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Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Marco Carrera is 'the hummingbird,' a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges-suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman-Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally acclaimed author of A Girl Returned, a spellbinding story about family, memory, love, and the relationships that define us. It's the darkest time of night. Adriana, a baby in her arms, hammers on her sister's door. Who is she running from? What uncomfortable truth is she carrying with her? Like a whirlwind, Adriana upends her sister's life bringing chaos and cataclysmic revelations. Years later, the narrator gets an unexpected,...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
444 pages : map, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this grand part one of a two-volume saga, inspired by the real lives of history-making titans, The Florios of Sicily brings to life the dark secrets, the loves and betrayals, and the cruel acts of revenge that marked the Florios' century of influence. They were the uncrowned kings of Sicily: restless and ambitious, single-minded and determined to be richer and more powerful than anybody else. Yet their beginnings were humble. Vincenzo, who lost...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the myths match up. Claudia's mother says she met her husband when she stopped him from jumping off a bridge. Her father says it happened when he saved her from an attempted robbery. Both parents are deaf but couldn't be more different; they can't even agree on how they met, much less who needed saving. Into this unlikely...
5) Lost on me
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Already a bestseller and award-winner in Italy, Lost on Me is a burningly witty coming-of-age novel of a young woman in a wildly eccentric family from one of Italy's most celebrated young writers working today. In this distinctly contemporary, irreverent, and hilariously inverted bildungsroman, award-winning Italian author Veronica Raimo transforms neurosis, sex, and family disaster into brilliant comedy reminiscent of Fleabag and Portnoy's Complaint....
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