naples (italy)

Teenage Giovanna's face was pretty as a child's, but now she has become a spiteful adolescent with often an ugly scowl. She does not know who she is anymore, so she sets out into the two halves of her city of Naples--the heights, where there is the appearance of refinement; and the depths and all its vanity and excess--in order to find herself, if she can.

"When their great-aunt comes to live with Alfie and his older sister Emilia, they learn that food can not only take you places but also bring you back home. In the first book in the series, Alfie and Emilia find themselves magically transported to Naples"--Provided by publisher.

Alvina Houghton is coming of age just as her widowed father's business is failing. Desperate to regain his fortune and secure his daughter's future, Alvina's father buys a theater. But when Alvina finds herself drawn to Ciccio, a traveling performer her father hired, she flees with him to Naples, leaving her safe world behind.

In nineteen fifties Italy, Elena and Lila learn to rely on each other as they are growing up in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, but their beautiful friendship is not always a shelter from hardship.

"When their great-aunt comes to live with Alfie and his older sister Emilia, they learn that food can not only take you places but also bring you back home. In the first book in the series, Alfie and Emilia find themselves magically transported to Naples"--Provided by publisher.

Sixteen-year-old Vincenzo Soldari gathers a ragtag crew of children and outsiders left in the bombed out city of Naples to mount an attack against the invading forces of Hitler.

Sixteen-year-old Vincenzo Soldari gathers a ragtag crew of children and outsiders left in the bombed out city of Naples to mount an attack against the invading forces of Hitler.

A sixteen-year-old boy, on summer holiday on an island off Naples in the 1950s, becomes obsessed with a mysterious, slightly older girl who teaches him what it meant to be a Jew under German domination, and sparks him to take action against the Germans who have once against invaded the Bay of Naples--this time as tourists.

In 1889, in Naples, Italy, Raffaele Esposito prepares a special pizza for the queen. Based on a true story. Includes a recipe.