As Encore Valentine begins, snow falls like glitter over Tuscany at the wedding of Valentines grandmother. Meet the Roncalli and Angelini families, artisans of handcrafted shoes in Greenwich Village since 1903. Valentines dreams are dashed when her grandmother names her brother and nemesis Alfred her partner at Angelini Shoes. A long-distance romance with the sexy Gianluca who lives in remote Tuscany seems impossible so Valentine tries to devote herself to her work. A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes Valentine to Buenos Aires, where she finds a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal. Once unearthed, the truth rocks the Roscallis, but Valentine is determined to hold her family together. More so, she longs to create one of her own, but is torn between a past love that nurtured her, and a new one that promises to sustain her. Sayfa Sayısı: 352 Baskı Yılı: 2010 Dili: İngilizce Yayınevi: Harper Perennial

Brava Valentine

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 Heaven 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."

All the Stars in the Heavens

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Then Came You

1970’li yılların sonlarında, Virginia’nın Appalachian Dağları’nın eteklerinde yer alan Big Stone Gap adlı küçük kasaba, eyaletin en tuhaf insanlarına ev sahipliği yapmaktadır. 35 yaşındaki Ave Maria, kasabanın evde kalan eczacısıdır. 1978 yılında, aslında olduğunu sandığı kişi olmadığını anlayan Maria, o zamana kadar yakın dostları ve birçok hobisi ile mutlu bir hayat yaşamıştır. Uzun süredir saklı kalan bir aile sırrını öğrenen Maria’yı, maceralı bir yolculuk beklemektedir.