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Her father left her a house in Palermo. And a ledger someone would kill to find. After years away, Elena comes back to Palermo with her son Luca to close her father's inheritance. But in his study a binder has been moved, a book is missing, and officer Vitale — who knows more than he says — is playing a dangerous double game. In the heat of the Sicilian summer, Elena discovers that her family's silence has a price, and somebody has been paying it for years. A family-secrets mystery written for Italian learners at level B1-B2 (50% B1 / 50% B2 — the exact middle of the series ...

Learn Italian the way your brain loves: with a story you can't put down. Antoine says he is a French consultant on holiday in Salerno. His black notebook tells a different story. On the beach he meets Margherita, a girl trapped in a golden cage: a powerful father, an imposed engagement, a mother who died in circumstances never explained. As they grow closer, a black Mercedes watches from a distance... This is a real romantic thriller written especially for Italian learners at level B1-B2 (intermediate). No simplified "textbook stories": a true novel with short sentences, controlled grammar ...

Conversational Italian Audio Dialogue Practice Book, Volume 1, is filled with useful phrases for the Italian student. Essential Italian vocabulary and verb conjugation practice is provided, with examples that can be used in real-life situations. The English translation is given after each Italian phrase. In each chapter of the Audio Dialogue Practice Book, short Italian phrases are introduced first, and then included with exercises that focus on Italian verb conjugation.

Read Italian Without Guessing — Level B1.2 Complete your B1 Italian journey through story, context, and clarity. Il Grande Salto di Marco follows Marco at a crossroads: Buenos Aires, Elena’s school, Sofia’s baby, Nonno Giuseppe’s wisdom, and one question — what future should he choose? This sixth book in the Read Italian Without Guessing / Leggere l’italiano senza indovinare series is for intermediate learners who want to read Italian smoothly without stopping, guessing, or using a dictionary. No guessing. No dictionary. Just reading. With the interlinear method, English support...

Complete Your C1 Italian Journey Read Italian Without Guessing — Level C1.2 brings Marco into his thirties, where language, memory, love, and art become more complex. In Marco, Le Voci che Attraversano, you move beyond advanced grammar into the living texture of Italian itself: regional voices, literary rhythm, debate, and subtle expression. This tenth book in the series completes the C1 level. It is designed for learners preparing for CILS Tre C1 / CELI 4 C1 / PLIDA C1, and for anyone who wants to read sophisticated Italian without stopping, guessing, or using a dictionary. No Guessing. ...

Read Italian with Confidence at Level A2.2 Decisioni is the fourth book in the Read Italian Without Guessing series: Leggere l'italiano senza indovinare. It continues Marco's story as he faces a life-changing choice. A Milan design agency wants to hire him, but his heart is tied to Bologna, Elena, Carlo, Paolo, Luna, and the life he has built. This book completes your A2 journey and prepares you for CILS A2 / CELI 1 / PLIDA A2 through story-based, interlinear reading. You will not be forced to guess, stop for a dictionary, or lose your place. The support is built into the reading experience...

Read Italian from the First Page Read Italian Without Guessing (Leggere l'italiano senza indovinare) is a beginner-friendly Italian reader built around one clear promise: No guessing. No dictionary. Just reading. With interlinear translation, the English meaning appears directly with the Italian text, so you can understand simple stories from day one without searching or losing your place. What Makes This Method Different? Traditional readers often ask you to guess from context or flip to a glossary. This book keeps meaning visible while you read, helping your brain connect Italian words ...

Master intermediate Italian naturally with Learn Italian with 5 Romantic Thrillers: The Complete Italian Secrets Bundle. Are you tired of dry grammar textbooks or Italian novels that are too difficult to follow? This comprehensive collection bridges the gap by combining real, gripping fiction with structured pedagogical tools. Designed specifically for B1-B2 language learners, this bundle features five standalone mystery-romance novels set in iconic Italian cities, allowing you to build vocabulary and fluency without feeling overwhelmed. Why this Italian Graded Reader Bundle is recommended ...

Five mysteries. Five Italian regions. One retired Scotland Yard detective — and a complete journey through Italy while you learn the language. This is the complete Misteri Italiani collection: all five Edward Blake detective stories in one volume, from the theft at the Uffizi in Florence to the murder at the Arena of Verona. Travel from Tuscany to Lombardy, Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont and the Veneto — solving a mystery in each region while your Italian grows from book to book. Written for learners of Italian at A2–B1 level (Pre-Intermediate), the collection is designed with progressive ...

