Download or read book Her Side of the Story written by Alba de Céspedes and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "De Cespedes' work has lost none of its subversive force” —The New York Times Book Review From the author of Forbidden Notebook, Alba de Céspedes, a richly told novel she called “the story of a great love and of a crime.” As she looks back on her life, Alessandra Corteggiani recalls her youth during the rise of fascism in Italy, the resistance, and the fall of Mussolini, the lives of the women in her family and her working-class neighborhood, rigorously committed to telling “her side of the story.” Alessandra witnesses her mother, an aspiring concert pianist, suffer from the inability to escape her oppressive marriage. Later, she is sent away to live with her father's relatives in the country, in the hope she’ll finally learn to submit herself to the patriarchal system and authority. But at the farm, Alessandra grows increasingly rebellious, conscious of the unjust treatment of generations of hardworking women in her family. When she refuses the marriage proposal from a neighboring farmer, she is sent back to Rome to tend to her ailing father. In Rome, Alessandra meets Francesco, a charismatic anti-fascist professor, who ostensibly admires and supports her sense of independence and justice. But she soon comes to recognize that even as she respects Francesco and is keen to participate in his struggle to reclaim their country from fascism, this respect is unrequited, and that her own beloved husband is ensnared by patriarchal conventions when it comes to their relationship. In these pages, De Céspedes delivers a breathtakingly accurate and timeless portrayal of the complexity of the female condition against the dramatic backdrop of WWII and the partisan uprising in Italy.

Download or read book American Ace written by Marilyn Nelson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores American history and race through the eyes of a teenage boy embracing his newfound identity Connor’s grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the letter’s confession shakes their tight-knit Italian-American family: The man who raised Dad is not his birth father. But the only clues to this birth father’s identity are a class ring and a pair of pilot’s wings. And so Connor takes it upon himself to investigate—a pursuit that becomes even more pressing when Dad is hospitalized after a stroke. What Connor discovers will lead him and his father to a new, richer understanding of race, identity, and each other.

Download or read book Belonging written by Jill Fordyce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appealing to readers of Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing, Kristin Hannah’s Firefly Lane, and Ann Packer’s The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, Belonging is a heartbreaking and hopeful coming of age story that traverses lifelong friendship, first love, and a young woman’s fierce desire to transcend her traumatic childhood. Jenny is thirteen when an epic dust storm rolls into her central California town in December 1977. Bedridden after contracting a life-threatening illness in the storm and suffering a shocking loss, Jenny realizes she will never be cared for by the mother who both neglects and terrifies her or the father who allows it. She relies on her cousin, Heather, who has the loving home Jenny longs for; her beloved great-uncle, Gino, the last link between generations; her best friend, Henry, a free spirit with whom she shares an inexplicable bond; and earnest baseball star, Billy, who becomes her first love. After a stunning turn of events in both their lives, Jenny and Henry leave for college in LA together in the summer of 1982—Jenny fleeing a broken heart, and Henry running from something he can’t reveal, even to his best friend. When she returns home years later, the life Jenny so carefully created collides with the one she left behind. Spanning three decades, Belonging is about first love and heartbreak, friendship and secrets, family and forgiveness, hometowns and coming of age, and memory and music. The heart of the story is Jenny’s struggle to undo the binds of a childhood that have deeply affected her life, the painful path to love endured by children raised in alcoholic families, and the grim reality of believing you must hide a part of yourself in order to belong.

Download or read book Hazan Family Favorites written by Giuliano Hazan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tradition of tasty Italian food continues with this beautifully illustrated collection of creative recipes, from primo to dolci! As a child in America, Giuliano Hazan’s mother, Marcella, packed him meatballs with potatoes and peas, veal stew with mushrooms, and other homemade dishes for lunch—dishes that in no way resembled the peanut butter sandwiches his classmates enjoyed. And so began his appreciation of great food. Hazan Family Favorites celebrates delicious recipes from the Hazan family, prepared just as Giuliano prepares them for his own family today. Here are 85 recipes for every course in the Italian meal, including Appetizers, Soups, Pastas and Rice, Meats and Seafood, and Sides and Desserts. With recipes from Swiss Chard Tortelloni to Strawberry Gelato and everything in between, Hazan Family Favorites offers an intimate look at this iconic family and their most beloved recipes.

