DescriptionNear Mount Etna in Sicily, on a hillside rising precipitosly above the small terracotta-roofed town below, sits a perfectly proportioned house built in golden stone, the most beatiful in Taormina. A House in Sicily is a homage to Casa Cuseni, written by the Englishwoman who has loved and cared for it for over 50 years.
DescriptionEarly one morning, Silvio Lupanello, a big shot in the village of Vigata, is found dead in his car with his pants around his knees. The car happens to be parked in a rough part of town frequented by prostitutes and drug dealers, and as the news of his death spreads, the rumors begin. Enter Inspector Salvo Montalbano, Vigata's most respected detective, who has his doubts about the way Silvio died. With his characteristic mix of humor, cynicism, compassion, and love of good food, Montalbano goes into battle against the powerful and the corrupt who are determined to block his path to the real killer. Andrea Camilleri's novels starring Inspector Montalbano have become an international sensation in eight languages. This funny and fast-paced Sicilian thriller will be a delicious discovery for mystery aficionados and fiction lovers alike. Translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
DescriptionWhen an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator, and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano, with his keen insight into human nature, suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and occasional prostitute, whose young son steals other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life, as well as Montalbano's, is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue. Translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
DescriptionItalian Conversation is a three-hour, all-audio course which you can use at any time, whether you want a quick refresher before a trip or whether you are a complete beginner. The 20 dialogues will teach you the Italian you will need to speak and understand, without getting bogged down with grammar. The course also, uniquely, teaches skills for listening and understanding. This is the perfect accompaniment to Beginner's Italian and Italian in the Teach Yourself range.
DescriptionIn the summer of 1943, the Allies are poised to invade Sicily. Yet the price will be high in blood and time unless the island people rise in revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Only the Mafia can command an uprising, and Mafia supreme Antonio Luca hates everything American. Someone persuasive is needed to help him change his mind, and they don?t come more persuasive than the man they call Lucky Luciano. But Luciano is serving 30-50 years in Great Meadow Penitentiary in New York State.
DescriptionThe Smell of the Night, the sixth mystery in the international best-selling series featuring Inspector Montalbano, brings the shady shenanigans of late twentieth-century international finance to small-town Sicily. A "financial wizard" entrusted with the savings of nearly half the retirees of Vigata mysteriously disappears with the money and a young man who worked for him. In a rather atypical case for Montalbano, the inspector finds himself initially shut out of the investigation by the ever hostile commissioner Bonetti-Alderighi, and forced to work from the shadows. Translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
