Лучшие книги Адрианы Триджиани

Впервые Энца и Чиро встретились еще детьми при очень печальных обстоятельствах, на фоне величавых итальянских Альп. Чиро – полусирота, который живет при женском монастыре, а Энца – старшая дочь в большой и очень бедной семье. Они не сетуют не судьбу и готовы к трудам и невзгодам, главное – не расставаться с близкими и с любимыми и такими прекрасными горами, которые способны залечить любые раны. Но судьба распорядится иначе – совсем детьми оба вынуждены покинуть родину и любимых людей, отправиться через океан в непостижимую и пугающую Америку. Так начинается история их жизней, полная совершенно неожиданных поворотов, искушений, невзгод,…

Эта семейная сага начинается в золотую эпоху биг-бэндов, когда джаз в Америке звучал везде и всюду, в 1930-е. Это история талантливого парня и не менее талантливой девушки из простых итальянских семей. Оба мечтают связать свою жизнь с музыкой и добиться успеха. Чичи живет в большой и дружной семье на берегу океана, вместе с сестрами она поет в семейном трио «Сестры Донателли», но если для сестер музыка – лишь приятное хобби, то Чичи хочет стать профессиональным музыкантом, петь, писать музыку и тексты песен. Саверио ушел из дома, когда ему было шестнадцать, и с тих пор он в свободном плавании, музыкальная одаренность, проникновенный голос и привлекательная внешность быстро сделали его любимцем публики, но ему пришлось пожертвовать многим – даже своим именем, и теперь его зовут Тони. Однажды Чичи и Тони встретятся на берегу океана, и с этого дня их судьбы будут тесно связаны, и связь эта с каждым годом будет становиться все сложней и запутанней. Амбиции, талант и одержимость музыкой всю жизнь будут и толкать их друг к другу, и отталкивать. «Жена Тони» – семейная эпопея длиною в семьдесят лет, пропитанная музыкой, смехом, слезами и обаянием. Любовь и верность, стремление к успеху и неудачи, шлягеры и гастроли, измены и прощение, потери близких и стойкость – всего этого будет в избытке у Тони, но прежде всего у его жены, обаятельной и прекрасной Чичи.

1949 год, в Филадельфии послевоенный бум. Компания Доминика Палаццини и его трех сыновей процветает. Их жизнь идеальна – дела идут в гору, жены их любят, в семье мир и покой. Но покой ли?.. Давняя ссора Доминика и его брата Майка разделила семью на два враждующих клана, и вражда эта вовсе не затухла с годами. Доминик и Майкл за 16 лет не перемолвились и словом. Ники уже тридцать, он правая рука своего дяди Доминика, но мечтает он о совсем иной жизни – о жизни на сцене, а пока тайком подрабатывает в местной театральной шекспировской труппе. И однажды ему придется сделать выбор: солидная, но обычная жизнь, какой ожидает от него семья, или…

Это история о Нью-Йорке 1950-х, о девушках, чьи "перчатки, как ночь, - становятся все длиннее". Лючия Сартори, красавица дочь преуспевающего бакалейщика итальянского происхождения, устраивается на работу помощницей модельера в роскошный магазин "Б.Олтман", расположенный в самом сердце Нью-Йорка, на Пятой авеню. Она обручена с другом детства, преданным ей Данте Де Мартино. Но, встретив прекрасного незнакомца, который обещает Лючии роскошную жизнь, известную ей только по страницам светской хроники, девушка порывает с Данте. Решая проблему выбора между обязанностями перед семьей и собственными желаниями, Лючия пытается найти себя. Изысканная,…

Known and loved around the world for her sweeping Big Stone Gap trilogy and the instant New York Times bestseller Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani returns to the charm and drama of small-town life with Queens of the Big Time. This heartfelt story of the limits and power of love chronicles the remarkable lives of the Castellucas, an Italian-American family, over the course of three generations.

In the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in the Bari region of Italy, on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, made a mass migration to the promised land of America. They settled in Roseto, Pennsylvania, and re-created their former lives in their new home–down to the very last detail of who lived next door to whom. The village’s annual celebration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel–or “the Big Time,” as the occasion is called by the young women who compete to be the pageant’s Queen–is the centerpiece of Roseto’s colorful old-world tradition.

