This first novel in a new trilogy from bestselling author Trigiani offers a heartwarming and hilarious story of Valentine Roncalli and the decades-old family business she struggles to save, finding love and the life she wants along the way.
An interior decorator named Bartolomeo di Crespi (known, for perhaps obvious reasons, as B) lives in the town of Our Lady of Fatima, New Jersey, where he gets a juicy commission: to completely redecorate the parish church. This project forms the bulk of Adriana Trigiani's cuddly novel, as B travels the world in search of just the right chandelier ...
Ave Maria Mulligan lives in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. When her parents die, she is 35, unmarried, and in danger of becoming a spinster. When true love finally comes along, she almost doesn't recognize it amidst the chaos of her life. But feisty Ave Maria triumphs in the end, in this appealing little novel set in a realistically portrayed mining ...
An idle young woman living in present-day Greenwich Village listens to the life story of her neighbor, Lucia Sartori. Lucia's tale stretches back to the '50s, when she was the young and beautiful daughter of the local grocer, and when the romantic complications of her life are set against the background of a vibrant city and neighborhood.
The beloved author of "Big Stone Gap" returns with the continuing story of Ave Maria Mulligan and the rest of the Gap's unforgettable townsfolk. "A big-hearted novel that alternates dollops of comfort with moments of folksy charm and stark poignancy."--"Publishers Weekly."
This last installment in Trigiani's Big Stone Gap trilogy finds Ave middle aged and worried about her nearly grown daughter, Etta, whose college trip to Italy may involve a reunion with Ave's father--her own long-lost grandfather.
Each of 17 young American women who write fiction provides a short story for this volume, including "Yoga Babe" by Lauren Henderson, "The Bamboo Confessions" by Lauren Weisberger, "Bad Manners" by Chris Manby, and "Forty Days" by Jill Smolinski. All profits from the book go to charity.
This saga of an Italian-American family, the Castellucas, centers on Nella, who falls in love with Renato, the handsome town poet. As their passionate romance moves inevitably toward marriage, Renato disappears. When he returns five years later, Nella is about to marry another man--a much more respectable husband than Renato would ever have been. ...
From the author of the "New York Times"-bestselling adult novel "Very Valentine" comes the first book in a fresh new teen series, about a group of boarding school friends navigating the ups and downs of living together, falling in love, and following their dreams.
Adriana Trigiani's Big Stone Gap novels, featuring the feisty Ave Maria Mulligan, have become popular favorites. Now Trigiani looks back on her own family history and the small Virginia town where she and her four sisters grew up. From the Trigiani and Bonicelli grandmothers--both slightly eccentric, both great cooks--to the four sisters and their ...
In 1908, author John Fox Jr. published his best-selling novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, and with it, he brought Big Stone Gap into homes across the country. In modern times, Big Stone Gap is best known for a series of novels by hometown author Adriana Trigiani. aThe Gapa has always been in the vocabulary of Southwest Virginians but has now ...
In this contemporary family saga, the Angelini Shoe Company, makers of custom wedding shoes since 1903, is one of the last family businesses in Greenwich Village. On the brink of financial ruin, it falls to thirty-three-year-old Valentine Roncalli, the talented but unsuspecting apprentice, to bring her family's old-world craftsmanship into the ...
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