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LOVE & GELATO

Jenna Evans Welch

Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn't in the mood for Italy's famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She's only there because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn't around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.
But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina's uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother's footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept from Lina for far too long. It's a secret that will change everything she knew about her mother, her father - and ever herself.

People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.

LOVE & GELATO
Deutsch von Henriette Zeltner
[HC HarperCollins 06/17]
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Published 2016-04-01 by Simon Pulse

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22 May 2016 NYT Times Bestsellerlist #4

The reader will find it difficult to put this book down ...The reader will love descriptions of [Lina's] travels in Florence and Rome, and share her crushing disappointment when she finally locates her biological father only for him to reject her...All levels of readers will enjoy it. --- Voya, *starred review*

Optioned to Netflix with Brandon Camp attached to write, direct and produce.

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