Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Nevada

A Novel

"The Hummingbird is a remarkable accomplishment, a true gift to the world." --Michael Cunningham "Long considered one of Italy's leading writers, Sandro Veronesi has re-written the family saga. Ardent, gripping, and inventive to the core, it has already been hailed a classic."--Jhumpa Lahiri The Hummingbird is a masterly novel, a brilliantly conceived mosaic of love and tragedy.--Ian McEwan The #1 international sensation from a master of European literature--winner of Italy's Premio Strega--a saga of a Florentine family from the 1960s to the present that brilliantly captures the power of history and the multi-faceted experience of life itself as it explores how we contend with uncontrollable forces that both buffet and buoy us. Marco Carrera is "the hummingbird," a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges--suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman--Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity for living. As the years pass and the arc of his life bends, Marco finds himself filled with joy for the future as the baton passes from him to the next generation. A beautiful and compelling journey through time told in myriad narrative styles, The Hummingbird is a story of suffering, happiness, loss, love, and hope--of a man who embodies the quiet heroism that defines daily life for countless ordinary folk. A thrilling novel about the need to look to the future with hope and live with intensity to the very end, Sandro Veronesi's masterpiece--eminently readable, rich in insight, and filled with interesting twists and revelations--is a portrait of human existence, the vicissitudes and vagaries that propel and ultimately define us Translated from the Italian by Elena Pala A great novel, vibrating with life and death, happiness and pain, nostalgia and hope for the future. --Vanity Fair

The Hummingbird

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience

Twenty-three Italian American writers explore the deeper cultural heritage of Italians beneath the stereotypes and the way their ethnicity has influenced their writing; analyze Italian American literature; and recount the political battles of Italian Americans. UP.

Beyond the Godfather

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#hardcover #pasta #cooking #cookbook #recipes #italian #foodie #food #chef #culinary 

Oregon

A Cookbook

Collects Italian cookery recipes that range from classic favorites to innovative new dishes and are accompanied by simple instructions for making fresh pasta and a selection of side dishes.

Everyday Pasta

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Joseph Luzzi

Florida

What Dante Taught Me about Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love

In the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante's Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning--a rich and emotionally resonant memoir of suffering, hope, love, and the power of literature to inspire and heal the most devastating loss.

Where do we turn when we lose everything? Joseph Luzzi found the answer in the opening of The Divine Comedy: "In the middle of our life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood."

When Luzzi's pregnant wife was in a car accident--and died forty-five minutes after giving birth to their daughter, Isabel--he finds himself a widower and first-time father at the same moment. While he grieves and cares for his infant daughter, miraculously delivered by caesarean before his wife passed, he turns to Dante's Divine Comedy for solace.

In a Dark Wood tells the story of how Dante helps the author rebuild his life. He follows the structure of The Divine Comedy, recounting the Inferno of his grief, the Purgatory of healing and raising Isabel on his own, and then Paradise of the rediscovery of love.

A Dante scholar, Luzzi has devoted his life to teaching and writing about the poet. But until he turned to the epic poem to learn how to resurrect his life, he didn't realize how much the poet has given back to him. A meditation on the influence of great art and its power to give us strength in our darkest moments, In a Dark Wood opens the door into the mysteries of Dante's epic poem. Beautifully written and flawlessly balanced, Luzzi's book is a hybrid of heart-rending memoir and critical insight into one of the greatest pieces of literature in all of history. In a Dark Wood draws us into man's descent into hell and back: it is Dante's journey, Joseph Luzzi's, and our very own.

In a Dark Wood

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Michigan

101 Reasons to Be Proud You're Italian

This exploration of all things Italian, presented as a combination tour guide, cookbook, historical and biographical record, celebrates the Italian-American contributions to American culture.

Italian Pride

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Who can resist pasta? From hearty family favorites like lasagna to luscious fresh-tasting vegetable courses, here are 100 fabulous recipes for pasta salads, soups, and main dishes for every occasion. Full-color illustrations.

Best Recipes for Pasta

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The Gourmet's Guide to Italian Cooking

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Giada De Laurentiis

Hard cover book in like new condition with the exception of a ripple across the bottom of the front cover due to shelving.

