#paperback #historicalfiction #fiction #italy #thevenicesketchbook 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

A Novel

Inheriting her beloved great-aunt's sketchbook, a recently divorced woman uncovers mysteries about her great-aunt's star-crossed romance with a nobleman in World War II Venice.

The Venice Sketchbook

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#paperback #fiction #youngadult #romance #youngadultfiction #italy #ya #contemporary 

Maryland

"After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mothers's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets"--

Love and Gelato

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Kentucky

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming debut novel. Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population 212) Signor Speranza has a problem: unless he can come up with 70,000 euros to fix the town’s pipes, the water commission will shut off the water to the village and all its residents will be forced to disperse. So in a bid to boost tourism—and revenue—he spreads a harmless rumor that movie star Dante Rinaldi will be filming his next project nearby. Unfortunately, the plan works a little too well, and soon everyone in town wants to be a part of the fictional film—the village butcher will throw in some money if Speranza can find roles for his fifteen enormous sons, Speranza’s wistfully adrift daughter reveals an unexpected interest in stage makeup, and his hapless assistant Smilzo volunteers a screenplay that’s not so secretly based on his undying love for the film’s leading lady. To his surprise—and considerable consternation, Speranza realizes that the only way to keep up the ruse is to make the movie for real. As the entire town becomes involved (even the village priest invests!) Signor Speranza starts to think he might be able to pull this off. But what happens when Dante Rinaldi doesn’t show up? Or worse, what if he does? A “hilariously funny and beautifully written” (Julia Claiborne Johnson, author of Better Luck Next Time) novel about the power of community, The Patron Saint of Second Chances is perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman and Maria Semple.

The Patron Saint of Second Chances

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#paperback #fiction #youngadult #romance #youngadultfiction #italy #contemporary #ya 

Love & Gelato

#paperback #mystery #thriller #italy #newrelease#hardcover 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Nebraska

#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily.

Loyalty can save a soul--or destroy one.

    Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and even the history of Sicily--forever.
    Gaetano Catalano is an idealistic young lawyer whose devotion to justice is tantamount to a calling. He's a member of the Beati Paoli, a real-life secret society of aristocrats who investigate crime in Palermo, a city riddled with graft. Gaetano sets out to find the boy and punish the kidnapper, but his mission leads him to a darker place than he had ever imagined.
    Meanwhile, Mafalda Pancari is a new mother rejoicing at the birth of her daughter, Lucia, when disaster strikes. And Alfredo D'Antonio is a reclusive goatherd under constant threat of being discovered as a Jew. How the lives of these unforgettable characters collide makes Loyalty an epic tale of good versus evil, as the story twists and turns to its monumental showdown.
    Readers will be transported to the dramatic and ruggedly beautiful island of Sicily, the jewel of the Mediterranean, where lush lemon groves and mouth-watering cuisine contrast with a turbulent history of colonization and corruption. Scottoline brings her decades of thriller writing to historical fiction, creating in Loyalty a singular novel that no reader will be able to put down.

Loyalty

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California

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

Lucy Honeychurch travels to Florence, Italy, with her cousin and they were assured they would receive a room with a view of the River Arno, but instead are given a room overlooking a dull courtyard. A one Mr. Emerson and his son George offer their room, which as the desirable view, to the two ladies. From this opening sequence, A Room with a View sets off following young Lucy as she navigates through the proprieties of Edwardian-era society.

A Room with a View

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

From Adriana Trigiani, “a master of visual and palpable detail” (The Washington Post), comes a lush, immersive novel about three generations of Tuscan artisans with one remarkable secret. Epic in scope and resplendent with the glorious themes of identity and belonging, The Good Left Undone unfolds in breathtaking turns. Matelda, the Cabrelli family’s matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother’s great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew. . . . In the halcyon past, Domenica Cabrelli thrives in the coastal town of Viareggio until her beloved home becomes unsafe when Italy teeters on the brink of World War II. Her journey takes her from the rocky shores of Marseille to the mystical beauty of Scotland to the dangers of wartime Liverpool—where Italian Scots are imprisoned without cause—as Domenica experiences love, loss, and grief while she longs for home. A hundred years later, her daughter, Matelda, and her granddaughter, Anina, face the same big questions about life and their family’s legacy, while Matelda contemplates what is worth fighting for. But Matelda is running out of time, and the two timelines intersect and weave together in unexpected and heartbreaking ways that lead the family to shocking revelations and, ultimately, redemption.

The Good Left Undone

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#fiction #charming #italy #newyorktimesbestsellingauthor #america #americans #family #paperback 

Workaholic, career-obsessed Francesca is fiercely independent and successful in all areas of life except one: family. She struggles to make time for her relationship with her teenage daughter, Allegra, and the two have become practically strangers to each other. When Allegra hangs out with a new crowd and is arrested for drug possession, Francesca gives in to her mother's wish that they take one epic summer vacation to trace their family roots in Italy. What she never expected was to be faced with the choice of a lifetime.

