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| Killer Smile by Lisa Scottoline
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In the latest installment of Scottoline's best-selling series starring the all-female Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates, young Mary DiNunzio takes center stage. Mary has taken on a pro bono case representing her "peeps"--an Italian American business group (the circolo) working on behalf of the estate of Amadeo Brandolini, who committed suicide while interned during World War II.
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| The Golden Milestone: Over 2500 Years of Italian Contributions to Civilization, Third Edition by Russell R. Esposito
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This highly acclaimed and uniquely comprehensive book offers readers over 2500 years of Italian and Italian-American accomplishments. The book's 22 chapters cover every subject: art, architecture, music, fashion, science, law, culinary arts, economics, medicine, automobiles, the entertainment industry, sports, and much more.
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| Italian-American Folklore by Frances M. Malpezzi |
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Following an introduction of other scholars' efforts to collect data about Italian American folk customs, the authors present a history of Italian immigration from Europe to the eastern United States and California (which began largely around 1880).
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| First American Pope: Pontifex Maximus by Angelo Pagnotti, Sr.
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The deadlocked Papal conclave turns to a compromise candidate, Anthony Cardinal Pavelli. Ordained at fifty years of age, and in declining health, the seventy-two year old American, is an unlikely choice. Reluctantly accepting the scepter as God's will, the Pontiff is eager to reinvigorate the Church by initiating sweeping reforms. A group of ruthless cardinals, each with his own agenda, band together to stop the reforms by discrediting the Pope.
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| I Wouldn't Die: A Memoir by Franco Antonetti
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This unusual autobiography begins with the author looking back on his early life and wondering how it is possible that he lived to see his first birthday. As he says in this uplifting tribute to a life lived to the fullest, he simply wouldn't die. From the first sentence to the last you will wonder just as the author does how and why miracles occur.
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| Vino & Biscotti: Italy to Sonoma County and Back by Joe Pelanconi
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If you are Italian or ever wished you were, Vino & Biscotti is for you. An entertaining, fast moving and well written series of vignettes about Italy and Italians. There are real life examples how Italians can be witty, cynical, compassionate, charming and exasperating - sometimes all at the same time. Reviewers have called it a must read for the armchair traveler seeking authentic Italy.
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| Life al Dente: Laughter and Love in an Italian-American Family by Gina Cascone
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With the irreverence, gutsy spirit, and warmhearted hilarity that made Pagan Babies a classic, here is the Italian-American experience served up by the author who has been crowned the Patron Saint of Humor. In our overly pasteurized and homogenized world, there's a real hunger to find and celebrate our connection to old world roots and traditions. Life al Dente abounds in hilarious stories, but also rewards readers with a genuine and poignant contemplation of cultural identity.
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| American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power by Thomas Reppetto
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A history of the rise of the Mafia in the world of crime and in the mainstream American political and economic life. American Mafia is a fascinating look at America's most compelling criminal subculture from an author who is intimately acquainted with both sides of the street.
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| A Brooklyn Rose by Suzanna Lonchar
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This is a true story of the Finazzo family who traveled from Sicily to America in search of the fabled American Dream, only to find poverty, tragedies, prison, death and even murder. It was the era of prohibition, speakeasies, and later The Great Depression, gangsters, racketeers and the mafia that corrupted the neighborhood in Brooklyn New York where they migrated.
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| Bands! by Joe DeVivo |
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A humorous, coming-of-age story about growing up with no musical talent in a very musical Italian-American community. It's about music of course -- you get intimate with a bassoon, you practice, you go to several lessons and band concerts, you learn why pianos are from Venus and clarinets are from Mars.
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| Yo Capeesh by James G. Caridi
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Yo Capeesh! is the complete handbook for true Italian living. A humorous, educational and sentimental guide to Italian Americana, Yo Capeesh! is a dictionary for interpreting the pungent hyperbolic clichés and mysteries of Italian American culture.