Download or read book Summers at Blue Lake written by Jill Althouse-Wood and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She thought that her family was an open book, without secrets. Even as a child, Barbara Jean Ellington knew her grandmothers were lesbians, a truth they never concealed. During BJ's summer vacations at their home on Blue Lake, Nonna and Lena taught her to swim and play cards, provided a lively contrast to BJ's conservative parents, and comforted BJ when her first summer romance ended abruptly and without reason. Now, years later, BJ seeks refuge in her late grandmothers' house in the wake of her husband's affair. As she relives the languid summer days of her youth and prepares the house for sale, she struggles to come to terms not only with the looming threat of divorce, but also with the Pandora's Box of family revelations she uncovers in Nonna's hidden notebooks. In them, she discovers a fifty-year family history littered with secrets from the past--secrets that have present day consequences for herself, her marriage, and for Travis, the boy who broke her heart during that long-ago summer. With discerning prose and compelling characters, Summers at Blue Lake follows in the tradition of bestselling authors such as Anita Shreve, Elizabeth Berg, and Sue Miller. PRAISE: “In Althouse-Wood's engaging novel, she alternates between past and present; gives BJ a fresh, honest voice; and beautifully develops the relationship between the grandmothers." —Carolyn Kubisz, Booklist “An engaging character study that alternates between the past and present, Summers at Blue Lake investigates how the actions of one generation can have consequences many decades later.” —Robert Francis, Aptos Times “The author skillfully builds suspense…Characterization is exceptional…Spikes of humor, brilliant descriptive passages…all contribute to a memorable, thought-provoking novel.” —Barbara Johnson, Voya book reviews

Download or read book What Grew in Larry s Garden written by Laura Alary and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl and her neighbor grow a community from their garden. Grace thinks Larry’s garden is one of the wonders of the world. In his tiny backyard, Larry grows extraordinary vegetables, with Grace as his helper. They water and weed, plant and prune, hoe and harvest. And whenever there’s a problem, Grace and Larry solve it together. Grace soon learns that Larry has big plans for the vegetables in his garden. And when the garden faces its biggest problem yet, Grace follows Larry’s example to find the perfect solution. Amazing things can grow when you tend your garden with kindness.

Download or read book Alterations written by Kate Maruyama and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2025-03-11 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adriana gets a job sewing for Edith Head at Paramount' s costume department in the early 1940s. Adriana falls in love with a bit player named Rose and the two move in together. Living with a woman goes unnoticed as most people presume they areonly roommates. But as Adriana's career blossoms, society and life start to interfere and Adriana makes decisions that affect three generations of her family.1998: Adriana's granddaughter Laura has left LA on the heels of a failed relationship and a subsequently failed career in film development. She moves in with her grandmother in Baltimore to find some time and space to think. The problem is she always spent time here with her dearest friend and cousin Becca, who died suddenly in a car crash, leaving her 13-year-old daughter,Lizzie.Adriana, in her eighties and wrestling with the past is now suddenly responsible for Laura and Lizzie. In this compelling literary family drama, three lives twine together in the past and the present to take a closer look at how family, wanted or not, makes up who we are.

Download or read book The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z written by Kate Messner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gianna Z has less than one week to collect, identify, and creatively display 25 leaves for her science project-or else she won't be able to compete in the upcoming cross-country sectionals race. As the deadline for her leaf project draws near, life keeps getting in the way. Some things are within Gee's control, like her own procrastination, but others aren't, like Biana Rinaldi's attempts at sabotage and Nonna's declining health. If it weren't for her best friend Zig, Gee wouldn't have a chance at finishing. His knowledge of trees and leaves in their rural Vermont town comes in very handy- as does his loyalty to Gee. But when Nonna disappears one afternoon, things like leaves and cross-country meets suddenly seem less important.

