books about: italian-american     books:     Italian-american      I, Mona Lisa Jeanne Kalogridis St. Martin's Griffin, 2006 I liked it but........... am I the only person who thinks this book follows the plot of "The Birth of Venus" by Sarah Dunant a little too closely? I, Monsa Lisa is an interesting look into the Medici with a plot full of twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat. There is love, ...             Big Cherry Holler: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Adriana Trigiani Ballantine Books, 2002 Perfect! The book looks like it was bought off the shelf at the local bookstore. Absolutely no complaints.             Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy Sergio Esposito Broadway, 2008 Pop the cork and read this book If you have any interest in wine, food, travel, culture, history, family, and people as I do, then I recommend you read this book - I enjoyed all of it. Basically, it's a memoir of the author's move from Italy to the U.S. as a boy, and how his interest and love of ...             Knots in My Yo-Yo String Jerry Spinelli Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1998 A Short Trip Back in Time to My Own Childhood I have to say that I enjoyed reading Jerry Spinelli's little book (148 pages) and was reminded of a simpler time, when summer never seemed to end, and there was Bonomo's Turkish Taffy and Hopalong Cassidy, and everyone lived in a house with only one bathroom and one ...             Penny from Heaven Jennifer L. Holm Yearling, 2007 PENNY FROM HEAVEN! Penny from heaven was exciting and thrilling! Every sentence and character sparkled with creativity and originality! With an amazing story and bright, interesting characters, this book will definitely have you hooked!             The Godfather Mario Puzo NAL Trade, 2002 If you liked the movie, you'll love the book Did the movie leave you begging for more? Well, there are the sequels, but this story is the strongest one, and the book gives you all the extras that would never fit into one film. Get the book and many of the side stories that were only touched on in the film will ...             Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen Lidia Matticchio Bastianich Knopf, 2001 The only Italian (American) cookbook you'll need! In my family, I am the part of the first generation of Italians born in America. I grew up eating Italian food (or what seems to be classified as Italian American food) that was amazing and authentic - down to my parents buying bushels and bushels of tomatoes in order ...             The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, Second Edition Robert A. Orsi Yale University Press, 2002 The Madonna: A Vivid and Complex Examination of the Festival In this lucid and eloquently written book, Orsi places the Madonna of 115th Street into the full context of the Italian Harlem community. I found the most interesting part of this extrememly insightful book to be Orsi's examination of the Italian-American domus, and ...             Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum William Foote Whyte University Of Chicago Press, 1993 ground breaking work I read this book eight years ago on rainy Saturday--I was a student at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and I decided to pass the afternoon in the Center's library. I picked this volume off the shelves because the title sounded interesting. At the time, I ...             Playing For Pizza: A Novel John Grisham Doubleday, 2007 While not the usual, it was enjoyable nonetheless John Grisham is a talented writer who, even after becoming very predictable, can still tell stories in a manner that quickly captivates the reader. This book is quite a different approach altogether though from his usual lawyer formula. While I kept waiting for ...             I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb Harper, 1998 Its 2am... i just stayed up way past my bedtime on a school night to finish this book (i'm 31 by the way). it is a long book, but that's good because i didn't really want it to end anyway. this book makes you feel. it seemed like i was really in the middle of these people's ...             My Cousin the Saint: A Search for Faith, Family, and Miracles Justin Catanoso William Morrow, 2008 A Marvelous Saga of a Family with 2 Branches "My Cousin the Saint" is a terrific account of both branches of a family from Calabria, the part of Southern Italy that is in the tip of "boot" on the map. One from the side of the author's grandfather, Carmelo Catanoso, who emigrated to America in 1903 when he was 16 ...             Umbertina: A Novel Helen Barolini The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1998 Three generations of women in one family, the first an Itali Rendered in a convincing realism, Helen Barolini 's novel depicts a search for definition as woman and American through three generations, starting with the eponymous Umbertina. One may justifiably assume that the author has lived her subject--so sensitively does she ...             Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration Hasia R. Diner Harvard University Press, 2003 The Predominant Allure of America This is a trully intriguing work about three parallel immigrant cultures, and how hunger for an adequate diet was one of the predominant incentives to them for immigration. What makes this study so interesting is how the importance of food manifested itself so ...             Mount Allegro: A Memoir of Italian American Life (New York Classics) Jerre Gerlando Mangione Syracuse University Press, 1998 A lovingly told vivid memoir of a colorful family. Jerre Mangione's writing is so vivid that reading it brought back my childhood years in the 20's and 30's. His Mt Allegro (NY) was my Silver Lake (NJ). His parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors were mine with similar names. His family gatherings ...          products you might be interested in search for books ballantine, hungering, italian-american, migration, structure, umbertina      toavi.com    web we recommend Its 2am... randomly chosen book: I'll Teach My Dog 100 Words (Bright & Early Books(R))