Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

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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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oregon

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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New Jersey

The American Express Guide to Florence and Tuscany

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Neal I. Rosenthal

Missouri

On a Lifetime in the Vineyards and Cellars of France and Italy

A leading importer of limited-production wines of character and quality takes us on an intimate tour through family-owned vineyards in France and Italy and reflects upon the last three decades of controversy, hype, and change in the world of wine In the late 1970s, Neal I. Rosenthal set out to learn everything he could about wine. Today, he is one of the most successful importers of traditionally made wines produced by small family-owned estates in France and Italy. Rosenthal has immersed himself in the culture of Old World wine production, working closely with his growers for two and sometimes three generations. He is one of the leading exponents of the concept of “terroir”—the notion that a particular vineyard site imparts distinct qualities of bouquet, flavor, and color to a wine. In Reflections of a Wine Merchant, Rosenthal brings us into the cellars, vineyards, and homes of these vignerons, and his delightful stories about his encounters, relationships, and explorations—and what he has learned along the way—give us an unequaled perspective on winemaking tradition and what threatens it today. Rosenthal was featured in the documentary film Mondovino and is one of the more outspoken figures against globalization, homogenization, and the “critic-ization” of the wine business. He was also a major subject in Lawrence Osborne’s The Accidental Connoisseur. His is an important voice in defense of the individual and the artisanal, and their contribution to our quality of life.

Reflections of a Wine Merchant

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Mary Doria Russell

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of "The Sparrow" and "Children of God." High school & older.

A Thread of Grace

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Mary Laven

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Massachusetts

Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent

Venice in the late Renaissance was a city of fabulous wealth, reckless creativity, and growing social unrest as its maritime empire crumbled. It was also a city of walls and secrets, ghettos, and cloisters-including fifty convents housing three thousand nuns, many of them refined, upper-class women who had been immured against their will. In this utterly fascinating book, Cambridge historian Mary Laven uncovers the long-hidden stories of the "virgins of Venice" and the secret, and often surprising, lives they led. Sifting through records kept during the Counter-Reformation, Laven has pieced together a detailed and dramatic tapestry of resourceful, determined, and passionate women who managed to lead fulfilling lives despite their virtual imprisonment. Far from being precincts of piety and silence, the convents of Venice were hotbeds of political scheming, colorful pageantry, gorgeous decoration, and illicit love affairs. One nun was so determined to sleep with her lover that she painstakingly chipped a hole in a stone wall so he could climb through under cover of night. Another expressed her individuality through obsessive gift giving while keeping records of the dangerous flirtations going on around her. Still others exercised considerable clandestine power in the dangerous game of Venetian politics. Rich in intrigue and gossip, eye opening in its historic revelations, and written with drama and compassion, Virgins of Venicebrings to life a culturally vibrant period in Venice and the hidden residents who dwelled behind its walls.

Virgins of Venice

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Colorado

Traces the aftermath of the 1996 Venice opera house fire, an event that devastated Venetian society and was investigated by the author, who through interviews with local figures learned about the region's rich cultural history.

The City of Falling Angels

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Frances Mayes

Excellent condition from a smoke-free home

Ohio

The Sweet Life in Italy

The author explores life in the idyllic Italian countryside, offering authentic Tuscan recipes and intimately portraying the local people and the environment

Bella Tuscany

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John Berendt

New York

David Leavitt

A Delicate Case

Offers an evocative travelogue that unlocks the great Italian city's beauty, wonder, and majesty.

Florence

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The Cooking of Italy

Escaping the aunt who wants to adopt only one of them, two orphaned brothers run away from Hamburg to Venice, finding shelter with a gang of street children and their leader, the thirteen-year-old "Thief Lord," while also eluding the detective hired to return them to Germany.

The Thief Lord

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#hardcover #adventure #memoir #travel #firstedition #nonfiction #Italy #food #France #biography 

Journeys of a Passionate Traveller

Celebrating the wonders, benefits, and experiences of travel, the best-selling author of Under the Tuscan Sun shares a collection of narrative essays in which she details her travels to Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Turkey, Greece, southern Italy, and North Africa, interweaving personal insights with commentary on art, history, landscape, culture, and tradition. 150,000 first printing.

A Year in the World

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This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the hardback cover. Will ship within hours of your order is received. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

Texas

Adriana Trigiani

Evidence of sticker removal on front and back of dust jacket. See photos. Otherwise in excellent condition. First edition. 

A Novel

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. 150,000 first printing.