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| The Italian American Reader by Bill Tonelli |
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This anthology is a genuine landmark -- the first general-reader hardcover collection of writing by Italian American authors. It is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner -- a gathering of voices old and new, some speaking in the accents of another age, some completely contemporary and assured, all together for the first time. |
| Heritage Italian-American Style Bilingual
by Leon J. Radomile |
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This newly revised second edition is now available in a bilingual format and has been expanded from the original 1492 to 1776 fact-filled questions. The five major categories (Food, Music, Entertainment; Art, Science, Literature; History, Geography, Business; Sports; Romans)cover 3,000 years of Italian genius and innovation, with an index of over 2,700 entries. |
| Italian Stories by Joseph
Papaleo
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Papaleo's appealing stories of an Italian community
in the Bronx of the 1930s and 1940s highlight the universality of
his characters' experiences, which could just as well take place in
Armenian, Irish, or other ethnic communities in America. |
| A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno by Joseph Bonanno
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Reveals the inner workings of New York's Five Families-Bonanno, Gambino, Profaci, Lucchese, and Genovese-and uncovers how the Mafia not only dominated local businesses, but also influenced national politics. A fascinating glimpse into the world of crime, A Man of Honor is an unforgettable account of one of the most powerful crime figures in America's history.
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| Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
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Carcaterra's controversial memoir of growing up in NYC's Hell's Kitchen and as an inmate at a sadistic detention center was a PW bestseller for eight weeks.
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| Blood of My Blood by Richard Gambino
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Since its first publication in 1974, Blood of my blood has become the most highly esteemed book on Italian Americans. It is also rare that it is both a bestseller and a college text.
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| Leadership by Rudolph Giuliani
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Leadership Through the Ages is a specially created compendium of over 250 inspiring quotations from Winston Churchill to Will Rogers, and Eleanor Roosevelt to Lee Iacocca. Introduction by Rudolph W. Giuliani.
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| The Black Madonna by Louisa Ermelino
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The Black Madonna has long protected her mountain villagers in southern Italy, and some say she followed her people to America. What else explains the magic and miracles on Spring Street in Little Italy over the decades?
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| In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu by Tony Ardizzone
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A magical, warm, and wise novel about a close-knit family's immigration from Sicily to America in the early 1900s. The Santuzzus are poor Sicilian farm laborers who endure back-breaking work in the fields of a tyrannical landlord. Wanting more for their children and grandchildren than a lifetime of servitude, Papa Santuzzu and his wife Adriana push their seven sons and daughters, one by one, to immigrate to La Merica, a land of promise and opportunity.
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| Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America by Maria Laurino
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Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity. With "intelligence and honesty" (Arizona Republic), she writes about guidos, bimbettes, and mammoni (mama's boys in Italy); examines the clashing aesthetics of Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace; and unravels the etymology of southern Italian dialect words like gavone and bubidabetz.
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| Don't Tell Mama!: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing by Regina Barreca
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This important collection reveals as never before the quality, extent, and variety of the Italian American contribution to American literature. Bringing together fiction and poetry as well as academic essays and newspaper articles from the 1800s to the present, this volume covers a wide field of cultural experience.
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| Italian Pride: 101 Reasons to Be Proud You're Italian by Federico Moramarco, Stephen Moramarco
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As each generation of Italian-Americans dissolves further into the melting pot, it becomes more urgent to recognize the talents and gifts of their forebears. The pride of being Italian is something that is passed on from parent to child, and so Italian Pride is written by an Italian-American father and son, whose intention is to convey what is best and most noble in their heritage.
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| Sprezzatura: 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World by Peter D'Epiro
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From the Roman calendar and the creator of the modern orchestra (Claudio Monteverdi) to the beginnings of ballet and the creator of modern political science (Niccolò Machiavelli), Sprezzatura highlights fifty great Italian cultural achievements in a series of fifty information-packed essays in chronological order
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| The Godfather by Mario Puzo
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A modern masterpiece, The Godfather has sold millions of copies, inspired three of the finest films in recent times, and spawned a new genre in fiction. Now this landmark work has been abridged for the first time, under special arrangement with Mario Puzo.
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| Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
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Set in the glittering, vibrant New York City of 1950, Lucia, Lucia is the enthralling story of a passionate, determined young woman whose decision to follow her heart changes her life forever.
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| Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato
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Studs Terkel provides the preface to this classic examination of the American experience for hardworking Italian immigrants who lived in New York's lower East side shortly before the Great Depression.
