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	Eyewitness Guide Sicily  •   Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES This superb guide to Sicily features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a synopsis of the island's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (ITL468, $23.00)
	On Persephone's Island  •  Mary Taylor Simeti CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1986 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES A richly detailed and personal portrait of Sicily by an American writer who settled on the island with her Sicilian husband in 1962 and stayed for 20 years. Strong on the delights of rural life, her book takes the form of a yearlong journal, capturing the spirit of the people and land. It provides a deep understanding of daily life and traditions -- an excellent antidote to persistent myths of mafiosos and backwards peasants. (ITL03, $14.95)
	Midnight in Sicily, On Art, Food, History, Travel and La Cosa Nostra  •  Peter Robb TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES • FAVORITE A vivid report from Italy's glorious, corrupt and troubled south, this book combines interviews, journalism and essays on Sicilian history and culture. Robb focuses, in part, on the career of Giulio Andreotti, the seven-time prime minister of Italy recently accused of Mafia associations. (ITL74, $16.00)
	The Leopard  •  Giuseppe Di Lampedusa LITERATURE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES • FAVORITE His only book, published posthumously, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa's tale perfectly evokes the dying world of privilege and tradition on a Sicilian estate in the heady days of independence. Burt Lancaster starred as the world-weary Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, in Viscont's terrific film version. (ITL11, $14.95)
	Sicily Map  •   World Mapping Project MAP A convenient and up-to-date, double-sided map of Sicily at a scale of 1:200,000, featuring the excellent cartography of the World Mapping Project. Printed on water- and tear-resistant paper. (ITL20, $9.99)

	Blue Guide Sicily  •  Ellen Grady   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide to the ancient history and culture of Sicily featuring good maps and site plans of archaeological sites throughout the island. (ITL125, $26.95)
	Michelin Green Guide Sicily  •   Michelin Travel Publications   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Organized alphabetically and featuring Michelin's famous star ratings, this venerable driving guide includes excellent local maps and site plans, suggested tours and visitor sites. (ITL795, $21.95)
	Between Salt Water and Holy Water, A History of Southern Italy  •  Tommaso Astarita   • HISTORY  •  Astarita captures the fanfare, rivalry and changing fortunes of Sicily from antiquity through Norman, Spanish and Bourbon rule to unification and the 20th century. (ITL597, $15.95)
	Excellent Cadavers, The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic  •  Alexander Stille   • HISTORY  •  This fast-paced book is a gripping account of corruption in Italy. The author offers an utterly absorbing account of the assassination of two top anti-Mafia prosecutors in 1992. (ITL58, $16.00)
	Sicily, Three Thousand Years of Human History  •  Sandra Benjamin   • HISTORY  •  With clarity and authority, Benjamin traces the rich legacy of the Greeks and Romans, Vandals and Goths, Arab traders, Normans, Bourbons and others who have contributed to the multi-faceted history of the kingdom of Sicily. (ITL731, $19.95)
	The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily  •  Fausto Longo  •  Lorena Jannelli  •  Luca Cerchiai   • HISTORY  •  An engaging history of the Western Greek colonies in Sicily and southern Italy in the eight and seventh centuries B.C., featuring 240 magnificent color illustrations, maps and a site-by-site review of major archaeological sites. (ITL751, $39.95)
	The Italians  •  Luigi Barzini   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The definitive portrait of the Italian people, this is a classic, scholarly essay on the Italian character. Though first published in 1964, it's still worth reading for its insight, grace and wit. (ITL05, $16.00)
	The Sicilian Vespers, A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century  •  Steven Runciman   • HISTORY  •  A spellbinding history of the 13th-century Kingdom of Sicily. The massacre of the French at Palermo, known as the Sicilian Vespers, is the springboard for the author's sweeping depiction of the Mediterranean in the late 1200's. (ITL295, $19.99)
	Ancient Sicily, Monuments Past & Present  •  G. Messineo  •  E. Borgia   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  In this illuminating overview, ingenious overlays depict 17 important sites as they appear today and how they may have appeared in the past. (ITL733, $29.95)
	Archaeology of Ancient Sicily  •  R. Ross Holloway   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  A marvelously lucid, concise and comprehensive history of ancient civilizations and archaeology of the Mediterranean from the Paleolithic to the Romans. With ample illustrations, site diagrams and maps. (ITL521, $47.95)
	The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader  •  Lawrence Durrell  •  Clint Willis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Durrell's intoxicating reflections on Greece and the Mediterranean. With chapters on Corfu, Rhodes, Cyprus, Sicily, Delphi and Provence. (GRE186, $15.00)
	A Vittorini Omnibus  •  Elio Vittorini  •  Ernest Hemingway   • LITERATURE  •  These short novels by a modern master include Vittorini's classic tale of a sophisticated man who returns to his native village, In Sicily. (ITL10, $18.95)
	Sometimes the Soul, Two Novellas of Sicily  •  Gioia Timpanelli   • LITERATURE  •  Timpanelli reworks ancient Sicilian tales into two captivating modern novellas; one, "Ruesna, Not Quite Love" is a lyrical retelling of "Beauty and the Beast", set against the rustic backdrop of rural Sicily. (ITL113, $15.00)
	The Ruby in Her Navel, A Novel of Love and Intrigue in the 12th Century  •  Barry Unsworth   • LITERATURE • NEW  •  Unsworth transports the reader to the 12th century in this richly imagined novel of love and intrigue set in Norman Sicily, where Christian knights, Anatolian belly dancers, Jews and Arabs mix and mingle. (ITL760, $14.95)
	The Shape of Water  •  Andrea Camilleri   • MYSTERY  •  The first installment in Camilleri's wildly popular Inspector Montalbano mysteries, nicely translated and shot through (pun intended) with not just memorable characters but also with Sicilian lore and politics. The series continues in eight best-selling installments, including The Patience of the Spider (ITL826, $13.00), which finds Montalbano aging not so gracefully but still animated by wine and women. (ITL528, $13.00)
	The Wine-Dark Sea  •  Leonardo Sciascia  •  Avril Bardoni  •  Alberto Mobilio   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of 13 stories, all set in the celebrated writer's native Sicily and featuring mafiosi, carabinieri and villagers. (ITL408, $12.95)

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