows up in the cellar unexpectedly, the two become locked in a battle of wills, forced...
16) The viceroys
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"A lost literary classic, written in 1894, The Viceroys is one of the most acclaimed masterworks of Italian realism. The novel follows three generations of the aristocratic Uzeda family as it struggles to hold on to power in the face of the cataclysmic changes rocking Sicily. As Garibaldi's triumphs move Italy toward unification, the Uzedas try every means to retain their position. De Roberto's satirical and mordant pen depicts a cast of upper-class...
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"Tengo que contarte una historia, ma chére. Mi historia. Rosa Kusstatscher ha construido un imperio de la moda gracias a su capacidad de encontrar el conjunto perfecto para cada ocasión. Pero esta noche, mientras se prepara para el encuentro más importante de su vida, esa seguridad que la caracteriza flaquea. ¿Qué acontecimientos la han llevado a este momento? Mientras se esfuerza por seleccionar un vestido y elegir el tono correcto de pintalabios,...
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W 1943 roku Rosa musi zmierzyć się ze zdradą najbliższej jej osoby. 15-latka nie może dłużej pozostać w Oberfals - decyduje się wyruszyć z niewielkim bagażem, by odkryć swoje miejsce na świecie. Rosa ze zdziwieniem odkrywa, że to w niezwykłym świecie mody czuje się jak ryba w wodzie. Kobieta rozpoczyna swoją nową przygodę, stając się krawcową tworzącą unikalne kreacje, które zachwycą niejednego krytyka. Spotyka również...
19) El colibrí
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Panorama de narrativas volume 1034
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Marco Carrera, el protagonista de la nueva novela de Sandro Veronesi, es un colibrí. La suya es una vida de continuas suspensiones pero también de coincidencias fatales, de pérdidas atroces y amores absolutos. Nunca cae al fondo: el suyo es un movimiento incesante para mantenerse firme, firme, y cuando esto no es posible, para encontrar el punto de parada de la caída, porque sobrevivir no significa vivir menos. A su alrededor, Veronesi construye...