Adriana Trigiani
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English
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Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother's great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew. . . . In the halcyon past, Domenica Cabrelli thrives in the coastal town of Viareggio until her beloved...
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English
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It's 1949 in south Philadelphia. Diligent, hard-working, and proud, the Palazzinis have built a solid life for themselves and their three sons. Now that World War II is over, their sons, each one a decorated veteran, have returned home to the family cab company, to rejoin their world as it was before they left. But their future and fortunes are forever changed by a telegram, and the nephew who delivers it.
Author
Series
Big Stone Gap volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Town pharmacist and local spinster Ave Maria has been keeping the secrets of Stone Gap for a long time, but now a skeleton is about to tumble from her own family closet.
Author
Series
Valentine trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a secret about her business partner and lover is revealed during her family's celebration of The Feast of the Seven Fishes, Valentine Roncalli must make life-altering choices as she fights for everything she wants while sustaining her family's business and enjoying life to the fullest.
Author
Series
Valentine trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When a failing custom wedding shoe business in Greenwich Village falls unexpectedly into her lap, apprentice Valentine Roncalli is challenged to bring her family's old-world craftsmanship into the twenty-first century.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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In this spectacular saga as radiant, thrilling, and beguiling as Hollywood itself, Adriana Trigiani takes us back to Tinsel Town's golden age - an era as brutal as it was resplendent - and into the complex and glamorous world of a young actress hungry for fame and success. With meticulous, beautiful detail, Trigiani paints a rich, historical landscape of 1930s Los Angeles, where European and American artisans flocked to pursue the ultimate dream:...
Author
Series
Big Stone Gap volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Ave and Jack have weathered some rough times together, including the death of their three-year-old son, Joe. But tougher times are ahead, beginning with the loss of Jack's job and his launching of a new business in which an attractive woman ends up as his adviser and supplier. Ave fears the woman is after far more, and given the strain she's felt in her marriage lately, she fears Jack might be willing to provide it. Her fears increase when Jack backs...
9) Rococo
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Rufus McSherry, a handsome painter, arrives in a New Jersey town at the behest of Bartolomeo di Crespi, an interior decorator assigned to Our Lady of Fatima Church, and breathes new life into the old church as well as the women of the town.
Author
Series
Big Stone Gap volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The changes in Ave Maria's life are seismic as Etta begins her new life in Italy, Jack Mac is stunned by unexpected news and the appearance of a mysterious stranger who comes to town to reveal a secret buried long ago. Ave Maria's world is rocked to its core, forcing her to face the past in order to build a new life.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mia Valentina Amore loves valentines. After all, her name means My Valentine. When she wakes up on Valentine's Day, it looks like just another morning in the rickety old Amore house in the Blue Ridge mountains of Appalachia. But over the course of the day, her home is transformed into the House of Love. Mia and her mama festoon the halls, build a gumdrop tree, bake cupcakes, and most importantly, make valentines for all six of her siblings. But when...
12) Milk glass moon
Author
Series
Big Stone Gap volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Reaching into the past to find answers to the present, Ave Maria is led to places she never dreamed she would go, and to people who enter her life and rock its foundation.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
For the Trigianis, cooking has always been a family affair--and the kitchen was the bustling center of their home, where folks gathered around the table for good food, good conversation, and the occasional eruption. Example: Being thrown out of the kitchen because one's Easter bread kneading technique isn't up to par. As Adriana says: "When the Trigianis reach out and touch someone, we do it with food." Like the recipes that have been handed down
...Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Chi Chi Donatelli and Saverio Armandonada meet one summer on the Jersey shore before World War II. Chi Chi is a talented and ambitious singer-songwriter working in a local blouse factory looking for her big break, while Saverio, a singer already on the rise, is fronting a touring band and has the good looks and smooth vocals that make success seem assured. It isn't long before Saverio becomes Tony Arma and he and Chi Chi form a duo; together they...
15) Brava, Valentine
Author
Series
Valentine trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Valentine Roncalli discovers a long-lost shoe design, a family secret unravels that helps her take control of the company from a conniving relative, but first she seeks the counsel of her ex-fiancé, Bret Fitzpatrick, to help re-boot the business.
16) Lucia, Lucia
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The daughter of an Italian immigrant family in 1950 Greenwich Village, Lucia Sartori pursues a career in the fashion industry until she falls in love with a handsome stranger, who must win over her traditional family to marry her.
19) Big Stone Gap
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Ave Maria Mulligan has lived her whole life in tiny Big Stone Gap, a picturesque coal-mining town nestled in the hollers of southwestern Virginia. When she's not making deliveries from her family's pharmacy to far-flung neighbors, Ave Maria directs the annual outdoor drama festival, keeps chaste company with her longtime beau, Theodore, and exchanges good-natured barbs with local hunk Jack MacChesney.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book-Reunion Beach-these close friends and colleagues channeled their creativity, admiration, and grief into stories and poems that celebrate this remarkable woman and her abiding love for the Lowcountry of her native South Carolina-a land of beauty, history, charm, and Gullah magic she so brilliantly brought to life in her acclaimed novels.