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|  | | A Piazza for Sant'Antonio: Five Novellas of 1980s Tuscany
Bringing the characters of the previous novels into a new decade with stories about Donna and Ezio, little Pasquale, Dino and the "Monster of Florence."
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; ">In the first story, Donna writes a cookbook that makes her famous and threatens her marriage. In another, little Pasquale, in trying save a cat, teaches the people of his village understanding. When Sant’Antonio is ridiculed because it lacks a piazza, a mysterious man who lives in an abandoned monastery comes to the rescue. Meanwhile, when Dino seeks his roots, he discovers a heroic grandfather, a loving uncle and a doomed village that may be inhabited by ghosts. And in Florence, Father Lorenzo tries to cope with the hy | |  | | Dino's Story: A Novel of 1960s Tuscany
Dino, who was just born in The Cielo and ten years old in Sparrow's Revenge, goes to Florence to study art and comes of age during the devastating flood of 1966.
| |  | | Sparrow's Revenge: A Novel of Postwar Tuscany
A Resistance fighter whose code name was Sparrow relentlessly pursues the collaborator of one of the worst atrocities in Italy during WWII. But in the treacherous and mysterious land of the Garfagnana, he discovers something he has long hidden within himself.
| |  | | Stefano and the Christmas Miracles
Weeks before Christmas, little Stefano sits down with his grandfather and together they put together their nativity scene, or presepio, one figure a ay. Nonno tells Stefano the amazing story of each of the miniature people and about the wondrous miracles that happen when they visit the Baby Jesus.
Weeks before Christmas, little Stefano sits down with his grandfather and together they put together their nativity scene, or presepio, one figure a ay. Nonno tells Stefano the amazing story of each of the miniature people and about the wondrous miracles that happen when they visit the Baby Jesus. | |  | | The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany
Ordered by the Germans to evacuate, a group of Italian villagers flees to a farmhouse in the beautiful hills of Tuscany. As the war rages around them, the refugees confront betrayal by one villagers, fearlessly house an escaped prisoner and survive a raid by the Nazis. A young girl finds love, two boys become heroes and secrets are revealed before an unspeakable event changes their lives forever.
| |  | | The Fearless Flag Thrower of Lucca
Nine Stories of 1990s Tuscany
The beloved characters in the first five books of A Tuscan Series return with new adventures until 2000.
| |  | | The Temptation of Father Lorenzo: Ten Stories of 1970s Tuscany
A decade after Dino's Story, the beloved characters of the first three novels return in this engrossing collection set in Florence and the beautiful hills of Tuscany.
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Shanghai Escapist
by Robert Liu
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 Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70 |
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