Adriana Trigiani
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Viola is sent from her beloved Brooklyn to boarding school in Indiana for ninth grade, she overcomes her initial reservations as she makes friends with her roommates, goes on a real date, and uses the unsettling ghost she keeps seeing as the subject of a short film--her first.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Thirty three year old Valentine Roncalli, faced with the seemingly impossible task of helping her family's Greenwich Village shoe business rebound from financial ruin, travels to Tuscany in search of techniques and materials which will help her rebuild the company, and while she is there, she learns a
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Aspiring playwright Kit Zanetti lucks into the story of a lifetime when she accepts an invitation to tea from her elderly upstairs neighbor Aunt Lu and is treated to the tale of Lu's life in Greenwich Village in the 1950s as a beautiful, independent apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at a chic Fifth Avenue department store.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney returns to her beloved Big Stone Gap, Virginia, after attending the wedding of her daughter in Italy and, feeling a need to fill the void of being an empty-nester, agrees to direct the town musical, a production of "The Sound of Music" starring local talent from the past and present.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Shoemaker Valentine Roncalli is devastated when her grandmother announces Valentine's brother and nemesis Alfred will be taking over the family shoe business, but an affair with a notorious playboy and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity offer Valentine a chance at building her own life and reveal a dark secret that could destroy her family.
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