Italian Short

Some people dream of a gentle retirement enjoying crochet or cricket, but for two sexagenarians, a more cadaverous future awaits… Newly retired teachers, Etta and Dora, take a walk along an old mule track connecting their mountain-top villages, each hoping to soothe the distress she feels at the paltry pension she will receive. Meeting at the fabled Witches’ Cave, they put aside their woes – the naked body of Sibilla, Castelmezzano’s beautiful witch, lies dead at the foot of the old oak tree. Did she plummet from the sky during a Sabbath flight as the superstitious locals are ...

With intriguing plots that will spark your imagination and keep you listening, Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners, Volume 2 will take your grasp of Spanish to the next level with key features to support and consolidate your progress. As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoying reading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language all without ever feeling overwhelmed.

A SWEET, SPICY, AND FUNNY VALENTINE'S DAY NOVELLA FROM THE USA TODAY & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR DIANA NIXON. My Valentine's Day couldn't be any worse: no date, no heart-shaped cards, one missed flight and tons of work to do. Great, just great. For a romance writer as I am, my personal life looks like a disaster. My only boyfriends are fictional. I've got only one coffee cup in the kitchen, and millions of readers who have no idea how terrible I am at everything they love about my books. Maybe that's why meeting Angelo Moretti turned out to be a pleasant bonus to my Italian book tour...

Learn Italian the fun way! Thirteen creative short stories to learn Italian! Enjoy the process of learning, don’t beat yourself up. You don’t need to listen to boring audiobooks anymore. The captivating nature of story makes learning fun and easy. Let these stories be your guide to Italian culture. This audiobook is loaded with simple sentences, practical scenarios, and common phrases every student of a second language would need to know.

Prima di andare a Roma ci sono molte cose da fare, da preparare e da conoscere. Questa breve guida in audio ti racconta le storie della città che stai per visitare e ti immerge nelle sue atmosfere. Attraverso le tracce, ascolterai una breve storia della città, esplorerai la struttura urbana e i metodi di trasporto più comuni, conoscerai le più importanti attrazioni e i più famosi monumenti che attirano i turisti e avrai anche modo di capire come vivono gli abitanti.

If you are looking for simple ways to make your life more chic, sexy, and simple, this is the book for you. Inside this guide to the good life, you will find: Ways to imbue everything in your life with elegance and simplicity without going broke. How to elevate your daily habits and rituals to create an effortlessly chic life. Put into place chic and simple structures and systems that give you more time to live the luxurious life you dream about. You have the power to live an effortlessly chic life. With only a few adjustments and tweaks, you can make your life as effortlessly chic as you ...

Pablo Neruda è il poeta dell'amore e dell'impegno civile, uno dei più importanti letterati di lingua spagnola. Il poeta che "intingeva la penna nel sangue, invece che nell'inchiostro", ha vinto il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura e altri riconoscimenti internazionali, numerosi paesi e istituzioni lo hanno ricoperto di onori. In questo ritratto parleremo di lui al presente, perché la sua vita è da tempo leggenda e la sua poesia è eterna.

This collection includes three comprehensive Italian books in one. Not only will you learn grammar but you'll also increase comprehension and grow your Italian vocabulary while enjoying yourself....

Italia Style If you are looking for simple ways to add a little glamour and sexy, effortless chic to your world, this is the book for you. Inside this guide to sexy Italian style and glamor, you will find: Ways to inject that earthy Italian sexiness into your life. How to inject a love of life into your everyday activities Ideas to make your life more glamorous without leaving home or spending more money. You can imbue each moment and each day with the sexiness and glamour with just a few small change. You can infuse your life, home, and wardrobe with that extra something that exudes ...

We have compiled 50 Italian stories along with their translations, providing new Italian speakers with the necessary tools to begin effectively studying how to set a meeting, how to check into a hotel, and even what to say during an emergency! Our Italian dialogues get straight to the point, saving you precious time. There’s no benefit learning words and phrases you will never actually use! If you want to learn Italian quickly and have a ton of fun along the way, obviously, this audiobook is for you!

