The story of Giovanni, the Sicilian boy getting acquainted with Count Albert and becoming his slave and going afterwards to Norway and back again to Sicily, Taormina, to Baron von Goede.
The story of... More > Khabun, the tamil youth whom Ramon Gandarian and later on his son José love
The story of Hendrik, the blue eyed boy who joined the childrens crusade and lands in Ardez, where he meets Knight Koni of Ardez< Less
The story of Giovanni, the Sicilian boy getting acquainted with Count Albert and becoming his slave and going afterwards to Norway and back again to Sicily, Taormina, to Baron von Goede.
The story of... More > Khabun, the tamil youth whom Ramon Gandarian and later on his son José love
The story of Hendrik, the blue eyed boy who joined the childrens crusade and lands in Ardez, where he meets Knight Koni of Ardez< Less
"GRATUITY" Contemporary Novel. A great love story takes place within Thomas Jefferson's wine country in central Virginia, during the late 1970s. Jeremy, the maitre d' of an acclaimed French... More > restaurant and escapee from an East Coast professorship, falls in love with Elizabeth, a driven painter and student at nearby University of Virginia. With sharp humor, insight, and naturalistic detail cantankerous characters play across the stage of the dynamic restaurant. Exciting drama reveals the complex personalities of a small, southern town and its metropolitan exiles. The romantic artists and writers finally define a burgeoning art movement. Taormina deftly portrays his characters with the intensity of these halcyon days, showing the milieu of one of our renowned creative centers: Charlottesville, Virginia. "Gratuity" transcends the idea of monetary exchange to project a symbol of grace and achievement for anyone at a dining or writing table. Memorable fiction!< Less
"GRATUITY" Contemporary Novel. A great love story takes place within Thomas Jefferson's wine country in central Virginia, during the late 1970s. Jeremy, the maitre d' of an acclaimed French... More > restaurant and escapee from an East Coast professorship, falls in love with Elizabeth, a driven painter and student at nearby University of Virginia. With sharp humor, insight, and naturalistic detail cantankerous characters play across the stage of the dynamic restaurant. Exciting drama reveals the complex personalities of a small, southern town and its metropolitan exiles. The romantic artists and writers finally define a burgeoning art movement. Taormina deftly portrays his characters with the intensity of these halcyon days, showing the milieu of one of our renowned creative centers: Charlottesville, Virginia. "Gratuity" transcends the idea of monetary exchange to project a symbol of grace and achievement for anyone at a dining or writing table. Memorable fiction!< Less
"SHARED LIVES." This collection of 13 dynamic stories presents the author’s most recent short fiction. Tales show variations on lives of a dozen or so couples with complex insights... More > into all of our “shared lives.” Fictions include much humor, adult sentiments, love stories sassy and sincere, most in extended scene or “dialogue” treatment. These stories stretch not only our imaginations, but our mind's possibility about what kind of relationships we might have, how our love or intensity about life might become more centered, increased or "fraught with care," in the sense of interacting with real people. Some of the voices, with punchy dialogue and the minimalist prose, seem as if you're in the next room, or overhearing your neighbors from a porch or cafe. The book is a "fast read," but stories stay with you a long time. Professional writing by one of America’s literary authors. Worth the effort of discovery!< Less
"SHARED LIVES." This collection of 13 dynamic stories presents the author's most recent short fiction. Tales show variations on lives of a dozen or so couples with complex insights into... More > all of our "shared lives." Fictions include much humor, adult sentiments, love stories sassy and sincere, most in extended scene or "dialogue" treatment. These stories stretch not only our imaginations, but our mind's possibility about what kind of relationships we might have, how our love or intensity about life might become more centered, increased or "fraught with care," in the sense of interacting with real people. Some of the voices, with punchy dialogue and the minimalist prose, seem as if you're in the next room, or overhearing your neighbors from a porch or cafe. The book is a "fast read," but stories stay with you a long time. Professional writing by one of America's literary authors. Worth the effort of discovery!< Less
Leccius è un albero saggio venuto da molto lontano per salvare la natura e gli animali del nostro pianeta. I suoi racconti vi terranno compagnia, vi insegneranno l'amore e il rispetto per ogni... More > creatura vivente e per il verde che ci circonda.All'interno bellissime illustrazioni in bianco e nero di Serena Pieri.< Less
In the book there is a selection of poems about Sicily by anglophone writers. Among the most well knownn we can list Wilde,D.H. Lawrence, Dickinson, Shelley. They relate some interesting aspects of... More > Sicily even if some of them didn't visit the island. There are poems about the myths of Arethusa and Enceladus, the volcano Etna with its destructive magma, the sicilian landscape with its flowers and trees, important Sicilian towns like Catania with its monks, Taormina that smells of almond blossom, Syracuse with its greek history and Palermo with its arab dome. The reader will be transported to this secret land and will discover the poetic meaning of this mysterious island that only poets can explain.< Less
Il volume raccoglie oltre alla biografia dell'autore, l'esperienza siciliana e gli influssi dell'isola nei futuri romanzi di DHL. Sono stati inseriti il racconto Sun ambientato in Sicilia, il primo... More > capitolo di Sea and Sardinia che raccoglie le memorie dello scrittore a Taormina, le poesie scritte a Fontana Vecchia sulla frutta, sui fiori e sugli animali, chiude il volume l'introduzione di "Little Novels of Sicily", ovvero note su Verga scritte da Lawrence nella traduzione delle novelle dello scrittore siciliano.< Less
Calendar 2013. Visions of Italy including; Rome, Vatican City, Sicily, and Taormina. Produced by national award winning photojournalist, Michael Fernandez.