Download or read book Recreation and Style written by Brigid Maher and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Download or read book Cities that Eat Islands Book 3 written by M.E. Purfield and published by trash books. This book was released on with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To save the future, you have to travel into the past. In 1966, Carmella Noto works with a secret group and uses her psychic ability to help solve difficult murders. Meanwhile creating an illusion of mundane life in Brooklyn for her friends and family. A dead body within a derelict New York brownstone comes to Carmella’s attention. The murderer stole something. An important piece to a project that started in 1921 Jersey City. An item that not only stained Carmella’s life and friends, but also her grandmother. A project that could violently sink the world into darkness. Buy this final twisted dark fantasy tale of crime and psychics that changes the lives of the characters from the Miki Radicci Series. Changes the ones that survive.

Download or read book I Love You Like a Tomato written by Marie Giordano and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I, Letticia ChiChi Maggiordino, will put to GOOD use the power of the Evil Eye... ChiChi Maggiordino will do anything to get God's attention. She will hold her breath, stand on tiptoe for an hour, walk a mile backward, climb all stairs on her knees... anything. When her grandmother teaches her how to use the Evil Eye, telling her it's how Jesus Christ made his miracles and how the Italians got rid of Mussolini, ChiChi realizes it's what her prayers have been missing. Now she can get started on the business of making her mother happier by helping her find love, and healing her brother's weak lungs. But ChiChi's family lives in Minneapolis, and it's the 1950s. For an Italian immigrant family, sometimes it seems like nothing can make life easier. ChiChi's mother still pines for her husband, a long-dead American soldier; ChiChi's brother is disdainful of her sacrifices and penance-he doesn't understand what his older sister already knows, that sometimes God needs to be bribed. When her grandmother passes away, ChiChi steps up her search for meaning and happiness, but it seems to be fruitless. And she struggles, the way so many women do, because her love for her family is suffocating, even while it fulfills her. It's not until she meets two Italian dwarves, and they teach her of the ancient clown tradition, the commedia dell'arte, that she comes to understand that in order to make everyone else happy, she herself must be happy. But first she must find her own way in the world... and learn to accept that not even the power of the Evil Eye can keep people from changing. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Victoria of Many Faces Vol 1 light novel written by Syuu and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when spies act behind the scenes in every land, Chloe spends her days successfully carrying out even the most difficult missions due to her unparalleled disguise skills and martial arts abilities. However, after the betrayal of her boss, she suddenly disappears-as Chloe plans to redo her life as the ordinary citizen Victoria in the neighboring kingdom of Ashberry, striving for a “normal” life. However, Victoria’s peaceful life is abruptly cut short as she begins to get involved with many people. In this new land, her experiences and abilities from her days as a spy come in far more useful than she ever expected!! On the other hand, the second prince and the pursuer of the organization amongst others take an interest in Victoria’s strength, and many shadows close in on the one with all the cards in her hand...!

Download or read book Rosemary and Bitter Oranges written by Patrizia Chen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrizia Chen's childhood was suffused with the scent of simmering pots of cacciucco -- a local, hearty seafood stew -- and of the pittosporum blooming along the Tuscan coast. Her family's house and sumptuous garden in the Italian seaside town of Livorno are at the center of this captivating book that weaves together simple, delicious recipes with a love of home, family, nature, custom, and, above all, food. The family cook, Emilia, a feisty, temperamental woman from a nearby fishing village, dutifully produces bland white dishes for every family meal, as dictated by Patrizia's grandfather. But behind the kitchen door it's a different story. One day seven-year-old Patrizia is led by a wonderful smell into the kitchen, where Emilia is preparing a spicy red sauce bursting with garlic and onion. With one bite, Patrizia becomes hooked. In the spacious, sun-drenched kitchen and adjoining herb garden, Emilia takes Patrizia under her wing, disclosing the secrets of her favorite Tuscan dishes. Through vivid descriptions and charming anecdotes, Chen brings to life the white Carrara marble terraces, the coal-burning stoves, antique roses, and sacks of chestnut flour that fill the family house, kitchen, and garden. This delightful and evocative narrative will welcome you into the heart of Patrizia's Tuscan home and allow you to bring the robust flavors of Emilia's cooking into your own kitchen.

Download or read book Echoes written by Kristen Heitzmann and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic suspense from a best-selling novelist. Sequel to Unforgotten, Sofie Michelli goes to Sonoma to unravel her past, but returns to face the future.

