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Second generation
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Howard Fast |
Born to enormous wealth and social standing, Barbara Lavette leaves her sumptuous home on San Francisco's Nob Hill to lead a life of adventure that takes her from the depression to the darkest days o… |
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Hill of Little
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Valenti Angelo |
Telegraph Hill which overlooks San Francisco is the place where Ricco lives with his family. A stroy about the "miracles" and wonderful things the family experience. |
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Letters from Italy
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Leonard Everett Fisher |
A saga of an Italian family's immigration to the United States, their subsequent life, and the return of one son to Italy during World War II. |
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Dear America
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Murphy, Jim |
The first humorous book in the Dear America series follows an Italian girl's immigrant family as they move from New York City to a utopian community in the frontier West.
While traveling in 1883 w… |
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Knock on any door
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Willard Motley |
An Italian youth grows into a young man loved by many but addicted to street life and crime. Despite all attempts to salvage young Nick Romano, he persists in his ways, eventually committing a most s… |
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Anti-Italianism
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William J. Connell |
"There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and Americans of Italian ancestry. This volume is a bol… |
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Journey to a new land
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Kimberly A. Weinberger |
Elda Willitts recounts for the Ellis Island Oral History Project her childhood journey to America from Italy in 1916. |
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Shot down over Italy
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John W. Lanza |
On May 26, 1944, a B-25 Mitchell bomber with a seven-man crew was shot down over Nazi-occupied Italy. At the time, Italy was a battleground in a bloody war of attrition. This crew trained long and ha… |
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The shoemaker's wife
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Adriana Trigiani |
Two star-crossed lovers--Enza and Ciro--meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever. Set during the years preceding and during World War I. |
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Following Grandfather
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Rosemary Wells |
Jennie is as close to her grandfather as a mouse can be, and when he suddenly dies she keeps thinking she sees him turning a corner, sitting on a bench, heading for the pier, or walking along their b… |
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The Godfather
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Mario Puzo |
The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City (and Long B… |
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Gangster
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Lorenzo Carcaterra |
Love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra's new novel like bullets from a machine gun. In Gangster, he surpasses even his bestselling Sleepers to create a bru… |
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You cannoli die once
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Shelley Costa |
"Four generations of fine Italian cooking. One colorful family. And a killer with a taste for revenge."--Cover.
"At Miracolo Northern Italian Restaurant, one can savor brilliantly seasoned veal salt… |
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Mafia girl
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Deborah Blumenthal |
As the daughter of an infamous mob boss, seventeen-year-old Gia struggles to come out of the shadow of her family's notorious reputation and be her own person. |
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Uncle's new suit
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Lisa Passen |
When Uncle Carmen gets a new job, a close-knit Italian family celebrates by taking him shopping for a new suit. |
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Wild dreams : the best of Italian Americana
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Carol Bonomo Albright |
A definitive collection that offers sixty-three pieces of fiction, memoir, poetry, interviews, and other nonfiction representing the best of the journal Italian Americana traces the arc of an immigra… |
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When I dream of heaven
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Steven Kroll |
In 1895 in New York City, Gina, a fourteen-year-old Italian immigrant, forced by her family to drop out of school and work long hours in a garment factory, tries to break free of the control her pare… |
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The second decade
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Dorothy Hoobler |
An Italian immigrant boy joins the large Aldrich family as they stage a women's suffrage play and receive messages on the wireless radio about the ocean voyage of the Titanic. |
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You were there before my eyes
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Maria Riva |
Sweeping and panoramic, You Were There Before My Eyes is the epic and intimate story of a young woman who chafes at the stifling routine and tradition of her small, turn-of-the-century Italian villag… |
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The Italian Americans
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Maria Laurino |
Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true Italian-American experience. Looking beyond the familiar caricatures fostered by popular … |
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