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1) The Italian Cookbook for Beginners: Over 100 Classic Recipes with Everyday Ingredients

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Authors, Various

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Italian food is the ultimate comforting homemade cuisine. Full of rich, robust flavors, enticing aromas, and exuberant colors, Italian cuisine is a celebration of love for both food and family. With The Italian Cookbook for Beginners, you won't need to travel far and wide to enjoy the authentic flavors of Italy. Offering over 100 classic recipes, The Italian Cookbook for Beginners will show you how to cook like an Italian mama, using affordable everyday...

2) The Italian Vegetable Cookbook: 200 Favorite Recipes for Antipasti, Soups, Pasta, Main Dishes, and Desserts

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Scicolone, Michele

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Traditional and contemporary Italian recipes for vegetarian and nearly vegetarian dishes from the author of The Italian Slow Cooker Over the ages, resourceful Italian cooks have devised countless ways to prepare vegetables-all incredibly flavorful and simple. In this book, Italian cooking authority Michele Scicolone shares recipes that she gathered during years of traveling in Italy. Some, like Green Fettuccine with Spring Vegetable Ragu and Easter...

3) fabulicious teresas italian family cookbook

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4) carbones cookbook old world elegance and the best

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5) The Tuscan sun cookbook: recipes from our Italian kitchen

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6) dolci italys sweets

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7) williams sonoma rustic italian simple authentic re

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8) visions of italy the grand tour from a stunning ae

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9) My brilliant friend

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Ferrante, Elena

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Neapolitan novels volume 1

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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Soon to be an HBO series, book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy's most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)

Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante's four-volume...

10) Beautiful ruins

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Center Point large print

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eAudiobook, Large Print

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A finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Jess Walter infuses his tightly plotted novels with a unique brand of mordant humor that has earned him a loyal and growing fan base. His sixth novel, Beautiful Ruins chronicles an unlikely romance that begins in 1962 along the Italian coast. The love affair wanes, only to be rekindled in Hollywood 50 years later.

11) Romeo and Juliet

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Shakespeare, William

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Timeless Shakespeare

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Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic

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"Romeo and Juliet", one of William Shakespeare's most iconic tragedies, tells the poignant tale of young love and family conflict. Set in Verona, Italy, the story revolves around the passionate romance between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, members of feuding families. The star-crossed lovers meet at a masquerade ball and quickly fall deeply in love, despite their families' bitter rivalry. Their secret relationship leads to a series of events...

12) The enchantress of Florence

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Rushdie, Salman

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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A novel about East meeting West; about Florence at the dawn of the Renaissance and the hedonistic Mughal capital; the meaning of political power, and its proper uses; and the power of love to overcome time. It is also the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world.

13) Women in sunlight: a novel

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Book, Audiobook, eBook, Large Print

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Three American women, new friends, all older single women, have taken a lease on a stone manse in Tuscany. They are escaping, reinventing, and reevaluating the fates expected of them as aging women in America. They are novices in a foreign culture, figuring out the day to day, but what they share is a gusto for life and a sturdy if indefinite determination to thrive. Released from their former lives, encouraging each other, and finding a lot of 'why...

14) A room with a view

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Penguin English library

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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"A Room with a View" by E. M. Forster is a delightful and satirical exploration of the Edwardian society, love, and the clash between societal expectations and individual desires. Set against the picturesque backdrop of England and Italy, Forster's novel is a nuanced portrayal of the awakening of a young woman's spirit in the face of societal constraints. The story follows the journey of Lucy Honeychurch, a spirited and independent young woman...

15) The Midwife of Venice

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Midwife novels (Roberta Rich) volume 1

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eAudiobook, eBook

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For readers of Heather Marshall and Kate Quinn, an unforgettable, fast-paced historical debut set against the richness and squalor of sixteenth-century Venice and Malta.
Venice, 1575
Hannah ha-Levi, a midwife in the Jewish ghetto, is known throughout Venice for her skill in midwifery. When a Christian count appears at Hannah's door imploring her to attend his labouring wife who is near death, Hannah's compassion is tested. Not only is...

16) Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia

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Gilbert, Elizabeth

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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One of the most iconic, beloved, and bestselling books of our time from the bestselling author of City of Girls and Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert.

Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love touched the world and changed countless lives, inspiring and empowering millions of readers to search for their own best selves. Now, this beloved and iconic book returns in a beautiful 10th anniversary edition, complete with an updated...

17) Jamie cooks Italy

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18) Incontinent on the Continent: My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy

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Christmas, Jane

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eAudiobook, eBook

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To smooth over five decades of constant clashing, determined daughter Jane Christmas decides to take her arthritic, incontinent, and domineering mother, Valeria, to Italy. Will being at the epicenter of the Renaissance spark a renaissance in their relationship? As they drag each other from the Amalfi Coast to Tuscany - walkers, shawls, and a mobile pharmacy of medications in tow - they find new ways to bitch and bicker, in the process reassessing...

19) Giada's Italy: my recipes for la dolce vita

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De Laurentiis, Giada

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"America knows and loves Giada De Laurentiis for her lighter, healthier takes on classic Italian fare. In her newest cookbook, she invites fans and home cooks to get to know the flavors and stories that have inspired her life's work. Here, she shares recipes for authentic Italian dishes as her family has prepared them for years while infusing them with her signature fresh flavors to make them her own, like in her Grilled Swordfish with Candied Lemon...

20) The Italian Renaissance: culture and society in Italy

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Princeton paperbacks