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Unto the Sons by Gay Talese Publisher Comments "An Italian ROOTS." The Washington Post Book World At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market 
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Twisted Head: An Italian-American Memoir by Carl Capotorto Publisher Comments 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 grew up in the Bronx in the 1960s and '70s with the Mangialardis (eat fat) and Mrs... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism by Jonathan Rieder Publisher Comments What accounts for the precarious state of liberalism in the mid 1980s? Why was the Republican Party able to steal away so many ethnic Democrats of modest means in recent presidential elections? Jonathan Rieder explores these questions in his powerful... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $25.74 Google eBooks - Electronic
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La Storia : Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience (92 Edition) by Jerre Mangione Publisher Comments From the early Italian adventurers who played an important role in the European expansion across the Atlantic to the political and business leaders of the 1990s, this book tells a dramatic story. The heart of the story is the mass migration that took... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Life in Italian America by Maria Laurino Synopsis In this thoughtful, penetrating, and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity, journalist and essayist Maria Laurino mixes memoir, social and cultural history, and reporting, as she sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Night Bloom: An Italian-American Life by Mary Cappello Publisher Comments Of the mysterious Night Blooming Cereus, Mary Cappello writes: "The flower fell into our neighborhood like a shooting star." That neighborhood was a working-class suburb of Philadelphia riven by class distinction and haunted by contradiction. In tracing... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day by Stephen Puleo Publisher Comments In this lively and engaging history, Stephen Puleo tells the story of the Boston Italians from their earliest years, when a largely illiterate and impoverished people in a strange land recreated the bonds of village and region in the cramped quarters of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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What Zizi Gave Honeyboy by Gerald Celente Publisher Comments One recent spring Gerald Celente went to visit his cuddly eighty-three-year-old Italian aunt, Zizi, in Yonkers, New York. He was expecting the same delectable combination of food, friendship, and motherly love that Zizi had served up through the years at... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism by Jonathan Rieder Publisher Comments What accounts for the precarious state of liberalism in the mid 1980s? Why was the Republican Party able to steal away so many ethnic Democrats of modest means in recent presidential elections? Jonathan Rieder explores these questions in his powerful... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Night Bloom: A Memoir by Mary Cappello Book News Annotation Capello (English, University of Rhode Island) combines the bilingual journals of her grandfather, her mother's poetry, Sicilian folklore, and dreamwork with her own reminiscences of growing up in an immigrant family in a working-class suburb of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian-American Writers by Lee Gutkind Publisher Comments Thoughtful, poignant, and hilarious personal essays collected by the editors of Creative Nonfiction explore the meanings of Italian-American identity. In the twenty-one nonfiction narratives collected in Our Roots Are Deep with Passion, established and... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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La Bell'America: From La Rivoluzione to the Great Depression: An Italian Immigrant Family Remembered (Leapsci) by Anthony Graziano Publisher Comments This is a delightful, passionate and memorable rendition of a familiar and glorious tale. As the son of immigrants who were very much like Anthony Graziano's family, I was especially moved. Thank you for telling our story.--Governor Mario M. Cuomo This... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Boston Italians by Steve Puleo Publisher Comments In this lively and engaging history, Stephen Puleo tells the story of the Boston Italians from their earliest years, when a largely illiterate and impoverished people in a strange land recreated the bonds ofvillage and region in the cramped quarters of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $15.09 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from Theyears of the Great Immigration to the Present Day by Stephan Puleo Publisher Comments In this lively and engaging history, Stephen Puleo tells the story of the Boston Italians from their earliest years, when a largely illiterate and impoverished people in a strange land recreated the bonds of village and region in the cramped quarters of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Portable Italian Mamma Portable Italian Mamma: Guilt, Pasta, and When Are You Giving Me Grandchildren? Guilt, Pasta, and When Are You Giving Me Gr by Laura Mosiello Synopsis You?re so skinny?what have you been eating? Have you spoken to your brothers today? Would it kill you to go to Mass with your mother? Everyone who has every walked into an Italian mother's kitchen has been met with a kiss on the cheek and spoonful of her... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Portable Italian Mamma by Laura Mosiello Publisher Comments You're so skinny'what have you been eating? Have you spoken to your brothers today? Would it kill you to go to Mass with your mother? Everyone who has every walked into an Italian mother's kitchen has been met with a kiss on the cheek and spoonful of her... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $11.49 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Life Al Dente: Laughter and Love in an Italian-American Family by Gina Cascone Publisher Comments With the irreverence, gutsy spirit, and warmhearted hilarity that made Pagan Babies a classic, here is the Italian-American experience served up by... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 (Yale Nota Bene) by Robert A Orsi Publisher Comments In a masterful evocation of Italian Harlem and the men and women who lived there, Robert Orsi examines how the annual festa of the Madonna of 115th Street both influenced and reflected the lives of the celebrants. His prize-winning book offers a new... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Godfather by A Ciongoli Publisher Comments A long overdue collection of memoirs and scholarlyreflections on growing up Italian and American.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America by Maria Laurino Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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