Retti Spaghetti is the new born son of Antonio Amberetti-Scola and artist Leanora Lantana. (Tony and Lea). He joins his adopted sister Nicola, and dob, Lucy.This book is next in the saga after "Sea Smoke", "The Lobster Pot Wars" and "Bellaluna." Tony now owns several boat yards. Lea continues to paint and care for their much loved children and life appears idyllic in the old fishing town of Marblehead by the sea when a criminal from the past in Italy enters their placid, peaceful existence, kidnapping Nicola and Retti and demanding an enormous ransom. Lea''s lawyer friend, Sylvia, athough busy on an unrelated case involving murder in Boston''s Back Bay, enlists her detective friend, Skip O''Halloran. to help find the missing children. Four murders take place on Old Burial Hill, the oldest cemetery in the country. To top it all off, Lea and Tony and several peacocks host a disastrous clambake! (Recipes from their Marblehead kitchen are included in the book.)Original cover photograph by Liz Hamilton McDonald.

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Literature & Fiction

Hamilton, Anna

Contemporary

AuthorHouse

In Knights for Nicola, (Lea and Tony's adopted Italian daughter), she is spending time at Lake Como in Italy with Count Pierangelo Dinapoli, his wife, Camilla, their twin sons Leonid and Louis, and their little sister Margarita. Their pet monkey, Pepe, charms Nicola from being too homesick for Lucy. The Countess's maid is found dead in their Koi fish pond on the expansive estate. Detectives brought in to solve the case unravel a series of murders in the small village. At 16, Nicola meets her future husband and falls completely in love. In Waltzing Wallabies, Lea and Brian travel to Manley Beach, Australia to visit Nora, Lea's daughter, her Aborigine husband, Rod and their children. They soon become embroiled in a series of murders and mystery at the School for handicapped children near Sydney where Nora teaches. Exotic recipes abound in both settings of Italy and Australia

Knights for Nicola

Boy is a story about a few weeks in the lives of Hugh and Betty Roberts, an elderly couple living alone on their family farm in Iowa. They are buried deep in the grief over the loss of their only child and struggling to hang onto the only life they have ever known when dementia sneaks in. An unusual visitor brings a welcome distraction and reprieve just before Thanksgiving. Join this couple and a few unforgettable characters as they prepare to share in a memorable and much needed Thanksgiving gathering at the old couple's farm. What transpires is credited to friendship, love, and the relentless power of hope. Directly or indirectly, we are reminded of what really matters on this brief walk we call life.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Willow River Press

Boy is a story about a few weeks in the lives of Hugh and Betty Roberts, an elderly couple living alone on a family farm in Iowa. They are buried deep in grief over the loss of their only child and struggling to hang onto the only life they have ever known when Dementia sneaks in. But an unusual visitor brings a welcome distraction and reprieve just before Thanksgiving.Join this couple and other unforgettable characters as they prepare to share in a memorable and much needed Thanksgiving gathering at the old couple's farm. What transpires is credited to Friendship, love and the relentless power of hope. Directly or indirectly we are all reminded of what matters on this brief walk we call life.Readers of all ages will long remember Boy.

Boy: A journey of love, friendship and little white lies, discovered while in the fight against the monster Dementia

Genre Fiction

Independently published

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Knights for Nicola

Boy

Boy: A journey of love, friendship and little white lies, discovered while in the fight against the monster Dementia