Stellina

Stellina

Author: Wie-aam Adams

Publisher: eXtasy Books

Published: 2024-04-19

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1487441363

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Growing up so close to the powerful Romano family, twenty-year-old Caterina Russo has always been good buddies with their youngest son, Luciano. How could she predict that being sent to fetch him downstairs for dinner with their families would bring her face-to-face with his latest lover—or worse, that she’d be so suddenly smitten by him? Any such feelings must immediately be quashed, buried too deep to ever threaten her again. Stellina—Luciano’s little star. He has always planned to put a ring on Caterina’s finger, just not yet. No need to clip his wings at only twenty-five, not even for her. So why does he find himself monitoring her every move, rescuing her from dangerous situations, and instantly enraged if another man so much as looks at her? And what can he possibly say when, in desperation to avoid an arranged marriage, she asks him to marry her? But yes is only the beginning. Having grown up under the harsh rules of mafia families, can either Caterina or Luciano ever learn to trust? Can they possibly overcome the obstacles those same families throw in their way? They’ll have to fight for what they want—together.


The True Story of Stellina

The True Story of Stellina

Author: Matteo Pericoli

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 2014-03-26

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13: 030798320X

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Stellina was a bird: “CHEEP.” A very little bird: “Cheep! cheep!”So begins critically acclaimed author Matteo Pericoli’s all-true story of how he and his wife, Holly, came to rescue and raise a little finch, Stellina, in the middle of New York City. When no zoo would take the abandoned bird, fallen from her nest onto a busy street, Holly took her home and gave her the best life she could. And there, in a Manhattan apartment, Stellina leaned how to eat, fly, and sing.


Italian Folktales

Italian Folktales

Author: Italo Calvino

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2013-08-26

Total Pages: 799

ISBN-13: 0544283228

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One of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are “a treasure” (Los Angeles Times). Filled with kings and peasants, saints and ogres—as well as some quite extraordinary plants and animals—these two hundred tales bring to life Italy’s folklore, sometimes with earthy humor, sometimes with noble mystery, and sometimes with the playfulness of sheer nonsense. Selected and retold by one of the country’s greatest literary icons, “this collection stands with the finest folktale collections anywhere” (The New York Times Book Review). “For readers of any age . . . A masterwork.” —The Wall Street Journal “A magic book, and a classic to boot.” —Time


Notorious Casolini

Notorious Casolini

Author: Angelo Crapanzano

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1612047610

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When a man's sister rejects a marriage proposal from a powerful Sicilian family, he must defend his family from their deadly reprisals.


The Mirror of Our Anguish

The Mirror of Our Anguish

Author: Douglas Radcliff-Umstead

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780838619308

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Introduces to the English-reading public the seven novels and the most typical tales of that writer, whose literary fame still rests upon his achievements as a dramatist.


All Through The Night

All Through The Night

Author: Mary Higgins Clark

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 147110298X

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At the heart of the novel are two of Mary Higgins Clark's most loved characters: Alvirah, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband, Willy, who are caught up in a Christmas mystery that calls on all of their skills and experience. Willy has been looking forward to playing Santa at the after-school centre recently set up to care for the children of working parents on New York's Upper West Side, and Alvirah has been busy with rehearsals for the Christmas pageant. But suddenly a shadow falls upon the Christmas cheer. The centre is threatened with closure, a substitute promised for the play is mysteriously withdrawn, a valuable chalice is stolen from a neighborhood church, and a desperate young woman turns up, begging for Alvirah's help in finding the baby she abandoned seven years earlier. In a final blow, the young girl who is to play Mary in the Christmas pageant disappears... A missing child. A stolen chalice. A desperate mother. Can Alvirah reach the truth in time for Christmas?