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Italian-American authors A-Z
Angelo Alessio
Franco Antonetti
Richard Aquila
Alma Aquilino Ilacqua
Maria Luisa Ardizzone
Angela Baldassarre
Helen Barolini
Regina Barreca
Elisa Bartone
Roland R. Bianchi
Carla Bianco
Joseph Bonanno
Linda Brandi Cateura
Bruno Buti
Maddalena Buzzeo
Theodore Buzzeo
Phylis Cancilla Martinelli
Dominic Lawrence Candeloro
Philip V. Cannistraro
Mary Cappello
Lorenzo Carcaterra
James G. Caridi
Gino Carlotti
Johnny Carrabba
Gina Cascone
Cesare Casella
Terra Castiglia Brockman
Ellen Cavolina
Gerald Celente
Barbara Chepaitis
Ken Ciongoli
Nicholas P. Ciotola
Rita Ciresi
Joseph P. Cosco
Patricia Costa Viglucci
Frank Crocitto
Camille Cusumano
Pellegrino D'Acierno
Enrico Dal Lago
Elda Del Bino Willitts
Lou D'Angelo
Sharon Debartolo Carmack
Jerry Della Femina
Giovanna Del Negro
Dom Deluise
Lina Del Tinto Demarsky
John M. Del Vecchio
Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
Tina De Rosa
Joe DeVivo
Louise DeSalvo
Rick Detorie
Kate Devivo
Rodolfo Di Biasio
Pietro Di Donato
J. Philip Di Franco
Micaela Di Leonardo
Lawrence Distasi
Diane Di Prima
Dominick M. Eannello
Louisa Ermelino
Bill Ervolino
Jean Farinelli
Frank Joseph Fede
L. Formisano
John Fusco
Donna R. Gabaccia
Lisa Gabriele
Patrick J. Gallo
Michael Gambino
Richard Gambino
Joseph Gentile
Al Giannini
Anthony Giardina
Sandra M. Gilbert
Marie Giordano
Rudolph Giuliani
Edvige Giunta
Lori Granieri
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Thomas A. Guglielmo
Michael Immerso
Luciano J. Iorizzo
Richard N. Juliani
Marisa Labozzetta
Salvatore J. Lagumina
Anthony L. Laruffa
Micheal Lasorte
Maria Laurino
Frank Lentricchia
Carmen J. Leone
Suzanna Lonchar
Stefano Luconi
Frances M. Malpezzi
Damian Mandola
Renee Manfredi
Jerre Mangione
Mary Ann Mannino
Nick Manzello
Virginia J. Marangell
Anthony V. Margavio
John F. Mariani
Stephen Massimilla
A. S. Maulucci
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Reparata Mazzola
Erica Merino
Roland Merullo
Anna Monardo
Salvatore Mondello
Nicholas Montemarano
Federico Moramarco
Stephen Moramarco
Barry Moreno
Ben Morreale
Rose Muscacchio Higdon
Gloria Nardini
Peter Oliva
Robert A. Orsi
Christine Palamidessi Moore
Angelo Pagnotti, Sr.
Vincent Panella
Alfonso E. Panico
Paul Paolicelli
Joseph Papaleo
Michael J. Parenti
Jay Parini
Tony Pasquarello
Joy C. Passanante
John Penza
Concetta Perna
Tony Perona
Catherine M. Petrini
Joe Pelanconi
George E. Pozzetta
Mario Puzo
Leon J. Radomile
Gloria Ricci Lothrop
Nino Ricci
Anita Riggio
Francesca Romina
Dick Rosano
Gary Ross Mormino
David Ruggerio
Eleanora Russo Scarpetta
Jerome J. Salomone
Carmine Sarracino
Vincent Schiavelli
Giovanni Schiavo
George Schiro
Steven R. Schirripa
Catherine Scorsese
Lisa Scottoline
Paola A. Sensi Isolani
Pasquale Spagnuolo
Christopher M. Sterba
Gay Talese
Anthony Julian Tamburri
Maria Testa
Bill Tonelli
Adriana Trigiani
Catherine Tripalin Murray
Anthony Valerio
William L. Vance
Joseph A. Varacalli
Nancy Verde Barr
Justin Vitiello
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