Italian American

Ten-year-old Nicky Moskoff’s suburban life is shattered when an act of vengeance exacted upon his prosecutor father leaves him an orphan. With nowhere else to go, young Nicky’s sent to live with his rough-and-tumble grandfather in the underbelly of a working class section of Brooklyn known as Bensonhurst. Unaccepted and taunted by Paulie and his gang of neighborhood troublemakers, Nicky learns to survive by his fists and his wits. In their late teens, Paulie commits an act of cruelty against Nicky’s grandfather. Nicky’s responds with swift violence, leaves Paulie wounded and lusting...

Peter McKellan arrives in a remote Sicilian village, unaware that his arrival would trigger a series of events that would change the course of the quiet lives of its inhabitants.

For over 60 years, Charlie P. Meo kept records and journals of his life. From the streets of downtown Johnstown to the suburbs of Phoenix, he has recorded his journey as a Sicilian-American in this country. Starting all the way back in the 1800's, this book covers the life and history of Charlie P. Meo and his family line. Although this is not an official "Meo Family History," it covers tons of ground and stories from the American Meo line. The Meo story starts on the beautiful island of Sicily and ends in the warm desert of Arizona. Through immigration, trials, persecution, perseverance, ...

Having gotten home from college a complete failure, I was looking forward to a Christmas tradition that my grandmother had started decades ago. Just to be told that her famous desert would not be making it to the table this year, all because of a wine shortage. I singlehandedly took it upon myself to get the wine that was needed, quickly finding out that I may have gotten in over my head. Discovering myself along the way, I'll always remember the Christmas that changed my life.

American heiress Clare Herschel made what she hoped was a love match when she married the handsome, witty Emmett Markham, the Earl of Linwood. A little over a year into her marriage though, she finds herself wintering in Sicily - alone. She is sure the mild climate is the answer to avoiding another miscarriage and Emmett’s apparent indifference, so she’s determined to remain in Italy as long as possible. The last person she expects to show up at the villa is her husband, especially when Emmett confesses he’s there to convince her to return to England.

American drivers, don’t dare hit Italy’s roads without How to Drive in Italy: A Guide for American Tourists—the essential guide to mastering strade with confidence and dodging costly traps. Fully updated for 2025 with the latest rules, this witty, indispensable book by Declan Murphy is your key to navigating Italy’s roads like a pro. Tailored for U.S. travelers, it teaches you how to buy gas at budget-friendly benzinai, avoid €100 fines in limited traffic zones (ZTLs), switch to right-side driving without a hitch, and handle Italy’s bold drivers and scooter swarms with ease. ...

Best Book Awards Women's Fiction Finalist 2024 Indies Today Finalist 2024 Readers' Favorite 5 star review Toni Agosti is having a midlife crisis at age thirty-five. Unsurprising, since she hasn’t achieved her dream job of becoming a cellist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic and, instead, is trapped teaching music all day. She’s also barely surviving in her shaky marriage to former soulmate and new Mr. Condescending, uh…Christian. When she learns about her ancestor leaving Italy to reestablish his winery in early 1900s LA, she longs to awaken the freedom-filled family legacy and escape ...

A startling and tender portrait of one family’s struggle to make peace with their son’s death. An ingeniously layered narrative, told over the course of one week, Eddie Joyce’s debut novel masterfully depicts an Italian-Irish American family on Staten Island and their complicated emotional history. Ten years after the loss of Bobby - the Amendola family’s youngest son - everyone is still struggling to recover from the firefighter’s unexpected death.

Published in conjunction with Casa Italia Chicago, the author and copyright holder Angelyn Balodimas-Bartolomei is a Professor/Coordinator of ESL/Bilingual/ MALLC Programs at North Park University School of Education in Chicago. The book outlines a survey of Italian sculpture and cast sculpture forms and schools of training, formats, styles, and methods of execution.

Colorado, 1864. Jude Star, un giovane Cheyenne sopravvissuto al massacro di Sand Creek, viene mandato nella prigione di Fort Marion, dove è costretto a imparare l'inglese e a praticare il cristianesimo da Richard Henry Pratt, una guardia carceraria evangelica che fonderà la Carlisle Indian Industrial School, un'istituzione dedicata allo sradicamento della storia, della cultura e dell'identità dei nativi. Una generazione dopo, il figlio di Star, Charles, che frequenta quella scuola, viene brutalizzato dall'uomo che era stato il carceriere di suo padre.

