Italian American

A propulsive page-turning thriller following the hit reality TV show Garden State Goddesses where secrets are uncovered, intense rivalries surface, and a startling murder propels a producer on a riveting quest for the truth. On this season of Garden State Goddesses: Getting canceled means...

When Marcella Hazan died in 2013, the world mourned the passing of the "Godmother of Italian cooking". But her legacy lives on, through her cookbooks and recipes, and in the handwritten notebooks filled with her thoughts on how to select the best ingredients - Ingredienti. Her husband and longtime collaborator Victor has translated and transcribed these vignettes on how to buy and what to do with the fresh produce used in Italian cooking, the elements of an essential pantry, and salumi.

What's in a name? For Carl Capotorto, everything is in a name. The literal translation from Italian to English of Capotorto is "twisted head." This is no accident. Carl's father, Philip Vito Capotorto, was the obsessive, tyrannical head of the family who ran Cappi's Pizza and Sangweech Shoppe, whose motto was "We Don't Spel Good, Just Cook Nice."

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The first novel in the beloved Big Stone Gap series, now a major motion picture written and directed by Adriana Trigiani, starring Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, and Jenna Elfman ...

New York Times Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller In The Supreme Macaroni Company, bestselling author Adriana Trigiani weaves a heartbreaking story that begins on the eve of a wedding in New York's Greenwich Village and culminates in beautiful Tuscany. Family, work, romance, and...

This vivid memoir speaks the intense truth of a Bronx tomboy whose 1960s girlhood was marked by her father's lullabies laced with his dissociative memories of combat in World War II. At four years old, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto bounced her Spaldeen on the stoop and watched the boys play stickball in the street; inside, she hid silver teaspoons behind the heat pipes to tap calls for help while her father beat her mother.

Pochi romanzi hanno inciso nell'immaginario collettivo come questo. Nel crime, c'è un prima e un dopo American Tabloid . Una rottura che è una sorta di perdita dell'innocenza: con le sue frasi cadenzate come raffiche di mitra, la vastità dell'impianto e la durezza dello sguardo, James Ellroy ha portato il noir nell'età adulta e costretto i suoi lettori a fare i conti con il passato. American Tabloid mette in scena gli uomini e le donne che hanno contribuito all'ascesa e alla caduta di John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of...

A billionaire discovers that the woman who got away is hiding the biggest surprise of all… USA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham enthralls with this dramatic secret-baby romance! Her confession to the Italian playboy: You’re the father of my twins! Discovering she was pregnant with...

In the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in coastal Italy migrated to the promised land of America. They eventually settled in Roseto, Pennsylvania, where they re-created every detail of their former lives, including the centerpiece of Roseto’s colorful old-world tradition: the annual pageant for Our Lady of Mount Caramel—or “the Big Time,” as it’s called by the young women competing to be its Queen.

"Read this man's book." --James Ellroy Gangster Squad presents a harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels—the real events behind the blockbuster Warner Brothers film starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone...

One innocent will have her world flipped upside down in this marriage-of-convenience story by USA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham! His ring will save her from ruin Her “I do” will save him from scandal! Gianni Renzetti wastes no time planning the restoration of his reputation when the...

La Realidad è il nome di un villaggio sulle montagne del Chiapas, in Messico, patria dei popoli indigeni che guidarono la rivolta zapatista. È un luogo in cui ho cercato di andare con la mia amica Maga, ma non ci sono riuscita. Ci sono andata vicina, o almeno così credevo. Ancora oggi, a tanti anni da quel viaggio, non riesco a raccontare esattamente cosa vidi. Ho la sensazione – una strana sensazione perché non riesco a spiegarla appieno – che fosse qualcosa di importante.

Largely autobiographical, Christ in Concrete opens with the dramatic Good Friday collapse of a building under construction, crucifying in concrete an Italian construction worker, whose death leaves his pregnant wife and eight children impoverished. His oldest son, Paul, at just 12 years old, must take over his father’s role—and his job.

"Saint Kate is a myth "
Reckless magnate Luca Castelli thinks he knows everything about his late father's widow, Kathryn. He won't be fooled by the tabloids' adoration to his mind, this young, achingly beautiful woman is no saint! So when terms of the will force Luca to...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Ave Maria must decide between old love and new adventures in this enthralling second novel in the beloved Big Stone Gap series “Heartwarming . . . Everything that really matters is here: humor, romance, wisdom, and drama.”—The Dallas Morning News Eight...

“Italy is a beautiful but complicated place, not so much a country as a collection of cultures and cuisines. Matt Goulding expertly navigates it’s wonders and eccentricities with wisdom and great passion.” -Anthony Bourdain ""Goulding is pioneering a new type of writing about food.""...

The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter company, more than a decade before the arrival of the Osborne 1, the Apple 1, the first Intel microprocessor, and IBM's PC5150. The human, business...

Patrick Bateman è giovane, bello, ricco. Vive a Manhattan, lavora a Wall Street e con i colleghi Timothy, David, Patten e Craig, frequenta i locali più alla moda, le palestre più esclusive e le toilette dove gira la migliore cocaina della città, discutendo di nuovi ristoranti, cameriere corpoduro ed eleganza maschile. Ma la sua vita è ricca di particolari piuttosto inquietanti e quando le tenebre scendono su New York, Patrick Bateman si trasforma in un torturatore omicida, freddo, metodico, spietato.

To 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 “Trigiani can make you laugh in one sentence then break your heart in the next.”—Mississippi...