The industrious Castellucas farm the land outside Roseto. Nella, the middle daughter of five, aspires to a genteel life “in town,” far from the rigors of farm life, which have taken a toll on her mother and forced her father to take extra work in the slate quarries to make ends meet. But Nella’s dreams of making her own fortune shift when she meets Renato Lanzara, the son of a prominent Roseto family. Renato is a worldly, handsome, devil-may-care poet who has a way with words that makes him irresistible. Their friendship ignites into a fiery romance that Nella is certain will lead to marriage. But Nella is not alone in her pursuit: every girl in town seems to want Renato. When he disappears without explanation, Nella is left with a shattered heart. Four years later, Renato’s sudden return to Roseto the night before Nella’s wedding to the steadfast Franco Zollerano leaves her and the Castelluca family shaken. For although Renato has chosen a path very different from Nella’s, they are fated to live and work in Roseto, where the past hangs over them like a brewing storm.

An epic of small-town life, etched in glorious detail in the trademark Trigiani style, The Queen of the Big Time is the story of a determined, passionate woman who can never forget her first love.

Если рядом с трупом обнаружен альбом с фотографиями убитых женщин, значит ли это, что покойный был серийным убийцей? – Очень позитивный роман о том, чего может добиться увлеченная идеей женщина, и о том, как делать обувь вручную. – Недавно экранизированная история писателя-«призрака», который пишет мемуары премьер-министра. – Рассказ о жизни Энцо – пса, чей хозяин мечтал стать автогонщиком.

«В погоне за тьмой»
Роберт Крейс
Несколько лет назад Элвис Коул помог доказать невиновность Лайонела Берда, подозреваемого в убийстве. Теперь того нашли мертвым. А рядом с трупом обнаружен альбом с фотографиями семи убитых женщин, одна из которых была жертвой преступления, в котором обвинялся Берд. Значит ли это, что Коул помог преступнику? Пришла пора раскрыть истину.

«Дорогая Валентина»
Адриана Триджани
Валентина Ронкалли – пылкая, слегка наивная молодая женщина с большим сердцем и золотыми руками. Она стремится стать дизайнером модной обуви. Ей никак не удается встретить мужчину своей мечты. И она должна спасти семейный бизнес от разорения. Только путешествие в Италию способно подсказать ей правильный путь.

«Призрак»
Роберт Харрис
Что делать, если тебя просят стать заменой мертвецу? Именно такой вопрос встал перед литератором, которого наняли написать мемуары Адама Ланга, бывшего премьер-министра Великобритании. Первый литературный обработчик утонул при загадочных обстоятельствах. И вот новый писатель-«призрак» понимает, что эта работа может стоить ему жизни.

«Гонки под дождем»
Гарт Стайн
Энцо – пес, который был свидетелем того, как его хозяин Денни Свифт влюбился и завел семью. Он видел и то, как Денни пытался стать автогонщиком. Но главное, Энцо был рядом в самые трудные моменты, когда Денни особенно нуждался в близком и преданном друге. А потом Энцо рассказал обо всем этом читателям.

Poignant, funny, warm, and red hot, Very Valentine is a wonderful treat for Adriana Trigiani fans—a “delightful” (Boston Globe), “romance-soaked novel” (Marie Claire) from much adored playwright, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and New York Times bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife, All the Stars in the Heavens and The Supreme Macaroni Company. The adventures of an extraordinary and unforgettable woman as she attempts to rescue her family’s struggling shoe business and find love at the same time, Very Valentine sweeps the reader from the streets of Manhattan to the picturesque hills of Italy. Here is yet another novel from the incomparable Trigiani that will steal your heart.

Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the novels of the New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. In Home to Big Stone Gap , she tells her most powerful story yet, full of humor and heart, wisdom and hope.

