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We Are Family

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"Zanily inventive . . . This deeply eccentric comedy belongs in the company of the best novels about wildly precocious kids" ( The Seattle Times).Al Santamaria is a child prodigy, maybe a genius. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he, alone, will save the human race. But first, he has to solve a far more urgent problem: finding a home for his family.He exists, like many kids, in a ... Read more

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"Zanily inventive . . . This deeply eccentric comedy belongs in the company of the best novels about wildly precocious kids" ( The Seattle Times).Al Santamaria is a child prodigy, maybe a genius. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he, alone, will save the human race. But first, he has to solve a far more urgent problem: finding a home for his family.He exists, like many kids, in a
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Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles

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A raucous debut novel of organized—and unorganized—crime. "A story that takes itself unseriously enough to be funny" ( The Daily Beast, "This Week's Hot Reads").Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighborhood supermarket. The characteristic common to each of these three men is ... Read more

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A raucous debut novel of organized—and unorganized—crime. "A story that takes itself unseriously enough to be funny" ( The Daily Beast, "This Week's Hot Reads").Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighborhood supermarket. The characteristic common to each of these three men is
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The Children's Train

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Translated by Clarissa Botsford ...

The 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 choices, and the winding paths to destiny, which sometimes take us to places far beyond our imaginings." – Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Before We Were Yours and The Book of ... Read more

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The 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 choices, and the winding paths to destiny, which sometimes take us to places far beyond our imaginings." – Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Before We Were Yours and The Book of
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No One Writes Back

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Series Book 10 - Library of Korean Literature
Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque novel.No One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road. Rather than learn the names of his fellow travelers—or even invent nicknames for them—he assigns them ... Read more

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Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque novel.No One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road. Rather than learn the names of his fellow travelers—or even invent nicknames for them—he assigns them
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The Sun and Other Stars

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From Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award-winning writer Brigid Pasulka comes a charming and compulsively readable modern day fable of one misanthrope’s journey from darkness into the light—told by one of the most radiantly talented new voices in fiction.In the seaside town of San Benedetto, soccer (or calcio) is more than just a sport: it’s an obsession. Twenty-two-year-old Etto, however, couldn’t care ... Read more

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From Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award-winning writer Brigid Pasulka comes a charming and compulsively readable modern day fable of one misanthrope’s journey from darkness into the light—told by one of the most radiantly talented new voices in fiction.In the seaside town of San Benedetto, soccer (or calcio) is more than just a sport: it’s an obsession. Twenty-two-year-old Etto, however, couldn’t care
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Return to Glow, A Pilgrimage of Transformation in Italy

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In her early forties, Chandi Wyant's world implodes in the wake of a divorce and traumatic illness. Determined to embrace life by following her heart, she sets out on Italy's historic pilgrimage route, the Via Francigena, to walk for forty days to Rome.Weakened by her recent illness, she walks over the Apennines, through the valleys of Tuscany, and beside busy highways on her 425-kilometer trek ... Read more

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In her early forties, Chandi Wyant's world implodes in the wake of a divorce and traumatic illness. Determined to embrace life by following her heart, she sets out on Italy's historic pilgrimage route, the Via Francigena, to walk for forty days to Rome.Weakened by her recent illness, she walks over the Apennines, through the valleys of Tuscany, and beside busy highways on her 425-kilometer trek
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Two Chances With You

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Translated by Antony Shugaar ...

Series Book 2 - The Rome Novels
**In this second novel in the internationally bestselling trilogy,**Federico Moccia delights readers with an enchanting novel about making wishes, second chances at love, and following dreams.After spending two years in New York, Step returns to Rome. His memories of Babi have stayed with him all this time, and his biggest fear is the moment he sees her again. He also realizes that things have ... Read more

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**In this second novel in the internationally bestselling trilogy,**Federico Moccia delights readers with an enchanting novel about making wishes, second chances at love, and following dreams.After spending two years in New York, Step returns to Rome. His memories of Babi have stayed with him all this time, and his biggest fear is the moment he sees her again. He also realizes that things have
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Live Bait

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Fiorenzo’s life is full of fishing, biking, and rock n’ roll—until tragedy turns his small Italian town upside down—in this tender, funny, and cinematic novel for fans of Elena Ferrante.Muglione. Nothing grows in this Tuscan backwater except the wild imagination of Fiorenzo, a nineteen-year-old metalhead. He lives for his garage band, horror movies, and fishing in the murky irrigation ditches ... Read more

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Fiorenzo’s life is full of fishing, biking, and rock n’ roll—until tragedy turns his small Italian town upside down—in this tender, funny, and cinematic novel for fans of Elena Ferrante.Muglione. Nothing grows in this Tuscan backwater except the wild imagination of Fiorenzo, a nineteen-year-old metalhead. He lives for his garage band, horror movies, and fishing in the murky irrigation ditches
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The Shape of Water

by Andrea Camilleri ...

Translated by Stephen Sartarelli ...

Series Book 1 - An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
The Shape of Water is the first book in the sly, witty, and engaging Inspector Montalbano mystery series with its sardonic take on Sicilian life.Silvio Lupanello, a big-shot in Vigàta, is found dead in his car with his pants around his knees. The car happens to be parked in a part of town used by prostitutes and drug dealers, and as the news of his death spreads, the rumors begin. Enter Inspector ... Read more

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The Shape of Water is the first book in the sly, witty, and engaging Inspector Montalbano mystery series with its sardonic take on Sicilian life.Silvio Lupanello, a big-shot in Vigàta, is found dead in his car with his pants around his knees. The car happens to be parked in a part of town used by prostitutes and drug dealers, and as the news of his death spreads, the rumors begin. Enter Inspector
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The Sixteen Pleasures

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by Robert Hellenga ...

"Mud angels" is what the Italians call the selfless young foreigners who come to Florence in 1966 to save the city's priceless art from the Arno's flooded rivrbanks.Margot Harrington is an American volunteer, an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library, she discovers a fabulous volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano that accompany sixteen ... Read more

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"Mud angels" is what the Italians call the selfless young foreigners who come to Florence in 1966 to save the city's priceless art from the Arno's flooded rivrbanks.Margot Harrington is an American volunteer, an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library, she discovers a fabulous volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano that accompany sixteen
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A Girl Returned

by Donatella Di Pietrantonio ...

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"One of the best Italian novels of the year" in a pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante's translator ( Huffington Post, Italy).Winner of the Campiello PrizeA 2019 Best Book of the Year ( The Washington Post Kirkus Reviews Dallas Morning News)Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most ... Read more

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"One of the best Italian novels of the year" in a pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante's translator ( Huffington Post, Italy).Winner of the Campiello PrizeA 2019 Best Book of the Year ( The Washington Post Kirkus Reviews Dallas Morning News)Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most
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Seven Seasons in Siena

My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany's Proudest People

by Robert Rodi ...

Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city: within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditions—chiefly the spectacular Palio, in which seventeen independent societies known as contrade vie for bragging rights in an annual ... Read more

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Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city: within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditions—chiefly the spectacular Palio, in which seventeen independent societies known as contrade vie for bragging rights in an annual
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