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A Sweeping epic tale of love, drama, sacrifice, and redemption, set among the beautiful landscape of Sicily.
Winner of the BRAG Medallion Award in Historical Fiction
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The beautiful, yet secluded, hilltop village of Bellafortuna, Sicily, is a great producer of wine and olive oil. The entire village prospers. However, after the arrival of the Vasaio family, production dwindles and the villagers soon find themselves in crushing debt to the Vasaios. Only the Sanguinetti family remains outside the control of the Vasaios, but the reason haunts Antonio Sanguinetti every day of his life, and he offers financial and emotional support to his fello | |  | | Tempesta's Dream - A Story of Love, Friendship and Opera
It is the story of an aspiring opera singer coming of age in Milan; a tender and moving love story filled with romance; a testament to the bonds of friendship; and, at its core, a tribute to the beauty, majesty and miracle of opera.
span style="color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Giovanni Tempesta always dreamed of becoming an opera tenor and one day singing from the stage of the La Scala Opera House in his hometown of Milan, Italy. But with no real training, his dream has little chance for fulfillment . . . One day, he meets and immediately falls in love with Isabella Monterone, a dark-haired beauty, whose father, a very rich and powerful Milanese Judge, refuses to allow his daughter to date a penniless musician . . . At th |
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Dark September
by Brendan O'Brien
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 Autumn 1940. Germany invades Britain. Newport is blitzed. Danny O’Shea’s house is bombed, his wife is killed. While taking his young son Adam to neutral Ireland, they witness an attack on a German convoy. The result is brutal. |
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