Download or read book Rumors from the Boys Room A Blogtastic Novel written by Rose Cooper and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: in this second novel in the BLOGTASTIC! series, Sofia Becker, Middlebrooke Middle School blogger extraordinaire, is back! And this time her gossip isn't only from the girls' room. The rumor mill is out of control at Sofia's school, so it's a good thing Sofia and her super-secret notebook can set everyone straight. Entertaining and funny, this BLOGTASTIC! novel features super-cute black-and-white illustrations . . . girls will love passing this book around with their friends!

Download or read book The Dream of the Black Topaze Chamber written by Hugh Fox and published by Skylight Press. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dream of the Black Topaze Chamber shows Hugh Fox at his most sublime. With moments of bard-like inspiration he is able to explore the subtle underpinnings of relationships, the minute unspoken thought-flashes between friends, and the mute electricity of shared moments as he unfolds the story of Magda, Nona and Bernadette - three women opting out of the conventions of life and love to create their own sensual world on the fringes of the Brazilian jungle, a life which suspends desire, imagination and passion through a silky black dreamland of heightened reality. Fox moves from the intimate to the universal seamlessly, where inert trivialities can explode into a political treatise or a sublime poetic reflection within a single breath. The Black Topaze Chamber becomes the hub of isolated souls finding some last spiritual union through the open eroticism of their bodies. What results is a lyrical novel of ecstatic sexual and sensual metamorphosis rendered through a poetic alchemy of Brazilian gemstones.

Download or read book Away From Keyboard Volume 2 written by Patricia D. Eddy and published by Patricia D. Eddy. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These warriors sacrificed body, heart, and soul for their country. Now, they’ll fight for love. Lose your heart to Patricia D. Eddy’s compelling characters in books 4-6 of her bestselling Away From Keyboard series. This volume contains 6 bonus scenes featuring your very favorite characters from Second Sight, By Lethal Force, and Fighting For Valor! Second Sight Dax The Taliban stole my vision, along with any hope I had of a normal life. Abandoned by my brother-in-arms, alone, I started Second Sight to help people. So why can’t I help myself? When my business partner has to take off to save his first love, I take over his case. But how can I keep Evianna safe when I can’t even see her? Evianna I’m about to become one of the most well-known and powerful women in the tech world. Until a former employee threatens my life. Second Sight has a stellar reputation, but they assign me a blind bodyguard—who happens to own the company. He saves my life once, but can he protect me from a threat neither of could see coming? By Lethal Force Ford I fell in love at eighteen, and never looked back. But then I went off to war, not knowing Joey had been kidnapped and was fighting for her life. Being trafficked nearly destroyed her, and by the time I made it home, I’d lost her forever. Until her sister calls me twenty years later. She’s missing again, but this time, I’ll stop at nothing to find her. Joey I survived the worst kind of hell. That’s what everyone tells me. That I survived. I disagree. My body lived. My soul? It’ll never be the same again. I lost my fiancée, my confidence, and any hope of living a normal life. I managed. Even became a doctor. But I have a dark secret. Under my long sleeves are twenty years worth of scars. When I’m taken from a Doctors Without Borders camp, my worst nightmares come true. No one will find me this time. Not even the man I’ve loved for twenty years. Fighting For Valor val·or: great bravery in the face of danger, especially in battle Ripper My story isn’t a good one. Six years ago, I was tortured and broken so badly, Ripper died, and Isaad was born. Shaped into a weapon for the wrong side, I couldn’t remember who I’d once been. Who I’d wanted to be. Until my captor imprisoned Joey Taylor. I fought my way back with the help of brothers I’d forgotten, though every day, I wish I could stop fighting. Until I meet her. Cara I heard something I shouldn’t have, and now I’m on the run. Seattle seemed like a safe place to start over—until it’s suddenly not. But there’s a man here who wants to help. I thought he was homeless, but he’s just damaged. Maybe worse than me. When we’re together, neither of us feel quite so broken. Can we survive what’s coming? Or will Ripper lose the only thing he has left? Me. Note: These books contain scenes of torture, references to human trafficking, and implied sexual violence that may be disturbing to some readers. Please be aware of these themes before purchasing.