Our Italian Summer

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#fiction #suspensethrillers #suspense #thriller #paperback #Italy #assassin

Texas

In his haunting follow-up to the acclaimed Beneath the Mountain, Luca D'Andrea returns to the stunning Italian landscape of Alto Adige in this clever, twisting thriller that follows a woman on the run from her crime boss husband and the assassin sent to kill her. The Italian region of Alto-Adige is the northernmost part of the county, bordering Switzerland and Austria. The majestic Dolomites mountain range encompasses the area creating stark, beautiful landscapes. But this place of beauty also hides an evil side. For within the shadows of the towering Dolomites' peaks, one man has forged a reign of terror. Since World War II, when he was only a boy, Herr Wegener has been entrenched in a black market crime organization. He is feared by all and controls everyone: politicians, police, and his wife Marlene. But Marlene has finally had enough... Unable to take her husband's abuse and cruelty anymore, Marlene has reached her breaking point and goes on the run--but not before stealing millions of lire worth of sapphires from Wegener's safe as well as his car. Marlene was a young woman when Wegener fell into her life by chance while she was working at a hotel to earn money for her family who still lives in a rural mountain town. He represented protection and sanctuary--until she found out too late how he made his money. But no one escapes Wegener, and he will make sure Marlene pays for her betrayal. Wegener sends a notorious assassin to kill his wife--an assassin known solely as The Trusted Man and who always gets the job done. Once he is given an assignment, he sees it through to the end no matter how difficult. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem for Wegener. But then one of his men discovers the one fact that would make him want Marlene alive. She's pregnant with his son.... With nightmarish villains and kind-hearted heroes, Sanctuary is a fairy tale-esque thriller that will leave readers racing through its pages to keep up with a cat and mouse game between a lunatic crime boss and his desperate, pregnant wife.

Sanctuary

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#paperback #worldhistory #Rome #Italy #warfare #Roman #Empire 

The Roman Army was the most advanced professional fighting force the world had ever seen. What distinguished the Roman Army from its opponents was the uncompromising, total destruction of its enemies. The Romans' ruthless approach to warfare eventually created an empire that included much of Europe, the Near East, and North Africa. This authoritative history narrates the dramatic rise and fall of the Roman Empire, a journey author Adrian Goldsworthy traces with colorful anecdote and rich illustration.

 * From the origins of Rome and the conquest of Italy to the great era of world conquest and empire
 * The epic wars with Carthage and the Hellenistic world
 * Periods of crisis and instability within the growing Roman Empire
 * The eventual collapse of the Roman Empire in the West and its resurgence in the East

Roman Warfare

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#paperback #fiction #classic #juvenilefiction #fantasy #disney #fairytales #italy #adventure #italian 

Pennsylvania

Adventures of Pinnochio (Illustrated Junior Library Edition, 1982)

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This is a Heritage Press edition from 1941, a classic that comes with a hard shell cover and is illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage. Very collectible. The book is in excellent condition, but the hard cover has some wear. #hardcover #heritage #historical #france #italy #collectible 

Wisconsin

Through France and Italy

A Sentimental Journey 

#nonfiction #travel #paperback #italy #food #lookingforadventure #home 

Georgia

At Home in Italy

Applies a poet's sensibility, a traveler's eye, and a cook's palate to the pleasures of the Tuscan countryside, where the author began restoring an abandoned villa

Under the Tuscan Sun

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After what seems like several lifetimes, Commissario Trotti is ready for retirement. Soon, he'll finally be able to fulfil his dream of moving to the countryside villa he co-owns with his cousin. But there are several people trying to talk him out of retirement. Meanwhile, Fabrizio Bassi, a reckless, womanising private detective who worked under Trotti years ago before being kicked off the force, approaches him for help. But when Bassi is found in a ditch with a bullet in his head, Trotti decides to take on one last murder case after all.

Big Italy

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Published 1965 #firstedition #travel #nonfiction #italy #history #dustjacket #hardcover #vintage #nonfiction

New Jersey

Italy: A Journey Through Time

*This book's cover is slightly crumpled up and the pages are yellowing. Other than that, it's in "like new" condition!

This cookbook is a "go-to" with more than 350 Italian recipes, photographs, illustrations, and more! Originally priced at $22, this book is a steal.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Recipes from the Old and New Worlds Simplified for the American Kitchen

Offers more than four hundred recipes, from gnocchi to polenta, in an anecdotal evocation of Italian cuisine

The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Italian

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#paperback #fiction #romance #italy this book is in excellent shape. The only sign of wear is at the bottom of the spine. Wear spot shown in photo.

From the moment it opens—on a rocky patch of Italian coastline, circa 1962, when a daydreaming young innkeeper looks out over the water and spies a mysterious woman approaching him on a boat—Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to the back lots of contemporary Hollywood, Beautiful Ruins is gloriously inventive and constantly surprising—a story of flawed yet fascinating people navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.

