Bread and Salt
Bread and Salt

Author: Connie Biewald

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-10

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0595362672

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Germany, 1914. Three young sisters are torn from their mother and each other, sent to the country to do the work of farmers off fighting in the Great War. They struggle to endure the painful separation. Sofie, Amalia, and Dora Bauer reunite with their mother at the war's end and come of age during the Weimar years, a time of resistance, retaliation, food shortages, and wild inflation, when a cabbage costs a billion marks and a wheelbarrow of money can't buy a loaf of bread. Their passions and search for safety and meaning in a violent and chaotic world lead them to make religious, political, and romantic choices that test the limits of their powerful bond. As circumstances wrench them apart once again, Sofie, Amalia, and Dora fight to stay connected, sustained by memory, story and fierce love.

The Sea on Our Skin
The Sea on Our Skin

Author: Madeleine Tobert

Publisher: Two Roads

Published: 2012-02-02

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 144473413X

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Set in a tiny, traditional community on a Pacific island, this is the story of a marriage and a family, of great loves and great betrayals and how real island life is so much more than the blissful idyll Westerners see. Ioane Matate has been a traveller running away from his island since he was fifteen, restless, dissatisfied and troubled. Amalia Hoko has grown up an island child, loved and sheltered, accepting as a boundary and limitation the sea that Ioane uses as his escape route. They belong to different worlds, but when Ioane returns to the island, Amalia is the wife he chooses, loves and maltreats, with far-reaching and disturbing consequences for both them and their children. The Sea on Our Skin transports the reader to the South Pacific with an immediacy that makes the island almost tangible. This is a beguiling and lyrical story, taking its rhythms from the oral storytelling tradition of island life and the myths of the South Seas and blending them with the age-old stories of mothers and children and characters whose joy and suffering linger hauntingly in the mind of the reader.

Alliance with His Stolen Heiress
Alliance with His Stolen Heiress

Author: Lydia San Andres

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2023-04-25

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0369730267

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"A joyous romp from start to finish." - BuzzFeed He must earn her trust before he wins her heart! In distancing himself from his nefarious wealthy family, Julian Fuentes has gained a rebellious reputation. Still, he’s shocked when heiress Amalia Troncoso hires him to stage her kidnapping! Julian doesn’t mind masquerading as a bandit to help Amalia get her inheritance from her tyrannical uncle, or spending time with the bold heiress who’s captured his imagination. But will the truth that ties their families together prevent their alliance from becoming more? From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

Amalia's California Diaries
Amalia's California Diaries

Author: Ann M. Martin

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2018-04-10

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1504052684

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Teenager Amalia Vargas finds the courage to be true to herself in this spin-off from the Newbery Award–winning author’s Baby-sitters Club series. When you’re thirteen, having a boyfriend in a band is basically the coolest thing ever. But Amalia is starting to feel trapped by her relationship with James, who’s jealous when she spends time with anyone but him—even her family and friends. Amalia knows standing up for yourself is important, but every time she takes a step forward something else happens to make her doubt everything—including the place she calls home. Luckily, her friends are there to help her through the hard times . . . The next chapter following Ann M. Martin’s bestselling Baby-sitters Club series, the California Diaries are the first-person journals of Dawn, Sunny, Maggie, Amalia, and Ducky—five teenagers dealing with the ups and downs of growing up. This collection includes the complete set of Amalia’s three California Diaries.

Love, Amalia
Love, Amalia

Author: Alma Flor Ada

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1442424036

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Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.

Sweet Hope
Sweet Hope

Author: Mary Bucci Bush

Publisher: Guernica Editions

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1550713426

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Sweet Hope is a novel about the friendship between two families, one Black and one Italian, living and working together on a Mississippi Delta cotton plantation 1901-1906. Italians were illegally imported to the South under false pretenses and held in a contract labor system designed to put and keep them in debt while the few remaining African American sharecroppers taught the Italians to work cotton, speak English, and survive. A vicious manager/ overseer, an absentee plantation owner, a rape, an interracial "Romeo and Juliet" love affair, a murder, and hints of a Federal investigation complicate the characters' lives as they learn bitter truths about race and friendship in America. The novel was inspired by the childhood experiences of Bush's grandmother and her family who were unwitting participants in the "Italian Colony Experiment."

