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Dear Friends,

I write this to you from an ice bucket – where I sit with a bag of frozen peas on my head to keep cool – it’s a scorcher of a summer here on the East coast – I hope wherever you are, you are relaxing and reading a good book!

The Very Valentine Italy Tour launches on August 19 in the capable hands of Gina Casella, who has planned a glorious tour from Rome to the Isle of Capri. I am thrilled that our tour group will visit, among other fabulous stops, Costanzo's shop in Capri, where I learned how to make shoes and even more about life and love. Adriana Trigiani Walking Tours in New York City’s Greenwich Village will debut this fall, with destinations that mark the locations you read about in Lucia, Lucia, Very Valentine and Brava, Valentine. These tours are a natural extension of our book club Skypes, phone calls and annual World’s Biggest Book Club. We aim to please you!

My trusty sister Toni is opening up The Trigiani Giftshop, where you can find all manners of tote bags and other items for the voracious reader.

I have a few fabulous summer reads to recommend: My dear friend Susan Fales-Hill fabulous debut novel One Flight Up is everywhere on July 27; my pal Rosanne Cash's stellar memoir Composed is out on August 9; Mary McDonough Murphy made adocumentary and wrote the book Atticus, Scout and Boo, in honor the 50th Anniversary of the publication of To Kill A Mockingbird — don't miss it!

Coming on November 9th, Don’t Sing at the Table, Life Lessons from my Grandmothers, my non-fiction love letter about my grandmothers, for you. I spent the last few years writing this book, to share their practical wisdom on diverse subjects from marriage, to child raising to beauty. I keep a book for my daughter, and over time, it grew to be this book.

It’s my first non-fiction (besides our family cookbook which I co-wrote) and I hope you enjoy it- I will be touring, and of course, you know you can always write in for a bookplate. A full list of my tour will be complete by summer’s end. Check the tour sites for a visit near you.

Also, the paperback version of Brava, Valentine is out in November. Our intention is always to have a good selection available for you for holiday reading- so this year, we’ll have two for you!

We’re working hard on the movie of Big Stone Gap. Check back here for details and casting news. Very Valentine has found a home at Lifetime Television with the great Larry Sanitsky producing a script I wrote for them. As always, I love hearing from you, truly the world’s biggest and best book club!

xoxoxo,
Adriana