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An Italian Affair

Author : Laura Fraser
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375724850
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book An Italian Affair written by Laura Fraser and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-05-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, and discovers not only a lasting sense of pleasure, but a more fully recovered sense of her emotional and sexual self. “Sweet, smart. We are smitten from the start.” —O: The Oprah Magazine When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. What they both assume will be a casual vacation tryst turns into a passionate, transatlantic love affair, as they rendezvous in London, Marrakech, Milan, the Aeolian Islands, and San Francisco. Each encounter is a delirious immersion into place (sumptuous food and wine, dazzling scenery, lush gardens, and vibrant streetscapes) and into each other. And with each experience, Laura brings home not only a lasting sense of pleasure, but a more fully recovered sense of her emotional and sexual self. Written with an observant eye, an open mind, and a delightful sense of humor, An Italian Affair has the irresistible honesty of a story told from and about the heart.

The Italian Affair

Author : Julie Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780727853486
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book The Italian Affair written by Julie Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching in Italy for her long-lost brother, Lisa meets fellow American Scott Anderson, who says he is looking for a missing friend, Tony Menotti, who resembles Lisa.

Sport Italia

Author : Simon Martin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857730606
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Sport Italia written by Simon Martin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian love affair with sport is passionate, voracious, all-consuming. It provides a backdrop and a narrative to almost every aspect of daily life in Italy and the distinctively pink-coloured newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport is devoured by almost half a million readers every day. Narrating the history of modern Italy through its national passion for sport, Sport Italia provides a completely new portrayal of one of Europe's most alluring, yet contradictory countries, tracing the highs and lows of Italy's sporting history from its Liberal pioneers through Mussolini and the 1960 Rome Olympics to the Berlusconi era. By interweaving essential themes of Italian history, its politics, society and economy with a history of the passion for sport in the country, Simon Martin tells the story of modern Italy in a fresh and colourful way, illustrating how and why sport is so strongly embedded in both politics and society, and how it is inseparable from the concept of Italian national identity. Showing sport's capacity to both unite and deeply divide, this book reveals a novel and previously unexplored element of the history of a society and its state, which will be an essential read for sports fans, historians and students alike.

An Italian Affair

Author : Caroline Montague
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 9781409180784
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book An Italian Affair written by Caroline Montague and published by Orion. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love. War. Family. Betrayal. Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home in London to Italy with her daughter Diana and sets about rebuilding her life. Under the threat of war, Alessandra's house becomes first a home and then a shelter to all those who need it. Then Davide, a young man who is hiding the truth about who he is, arrives, and Diana starts to find her heart going where her head knows it must not. Back home in Britain as war breaks out, Alessandra's son Robert, signs up to be a pilot, determined to play his part in freeing Italy from the grip of Fascism. His bravery marks him out as an asset to the Allies, and soon he is being sent deep undercover and further into danger than ever before. As war rages, the Durante family will love and lose, but will they survive the war...? 'Thoroughly engrossing' - Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey 'Enthralling...An Italian Affair snares us in an ever-tightening circle of love and despair, secrets and forgiveness' - Joanna Lumley

An Italian Affair

Author : Caroline Montague
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 1409180794
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book An Italian Affair written by Caroline Montague and published by Orion. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Thoroughly engrossing' - Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey Love. War. Family. Betrayal. Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home in London to Italy with her daughter Diana and sets about rebuilding her life. Under the threat of war, Alessandra's house becomes first a home and then a shelter to all those who need it. Then Davide, a young man who is hiding the truth about who he is, arrives, and Diana starts to find her heart going where her head knows it must not. Back home in Britain as war breaks out, Alessandra's son Robert, signs up to be a pilot, determined to play his part in freeing Italy from the grip of Fascism. His bravery marks him out as an asset to the Allies, and soon he is being sent deep undercover and further into danger than ever before. As war rages, the Durante family will love and lose, but will they survive the war...? 'Enthralling...An Italian Affair snares us in an ever-tightening circle of love and despair, secrets and forgiveness' - Joanna Lumley

Italian Affair

Author : Annie Seaton
Publisher : Entangled: Bliss
ISBN 13 : 1640634541
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Italian Affair written by Annie Seaton and published by Entangled: Bliss. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free-spirited Brianna Ballantine has four days to find a fiancé so she can inherit her birth mother's Italian villa. Commitment is not on the agenda. Writing her book and signing legal papers are. And once all is said and done, she'll return home to Australia, but not without a little fun first. For finance guru Tomas Richards, relationships have been a bad investment—give him stocks and shares any day. When Tomas offers a marriage of convenience to help Brianna secure her inheritance, this gorgeous, quirky woman promises an affair to remember, despite family complications at every turn. Each book in the Affair series is STANDALONE: * Holiday Affair * Italian Affair * Outback Affair

All Over the Map

Author : Laura Fraser
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307450635
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book All Over the Map written by Laura Fraser and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2010 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Losing It recounts her arrival in the South Pacific, where she struggles with her life on the go and perceptions of family life before embarking on a search for love in a variety of exotic locations.

