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Franco Bernini
The Throne
This meticulously researched and brilliantly told historical novel, the first of a planned trilogy, recounts the enigmatic life of Niccolò Machiavelli, revealing the complex man behind the infamous political strategist. -
Piero Boitani
A New Sublime
Boitani’s presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. -
Adélaïde Bon
The Little Girl on the Ice Floe
When Adélaïde’s parents find her mute and unable to explain why she is crying, they bring her to the police station and file a complaint against “X” for sexual assault. Adélaïde grows up without showing any outward signs of damage. -
Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo De Cataldo
The Night of Rome
Sharp, dark, and taut, The Night of Rome is fiction that sails dangerously close to the wind of current events. -
Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo De Cataldo
Suburra
In Ostia, a depressed coastal settlement twenty miles from the powerful and corrupt city of Rome, a mighty local crime family, the Mafia, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for a billion-dollar payoff. -
Shannon Bowring
In a Distant Valley
Both a love letter and a window into the rural places that have shaped many, In a Distant Valley sets the stage for a final act to play out across a deep winter in snowy Maine. -
Shannon Bowring
Where the Forest Meets the River
Return to Dalton as Shannon Bowring draws another stunningly human portrait of small town America. -
Shannon Bowring
The Road to Dalton
From debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard Russo calls, “measured, wise, and beautiful”. -
Kazimierz Brandys
Rondo
In Rondo, a modern classic of European literature now available for the first time in quality paperback, Brandys gives us a compelling wartime narrative and an eloquent statement about political and personal exile suffused with a passionate, anecdotal warmth. One of the century’s great literary figures,... -
Fernand Braudel
Out of Italy
Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean.