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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them. Its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild--selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and Becchina...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Stella Park is elated to celebrate her best friend's wedding in the Italian countryside-and maybe she also needs this escape from her personal and her professional life. Writing recipes for a living isn't all it's cooked up to be. But the revelry is short lived when she runs into the ex she hasn't seen since she broke his heart ten years ago, Samuel Gordon. As her past gets propelled to the forefront, Stella tries not to question the choices she made...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical--is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories: the first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth. In "The Boundary," one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker's daughter, who nurses...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village, and a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II, centuries of earthquakes, landslides and the lure of a better life have left it neglected. Only ten residents remain, including the widows Serafino: three eccentric sisters and their steely centenarian mother. They live quietly in their medieval villa. Then their nephew and grandson, Hugh, a historian, returns. Elisa Tomassi arrives...
5) Disobedient
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Artemisia Gentileschi, growing up in a family of all-male painters, dreams of becoming a great artist in 1611 Rome and completes lesson after lesson until a mysterious tutor threatens her honor and virtue and she is put on trial.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
August, 1943. Fourteen-year-old Massimo is all alone. Newly orphaned and fleeing from Rome after surviving the American bombing raid that killed his parents, Massimo is attacked by thugs and finds himself bloodied at the base of the Montecassino. It is there in the Benedictine abbey's shadow that a charismatic and cryptic man calling himself Pietro Houdini, the self-proclaimed 'Master Artist and confidante of the Vatican,' rescues Massimo and brings...
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