The Rome Affair

Author : Karen Swan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509838031
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Rome Affair written by Karen Swan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glamorous capital city of Italy is brought to startling life in The Rome Affair, a compelling novel by bestselling author Karen Swan. 1974 and Elena Damiani lives a gilded life. Born to wealth and a noted beauty, no door is closed to her, no man can resist her. At twenty-six, she is already onto her third husband when she meets her love match. But he is the one man she can never have, and all the beauty and money in the world can't change it. 2017 and Francesca Hackett is living la dolce vita in Rome, leading tourist groups around the Eternal City and forgetting the ghosts she left behind in London. When she finds a stolen designer handbag in her dustbin and returns it, she is brought into the orbit of her grand neighbour who lives across the piazza – famed socialite Viscontessa Elena dei Damiani Pignatelli della Mirandola. Elena greets the return of the bag with exultation for it contains an unopened letter written by her husband on his deathbed, twelve years earlier. Mutually intrigued by each other, the two women agree to collaborate on a project, with Cesca interviewing Elena for her memoirs. As summer unfurls, Elena tells her sensational stories, leaving Cesca in her thrall. But when a priceless diamond ring found in an ancient tunnel below the city streets is ascribed to Elena, Cesca begins to suspect a shocking secret at the heart of Elena's life. 'Glittering jewels, designer labels galore and the most mouth-watering pizza in Rome make this a satisfying summer beach read' – Veronica Henry, Daily Express Enjoy more of Karen Swan's captivating seasonal novels with The Greek Escape and The Paris Secret.

The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti

Author : Meryle Secrest
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0451493664
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti written by Meryle Secrest and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter company, more than a decade before the arrival of the Osborne 1, the Apple 1, the first Intel microprocessor, and IBM's PC5150. The human, business, design, engineering, cold war, and tech story of how the Olivetti company came to be, how it survived two world wars and brought a ravaged Italy back to life, how after it mastered the typewriter business with the famous "Olivetti touch," it entered the new, fierce electronics race; how its first desktop compter, the P101, came to be; how, within eighteen months, it had caught up with, and surpassed, IBM, the American giant that by then had become an arm of the American government, developing advanced weapon systems; Olivetti putting its own mainframe computer on the market with its desktop prototype, selling 40,000 units, including to NASA for its lunar landings. How Olivetti made inroads into the US market by taking control of Underwood of Hartford CT as an assembly plant for Olivetti's own typewriters and future miniaturized personal computers; how a week after Olivetti purchased Underwood, the US government filed an antitrust suit to try to stop it; how Adriano Olivetti, the legendary idealist, socialist, visionary, heir to the company founded by his father, built the company into a fantastical dynasty--factories, offices, satellite buildings spread over more than fifty acres--while on a train headed for Switzerland in 1960 for supposed meetings and then to Hartford, never arrived, dying suddenly of a heart attack at fifty-eight . . . how eighteen months later, his brilliant young engineer, who had assembled Olivetti's superb team of electronic engineers, was killed, as well, in a suspicious car crash, and how the Olivetti company and the P101 came to its insidious and shocking end.

The Zhivago Affair

Author : Peter Finn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307908011
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Zhivago Affair written by Peter Finn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village just outside Moscow to visit Russia’s greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the original manuscript of Pasternak’s first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: “This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.” Pasternak believed his novel was unlikely ever to be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as an irredeemable assault on the 1917 Revolution. But he thought it stood a chance in the West and, indeed, beginning in Italy, Doctor Zhivago was widely published in translation throughout the world. From there the life of this extraordinary book entered the realm of the spy novel. The CIA, which recognized that the Cold War was above all an ideological battle, published a Russian-language edition of Doctor Zhivago and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. Copies were devoured in Moscow and Leningrad, sold on the black market, and passed surreptitiously from friend to friend. Pasternak’s funeral in 1960 was attended by thousands of admirers who defied their government to bid him farewell. The example he set launched the great tradition of the writer-dissident in the Soviet Union. In The Zhivago Affair, Peter Finn and Petra Couvée bring us intimately close to this charming, passionate, and complex artist. First to obtain CIA files providing concrete proof of the agency’s involvement, the authors give us a literary thriller that takes us back to a fascinating period of the Cold War—to a time when literature had the power to stir the world. (With 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations.)

