Product Description: Adriana Trigiani 3 book set

Adriana Trigiani, the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker's Wife, returns with her biggest and boldest novel yet, a hypnotic tale based on a true story and filled with her signature elements: family ties, artistry, romance, and adventure. Born in the golden age of Hollywood, All the Stars in the Heavens captures the luster, drama, power, and secrets that could only thrive in the studio system—viewed through the lives of an unforgettable cast of players creating magic on the screen and behind the scenes.In this spectacular saga as radiant, thrilling, and beguiling as Hollywood itself, Adriana Trigiani takes us back to Tinsel Town's golden age—an era as brutal as it was resplendent—and into the complex and glamorous world of a young actress hungry for fame and success. With meticulous, beautiful detail, Trigiani paints a rich, historical landscape of 1930s Los Angeles, where European and American artisans flocked to pursue the ultimate dream: to tell stories on the silver screen.The movie business is booming in 1935 when twenty-one-year-old Loretta Young meets thirty-four-year-old Clark Gable on the set of The Call of the Wild. Though he's already married, Gable falls for the stunning and vivacious young actress instantly.Far from the glittering lights of Hollywood, Sister Alda Ducci has been forced to leave her convent and begin a new journey that leads her to Loretta. Becoming Miss Young's secretary, the innocent and pious young Alda must navigate the wild terrain of Hollywood with fierce determination and a moral code that derives from her Italian roots. Over the course of decades, she and Loretta encounter scandal and adventure, choose love and passion, and forge an enduring bond of love and loyalty that will be put to the test when they eventually face the greatest obstacle of their lives.Anchored by Trigiani's masterful storytelling that takes you on a worldwide ride of adventure from Hollywood to the shores of southern Italy, this mesmerizing epic is, at its heart, a luminous tale of the most cherished ties that bind. Brimming with larger-than-life characters both real and fictional—including stars Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, David Niven, Hattie McDaniel and more—it is it is the unforgettable story of one of cinema's greatest love affairs during the golden age of American movie making.

A follow-up to Irish Girls About Town and Scottish Girls About Town journeys acrss the Atlantic to present a collection of sixteen tales from some of America's most popular women authors, including Adriana Trigiani, Jennifer Weiner, Quinn Dalton, Judi Hendricks, Lauren Henderson, Lauren Weisberger, Nancy Sparling, and others. Reprint.

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Revisits the marriage of Ave Maria and Jack MacChesney, eight years after their wedding, amid the eccentric inhabitants in the small Virginia mountain town of Big Stone Gap.

A sequel to Big Stone Gap revisits the marriage of Ave Maria and Jack MacChesney, eight years after their wedding, amid the eccentric inhabitants in the small Virginia mountain town of Big Stone Gap. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

Town pharmacist and local spinster Ave Maria has been keeping the secrets of Stone Gap for a long time, but now a skeleton is about to tumble from her own family closet.

Town pharmacist and local spinster Ave Maria has been keeping the secrets of Stone Gap for a long time, but now a skeleton is about to tumble from her own family closet.

A Small Town American trilogy, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, brought together in one volume

“Delightful, energetic. . . . Trigiani is a seemingly effortless storyteller.” — Boston Globe Award-winning playwright, television writer, and documentary filmmaker Adriana Trigiani returns with Brava, Valentine, continuing the heartwarming and hilarious story of Valentine Roncalli, her family, her love life, and the Angelini Shoe Company. Following on the heels of the New York Times bestseller Very Valentine (hailed by People magazine as “Sex and the City meets Moonstruck”), Brava, Valentine is another tour-de-force from the beloved author of bestselling novels Lucia, Lucia, The Queen of the Big Time, and the Big Stone Gap series.

The best-selling author of Big Stone Gap joins forces with her mother and sisters to present a delectable array of traditional Italian family recipes, cultural traditions, and personal anecdotes, ranging from polenta and chicken to favorite desserts. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: As Encore Valentine begins, snow falls like glitter over Tuscany at the wedding of Valentine's grandmother. Meet the Roncalli and Angelini families, artisans of handcrafted shoes in Greenwich Village since 1903. Valentine's dreams are dashed when her grandmother names her brother and nemesis Alfred her partner at Angelini Shoes...read more

Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney confronts dramatic changes in her life--her daughter's marriage and move to Italy, her husband's new job, and a mysterious stranger with a long-buried secret.

The beautiful daughter of an Italian immigrant family in 1950 Greenwich Village, Lucia Sartori pursues her dream of a career in the fashion industry, until she falls in love with a handsome stranger, who must win over her traditional family to gain her hand in marriage, but old secrets and scandal could change their lives forever. Reprint..

In the conclusion of the Big Stone Gap trilogy, Ave Maria faces unexpected upheavals and changes that test her faith, conscience, generosity, and understanding as her daughter, Etta, confronts the perils and choices of adulthood, her friends in Big Stone Gap deal with major life changes of their own, and her husband sets out to reinvent his life. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

In the conclusion of the Big Stone Gap trilogy, Ave Maria faces unexpected upheavals and changes that test her faith, conscience, generosity, and understanding as her daughter, Etta, confronts the perils and choices of adulthood, her friends in Big Stone Gap deal with major life changes of their own, and her husband sets out to reinvent his life. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Ambitious teen Nella Castelluca, the daughter of a hard-working family from a small Italian village in Pennsylvania, aspires to live in genteel society far from the rigors of farm life, a dream that is compromised when a poet she loves disappears under scandalous circumstances and then returns just before Nella's marriage to another man. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.

The arrival of Rufus McSherry, a handsome painter, who arrives in a New Jersey town at the behest of Bartolomeo di Crespi, an interior decorator assigned to the Our Lady of Fatima church, breathes new life into the old church but also the women of the town and the town's devout. By the author of Big Stone Gap. 120,000 first printing.