Maryland

New Italian Favorites: a Cookbook

The Food Network star and "New York Times"-bestselling author returns with a brand-new collection of flavorful, California-inflected takes on Italian classics. 60 full-color photos.

Giada's Kitchen

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Marco Bianchi

Virginia

Healthy and Authentic Italian Cooking for the Whole Family

In this gorgeous full-color lifestyle cookbook, the Italian cook, television personality, and bestselling cookbook author offers personal tips and tricks on maintaining a healthy diet and provides 65 of his favorite Mediterranean recipes to help you eat deliciously and live well. "What do you eat on a typical day?" This is the question Italian cook and television personality Marco Bianchi is frequently asked. A food mentor revered for his expertise in maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle, he believes that one's daily food regime is the key to reaching and sustaining health and happiness. Now, for the first time, Marco opens his home in Milan and shares insights on eating and wellness, as well as some of his favorite recipes--everything necessary to feed the body, mind, and soul. Cucinare is an exciting behind-the-scenes look at Bianchi's everyday life, captured in nearly 200 color photographs. In talking about healthy eating, he reminds us that the most often overlooked items for a good, balanced diet are already in the pantry and fridge. He dispels myths involving the science of nutrition and enthusiastically demonstrates his art, giving you the step-by-step instructions and simple ingredients to create delicious, healthy dishes, including: Apple Walnut Salad with Balsamic Honey Dressing Mini-focaccia Breads with Seeds and Olives Roasted Cherry Tomatoes with Onions Pasta with Eggplant, Taggiasca Olives, Capers, and Mint Mediterranean Sushi Eating well isn't a mystery, Bianchi makes clear. The key to building a foundation for good health starts at the dinner table. Mangia

Cucinare

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#hardcover #murder #mystery #European #crime #thriller #suspense #decklededge #Italian #Alps First in a sensational crime series—set in the Italian Alps, reminiscent of the works of Andrea Camilleri, D. A. Mishani, Donna Leon, and Henning Mankell.

Getting into serious trouble with the wrong people, deputy prefect of police Rocco Schiavone is exiled to Aosta, a small, touristy alpine town far from his beloved Rome. The sophisticated and crotchety Roman despises mountains, snow, and the provincial locals as much as he disdains his superiors and their petty rules. But he loves solving crimes.

When a mangled body has been discovered on a ski run above Champoluc, Rocco immediately faces his first challenge—identifying the victim, a complex procedure complicated by his ignorance of the customs, dialect, and history of his new home. Proud and undaunted, Rocco makes his way among the ski runs, mountain huts, and aerial tramways, meeting ski instructors, Alpine guides, the hardworking, enigmatic folk of Aosta, and a few beautiful locals eager to give him a warm welcome.

It won't be easy, this mountain life, especially with a corpse or two in the mix. But then there's nothing that makes Rocco feel more at home than an investigation.

An insightful observer of human nature, Antonio Manzini writes with sly humor and a dash of irony, and introduces an irresistible hero—a fascinating blend of swagger, machismo, and vulnerability—in a colorful and atmospheric crime mystery series that is European crime fiction at its best.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Kentucky

A Novel (Rocco Schiavone #1)

Already an international hit, a sly, sizzling mystery--the first in a sensational crime series--set in the Italian Alps, reminiscent of the works of Andrea Camilleri, D. A. Mishani, Donna Leon, and Henning Mankell.

Getting into serious trouble with the wrong people, deputy prefect of police Rocco Schiavone is exiled to Aosta, a small, touristy alpine town far from his beloved Rome. The sophisticated and crotchety Roman despises mountains, snow, and the provincial locals as much as he disdains his superiors and their petty rules. But he loves solving crimes.

When a mangled body has been discovered on a ski run above Champoluc, Rocco immediately faces his first challenge--identifying the victim, a complex procedure complicated by his ignorance of the customs, dialect, and history of his new home. Proud and undaunted, Rocco makes his way among the ski runs, mountain huts, and aerial tramways, meeting ski instructors, Alpine guides, the hardworking, enigmatic folk of Aosta, and a few beautiful locals eager to give him a warm welcome.