My Amalfi Coast Love Affair

Author : Margie Miklas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781726656634
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book My Amalfi Coast Love Affair written by Margie Miklas and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her travel book captures the allure of Italy's Amalfi Coast, as Margie Miklas takes us on a journey of personal experiences through storytelling. An award-winning author and travel blogger, Margie has traveled to the Amalfi Coast more than any other area of Italy and has fallen in love with the beauty of its rugged landscape and rocky coastline. Through real-life stories, humor, travel advice, and practical information, she'll entice you to plan your next trip and maybe even experience your own love affair. Discover: Various transportation options and how to get around Less touristy towns and other hidden gems Local people who are happy to share their passion The cities that make the best hubs for day excursions The location that provided the inspiration to write The Amalfi Coast is waiting for you. All you have to do is make it happen. The helpful hints in this book will get you started.

The Columbus Affair

Author : Anthony Julian Tamburri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781955995009
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Columbus Affair written by Anthony Julian Tamburri and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the numerous arguments surrounding the more recent discussions around the Columbus phenomenon. Tamburri presents and discusses the fundamental issues raised by both pro-Columbus and anti-Columbus people. This book is also a treatise on the essentialities of one needing to be profoundly informed on the issues at hand, be those issues Columbus or any other point of discussion germane to the history and culture of Italians in the United States.

Galileo Revisited

Author : Dom Paschal Scotti
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1621641325
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Galileo Revisited written by Dom Paschal Scotti and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other work on Galileo Galilei has brought together such a complete description of the historical context in its political, cultural, philosophical, religious, scientific, and personal aspects as this volume has done. In addition to covering the whole of Galileo's life, it focuses on those things that are most pertinent to the Galileo Affair, which culminated in his condemnation by the Inquisition in 1633. It also includes an extensive discussion of the relationship between religion and science in general, and of the relationship between Christianity and science in particular, without which a true understanding of the affair is much weakened. This discussion of the relationship of Christianity with science-a long, generally positive relationship-is most timely since the case of Galileo is, as many historians and Pope Benedict XVI have stated, the beginning of the alienation of the Church from much of the intellectual culture of our present age. The "warfare between science and religion" is an old myth that should finally be retired, but for many it is still axiomatic. This work shows the significance of astrology in the history of society and the Church (Galileo was a master astrologer), and the importance of the internal tensions and factions within the Roman Curia in the seventeenth century. It also tells of the profound battles among Church leadership over the direction of the Church in a time of uncertainty and intellectual and cultural ferment. The Galileo Affair is not just of its time and place, and it is not just about Galileo, but it touches upon that perennial issue of how the Church deals with issues of adaptation and change.

The Moro Affair

Author : Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 9781862075221
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book The Moro Affair written by Leonardo Sciascia and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 16, 1978 Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed all five members of his escort and bundled Moro into one of three getaway cars. An hour later the Red Brigades announced that Moro was in their hands; on March 18 they said he would be tried in a 'people's court of justice'. Seven weeks later Moro's body was discovered in the boot of a Renault parked in the crowded centre of Rome. In The Moro Affair, Leonardo Sciascia - a master of detective fiction - untangles the real-life events of these crucial weeks and provides a unique insight into the dangerous world of Italian politics in the 1970s.

A SUMMER AFFAIR

Author : Susan Wiggs
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 1459294696
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book A SUMMER AFFAIR written by Susan Wiggs and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted but troubled physician, Blue Calhoun runs a thriving medical practice from his Nob Hill mansion in San Francisco while raising his son alone after an unthinkable tragedy. Then one day a female fugitive with a gunshot wound appears in Blue's surgery. Even though she holds a pistol aimed at his heart, the desperation in her eyes awakens Blue's compassion. Reluctantly he is drawn to her fragile beauty, her nerves of steel and the mystery surrounding her circumstances. Isabel Fish-Wooten has spent most of her life on the run, but everything changes when she forces a stranger to save her life. Yet her rescue comes with an unexpected price. As Isabel recovers from her wounds, she finds herself touched by this remarkable man and yearns to reach out to him and his rebellious son. From danger-filled back alleys to the glittering ballrooms of high society, Isabel and Blue confront the violence and corruption that threatens their newfound passion. Theirs is an unforgettable quest to discover a rare and special love, and the precious gift of a second chance at happiness.

The Italian Affair

Author : Loren Teague
Publisher : Robert Hale Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780709089957
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book The Italian Affair written by Loren Teague and published by Robert Hale Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gina Rosselini, the granddaughter of a wealthy fishing magnate, lives a charmed life—until her twin sister is shot and Gina is marked as the gunman’s next target. The Rosselini family hire Rick Caruso, an ex-cop and private investigator, to act as a bodyguard for Gina—but Gina has other plans. A strong, independent woman, Gina has no intention of letting Rick protect her. Then, an attempt on her life changes everything. As the danger escalates, Gina must face her worst fears. Meanwhile, the killer watches her from the shadows, waiting for his moment to strike.

The Moro Affair ; And, the Mystery of Majorana

Author : Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher : Carcanet Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Moro Affair ; And, the Mystery of Majorana written by Leonardo Sciascia and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: