Old Puglia: A Portrait of South Eastern Italy (Armchair Traveller)
By: Desmond Seward
3.57
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Puglia is the heel of Italy that stretches down from the spur of the Italian boot. Littered across …
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1. Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
By: Mark Rotella , Carlo Levi , Frances Frenaye
4.11
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi―a doctor, painter, philosophe… read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
- history
- travel
2. Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes, the Kings, and Garibaldi's Rebels in the Struggle to Rule Modern Italy
By: David I. Kertzer
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Based on a wealth of documents long buried in the Vatican archives, Prisoner of the Vatican tells t… read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
- history
- european history
3. What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality
By: Daniel A. Helminiak
3.97
Format: 570 pages,
Top scholars such as Yale history professor John Boswell and New Testament professors L. William Co… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Gli zii di Sicilia
By: Leonardo Sciascia
4.17
Format: None pages,
Pubblicato nel 1958 nei <>di Vittorini, poi di nuovo nel 1961 con l'aggiunta di un importante racco… read more
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- italy
5. Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History
By: John Julius Norwich
3.81
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbi… read more
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- italy
- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- european history
6. The Stone Boudoir: Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicily
By: Theresa Maggio
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this sparkling book, Theresa Maggio takes us on a journey in search of Sicily's most remote and … read more
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7. Siracusa
By: Delia Ephron
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends … read more
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8. A House in Sicily
By: Denis Mack Smith , None
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This is the captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the "most beautiful … read more
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9. That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story
By: Marlena de Blasi
4.42
Format: 288 pages,
"From de Blasi (The Lady in the Palazzo, 2007, etc.), a fragrant tale of life and love in the mount… read more
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10. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
By: James H. Cone
4.51
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
11. Fragrant Harbor
By: John Lanchester
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is 1935, and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with a longing for adventure, buys himself a cheap … read more
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12. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
- history
- european history
13. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
By: Beth Moore
4.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more
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- nonfiction
"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
14. The Lying Life of Adults
By: Elena Ferrante
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was u… read more
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- italy
"I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels."-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults
"As coisas feias que você não conta se tornam cães que comem a sua cabeça enquanto você dorme."-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults
"...the dead are objects that have broken, a television, the radio, the mixer, and the best thing is to remember them as they were when they were working, because the only acceptable tomb is memory."-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults
"I’m still fascinated by how our brains elaborates strategies and carries them out without revealing them. To say that it’s a matter of the unconscious seems to me approximate, maybe even hypocritical."-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults
15. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- nonfiction
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
16. Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
By: Russ Ramsey
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we un… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The pattern in Scripture is that of God working through unlikely servants for the glory of his name and the spread of the gospel."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"The more we engage with beauty, the more we train our hearts to anticipate finding beauty, until eventually, everywhere we go, we're looking for it."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"Many artists took their easels and paints outside and captured what they saw. Vincent wanted to capture what he felt as he tried to remember what he saw."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"Vincent didn't see the world as a collection of plain, unaffected objects. He saw the unfolding drama of the human story, which to him was a heartbreaking tale."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
17. The Mitford Affair
By: Marie Benedict
3.70
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict—she'll have to choose: her country or her sis… read more
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18. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By: Nijay K. Gupta
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
19. The Sicilian Inheritance
By: Jo Piazza
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted i… read more
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20. Old Puglia: A Portrait of South Eastern Italy (Armchair Traveller)
By: Desmond Seward
3.57
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Puglia is the heel of Italy that stretches down from the spur of the Italian boot. Littered across … read more
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- italy
- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- european history
21. Looking for Garibaldi: Travels on Three Continents in the Footsteps of a Hero
By: John Petralia
3.76
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Can following the footsteps of one of history’s most colorful figures lead to an unusual travel adv… read more
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