It won't be easy, this mountain life, especially with a corpse or two in the mix. But then there's nothing that makes Rocco feel more at home than an investigation.

An insightful observer of human nature, Antonio Manzini writes with sly humor and a dash of irony, and introduces an irresistible hero--a fascinating blend of swagger, machismo, and vulnerability--in a colorful and atmospheric crime mystery series that is European crime fiction at its best.

Black Run

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An immigrant saga reminiscent of Roots begins in a small Italian village and spans three generations and two world wars to capture the essence of the Italian-American experience. 300,000 first printing. $300,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Unto the Sons

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Fresh Ways with Pasta

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#hardcover #italian #recipes #recipepictures

Cooking Class Italian Cookbook

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California

#hardcover #Italian #Cookbook #MarioNatali #MoltoItaliano#cookbook #cooking #desserts #foodnetwork #italian #italianfood #mariobatali #italianfood 

Illinois

327 Simple Italian Recipes to Cook at Home

"The trick to cooking is that there is no trick." ––Mario Batali The only mandatory Italian cookbook for the home cook, Mario Batali's MOLTO ITALIANO is rich in local lore, with Batali's humorous and enthusiastic voice, familiar to those who have come to know him on his popular Food Network programs, larded through about 220 recipes of simple, healthy, seasonal Italian cooking for the American audience. Easy to use and simple to read, some of these recipes will be those "as seen" on TV in the eight years of "Molto Mario" programs on the Food Network, including those from "Mediterranean Mario," "Mario Eats Italy," and the all–new "Ciao America with Mario Batali." Batali's distinctive voice will provide a historical and cultural perspective with a humorous bent to demystify even the more elaborate dishes as well as showing ways to shorten or simplify everything from the purchasing of good ingredients to pre–production and countdown schedules of holiday meals. Informative head notes will include bits about the provenance of the recipes and the odd historical fact. Mario Batali's MOLTO ITALIANO will feature ten soups, thirty antipasti (many vegetarian or vegetable based), forty pasta dishes representing many of the twenty–one regions of Italy, twenty fish and shellfish dishes, twenty chicken dishes, twenty pork or lamb dishes and twenty side dishes, each of which can be served as a light meal. Add twenty desserts and a foundation of basic formation recipes and this book will be the only Italian cooking book needed in the home cook's library.

Molto Italiano

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Rose Kent

First Edition 
Kimchi and calamari. It sounds like a quirky food fusion of Korean and Italian cuisine, and it's exactly how Joseph Calderaro feels about himself. Why wouldn't an adopted Korean drummer—comic book junkie feel like a combo platter given:

(1) his face in the mirror

(2) his proud Italian family.

And now Joseph has to write an essay about his ancestors for social studies. All he knows is that his birth family shipped his diapered butt on a plane to the USA. End of story. But what he writes leads to a catastrophe messier than a table of shattered dishes—and self-discovery that Joseph never could have imagined.

Grade level: 4 - 7
Ages 8 - 12+

A wide range of readers can relate to Joseph's story--those who are adopted, have mixed-race heritage, or those caught between their parents' culture and the culture where they live now.

Kimchi and Calamari

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Pasquale Bruno

Pasta Tecnica

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#hardcover #italian #pasta #cooking #cookbook

Colorado

From soups to hearty pasta dishes, salad to dinner party extravaganzas, you'll find a wonderful selection of pasta and Italian recipes.

Pasta and Italian

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Better Homes and Gardens Editors

Pasta is full of fresh new recipes for creating exciting meals. Both main-dish and side-dish recipes are streamlined and call for easy-to-find yet fresh-tasting ingredients. 68 recipes. 67 color photos.

Pasta.... Great Cooking Made Easy

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Naomi Krupitsky

Clean text and dust jacket intact. Book of the Month Nov. 2021

Massachusetts

A novel 

The Instant New York Times bestseller A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself. Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate. Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathers’ unspoken community: the Family. Sunday dinners gather them each week to feast, discuss business, and renew the intoxicating bond borne of blood and love. But the disappearance of Antonia’s father drives a whisper-thin wedge between the girls as they grow into women, wives, mothers, and leaders. Their hearts expand in tandem with Red Hook and Brooklyn around them, as they push against the boundaries of society’s expectations and fight to preserve their complex but life-sustaining friendship. One fateful night their loyalty to each other and the Family will be tested. Only one of them can pull the trigger before it’s too late.