Beautiful Ruins

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#Italy￼ #Rome #Travel #WalkingTours #TravelGuide #Maps #GreatPhotos #paperback 

Eyewitness Travel Guide: Rome will lead you straight to the best attractions this cultural city has to offer. With detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets in this fully updated and expanded guide, and insider tips on everything from soaking up the charms of the café scene to gaping at the ancient ruins that line the streets, there is in-depth coverage of all Rome's unforgettable sights from the Coliseum to Villa Borghese. Eyewitness Travel Guide: Rome includes unique cutaways, floor-plans and reconstructions of the city's stunning architecture, plus 3D aerial views of the best districts to explore on foot. And the new-look guide's indispensible map is so easy-to-use, keep it with the book or remove and use on its own.

Rome - Eyewitness Travel Guide

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#paperback #fiction #ourdarkestnight #wwii #historicalfiction #jenniferrobson #romance #italy 

A Novel of Italy and the Second World War

To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer's wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson--a story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the most perilous days of World War II. It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the Mazin family. With Nazi Germany now occupying most of her beloved homeland, and the threat of imprisonment and deportation growing ever more certain, Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive--to leave Venice and her beloved parents and hide in the countryside with a man she has only just met. Nico Gerardi was studying for the priesthood until circumstances forced him to leave the seminary to run his family's farm. A moral and just man, he could not stand by when the fascists and Nazis began taking innocent lives. Rather than risk a perilous escape across the mountains, Nina will pose as his new bride. And to keep her safe and protect secrets of his own, Nico and Nina must convince prying eyes they are happily married and in love. But farm life is not easy for a cultured city girl who dreams of becoming a doctor like her father, and Nico's provincial neighbors are wary of this soft and educated woman they do not know. Even worse, their distrust is shared by a local Nazi official with a vendetta against Nico. The more he learns of Nina, the more his suspicions grow--and with them his determination to exact revenge. As Nina and Nico come to know each other, their feelings deepen, transforming their relationship into much more than a charade. Yet both fear that every passing day brings them closer to being torn apart . . . --Lauren Willig, author of The English Wife

Our Darkest Night

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#catch22 #josephheller #WWII #Italy #fiction #paperback #satire #classic 

Michigan

50th Anniversary Edition

Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—books of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer. Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos from Joseph Heller’s personal archive; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.

Catch-22

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The Girl from Berlin

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#hardcover #Rome #Italy #art #mosaic #architecture #artwork

“This stunning book presents the fine art work of Desmond Freeman's Rome collection. Selected here are 42 highly detailed full-color plus monochrome pen and ink sketches of the classical and contemporary architecture of Rome and its environs. Quotations from well-known authors, poets, and artists accompany these exquisite works.”


Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Impressions in Ink

Contains a collection of 42 captioned pen and ink drawings (including cover image), with some spectacular gatefolds of selected illustrations- Features full-color plus monochrome sketches of the architecture of Rome, accompanied by quotations from well-known authors, poets and artistsDescribes the story of how the book came into being, with information about Freeman's artwork methodologyIncludes a set of thumbnail illustrations of each of the artworks at the back of the book in the form of an index, complete with title, format and dimensions of each artworkThis stunning book presents the fine art work of Desmond Freeman's Rome collection. Selected here are 42 highly detailed full-color plus monochrome pen and ink sketches of the classical and contemporary architecture of Rome and its environs. Quotations from well-known authors, poets, and artists accompany these exquisite works. The preface describes the story of how this book forms part of an award-winning series in progress of five publications entitled Great European Cities - Impressions in Ink, which to date includes Venice and Paris; the Rome collection is third in this successful series.

Rhys Bowen

The Venice Sketchbook

Jenna Evans Welch

Love and Gelato

Jenna Evans Welch

Love and Gelato

Christine Simon

The Patron Saint of Second Chances

Jenna Evans Welch

Love & Gelato

Lisa Scottoline

Loyalty

E. M. Forster

A Room with a View

Adriana Trigiani

The Good Left Undone

Jennifer Probst

Our Italian Summer

Luca D'Andrea

Sanctuary

Adrian Goldsworthy

Roman Warfare

Carlo Collodi (Fritz Kredel, Illustrator)

Adventures of Pinnochio (Illustrated Junior Library Edition, 1982)

Laurence Sterne

A Sentimental Journey

Frances Mayes

Under the Tuscan Sun

Timothy Williams

Big Italy

John A. Crow

Italy: A Journey Through Time

Jeff Smith

The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Italian

Jess Walter

Beautiful Ruins

Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff (Created by)

Rome - Eyewitness Travel Guide

Jenna Evans Welch

Love and Gelato

Jennifer Robson

Our Darkest Night

Joseph Heller; Christopher Buckley (Introduction by)

Catch-22

Ronald H. Balson

The Girl from Berlin

Desmond Freeman

Desmond Freeman Rome