Italian Women

Welcome to Italy. A place that holds the answer to Zia-Lucia Costa Chalmers’ many questions. Not least, how she ended up with such a mouthful of a name. When Zia discovers that her mother wasn’t who she thought she was, she realises the time has come to search out the Italian family she’s never known. However, as she delves into the secrets of her past, she doesn’t bargain on having to think about her future, too. But with local vineyard owner, Piero, living next door, Zia knows she has a serious distraction who may prove difficult to ignore.

From the author of Hearts Overboard comes a swoony mystery-filled romance in which a girl on a school trip to Venice gets swept off her feet by a mask-wearing stranger...but does she know him already? Lose yourself in the masquerade—because sometimes, the greatest adventure begins when you...

Discover the “boundary-breaking” (LitHub) debut novel by the beloved feminist author of the “brilliant” (The Wall Street Journal) Forbidden Notebook and the “courageous” (The Washington Post) Her Side of the Story that was so subversive, it was banned by the Italian Fascist regime...

Sicilia, prima metà del Settecento. Marianna Ucrìa, una bambina che appartiene a una nobile famiglia...

Two alpha Italians. One sassy American. From international best-selling author SC Daiko comes a fun and flirty manage romance, packed with steamy scenes that'll leave listeners gasping.

Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a trailblazing criminal detective on the Italian police force, is on sick leave, recovering from her recent brush with death in pursuit of a killer. But none of her colleagues, not even her partner, know that her Alzheimer’s is getting worse, and that Teresa is unsure she will ever return to work. Teresa’s plans for retirement are shelved, however, when she is urgently summoned to meet with menacing serial killer Giacomo Mainardi.

“A complex, absorbing portrait”—People A tangled and vivid portrait of the women caught in Picasso’s charismatic orbit through the affairs, the scandals, and the art—only this time, they hold the brush. The women of Picasso’s life are glamorous and elusive, existing in the shadow of...

Amaka Ethel Nwokorie ci trasporta nel suo viaggio dalla Nigeria all'Italia, un percorso segnato dall'inganno della tratta di esseri umani e dallo sfruttamento della prostituzione. Ma questa non è una storia di disperazione. È il racconto di una giovane donna che, aggrappandosi al ricordo delle ultime parole paterne, cambia il suo destino da vittima a protagonista del cambiamento. L'autrice ci mostra come la determinazione possa abbattere ogni barriera. Una testimonianza cruda e luminosa che ci ricorda come anche le esperienze più buie possano trasformarsi in fari di speranza per gli altri.

L’astronoma Ipazia, vissuta ad Alessandria nel V secolo d.C., teorizzò in modo inaudito per l’epoca che la Terra non è il centro dell’universo ma un pianeta che gira intorno al Sole. E divenne ben presto vittima dei fanatici cristiani. «Oggi» scrive Dacia Maraini «a quasi duemila anni di distanza ci sono ancora donne che soffrono come lei per la semplice ragione che hanno pensato con la propria testa, che hanno voluto studiare, indagare e opporsi al totalitarismo.» Sono donne maltrattate, insultate, minacciate, che spesso hanno denunciato la violenza domestica, ma non sono state credute.

Take the ride of a lifetime with this mother/son, crime/revenge thriller James Patterson praises as “audacious, addictive, highly entertaining.” ​ Eighteen-year-old aspiring comic Joey Rossi just found out his boyfriend has been cheating on him for the past ten months. But what did he...

When Isla, a 65-year-old grandmother, is left nothing but an old painting in her mother’s will, while her sisters and aunt inherit the estate, she is devastated. Close to retirement, getting ready to live on her own terms, the last thing she expects at this time of her life is such turmoil. So, to find an explanation for her mother’s rejection, she embarks on a road-trip.

Un pellegrinaggio lungo 900 chilometri, sui passi degli antichi pellegrini che percorrevano la via Francigena. Un pellegrinaggio è molto più che un viaggio a piedi, e un viaggio a piedi è molto più che un viaggio. Il mondo che si attraversa , che sia asfalto, natura, città, paesi, chiese, alberghi o poveri ostelli, risuona con il viandante e forma un’unica sinfonia le cui parole sono i pensieri, le emozioni, le preghiere, i sogni.

Centered in Rome but transporting us into worlds as varied and alluring as they are emotionally real, Francesca Marciano’s stories paint landscapes that are populated—vividly, hauntingly—by animals: from violent seagulls and starlings circling the evening sky in exhilarating formation to...

Sicily, April 16, 1677. From his deathbed, Charles III's viceroy, don Angel de Guzmàn, marquis of Castel de Roderigo, names his wife, donna Eleonora, as his successor. Eleonora di Mora is a highly intelligent and capable woman who immediately applies her political acumen to heal the scarred soul of Palermo, a city afflicted by poverty, misery, and the frequent uprisings they entail. The marquise implements measures that include lowering the price of bread and establishing stipends for young couples wishing to marry - all considered seditious by the conservative city fathers.

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...

"Luca Spaghetti is not only one of my favorite people in the world, but also a natural-born storyteller. . . . This [is a] marvelous book." -Elizabeth Gilbert When Luca Spaghetti (yes, that's really his name) was asked to show a writer named Elizabeth Gilbert around Rome, he had no idea how his...

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...

"Durastanti casts the universal drama of the family as the sieve through which the self—woman, artist, daughter—is filtered and known." —Ocean Vuong A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the...

Two young women arrive in the very same sea town, centuries apart. One is searching for a sense of purpose, the other is living out hers. Inspired by the compelling story of her ancestor, Athena, Lucia sets out on a journey of her own, hoping to discover it among the Roman ruins that was once an emperor's palace. The question is, will Lucia be able to find everything she's looking for by following her ancestor's footsteps?

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...