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Language
English
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A young woman tells the story behind two elderly sisters' estrangement, unraveling family secrets stretching back a century and across the Atlantic to early 20th century Italy. For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents--moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's own mother is convinced that...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
532 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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It's 1949 and South Philadelphia bursts with opportunity during the post-war boom. The Palazzini Cab Company & Western Union Telegraph Office, owned and operated by Dominic Palazzini and his three sons, is flourishing: business is good, they're surrounded by sympathetic wives and daughters-in-law, with grandchildren on the way. But a decades-long feud that split Dominic and his brother Mike and their once-close families sets the stage for a re-match....
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death. It's1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing's that easy in Penny's family. For starters, she can't go swimming because her mother's afraid she'll catch polio at the pool. To make matters worse, her favorite uncle is living in a...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the-century Italy, fourteen-year-old Josephine, sheltered and naive, is forced into an arranged marriage to a man she doesn't know or love who is about to depart for America, where she later joins him. Bound by tradition, Josephine gives birth to seven children. The last, Valentina, is conceived in passion, born in secret, and given up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for her lost child, keeping her secret even...
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Series
Publisher
Blue Earth Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the reasons Italian people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.
Author
Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When "Pigeon Tony" an elderly pigeon racer is arrested for the murder of his lifelong enemy Angelo Coluzzi, the Coluzzi's family seek revenge on Pigeon Tony and his lawyer Judy Carrier.
9) Gangster
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Angelo Vestieri runs from his past and his father, and seeks out a second family--a family of criminals who preside over early-twentieth-century New York. His rise from soldier to boss leads him into betrayals, and to an abandoned boy who needs a parent as well as protection.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1977
Physical Desc
x, 86 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The predictable life of Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone is thrown into turmoil with the arrival of two of his wife's relatives from Italy and the resurfacing of his unsettled feelings for his beautiful niece Catherine.
Author
Series
Primas of power volume 2
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic designer. So what if her love life is nonexistent? She's perfectly fine being the black sheep of her marriage-obsessed Puerto Rican-Italian family. Besides, the only guy who ever made her want happily-ever-after disappeared thirteen years ago.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"New York Times" restaurant critic Frank Bruni chronicles his lifelong battle with his weight, describing how his love of food from an early age lead to health and self-esteem problems as an adult and explaining how he finally managed to lose weight and keep it off, despite his profession.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
319, 30 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The follow-up to Murder in Chianti finds ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle recruited by Italian authorities to investigate the murder of a prominent wine critic. One year after moving to his late wife's Tuscan hometown of Gravigna, Nico Doyle has fully settled into life there, seeing friends in the course of daily errands and helping to serve and test recipes at his in-laws' restaurant. But the town is shaken up by the arrival of wine critic Michele Mantelli...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer on Makeover Mansion, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historical houses. Andie's latest project features the once glorious but now crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport ... But the mansion's reclusive owner, Lucia 'Lucky' Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion's ruined boathouse....
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When midwife Sarah and detective Frank Malloy's friend and new partner Gino Donatelli is accused of murder, he and Sarah must catch the real killer to keep him alive. . . . A young woman is missing in the upper Manhattan neighborhood called Italian Harlem, and everyone knows who��s responsible--the Black Hand, a notorious group known for terrorizing their own community with violence and kidnappings. Gino and Frank set out to learn more about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
103 pages : black and white illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as fire sweeps through the locked down factory trapping the...
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