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Rome. Corruption. A body in the lake. Learn Italian through a gritty crime mystery. Forget textbook dialogues about ordering coffee. Step into the dark side of the Eternal City and take your Italian to the next level. THE STORY A young girl is found dead on the shores of Lake Bracciano. At first glance it looks like a tragic overdose. But Commissario Giulio Morelli knows something doesn't add up. As the investigation unfolds, Morelli is dragged from the polished offices of a powerful modeling agency into the shadowy rooms of political influence, where secrets are currency and silence is ...

He has lost his rank, his family and his name. All he has left is his daughter — and someone has just taken her. Rome, January. After the case that brought down a Prime Minister, Commissario Giulio Morelli is suspended, alone, and quietly finished. Then a general of the secret services walks into his flat without knocking and offers him one last road: a demotion to the port of Livorno. There, a sealed container hides the gold reserve of a secret lodge, and three factions are ready to kill for it. When the phone rings and a distorted voice speaks his daughter's name, Morelli stops being a ...

A complete novel in real Italian for intermediate readers (B1-B2), with everything you need to read it without stopping to look words up. Rome, 59 BC. In the Forum, a gladiator called the Wolf spares the life of a young fighter who has stopped defending himself, and disobeys the sponsor of the games in front of half the city. Watching from the stands is a thin man in a plain toga who neither cheers nor whistles. He owns the school. His name is Julius Caesar. Before Sulla’s proscriptions, the Wolf was Gaius Norbanus, the son of a consul. Now he is a man without a name. Caesar offers him a ...

A young prince. A dark prophecy. A magical talisman hidden beneath the sea. Amir is fifteen years old and lives on the island of Astagatt, a paradise isolated in the Pacific Ocean. He loves books, history, and the sea — but his peaceful life is about to change. An ancient prophecy says that a brave young prince will one day find the Red Jasper, a magical talisman hidden on the seabed, and use it to defeat the evil witch Luthien once and for all. Could Amir be the chosen prince? Learn Italian through an immersive fantasy adventure — perfect for A2–B1 learners. Each of the five chapters...

Read Italian Without Guessing — Level B1.1 Marco Spicca il Volo begins the next stage of your Italian reading journey. If you completed Decisioni (A2.2), you are ready to move beyond basic storytelling and read the grammar that defines intermediate Italian: the congiuntivo, richer past tenses, opinions, advice, and natural sentence flow. This fifth book in the Read Italian Without Guessing series — Leggere l'italiano senza indovinare — follows Marco through an extraordinary year: a promotion, Elena's dreams, Sofia's wedding, Nonno Giuseppe's health scare, Lisbon, and choices that ...

Strada Senza Uscita: Learn Italian B1–B2. An Intense Dramatic Novel with Bilingual Glossaries and 33 Exercises. A contemporary Italian novel that helps you learn the language — without ever feeling like a textbook. Strada Senza Uscita is a powerful drama about friendship, ambition, and betrayal, written for adult readers and intermediate learners of Italian (B1–B2). It is a real novel, not a simplified reader and not a workbook with a story bolted on — the kind of book you can hand to a student who's tired of graded readers and still hold their attention. Set between southern Italy ...

Embark on your Italian learning adventure with Italian Short Stories for Beginners (A1) – Travel and Transport Edition. This carefully curated collection presents 20 bite-sized, real-world tales set in airports, train stations, bus stops, taxis, and more—each written at the A1 level to ensure clarity and build your confidence from the very first sentence.

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At dawn, the Colosseum is the most beautiful place in the world. But this morning, in an area closed “for restoration,” a man lies on the ground: Davide Ricci, tour guide, thirty-two years old. A workplace accident, they say immediately. But Davide was not supposed to be there. And above all: why does a tour guide enter a construction site at night? Arthur Finch knew Davide: he was the best guide in Rome, and a month earlier he had told him a strange sentence: “Arthur, the walls of the Colosseum talk. The problem is what they say about money.” Meanwhile, someone has decided to stop ...

A marriage of silences. A corrupt hand inside the Prosecutor's office. And the most dangerous question in Rome: who protects the protector? Marco is a journalist who stopped looking at his wife the day he stopped looking at himself. Chiara works at the Prosecutor's office, where files that should explode quietly disappear. After the loss that broke their family, they live like strangers — until a car follows Chiara along the Lungotevere, and their separate investigations turn out to be the same one. The final, most advanced novel of the series, written for Italian learners at level B1-B2 ...