Laurie Lico Albanese Books in Order

This illustrated guide introduces beginners to italic calligraphy through ten lessons. It explains letter formation, spacing, connected writing, words and sentences, and decorative capitals, helping learners turn individual pen strokes into balanced and legible handwritten compositions.

A guide to planning a career and presenting professional experience effectively, with particular attention to women's job searches. Advice on preparing a résumé is accompanied by examples drawn from different careers to illustrate possible approaches.

Grieving the death of her baby, Lynelle Carter leaves her husband and returns to Florida. When she takes another woman's unattended infant, her desperate response to loss binds two families together through an unfolding kidnapping crisis.

Through autobiographical poems, Laurie Lico Albanese traces a working-class childhood and her determination to escape its limitations. Memories of family, ambition, and disappointment follow her into adulthood as she tries to build the ordinary happiness she once imagined elsewhere.

In Renaissance Italy, painter and Carmelite monk Fra Filippo Lippi finds inspiration in a beautiful young woman entering convent life. Their relationship develops into a forbidden romance, intertwining artistic creation with desires that threaten their religious commitments.

Adele Bloch-Bauer’s relationship with Gustav Klimt unfolds amid Vienna’s artistic ferment and rising antisemitism. Decades later, her niece Maria Altmann faces Nazi persecution, struggling to protect her family and preserve the history embodied in her aunt’s paintings.

Abandoned in Salem by her indebted husband, Scottish seamstress Isobel Gamble must support herself while concealing unusual gifts. Her growing connection with Nathaniel Hawthorne entangles love, artistic inspiration, and a community still shaped by its history of persecution.