The Family

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Leonardo Castellucci

Marco Lanza

No obvious signs of wear. Pages intact with no writing.

Pasta the Italian Way

Pastissima!

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Robust Trattoria Cooking from Al Forno

Cucina Simpatica brings to home cooks the luscious, lusty food of Al Forno, the acclaimed restaurant in Providence, Rhode Island. Since opening Al Forno in 1980, owners-chefs Johanne Killeen and George Germon have won a loyal following, rave reviews, and many awards for their superb food.

The recipes reflect their down-to-earth style of hearty yet simple trattoria and Italian home cooking. Included are detailed instructions for making their renowned grilled pizza. While Cucina Simpatica is organized by courses--from starters, soups, salads, bruschetta, crostinis, and polenta to pizzas, pastas, grills, roasts, braises, vegetables, and desserts--the authors urge readers to be flexible and make their own choices. A grilled pizza accompanied by a small salad may suffice for dinner. Pasta can be served in small portions as a first course or in larger amounts as the focus of the meal. A platter of roasted vegetables makes a fine meatless meal.

Cucina Simpatica inspires home cooks to prepare the rustic, robust Italian-style food from one of America's finest restaurants.

Cucina Simpatica

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Recipes and Traditions

Balsamic vinegar, olive oil, mozzarella, Parmigiano-Reggiano, prosciutto, fresh pasta - these are the cornerstone ingredients of great Italian cooking.Italian Food Artisans celebrates the art and origins of these wonderful foods and many others. Profiling some of the finest food artisans working today, this beautifully photographed book takes readers on a journey through the countryside and villages of Italy - where tubs of purple and green olives await a cold pressing, capers are picked by hand, and paddled water wheels power millstones that grind the grain for bread. The featured food artisans reveal age-old secrets of their trades and offer up stories of aplace where good food, lovingly prepared, is still a way of life. With over 50 simple and robust recipes that evoke the Italian countryside,Italian Food Artisans will entice and delight Italian food lovers everywhere.

Italian Food Artisans

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New York

An Italian American Memoir

For Carl Capotorto, everything is in a name. The literal translation into English from Italian of his name is Twisted Head. He grew up in the Bronx the 60s and 70s, next door to the Mangialardis (eat fat) and Mrs Occhiogrosso (big eye). His father was a tyrant who ran a pizzeria caught in the middle of the great Bronx upheaval, his mother a long-suffering wife. In a comedic story of a hardscrabble, working-class family's life, the real legacy of Italian Americans is exposed. Tragic and funny in equal measure, this is a poignant memoir and a tale of becoming.

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Sandro Veronesi; Elena Pala (Translator)

The Hummingbird

A. Kenneth Ciongoli (Editor); Jay Parini (Editor)

Beyond the Godfather

Giada De Laurentiis

Everyday Pasta

Joseph Luzzi

In a Dark Wood

Stephen Moramarco; Federico Moramarco; Brenda Jackson

Italian Pride

Crocker

Best Recipes for Pasta

Sonia Allison

The Gourmet's Guide to Italian Cooking

Giada De Laurentiis

Giada's Kitchen

Marco Bianchi

Cucinare

Antonio Manzini

Black Run

Gay Talese

Unto the Sons

Time-Life Books Editors

Fresh Ways with Pasta

Publications International, Ltd.

Cooking Class Italian Cookbook

Giada De Laurentiis

Everyday Pasta

Mario Batali

Molto Italiano

Rose Kent

Kimchi and Calamari

Pasquale Bruno, Jr.

Pasta Tecnica

Cook’s Library

Pasta and Italian

Better Homes and Gardens Editors

Pasta.... Great Cooking Made Easy

Naomi Krupitsky

The Family

Leonardo Castellucci; Marco Lanza

Pastissima!

Johanne Killeen

Cucina Simpatica

Pamela Sheldon Johns; John Rizzo (Photographer)

Italian Food Artisans

Carl Capotorto

Twisted Head