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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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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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Making the wiseguys weep
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David Evanier |
Raised in Hoboken, down the street from Frank Sinatra, Italian-American singer Jimmy Roselli is noted for being a "wiseguy" and friend of mobsters. |
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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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The Italian in modernity
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Robert Casillo |
"Italy has been imagined and re-imagined by Western civilization from the latter part of the Renaissance to the present day. The Italian in Modernity provides a comprehensive overview of this concept… |
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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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The Godfather / The Last Don
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Mario Puzo |
Contains:
- [Godfather](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1673263W/Godfather)
- Last Don |
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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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The summer of dreams
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Dorothy Hoobler |
In 1893 while working at the Chicago World's Fair, a young Italian-American girl meets two prominent women, Mrs. Potter Palmer and Jane Addams, and learns about the achievements of other women throug… |
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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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Sweet America
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Steven Kroll |
In 1889, after he and his family emigrate from Italy to New York City, fourteen-year-old Tony tries to adjust to becoming an American, while avoiding an Irish gang and befriending photographer and so… |
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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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La familia Corleone
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Edward Falco |
For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family's future. He worries most about his eldest son, who wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a part of the family business. A … |
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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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