A Nice Italian Girl

A Nice Italian Girl
Author: Marianne LaValle-Vincent
Publisher: BookRix
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2018-03-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 3743857588

An in-depth look at the author's childhood and adulthood including her travel through heartache, divorce and the loss of her parents. It grabs you right from the beginning and doesn't let go

The Missing Italian Girl

The Missing Italian Girl
Author: Barbara Corrado Pope
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2013-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453271651

Immigrant girls are disappearing across fin de siècle Paris in a mystery that “shines a light on both the glamor and the grime of” the City of Light (Publishers Weekly). On a sultry night in June 1897, Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov, a young Russian, and two young women transport a dead man through the narrow streets of a working class neighborhood in northeastern Paris. They throw the body into the canal and the girls flee to the Latin Quarter to hide with one of the Russian’s anarchist “comrades.” They do not realize they, too, are being watched. Their subsequent disappearance and the violent acts that follow will set Clarie Martin, a teacher and mother of a toddler, and her husband, magistrate Bernard Martin (last seen in Cezanne’s Quarry and The Blood of Lorraine) on a dangerous quest to rescue them from a vicious killer.

The Italian Girl

The Italian Girl
Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2010-07-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 145320072X

A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, The Sea. For the first time in years, Edmund Narraway has returned to his childhood home—for the funeral of his mother. The visit rekindles feelings of affection and nostalgia—but also triggers a resurgence of the tensions that caused him to leave in the first place. As Edmund once again becomes entangled in his family’s web of corrosive secrets, his homecoming tips a precariously balanced dynamic into sudden chaos, in this compelling story of reunion and coming apart from Iris Murdoch, “one of the most significant novelists of her generation” (The Guardian).

The Italian Girl

The Italian Girl
Author: Rebecca J. Huntley
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0702248045

A true story of love, loss, and the mother-daughter relationship across generations, this biography describes Rebecca Huntley's search for her maternal grandmother's story. Following the death of her Italian "Nonna," Huntley discovers that there was much unknown about the kind-hearted, quiet individual she thought she knew. With evocative stories and tender honesty, Huntley explores the young life of the woman who cooked masterfully and embroidered daily and those of the men and women in her family from Northern Queensland during World War II. In the process, old issues with her own mother are awakened and the concept of what it really means to be a mother is contemplated.

Wish You Were Italian

Wish You Were Italian
Author: Kristin Rae
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408855526

Pippa is in Italy for the summer and, despite her parents' wishes, she has no intention of just studying the local art! She has a list of things of her own to do: from swimming in the Mediterranean Sea to getting a makeover – and falling for an Italian boy! As Pippa explores the dramatic ruins of Rome and Pompeii, she is swept into her own drama with two guys: an irresistible local she knows is nothing but trouble and a cute American archaeology student . . . Will she find her true love? The perfect reckless romance to enjoy whether you are home or abroad.

The York King

The York King
Author: Amy Licence
Publisher: Lume Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2022-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781839012907

1464. Family conflicts, Lancaster against York, the fight for the English throne continues. Set during the Wars of the Roses, this is the second volume in the House of York trilogy.

Marcus of Umbria

Marcus of Umbria
Author: Justine van der Leun
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010-06-08
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1605290998

Readers will delight in this tale of an urbanite who leaves her magazine job to move to Collelungo, Italy, population: 200. There, in the ancient city center of a historic Umbrian village, she sets up house with the enticing local gardener she met on vacation only weeks earlier. This impulsive decision launches an eye-opening series of misadventures when village life and romance turn out to be radically different from what she had imagined. Love lost with the gardener is found instead with Marcus, an abandoned English pointer that she rescues. With Marcus by her side, Justine discovers the bliss and hardship of living in the countryside: herding sheep, tending to wild horses, picking olives with her adopted Italian family, and trying her best to learn the regional dialect. The result is a rich, comic, and unconventional portrait about learning to live and love in the most unexpected ways.

An Italian Girl in Brooklyn

An Italian Girl in Brooklyn
Author: Santa Montefiore
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2022-11-08
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1398516961

From #1 internationally bestselling author Santa Montefiore comes a spellbinding new novel about dark secrets and hidden sorrows—set in war-torn Italy and the streets of New York. New York, 1979. It is Thanksgiving and Evelina has her close family and beloved friends gathered around, her heart weighted with gratitude for what she has and regret for what she has given up. She has lived in America for over thirty years, but she is still Italian in her soul. Northern Italy, 1934. Evelina leads a sheltered life with her parents and siblings in a villa of fading grandeur. When her elder sister Benedetta marries a banker, to suit her father’s wishes rather than her own, Evelina swears that she will never marry out of duty. She knows nothing of romantic love, but when she meets Ezra, son of the local dressmaker, her heart recognises it like an old friend. Evelina wants these carefree days to last forever. She wants to bask in sunshine, beauty, and love, and pay no heed to the grey clouds gathering on the horizon. But nothing lasts forever. The shadows of war are darkening over Europe and precious lives are under threat…

The Italian Girl

The Italian Girl
Author: Katharine Washburn
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2023-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368838822

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.