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Harpercollins. 09/01/2001. Rosa Fiore is middle-aged, repressed, and lonely. Her only consolation is food: she is a dedicated, passionate, and gifted cook. Then she meets a chef who is researching the Sicilian cuisine of which Rosa is a master. After a brief, wild, affair he disappears, and Rosa must find a way to carry on. Originally published at $13.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Dover Pubns. 11/01/1993. 117 pgs. The domineering Mrs. Herriton dispatches her son Philip and her daughter Harriet to Italy to bring back the baby born of her deceased son's wife Lilia and an Italian named Gino. Lilia's former chaperone, Caroline, goes with them, hoping to adopt the baby to atone for her laxness in letting Lilia get mixed up with Gino in the first place. Unexpectedly opposed by Gino, who turns out to be a devoted father, each member of this trio responds to Italy in his or her own way. The prim Harriet is shocked by the Italians; Philip and Caroline respond joyfully to their zest for life and freedom. The disputed baby meets a sad end, Harriet remains as ever, but Philip and Caroline return to England changed, renewed, and with a greater appreciation for the spiritual. Originally published at $2.00 You save 50% off the cover price!

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Trafalgar Square. 11/01/1996. In a small Italian village, a brother and sister are forced to give up the land that their once-wealthy family owned, keeping only the house where they lived as children. A year passes, during which both siblings undergo personal crises and trials, and when at last they find that they must give up the old house, they find themselves able to let it go. Originally published at $26.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/1998. 393 pgs. Canaletto, a famous Italian landscape artist, travels to England where he is twice victimized on the streets, first as a victim of robbery and then attempted murder. Now Canaletto has to conduct a criminal investigation while making enough time to enjoy his trip and dine with his friend, Jane Austen. Originally published at $24.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/2002. 338 pgs. A Mafia don hires veteran PR expert Jonah Eastman to improve his image so that he can qualify for a casino license. The clash of the Italian mob scene with Jewish chutzpah provides the comic backdrop for this caper novel in which, of all things, middle-aged romantic love is a major player. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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W W Norton & Co Inc. 05/01/1998. Reprint. 250 pgs. In the hills of Umbria, a group of expatriates is laid low by the gleeful chicanery of the locals and the Byzantine circuitry of Italian life. A retired American couple try to restore their dream house without losing their savings to a devious opportunist. A British family in a dispute with an ancient Italian clan find themselves in a blood feud that goes back centuries. A gay man searching for peace and self-sufficiency in the countryside with his lover discover deceit and betrayal instead. And lurking behind the scenes, pulling the strings, is the cunning lawyer Mancini, who cheerfully manipulates these innocents with his own brand of rustic chivalry. Originally published at $13.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 03/01/2002. 215 pgs. In these three novellas, contemporary Italians must deal with love and loss: a troubled teenager can't come to terms with her parents' death; a middle-aged widow looks back on the joys and sufferings of her marriage; and a man in torment tries to justify himself to his estranged daughter. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Bantam Classic & Loveswept. 08/01/1990. Reprint. This epic novel, set in Parma, Italy, during the early 1800's, is about a young aristocrat named Fabrice del Dongo and his attempts to find his place in life. A classic of French literature, written in seven manic weeks, it was revered by Proust, envied by Gide, and deemed "perfection" by Balzac. Originally published at $4.95 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 01/01/1996. Police detective Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice in search of a missing American millionaire. But dead bodies keep materializing--including a crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's "black wells" and a skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 10/01/1994. Reprint. Freda and Brenda go on an outing with their fellow-workers at a wine-bottling factory. Unexpected horror is the result. This novel was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1974 and won the Guardian Fiction Award. Originally published at $9.95 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Hyperion Books. 01/01/2001. 337 pgs. In the unusual milieu of an Italian neighborhood in Australia, Sam Capistrano is in love with Gabriella, the fascinating but elusive girl next door. Then she disappears--and the lives of the two, over the next 20 years, intertwine from time to time until, one fateful day, they meet again. Originally published at $23.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 09/01/1997. 175 pgs. A runaway bestseller in Europe, this Italian Gen-X novel is about Alex D., who sees life as a banal drag and who hangs out with a variegated bunch of delinquents and druggies. Then he meets Aidi, the woman he has longed for all his life, and everything changes. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Herodias. 08/01/1999. 128 pgs. In this 1976 novel, an Italian woman immigrates to Canada in the 1930s, but the man she expected to marry when she arrived has disappeared. Originally published at $15.00 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 06/20/2006. 256 pgs. In this novel by Andrea Lee, a young woman on a trip to Rome to be with her American husband meets a captivating Italian billionaire. Lee, whose RUSSIAN JOURNAL was nominated for a National Book Award in 1984 and whose stories in the New Yorker always exude sophistication and sensuality, takes the love-triangle formula and infuses it with profound insight into the cultural and psychological underpinnings of identity and desire. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 07/03/2006. 160 pgs. As a teenager, Melissa P. scandalized the literary world 100 STROKES OF THE BRUSH BEFORE BED, her semi-fictional memoir of erotic awakening in a small Sicilian town. The book became an international bestseller and received a stern warning from the Pope. Now in her 20s, Melissa P. has returned with another sexy and passionate morsel. THE SCENT OF YOUR BREATH tells the tale of Melissa, a young woman living in Rome with her effeminate lover, Thomas--a sweet relief from the many beastly men of her past. But when Viola, one of Thomas’s former lovers, appears on the scene, Melissa plunges into jealous obsessions and dark lusts. Originally published at $12.00 You save 83% off the cover price!

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