"Moving between the Second World War and the present, an exhilarating debut novel in the vein of Jennifer Robson, Kate Quinn, and Natasha Lester, about two women, decades apart, whose fates converge in Florence, Italy. Only fourteen, Stella Infuriati is the youngest member of her town's resistance network during World War II. Risking torture and death, she relays messages, supplies, and weapons to partisan groups in the Tuscan hills. Her parents have...

"Orkise is loose. The snake god of plague has been awakened by Lucia del Maino, daughter of the recently overthrown duke of Milan. With the venomous magic of Orkise at her command, Lucia plots to marry then murder the current ruler of Milan, Carlo Sforza--otherwise know as the Wolf of the North. Other trouble is brewing as well. Sforza's bastard son, having conquered the Byzantine empire, has a score to settle with his father. Additionally, the terrifying...

"International bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition. In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra's intelligence won him entry to a renowned school even though he was only the son...

Now the very youngest readers can enjoy this beloved story about the Italian "Grandma Witch" and her magic pasta-making pot.