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Valentine trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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When a secret about her business partner and lover is revealed during her family's celebration of The Feast of the Seven Fishes, Valentine Roncalli must make life-altering choices as she fights for everything she wants while sustaining her family's business and enjoying life to the fullest.
2) Still life
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English
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"Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn...
3) Nives
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A widowed Italian farm woman finds unlikely companionship and startling self-discovery in a novel "as immediate and spellbinding as a two-character play" (La Stampa).
A Tuscan through and through, Nives didn't cry when she found her husband of fifty years dead in the pig pen. Nor did she cry at the funeral. But when loneliness sets in—and she brings her favorite chicken inside for company—she is shocked to discover that her new...
A Tuscan through and through, Nives didn't cry when she found her husband of fifty years dead in the pig pen. Nor did she cry at the funeral. But when loneliness sets in—and she brings her favorite chicken inside for company—she is shocked to discover that her new...
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English
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Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenaged daughter and a mother who worries that Gemma has no life. So when her mother receives a mysterious letter telling her about an even more mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, Gemma sees her chance: the three of them throw caution and convention to the wind and leave for Italy. Gemma hopes that a change of scenery will bring back the closeness she used to share with her daughter....
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Sandro Cellini mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the suspicious death of an artistic retreat director, Florence private investigator Sandro Cellini is drawn into the lives of the retreat's artist residents and considers several possible suspects who in turn reveal chilling surprises.
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Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 1
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English
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"Rick Montoya has moved from New Mexico to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He's settling into la dolce vita when a school friend, who is now senior in the Italian Art Squad, recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role--posing as an art buyer from New Mexico, interested in black market Etruscan burial urns. But before sunset on Rick's first day in Volterra, a gallery employee plunges to his death from a high cliff. The local commissario...
11) The last promise
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Having followed her new husband to his native home in rustic Tuscany, Ellana distracts herself from her marital disappointments by caring for her asthmatic son, and reevaluates her life when she meets American art lover Ross Story.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In the small Tuscan town of Collodi, a lonely woodcarver longs for the companionship of a son. One day, "as if the wood commanded me," Giuseppe--better known as Geppetto--carves for himself a pinewood boy, a marionette he hopes to take on tour worldwide. But when his handsome new creation comes magically to life, the woodcarver screams at him ... and the boy, Pinocchio, leaps from his arms and escapes into the night. Though he returns the next day,...
13) The Tuscan child
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal. Nearly thirty years later, Hugo's estranged daughter, Joanna, has returned home to the English countryside to arrange her father's funeral. Among his personal...
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Series
The vineyards of Calanetti volume 5
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
This time it's for ever... Architect Logan Cascini is on edge when the discovery of an ancient fresco brings Lucia Moretti back to Tuscany. He hasn't seen his ex since they parted twelve years ago, in the most heartbreaking of circumstances... Facing Logan again unleashes in Lucia a torrent of emotions that has her normally calm and collected heart racing. Perhaps it's time for Lucia to loosen her grip on the pain of the past and allow them both to...
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
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Four American women become unexpected friends during a magical year in Tuscany marked by a writer's complicated relationship with the subject of her biography, long-postponed dreams, and shifting senses of adventure and bravery.
Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of a friend. Her work is interrupted by the arrival of Julia, Camille, and Susan, all of whom have launched a recent and spontaneous friendship. Susan,...
17) Out of her depth
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Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the lush green hills beyond Florence sits the Villa Medici—a graceful pensione surrounded by manicured gardens. Rachel, a college student from an unfashionable London suburb, can’t believe her luck in landing a summer job here. Especially when she’s drawn into a circle of privileged young sophisticates, including her glamorous coworker Diana, who promises to help Rachel win the affections of handsome, confident Sebastian. But as champagne...
18) The other story
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English
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"Vacationing at a luxurious Tuscan island resort, Nicolas Duhamel is hopeful that the ghosts of his past have finally been put to rest... Now a bestselling author, when he was twenty-four years old, he stumbled upon a troubling secret about his family - a secret that was carefully concealed. In shock, Nicholas embarked on a journey to uncover the truth that took him from the Basque coast to St. Petersburg - but the answers wouldn't come easily. In...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping new novel from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of The Tea Planter's Wife, available for pre-order now In 1940s Tuscany, Contessa Sofia della Torre's peaceful home in a medieval palazzo among the olive groves has been upturned by the arrival of German soldiers. She is desperate to help her friends in the village fight back in any way she can, all while keeping her efforts secret from her husband Lorenzo, who fears for their...
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English
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"Though it took some time to settle into his new life in Gravigna, Italy, following the death of his wife, Nico Doyle has figured a thing or two out. The locals have not only welcomed him, but are giving him rave reviews on his contributions to the menu at Sotto il Fico, and his budding relationship with Nelli is healing old wounds. When Nico receives a phone call late at night, he tries to ignore it. A phone call at that time could only mean trouble....
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