Dear best friend. Life is a Story - story.one
Dear best friend. Life is a Story - story.one

Author: K. Schlosser

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-08-03

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 3710873606

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Rosalie is working in the film business as a script supervisor. In all the hectic on set she is additionally questioning her feelings to her boyfriend Nick. They were together for quite a while now, bit her feelings are gone. Eventually she is confronted with the thought of breaking up. Her best friend Amalia tries to comfort and distract her from it and takes her on a holiday to Germany. But when Rosalie starts to feel attracted to her friend more and more she tries to figure out if she should take her chance for love or let it slip through her fingers. Is Amalia also interested in her?

The Living Infinite
The Living Infinite

Author: Chantel Acevedo

Publisher: Europa Editions

Published: 2017-09-12

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1609454316

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A nineteenth century Spanish princess is determined to publish her tell-all memoir in this “fresh, fast-moving historical fiction from a master storyteller” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). After her cloistered childhood at the Spanish court, her youth spent in exile, and a loveless marriage, the Bourbon infanta Eulalia gladly departs Europe for the New World. In the company of Thomas Aragon, a small-town bookseller and the son of her childhood wet nurse, she travels first to a Cuba bubbling with revolutionary fervor, and then to the 1893 Chicago World Fair. As far as the public is concerned, she is there as an emissary of the Bourbon dynasty. But secretly, she is in America to find a publisher for her scandalous autobiography, a book that might well turn the old world order on its head. Latino International Book Award winner Chantel Acevedo brings Bourbon Spain, Revolutionary Cuba, and fin de siècle America vividly to life in her new novel based on a true story. The Living Infinite is a timeless tale of love, adventure, power and the quest to take control of one’s destiny.

Harlequin Historical May 2023 - Box Set 1 of 2
Harlequin Historical May 2023 - Box Set 1 of 2

Author: Sarah Mallory

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2023-04-25

Total Pages: 765

ISBN-13: 0369730534

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Step back in time and experience the grandeur and romance of a previous era as Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This boxset includes: THE NIGHT SHE MET THE DUKE by Sarah Mallory (Regency) After hearing herself described as “dull,” Prudence escapes London to Bath, where her new life is anything but dull when one night she finds an uninvited, devastatingly handsome duke in her kitchen! FALLING FOR HIS PRETEND COUNTESS Southern Belles in London by Lauri Robinson (Victorian) Henry, Earl of Beaufort and London’s most eligible bachelor, is being framed for murder! When his neighbor Suzanne offers to help prove his innocence, a fake engagement provides the perfect cover… ALLIANCE WITH HIS STOLEN HEIRESS by Lydia San Andres (1900s) Rebellious Julián doesn’t mind masquerading as a bandit to help Amalia claim her inheritance—he’s enjoying spending time with the bold heiress. But how can he reveal the truth of his identity?

The Marchesa
The Marchesa

Author: Simonetta Agnello Hornby

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2008-06-24

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1466804408

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A richly evocative tale of a woman's struggle for life and love A triumphant follow-up to Simonetta Agnello Hornby's internationally acclaimed The Almond Picker, this entertaining new novel is an intricate family saga interwoven with violent passions, cruelty, deceit, and the abuse of power. The Marchesa is an eyeopening historical drama about a remarkable woman and her extraordinary family, and the complex, often abusive relations that mark the lives of master and servant, brother and sister, husband and wife. Costanza Safamita, beloved daughter of Baron Domenico Safamita, is a precious but unusual child. Redhaired, gawky, and shy, she is considered an outsider by many on the family estate, but her adoring father makes her sole heir to the Safamita fortune, and then everything changes—for them and for her. Now she must conquer glittering, alien Palermo—where, uncertain of her future, she falls in love with a charming, dissolute young marchese whose sexual appetite she fears she cannot satiate. The Marchesa's brave, unusual story offers an unprecedented woman's perspective on the incestuous hypocrisy of the Sicilian aristocracy during a dramatic time in its history, as the Bourbon monarchy collapsed, the Mafia rose to power, and Palermo's decadent aristocracy began its inevitable decline. These themes are flawlessly woven into the fabric of Costanza's triumphant life, so that The Marchesa becomes not only an unforgettable human tale but a masterly fresco of a vanished world.