My love for you grows day by day and nothing can stop it, not even the anger and disapproval of your family... Reading these words, written to her grandmother decades before, Cara Serafini finally learns the great secret, the triumph, of Giulia's ...
Every Valentine's Day is a gift A day to celebrate your love--and the hope, the belief, that it will be everlasting. In Valentine's Daughters by Tara Taylor Quinn, it's a day to remember old promises...and make new ones. In Our Day by Jean Bras...
The bonds they share with their children are intricate, fiercely protected and often tested by the vagaries of modern life. This engaging collection celebrates those relationships--lost, found, newly forged, made stronger by a boundless and relentles...
For three generations of Dante women, food means love… From her restaurant on Boston's Salem Street, and from her own kitchen, Rose Dante has served countless meals and built a tightly knit community of customers, family and friends. Her daughter ...
Papa says “No Christmas tree this year,” because the family is going to be away from home visiting grandparents. Mama is frazzled because the family has just moved into a new house in a foreign country and she needs to find the dishes, not the Ch...
The islanders of Chappaquiddick have a saying: “Some come here to hide; others come to heal.” Above a crumbling sea wall at the isolated northern tip of Chappaquiddick Island sits a weathered cottage that gives shelter to Mae Keaney, who returns ...
Everyone has secrets, some more than most.Armed with her Irish mother's recipes and a willingness to roll up her sleeves, Mae Keaney retreats to the island of her childhood to escape a shameful and bitter past. After turning an abandoned fishing camp...
Innisfree -- the wild and isolated land on Chappaquiddick Island where Josiah Monroe grew up -- was the only place where he felt he belonged. When his parents make the painful decision to sell the land, the loss of Innisfree catapults the entire fami...
“Innisfree binds us.” A new generation attempts to define where home is. When Lydia Hammond encourages her grieving granddaughter, Elizabeth Innocenti, to spend the summer at Innisfree, the family’s compound on Chappaquiddick Island, Elizabeth ...
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In 1534, Michelangelo is no longer safe in Florence. Pope Clement VII, his childhood friend, summons him to Rome not only to protect him from his enemies but also to demand he paint a masterpiece ...
A reluctant daughter takes over a centuries-old winery in Cold War Germany.A Polish physician crosses into the West during the harvest.A love story that defies time, distance and political upheaval.When her father has a stroke, Marielle Hartmann give...
She only remembers dying.In 1971, a near-fatal automobile accident throws Izzy Monroe's life into upheaval after she survives with a traumatic brain injury that leaves her with no short-term memory. Unable to continue her graduate studies, she retrea...
Mel Ames isn't someone who believes in fate. In fact, she isn't sure she believes in anything—except her own wits, her powers of observation and her pen.After covering antiwar demonstrations and political stories as an undergraduate at Columb...
Family honor, jealousy, curses and retribution.From mountain villages in the Mezzogiorno to immigrant neighborhoods in America, healers, matriarchs and defiant daughters endure the somber shadows of resentment and suspicion to shape their own victori...