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Salamone Rossi
Salamone Rossi occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European music tradition. Working for the Gonzaga dukes in Mantua, yet remaining faithful to his own religious community, Rossi's life provides unique insights on life during the Renaissance and on such contemporary questions as how individuals respond to competing cultural influences.
The Missionary Position
In the 1970's Angie Benedetto, a smart-mouthed Brooklyn girl whos neighborhood customs chafe her as much as her plaid-flannel Catholic school uniform, desperately wants to fly. Angie dreams of flying airplanes, traveling to exotic places and finding a guy who doesn't think high-roll collars and a duck's ass hairstyle mark the height of sophistication. After Angies mother allows her to fly for her Uncle Anthony as a missionary pilot, Angie reports the murder of Asmat natives. She becomes a tool for her Uncles plans to gain control of a gold mine and the quarry of mercenaries who protect the new owners possession of the same mine. Charles Abbott Aldridge is a proper New Englander who wants to study primitive tribes, help his father, and be left alone to live his life. Charles, lost and presumed dead for half-a-dozen years, is the only man who can help Angie. Smart-mouthed Angie needs proper New Englander Charles to escape from those people looking to kill her and Charles needs Angie to help his father. Angies Uncle Anthony must deal with Angies mother alone.
The House of Mondavi
An epic, scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that built—and then spectacularly lost—a global wine empire Set in California’s lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of Mondavi is a tale of genius, sibling rivalry, and betrayal. From 1906, when Italian immigrant Cesare Mondavi passed through Ellis Island, to the Robert Mondavi Corp.’s twenty-first-century battle over a billion-dollar fortune, award-winning journalist Julia Flynn brings to life both the place and the people in this riveting family drama. The blood feuds are as spectacular as the business triumphs. Cesare’s sons, Robert and Peter, literally came to blows i...
Modern Italian Grammar
This new edition of the Modern Italian Grammar is an innovative reference guide to Italian, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. With a strong emphasis on contemporary usage, all grammar points and functions are richly illustrated with examples. Implementing feedback from users of the first edition, this text includes clearer explanations, as well as a greater emphasis on areas of particular difficulty for learners of Italian. Divided into two sections, the book covers: traditional grammatical categories such as word order, nouns, verbs and adjectives language functions and notions such as giving and seeking information, describing processes and results, and expressing likes, dislikes and preferences. This is the ideal reference grammar for learners of Italian at all levels, from beginner to advanced. No prior knowledge of grammatical terminology is needed and a glossary of grammatical terms is provided. This Grammar is complemented by the Modern Italian Grammar Workbook Second Edition which features related exercises and activities.
Behold the Blessed Country
Austin Chad, a disgruntled university student from the minority English (Anglophone) Cameroon considers self-determination of his region through an armed insurrection against the repressive and discriminatory practices of the majority French (Francophone) Cameroon dominated government. Advised against this suicidal move Chad ventures into the USA where through hard work he builds a formidable business economic powerhouse. It is through this vast business enterprise that he plans to counteract and frustrate Cameroon's government's policies of unfettered access to the exploitation of the enormous Anglophone natural resources. Chad's dream of unleashing his arsenal for the uncommon economic transformation of his region seems to be "going south" as events have begun unfolding in Cameroon: a new generation Anglophones is fed up with the injustices and is demanding equity and redress from the government through a peaceful protest. The high-handed response from the government through its trigger-happy military forces will engender widespread mayhem with the Anglophone region becoming the killing fields of Cameroon.
Modern Italian Grammar
An innovative practical reference grammar, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume, this is the ideal reference grammar for intermediate and advanced learners at advanced secondary level and above.
Giuseppe Rocco
In a penetrating look at our national myth of rags-to-riches success, Ronald Ruiz tells the gripping story of the rise, unification, and decline of two very American families named Rocco and Martinez. Through his self-made scavenger business and a series of shrewd land investments, Italian immigrant Giuseppe Rocco raises himself from nothing to improbable wealth and political influence in northern California. RoccoÍs money and power allow him to possess a bride of high birth and breeding. Although to her he will never be more than a garbage collector, it is through their loveless marriage that Giuseppe Rocco becomes the patriarch of a dynasty of three sons. When her drug-addicted mother dis...
Ruthless
"Dark, seductive, and hot as HELL." - USA Today Bestselling Author Lili Valente Angel Rossi is living a boring post-college life - until she's taken captive by billionaire mafia boss Nico Vitale. Thrust into a world of luxury, danger, and unbridled passion, Angel is sure there's been a mistake. But when she realizes her entire life has been a lie, there's only one thing she knows for sure: she is falling in love with the frightening, powerful man who is her captor. And he'll destroy everything in his path to keep her. This is not your mother’s mob. ___________________________________ ★★★★★ "Nail-biting, heart-pounding romance!” ★★★★★ "Everything a mafia romance should...
The Rose Grower
When it's announced that the flying station at San Dannato in northern Italy is to reopen, the inhabitants of the adjacent village rub their hands with glee. Prosperity is promised to all. Little do they imagine the hell that awaits them.And when the shadows come and the villagers are beyond saving themselves, Someone Else will.A simple, sometimes brutal, story of Faith and Redemption.Italian version available on this site as "Il Coltivatore di Rose".