The Supreme Macaroni Company

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Iowa

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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Stephen Brewer

Donald Strachan

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Map your own adventure. Packed with color photos, this bestselling guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of Florence & Tuscany in a short time--with bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighborhood tours, plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor info, Florence & Tuscany Day by Day is the only guide that helps travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. Insidethis book you'll find: Full color throughout with hundreds of photos and dozens of maps Sample one- to three-day itineraries that include The Best of the Uffizi, Tuscany for Families, Tuscany for Food & Wine Lovers, Tuscany for Art & Architecture Lovers, and more Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions clue readers in on great finds and values Tear-resistant foldout map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet Foldout front cover, with at-a-glance maps and quick-reference info Opinionated, straight shooting advice so that readers know what to pick and what to skip. About Frommer's: There's a reason that Frommer's has been the most trusted name in travel for more than sixty years. Arthur Frommer created the best-selling guide series in 1957 to help American servicemen fulfill their dreams of travel in Europe, and since then, we have published thousands of titles became a household name helping millions upon millions of people realize their own dreams of seeing our planet. Travel is easy with Frommer's. �ef

Frommer's Florence and Tuscany Day by Day

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Derek A. Wilson

Independent Travellers Series. Table of contents is all scrawled over with pen notes. Rest of text is clean.

Rome, Umbria and Tuscany

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Robert Kahn

City Secrets Rome . is not only slim, small and light but is also packed with information not easily available elsewhere.

City Secrets - Rome

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Home Style Italian Cookery 

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

When Eve falls for the secretive, charming Dom, their whirlwind relationship leads them to Les GenÉvriers, an abandoned house set among the fragrant lavender fields of the south of France. Deeply in love and surrounded by music, books, and the heady summer scents of the French countryside, Eve has never felt more alive. But as verdant summer fades to golden autumn, the grand house's strange and troubling mysteries begin to unfold—and Eve now must uncover its every secret . . . before dark history can repeat itself.

The Lantern 

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Andrea Camilleri

Stephen Sartarelli

“[Camilleri’s mysteries] offer quirky characters, crisp dialogue, bright storytelling—and Salvo Montalbano... a delightful creation, an honest man on Sicily's mean streets.” —USA Today The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach, he hits the wrong man and is stopped by the Carabinieri. When he finally gets to the office, the inspector learns about a strange abduction: a woman was abducted, drugged, and then released unharmed only hours later. Within a few days, the same thing happens again. Both women are thirty years old and work in a bank. Montalbano also has to deal with an arson case. A shop has burned down, and its owner, Marcello Di Carlo, seems to have vanished into thin air. At first this seems like a trivial case, but a third abduction—yet again of a girl who works in a bank—and the discovery of a body bring up new questions.

The Overnight Kidnapper

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Pennsylvania

Charlotte's dream of a summer writing workshop in Venice with her favorite author brings the chance to investigate the mysterious poet in her family's past, meet fascinating new people, and learn truths about her idol.

One Great Lie

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Nicola DeRobertis-Theye

A search for a mysterious customer in Rome leads a young bookseller to confront the complicated history of her family, and that of Italy itself, in this achingly intimate debut with echoes of Lily King and Elif Batuman. Working at a bookstore in Berkeley in the years after college, Gabriele becomes intrigued by the orders of signor Vietri, a customer from Rome whose numerous purchases grow increasingly mystical and esoteric. Restless and uncertain of her future, Gabriele quits her job and, landing in Rome, decides to look up Vietri. Unable to locate him, she begins a quest to unearth the well-concealed facts of his life. Following a trail of obituaries and military records, a memoir of life in a village forgotten by modernity, and the court records of a communist murder trial, Gabriele meets an eclectic assortment of the city's inhabitants, from the widow of an Italian prisoner of war to members of a generation set adrift by the financial crisis. Each encounter draws her unexpectedly closer to her own painful past and complicated family history--an Italian mother diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized during her childhood, and an extended family in Rome still recovering from the losses and betrayals in their past. Through these voices and histories, Gabriele will discover what it means to be a person in the world; a member of a family and a citizen of a country--and how reconciling these stories may be the key to understanding her own.

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Stephen Moramarco; Federico Moramarco; Brenda Jackson

Italian Pride

Gay Talese

Unto the Sons

Sheila Hale

The American Express Guide to Florence and Tuscany

Neal I. Rosenthal

Reflections of a Wine Merchant

Mary Doria Russell

A Thread of Grace

Mary Laven

Virgins of Venice

John Berendt

The City of Falling Angels

Frances Mayes

Bella Tuscany

John Berendt

The City of Falling Angels

David Leavitt

Florence

Waverly Root

The Cooking of Italy

Cornelia Funke; Oliver Latsch (Translator); Christian Burmingham (Illustrator)

The Thief Lord

Frances Mayes

A Year in the World

Frances Mayes

Bella Tuscany

Adriana Trigiani

The Supreme Macaroni Company

Adriana Trigiani

The Good Left Undone

Stephen Brewer; Donald Strachan

Frommer's Florence and Tuscany Day by Day

Derek A. Wilson

Rome, Umbria and Tuscany

Robert Kahn

City Secrets - Rome

Pauline Barrese

Home Style Italian Cookery

Deborah Lawrenson

The Lantern

Andrea Camilleri; Stephen Sartarelli

The Overnight Kidnapper

Deb Caletti

One Great Lie

Nicola DeRobertis-Theye

The Vietri Project