Cultural Region/Italy
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A Very Private Gentleman
$21.99 Add to cartBASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE THE AMERICAN, STARRING GEORGE CLOONEY AND DIRECTED BY ANTON CORBIJN
The locals in the Italian village where he lives call him Signor Farfalla–Mr. Butterfly–for he- Author: Booth, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312309090
- Language: English
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When the Eagle Hunts: A Novel of the Roman Army
$22.00 Add to cartWell-paced and intricately plotted, When the Eagle Hunts is a brazen tale of military adventure, political intrigue, and a suicide mission.
Is the unflinching courage of the Roman army a match for the- Series: Eagle #3
- Author: Scarrow, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0312305362
- Language: English
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The Path to the Spiders’ Nests: Revised Edition
$17.00 Add to cartItalo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler’s apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He l
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 30 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956585
- Language: English
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Upon This Rock
$18.95 Add to cartIntrigue, terrorism, history, art, and the secrets of the Church collide in a relentless page-turning thriller.
“An elegant, twisty thriller in which a gay couple investigates a mysterious suicide in a
- Author: Perry, David Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0941936066
- Language: English
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A Room with a View: Large Print Edition
$25.99 Add to cartLARGE PRINT EDITION. Young Lucy Honeychurch leaves Edwardian England for a tour of Italy, where she becomes immersed in an exotic new environment full of unexpected possibilities. A Room With a View b
- Series: Mint Editions (Reading with Pride)
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 548
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1513137409
- Language: English
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Innocence
$17.99 Add to cart“A delectable comedy of manners.” —Boston Globe
The Ridolfi are a Florentine family of long lineage and little money. It is 1955, Italy is still struggling back after the war, and the family, like it- Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0544359461
- Language: English
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The Third Man
$17.00 Add to cartRollo Martins’ usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140286829
- Language: English
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Accabadora
$15.95 Add to cartThe award winning Accabadora is an exceptional English-language debut, written with intriguing subtlety reflecting a sensual picture of local Italian life and death in villages during the 1950’s. A ti… [more below]
- Author: Murgia, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1619020505
- Language: English
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Inventing the Enemy: And Other Occasional Writings
$15.95 Add to cartThe final collection from the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and one of the most influential, and entertaining, intellectuals of the last century–essays full of passion, curiosity, and ob
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0544104684
- Language: English
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Milk Glass Moon
$19.00 Add to cartTo unify her family, Ave Maria must harness the power of love and its abiding truth in this lyrical and heartfelt novel, the third installment of the New York Times bestselling Big Stone Gap series
“T… [more below]- Series: Big Stone Gap Novels #3
- Author: Trigiani, Adriana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0345445856
- Language: English
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The Eagle’s Prey
$24.00 Add to cartThe mighty Roman army faces Britain’s defiant tribes in this epic fifth novel of Simon Scarrow’s acclaimed series, The Eagle’s Prey.
It is late summer a.d. 44 and the battle-weary Roman legions are in- Series: Eagle #5
- Author: Scarrow, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0312374798
- Language: English
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The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales
$22.95 Add to cartA collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales–most in English for the first time
The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 an- Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales #18
- Author: Mazzoni, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0691199787
- Language: English
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The Children’s Train
$16.99 Add to cartThe inspiration behind the forthcoming Netflix film
“The innocence of childhood collides with the stark aftermath of war in this wrenching and ultimately redemptive tale of family, seemingly impossible
- Author: Ardone, Viola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0062940511
- Language: English
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On Ovid’s Metamorphoses
$14.95 Add to cartOvid’s Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundred
- Series: Core Knowledge
- Author: Williams, Gareth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0231200714
- Language: English
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Death in the Floating City
$24.00 Add to cartThe Huffington Post calls Tears of Pearl author Tasha Alexander “one to watch–and read” and Death in the Floating City, her new Lady Emily mystery set in Venice, proves it!
Years ago, Emily’s childho- Series: Lady Emily Mysteries #7
- Author: Alexander, Tasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1250029767
- Language: English
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La Malnacida / The Wicked One
$19.95 Read moreEl poderoso debut de Beatrice Salvioni, ganadora del Premio Calvino 2021, vendido en 28 idiomas antes de su publicación
Monza, Italia, 1936. Francesca, de trece años, yace a orillas del rÃo Lambro … [more below]- Author: Salvioni, Beatrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 8426418120
- Language: Spanish
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Flores de Papel / Paper Flowers
$24.95 Read moreSimplemente deja que ocurra
Lara vive en uno de los barrios más peligrosos de las afueras de Madrid. A duras penas estudia, trabaja y cuida de Carmen, su abuela, enferma de alzhéimer y su única fam… [more below]- Author: Ferrasse, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 8491298908
- Language: Spanish
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Artemisia
$15.00 Read moreAn international best-seller, Alexandra Lapierre’s Artemisia sweeps us through the streets once frequented by Caravaggio, Velasquez, and Van Dyck and into the studios of artists who used their daggers… [more below]
- Author: Lapierre, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 21 2001
- ISBN10: 0802138578
- Language: English
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Mirror Mirror
$19.99 Add to cart“A brilliant achievement.”
—Boston Herald
“Entertaining…profound….A novel for adults that unearths our buried fascination with the primal fears and truths fairy tales contain.”
—Christian Science- Author: Maguire, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 283
- Publish Date: September 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0060988657
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
$15.00 Add to cartA revelatory new annotated edition of the most translated Italian book in the world–the basis for two new major motion pictures: a Netflix animated version co-directed and co-written by Guillermo del… [more below]
- Author: Collodi, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0143136097
- Language: English
