For three generations of Dante women, food means love… From her restaurant on Boston's Salem Street, and from her own kitchen, Rose Dante has served countless meals and built a tightly knit community of customers, family and friends. Her daughter Toni tried to create her own life, outside that circle—only to return with her daughter when her marriage failed. Now that Vanessa's nearly grown, Toni must face the bitterness of the past in order to taste the sweetness of the future. But she can't make such a journey alone. She needs the guidance of a mother, of her family. She needs Rose's recipes for happiness, learned by trial and error over sixty years of marriage. Recipes that are sometimes difficult to follow, but like the perfect risotto al limone, are worth the effort. An unforgettable story of family and forgiveness, loyalty and love.

Across The Table / Dancing On Sunday Afternoons

Literature & Fiction

Cardillo, Linda

United States

HARLEQUIN)

Reading these words, written to her grandmotherdecades before, Cara Serafini finally learns the greatsecret, the triumph, of Giulia's life—the love she sharedwith her first husband, Paolo.It's a love that began when Giulia left the Italianvillage of her birth and came to New York, wherePaolo Serafini captured her heartand took herdancing on Sunday afternoons.And as Cara discovers, it's a love that's never ended—and never will.

Dancing On Sunday Afternoons

Harlequin Everlasting Love

Every Valentine's Day is a giftA day to celebrate your love--and the hope, the belief, that it will be everlasting.In Valentine's Daughters by Tara Taylor Quinn, it's a day to remember old promises...and make new ones.  In Our Day by Jean Brashear, it's when love gets a second chance.In The Hand That Gives the Rose by Linda Cardillo, it's the day love finally bridges two separate worlds.

The Valentine Gift: An Anthology

Quinn, Tara Taylor

Brashear, Jean

Harlequin Superromance

Harlequin Superromance Large Print

The discovery of long hidden love letters leads 35–year–old Cara Serafini on a journey to understanding her formidable grandmother Giulia Fiorillo. Dancing on Sunday Afternoons is Giulia's story‚ unfolding from memories rekindled by the letters Cara reads aloud to her. Born in a mountain village in southern Italy‚ Giulia arrives in a rough New York immigrant neighborhood at the beginning of the twentieth century‚ forced from the comforts and constrictions of her family by the fierce drive of her mother. In America‚ Giulia encounters an inhospitable culture‚ violence‚ shattering loss — and Paolo Serafini‚ the man who captured her heart and took her dancing on Sunday afternoons. As Cara discovers‚ it's a love that had never ended — and never will . . .

Dancing on Sunday Afternoons (Center Point Premier Romance)

Center Point Pub

From her restaurant on Boston's Salem Street, and from her own kitchen, Rose Dante has served countless meals and built a tightly knit community of customers, family, and friends. Her daughter Toni tried to create her own life, outside that circle -- only to return with her own daughter when her marriage failed.
Now that her daughter, Vanessa, is nearly grown, Toni must face the bitterness of the past in order to taste the sweetness of the future -- but she can't make such a journey alone. She'll need the guidance of her mother, and of her family. She needs Rose's recipes for happiness, learned by trial and error over sixty years of marriage -- recipes that are sometimes difficult to follow, but like the perfect risotto al limone, are worth the effort.

Across the Table

Romance

The islanders of Chappaquiddick have a saying: “Some come here to hide; others come to heal.” Above a crumbling sea wall at the isolated northern tip of Chappaquiddick Island sits a weathered cottage that gives shelter to Mae Keaney, who returns to the island at the beginning of World War II determined to distance herself from a past filled with pain and regret. Fiercely independent, she defies both the societal conventions of the island and its unforgiving natural world until a catastrophic fire threatens her livelihood, the Boat House Café. After reluctantly accepting help from a Wampanoag tribal member, she forms an uneasy alliance that leads her to an understanding of the wisdom of the “People of the First Light” and restores her faith in herself.

The Boat House Cafe: Book One of First Light

Genre Fiction

Bellastoria Press

Innisfree—the wild and isolated land on Chappaquiddick Island where Josiah Monroe grew up—was the only place where he felt he belonged. When his parents make the painful decision to sell the land, the loss of Innisfree catapults the entire family into a spiral of disconnection. Josiah abandons the island in anger, seeking to redefine himself and reconcile his mixed Wampanoag and Irish heritage in a wider, more dangerous world marked by the turmoil of the Vietnam War and the cultural upheaval of the Sixties. His family struggles not only with Josiah’s alienation but also with the debilitating polio suffered by his sister, Izzy. At the same time, the new owner of Innisfree becomes a force driving them apart. Ultimately, it is the power and magic of the island itself and the bonds of family that call them back to one another.

The Uneven Road: Book Two of First Light

“I had two husbands.” The discovery of long-hidden love letters leads New York caterer Cara Serafini on a journey to understanding her formidable grandmother, Giulia Fiorillo. Born in a mountain village in southern Italy, the spirited Giulia arrives at the age of sixteen in a rough New York immigrant neighborhood at the beginning of the twentieth century, forced from the comforts and constrictions of her family by the fierce drive of her mother. In America, Giulia faces not only an inhospitable culture but also violence in the family and in the streets, shattering loss and a love that shapes her whole life.

Dancing on Sunday Afternoons

“Innisfree binds us.” A new generation attempts to define where home is. When Lydia Hammond encourages her grieving granddaughter, Elizabeth Innocenti, to spend the summer at Innisfree, the family’s compound on Chappaquiddick Island, Elizabeth undertakes the journey from her home in Italy with her fourteen-year-old son, hoping to heal from the devastating loss of her husband after a long illness. Innisfree holds cherished memories of an idyllic childhood for Elizabeth. But when she arrives, she finds the place abandoned, derelict and as needy as she is. A reluctant steward, Elizabeth undertakes the task of making the cottage habitable until a hurricane forces her to take shelter with the Monroes, the Wampanoag family who once owned Innisfree. The fraught and tangled history between her grandmother and the Monroes pulls Elizabeth into a passionate search for Innisfree’s meaning for both families. At the same time, her challenging relationship with Caleb Monroe, the grandson of Mae and Tobias, forces her to confront her perception of who she is and what she wants. The final book in the award-winning First Light series.

Island Legacy: Book Three of First Light

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Across The Table / Dancing On Sunday Afternoons

Dancing On Sunday Afternoons

The Valentine Gift: An Anthology

The Valentine Gift: An Anthology

Dancing on Sunday Afternoons (Center Point Premier Romance)

Across the Table

The Boat House Cafe: Book One of First Light

The Uneven Road: Book Two of First Light

Dancing on Sunday Afternoons

Island Legacy: Book Three of First Light