L'invecchiamento è un processo a cui nessuno può sfuggire, tuttavia è possibile arrivare a vivere cent'anni e anche di più in un ottimo stato di salute, sia fisica che mentale. Inoltre con un corretto stile di vita si può prevenire l'insorgere di malattie o problematiche determinate da fattori esterni alla propria predisposizione genetica. Con questo audiolibro apprenderai le strategie alimentari, di esercizio fisico e benessere mentale per vivere a lungo e in salute. Invecchiare così può davvero essere una fase piacevole e ricca di nuove opportunità: con il giusto stile di vita e il rispetto del proprio corpo, ognuno potrà vivere una lunga vita, nel migliore dei modi.

Real Italian people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken Italian in the process.

Hot Mr. Scrooge is my neighbor. Hope The man loathes Christmas. What person doesn’t warm up to the best holiday of the year? The cabin I purchased mentioned it needed light work, not a gut renovation. Looks nothing like the picture. The brooding beast next door said he’d help spruce up the place if it will get me to leave him alone. Deal. Because who wants to be around the Grinch longer than they have to? Even if he’s tall. Has a gorgeous face you can stare at all day. And a body you’d love to mount on your sleigh repeatedly. Then I wondered could I help Mr. Non-Christmas ...

From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a leading figure of the Inquisition, is a demonic, scheming monk with no qualms about the task, whether it entails abduction, torture - or even murder.

She thinks it’s a marriage of convenience, but I’ve been planning it for a decade. Wrong place, wrong time—or so Francesca thought. She doesn’t know that I’m the one that poisoned her husband. She doesn’t realize that I’m the one that hired the men to attack her. She just thinks it’s a coincidence that I was there to save her. Then half a dozen threatening notes show up at her front door. Someone knows her deepest darkest secret and they’re going to go to the cops. But if she puts aside her pride and marries me, I can protect her. Francesca thinks it’s the only solution....

Riuniti in raccolta dallo stesso Buzzati questi racconti brevi rappresentano una vera "summa" del mondo poetico dello scrittore, uno dei maestri nella narrativa italiana contemporanea.

My parents sold me like a prized possession. They called it an arranged marriage. I call it a prison sentence. Carlo is everything I fear: cruel, powerful, and relentless. If he finds me, I’m as good as his. So I ran, leaving behind the chains of my family’s so-called honor. But freedom comes with a price. Now, Costantino Bianchi is hunting me down. He’s the Bianchi family’s bounty hunter—a man who never misses his mark. But there’s something different about him. He’s dark and dangerous, but when he looks at me, I see something else: desire. He should drag me back to Carlo. ...

The Calabrian Coast books are standalone stories that intertwine with recurring characters. Camillo runs a popular café on Altavicia’s main square. Giada runs an equally popular café across the square. They have both entered Altavicia’s Best Café competition. Scarred by his father’s death, Camillo’s greatest wish is to escape the Calabrian seaside village and return to his beloved London, where his family was last together and happy. Abandoned by her parents, Giada’s greatest wish is to earn her nonna’s love. The competition trophy is the ticket to both their dreams, but only...

By going through six Italian stories revolving around common, everyday activities, you will expand your vocabulary with words you will use often, along with learning more in-depth grammar by familiarizing yourself with these stories. Each story tackles a fairly mundane task - grocery shopping or visiting a dog park for example - and in using these settings, this book will allow you the opportunity to hear these words in action, thus making it easier for you to incorporate the new words into not only your vocabulary but seamlessly into the conversation.

Gaio Giulio Cesare è il personaggio più famoso della storia di Roma antica, nonché uno dei più noti condottieri di tutti i tempi. In suo onore vennero chiamati "Cesare" gli imperatori di Roma, gli imperatori tedeschi e gli zar russi. Eppure Cesare non fu mai imperatore o re. Nel corso degli ultimi, tempestosi anni della Roma repubblicana, fu cinque volte console, pontefice massimo per quasi vent'anni e dittatore.