В сборник вошли 3 романа:
ДОРОГАЯ ВАЛЕНТИНА Андрианы Триджани.
Валентина Ронкалли - пылкая, слегка наивная молодая женщина с большим сердцем и золотыми руками. Она стремится стать дизайнером модной обуви. Ей никак не удается встретить мужчину своей мечты. И она должна спасти семейный бизнес от разорения. Только путешествие в Италию способно подсказать ей правильный путь.
САДОВЫЕ ЧАРЫ Сары Эддисон Аллен.
Все соседи знают, что женщины из семьи Уэверли не совсем обычны. У каждой свой, особый дар. Даже их дом и сад не похожи на другие. Но сестры Уэверли вовсе не считают себя особенными, просто они умеют угадывать любовь. Замечательный роман о волшебстве, подвластном тем, кто по-настоящему любит.
ПОДСОЛНУХ Ричарда Пол Эванса.
Из-за расторгнутой помолвки Кристин покидает свой комфортабельный дом в Дейтоне и отправляется с гуманитарной миссией в Перу. Встретившись с обездоленными детьми и их воспитателем, загадочным доктором Полом Куком, она понимает, что ее жизнь больше никогда не будет такой, как прежде. Волнующий роман о любви и надежде.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

People's Book of the Week

Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominee for Fiction

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.



Praise for All the Stars in the Heavens:

"Trigiani spins a tale of star-crossed lovers... A heartwarming tale of women's lives behind the movies." -Kirkus Reviews

"A thoroughly entertaining tale that brings Hollywood's golden age alive." -People

"A tinsel-trimmed treat for movie buffs and Trigiani fans alike." -Library Journal

New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani, beloved by millions of readers around the world for her humor, warmth, and captivating storytelling in the Big Stone Gap trilogy and Lucia, Lucia, takes on love, lust, tricky family dynamics, and

Matelda, the Cabrelli family’s matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother’s great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew. . . .

In the halcyon past, Domenica Cabrelli thrives in the coastal town of Viareggio until her beloved home becomes unsafe when Italy teeters on the brink of World War II. Her journey takes her from the rocky shores of Marseille to the mystical beauty of Scotland to the dangers of wartime Liverpool—where Italian Scots are imprisoned without cause—as Domenica experiences love, loss, and grief while she longs for home. A hundred years later, her daughter, Matelda, and her granddaughter, Anina, face the same big questions about life and their family’s legacy, while Matelda contemplates what is worth fighting for. But Matelda is running out of time, and the two timelines intersect and weave together in unexpected and heartbreaking ways that lead the family to shocking revelations and, ultimately, redemption.

Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book—Reunion Beach—these close friends and colleagues channeled their creativity, admiration, and grief into stories and poems that celebrate this remarkable woman and her abiding love for the Lowcountry of her native South Carolina—a land of beauty, history, charm, and Gullah magic she so brilliantly brought to life in her acclaimed novels.

From Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author, a sequel to Summer of ’69.

From Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author, comes a heartwarming, humorous interview from the hereafter with Pat Conroy and Dorothea Benton Frank, two beloved icons of Southern literature.

From Patti Callahan, bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis and Surviving Savannah, comes The Bridemaids, a story about a trip to the South Carolina beach.

From Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author, Mother and Child Reunion, a heartwarming story set under the warm South Carolina sun.

Reunion Beach also features letters, short stories, poems, and essays from:

Mary Norris, New York Times bestselling author and staff writer for The New Yorker
Cassandra King Conroy, bestselling and award-winning author of Tell Me A Story
Nathalie Dupree, James Beard Award-winning cookbook author
Marjory Wentworth, former Poet Laureate of South Carolina
Gervais Hagerty, author of In Polite Company
Jacqueline Bouvier Lee, Peter Frank, Victoria Peluso, and William Frank

Infused with Dorothea Benton Frank’s remarkable spirit, Reunion Beach is a literary homage and beautiful keepsake that keeps this dearly missed writer’s flame burning bright.

The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. At the turn of the last century, when Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. Without explanation, he leaves a bereft Enza behind. Soon, Enza's family faces disaster and she, too, is forced to go to America with her father to secure their future.
Unbeknownst to one another, they both build fledgling lives in America, Ciro masters shoemaking and Enza takes a factory job in Hoboken until fate intervenes and reunites them. But it is too late: Ciro has volunteered to serve in World War I and Enza, determined to forge a life without him, begins her impressive career as a seamstress at the Metropolitan Opera House that will sweep her into the glamorous salons of Manhattan and into the life of the international singing sensation, Enrico Caruso.
From the stately mansions of Carnegie Hill, to the cobblestone streets of Little Italy, over the perilous cliffs of northern Italy, to the white-capped lakes of northern Minnesota, these star-crossed lovers meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever.
Lush and evocative, told in tantalizing detail and enriched with lovable, unforgettable characters, The Shoemaker's Wife is a portrait of the times, the places and the people who defined the immigrant experience, claiming their portion of the American dream with ambition and resolve, cutting it to fit their needs like the finest Italian silk.
This riveting historical epic of love and family, war and loss, risk and destiny is the novel Adriana Trigiani was born to write, one inspired by her own family history and the love of tradition that has propelled her body of bestselling novels to international acclaim. Like Lucia, Lucia, The Shoemaker's Wife defines an era with clarity and splendor, with operatic scope and a vivid cast of characters who will live on in the imaginations of readers for years to come.