A friend once said to me, “You are writing another book? How much can you write about yourself?” I smiled because this memoir is not just about me. It’s about the relationship between a father, a daughter, and their shared love of baseball and the New York Mets. Author Valerie Pepe's memoir is a poignant homage to the bonding of two fanatical New York Mets fans, a physically disabled daughter and her father, a post office worker. It is also a nostalgic lookback at Staten Island's Italian-American community of the 1960s.

In his tantalizing debut novel, Paradise Salvage, at once a taut thriller and a lyrical coming-of-age story, John Fusco marvelously traces the unforgettable trajectory of 12-year-old Nunzio Paradiso's last summer of innocence.

Next Generation Indie Book Awards Chick Lit Finalist 2022 International Book Awards Women's Fiction Finalist 2002 Best Book Awards Women's Fiction Finalist 2022 New York City Big Book Award Contemporary Novel Distinguished Favorite 2022 Indies Today Semi-Finalist 2021 Book 1 in The Difference Duology When anxiety-prone Rachel Granza learns that her growing sense of emptiness is affecting her relationship with her almost perfect boyfriend and that she’s jeopardizing any possibility of a marriage proposal, she knows she must pull herself out of her funk. But how? A dream apartment in New ...

The cloak and dagger world of spy vs spy suits Madison okay, that is until Admiral Cutter has Madison arrested for murder. Now she is in a race to recover the very heart of Naval Intelligence information and her life against ruthless new advesary who plays by very different rules.

What's in a name? For Carl Capotorto, everything is in a name. The literal translation from Italian to English of Capotorto is "twisted head." This is no accident. Carl's father, Philip Vito Capotorto, was the obsessive, tyrannical head of the family who ran Cappi's Pizza and Sangweech Shoppe, whose motto was "We Don't Spel Good, Just Cook Nice."

This biographical novella is about family life, surviving world wars, immigrating and adapting to a new culture. It’s a story based on the life of Michele DiMarco (1893-1975). Readers will envision the majestic natural beauty of Michele’s home village in central Italy and learn of its rich history. Readers will also sense the harsh reality of life that forced Michele to emigrate. Shortly after Michele arrives in the US, he is drafted into the Italian army. He returns to Italy to fight in W.W. I, is wounded, taken prisoner, and escapes. Michele crosses the Atlantic a second time, takes ...

Gli indiani d'America sono i custodi di una tradizione culturale e spirituale millenaria. Essi possedevano una speciale sensibilità per il trascendente, per il sacro, per tutto quello che oltrepassa i limiti di ogni conoscenza razionale, così come la pratichiamo in Occidente. Qui faremo un viaggio all'interno di quel meraviglioso mondo spirituale e del fascino caleidoscopico e immortale che esprime questa meravigliosa civiltà, interconnessa e integrata al divino della natura.

1939. Alla fine della Guerra civile spagnola, il giovane medico Víctor Dalmau e un’amica di famiglia, la pianista Roser Bruguera, sono costretti, come altre migliaia di spagnoli, a scappare da Barcellona. Attraversati i Pirenei, a Bordeaux, fingendosi sposati, riescono a imbarcarsi a bordo del Winnipeg, il piroscafo preso a noleggio da Pablo Neruda per portare più di duemila profughi spagnoli in Cile – il “lungo petalo di mare e neve”, nelle parole dello stesso poeta –, in cerca di quella pace che non è stata concessa loro in patria.

*Rated 5 Stars by Reader's Favorite* A decision to go wild for Christmas. An attempt to forget the pain. Finding out that her dead husband had a mistress, drove home the fact that they were not the happy couple Savannah a/k/a Souvenir thought they were. What made it worse was that he was seeing the other woman before they even met. If her husband could screw a stripper named Sugar Plum for 15 years, she could screw an escort for Christmas. It was a fair trade, no? But sometimes things can go sexily wrong - or right. Getting a bit tipsy before your "date" might mess with your memory a little...

Patrick Bateman è giovane, bello, ricco. Vive a Manhattan, lavora a Wall Street e con i colleghi Timothy, David, Patten e Craig, frequenta i locali più alla moda, le palestre più esclusive e le toilette dove gira la migliore cocaina della città, discutendo di nuovi ristoranti, cameriere corpoduro ed eleganza maschile. Ma la sua vita è ricca di particolari piuttosto inquietanti e quando le tenebre scendono su New York, Patrick Bateman si trasforma in un torturatore omicida, freddo, metodico, spietato.