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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1903, Maureen, originally from Ireland, comes to Bostom to live with her old friend Sofia and her Italian American family, where the two girls share fifth grade class and various adventures.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In New York City in the 1920s, the children from Chinatown go after the children from Little Italy for throwing rocks at the beautiful kites Grandfather Chin makes, not realizing that they have a reason for doing so.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Godfather series (Mark Winegardner) volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
New Orleans underboss Carlo Tramonti, one of Michael Corleone's underlings, is deported to Colombia by order of the attorney general, brother of the President. He sneaks back to retaliate and ends up changing the course of U.S. politics.
8) Lampedusa
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Like Colm Tóibíns The Master or Michael Cunninghams The Hours, a novel about art and writing in the life of one of the greats. Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Prices Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, as he struggles to complete his only novel, The Leopard. In 1955, Tomasi was diagnosed with advanced emphysema; shortly after, he began...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death. It's 1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing's that easy in Penny's family. For starters, she can't go swimming because her mother's afraid she'll catch polio at the pool. To make matters worse, her favorite uncle is living in...
10) Rococo: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Batholomeo di Crespi, a bachelor decorator in the upscale New Jersey town of Our Lady of Fatima, circa 1970. His exquisite taste in fabrics and decor have made B well respected in OLOF; he's decorated all the important houses, from his divorced older sister's Georgian manor to Aurelia Mandelbaum's mansion. Aurelia's myopic daughter Capri, still living at home at age 40, has been B's unofficial fiancee for 20 years, but this was their mothers' idea,...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tony faces a myriad of immediate, stress-inducing crises at home, at work and from the law. Tony's wife Carmela plans for a future she's not sure will arrive, and son AJ and daughter Meadow find that adulthood holds its own surprises.
12) Grand Hotel
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper, Kringelein, but in the end it is Kringelein who holds all...
Author
Publisher
Concetta Literary Corp., a division of Concetta, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Connie Francis Story is an American story. Born into a blue-collar Italian family at the end of the Great Depression, she went on to unimaginable heights of success. Along this extraordinary journey of her life she experienced the highest of peaks and the deepest of valleysthe stuff of both dreams and nightmares. Through her eyes, readers have a front row seat to many of the greatest public and private moments in American history and popular culture....
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