Born in the U.S.A....

American gals are taking liberties -- and pursuing happiness on their own terms -- in this star-studded story collection featuring the nation's red-hot women writers.

They've declared their independence!

Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes) learns "The Truth About Nigel" -- and the trouble with falling for an incognito Hollywood actor. Lauren Weisberger (The Devil Wears Prada) sends a single New Yorker on a backpacking trip halfway around the world -- where she sees her love life back home with new eyes -- in "The Bamboo Confessions." A harried mom with a hit novel crosses the pond in "My Great Brit Book Tour" by Adriana Trigiani (Lucia, Lucia), and turns a crumbling talk show appearance into a sweet success. Also uniting their talents in this free-spirited anthology are

JULIANNA BAGGOTT • CINDY CHUPACK • LYNDA CURNYN • QUINN DALTON • LAUREN HENDERSON • JUDI HENDRICKS • GRETCHEN LASKAS • CLAIRE LaZEBNIK • CHRIS MANBY • SARAH MLYNOWSKI • MELISSA SENATE • JILL SMOLINSKI • NANCY SPARLING • LAURA WOLF

It's 1978, and Ave Maria Mulligan is the thirty-five-year-old self-proclaimed spinster of Big Stone Gap, a sleepy hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She's also the local pharmacist, the co-captain of the Rescue Squad, and the director of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, the town's long-running Outdoor Drama. Ave Maria is content with her life of doing errands and negotiating small details-until she discovers a skeleton in her family's formerly tidy closet that completely unravels her quiet, conventional life. Suddenly, she finds herself juggling two marriage proposals, conducting a no-holds-barred family feud, planning a life-changing journey to the Old Country, and helping her best friend, the high-school band director, design a halftime show to dazzle Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed Hollywood movie star who's coming through town on a campaign stump with her husband, senatorial candidate John Warner.

Filled with big-time eccentrics and small-town shenanigans, Big Stone Gap is a jewel box of original characters, including sexpot Bookmobile librarian Iva Lou Wade; Fleeta Mullins, the chain-smoking pharmacy cashier with a penchant for professional wrestling; the dashing visionary Theodore Tipton; Elmo Gaspar, the snake-handling preacher; Jack MacChesney, a coal-mining bachelor looking for true love; and Pearl Grimes, a shy mountain girl on the verge of a miraculous transformation.

Comic and compassionate, Big Stone Gap is is the story of a woman who thinks life has passed her by, only to learn that the best is yet to come.

Read the book Pat Conroy called “the best Italian cookbook ever written by women from the American South,” now revised and updated with even more mouthwatering recipes and photographs.

Cooking with My Sisters, by New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani and her sister Mary Yolanda Trigiani, gives you a seat at the Trigiani and Bonicelli family tables. Featuring over eighty family recipes, some more than 150 years old, from Bari, the Veneto, the Italian Alps and their American hometown Big Stone Gap, Virginia, accompanied by family stories told with heart and gusto, Cooking with My Sisters is a book to treasure.

This warm, engaging, and easy-to-follow book will introduce both new and seasoned cooks to dishes including Penne Alla Roseto, Happy IBM (Italian-by-Marriage) Husband Salad, and the Tipsy Lady from Flicksville’s Ice Box Cake, all the while sharing stories and insights from family members like Grandmom Viola Trigiani, who was known to write her recipes in code to guard her culinary secrets closely, and Grandma Lucy Bonicelli, a soft-spoken woman who believed the dinner table was a respite and not a place to argue.

Cooking with My Sisters will inspire readers to try delectable, memorable dishes as they peer into the window of a home where the kitchen table was the center of the action, guests became family, and relationships were celebrated. As Rachael Ray says, “This collection fills the heart as full as the stomach! Mangia, y’all!”