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Summary: Making meatballs for Grandpa, who no longer remembers much but loves to help cook, a little girl and her Grandma find cooking together makes more than just a meal as they prepare a savory Italian dinner, in this sensory-rich picture book about food, family and heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JONLeali, Michael
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Luca Salvatore is always running interference: in arguments between his younger twin siblings, in his parents' troubled marriage, and between Will, the cute new boy in town, and Luca's best friend, June, who just can't seem to get along. When the host of his favorite culinary TV show announces an open call for submissions for its final season, Luca is sure getting his family's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEAMoore, Bryce
Summary: In 1918 New Orleans, seventeen-year-old Gianna Crutti's worries about her family's grocery, the Great War, and influenza are overshadowed when a murderer returns to terrorize the city--years after he attacked Gianna's parents and left her with a psychic connection between them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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Summary: It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GILThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "When midwife Sarah and detective Frank Malloy's friend and new partner Gino Donatelli is accused of murder, he and Sarah must catch the real killer to keep him alive. . . . A young woman is missing in the upper Manhattan neighborhood called Italian Harlem, and everyone knows whoʼs responsible--the Black Hand, a notorious group known for terrorizing their own community with violence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THOGrames, Juliet
Summary: In this stunning debut novel, a young woman tells the story behind two elderly sisters' estrangement, unraveling family secrets stretching back a century and across the Atlantic to early 20th century Italy. For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents--moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAMurphy, Jim
Summary: While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MURHood, Ann
Summary: An Italian immigrant watches her six children grow up while she searches for her seventh, the product of a love affair who was given up for adoption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOTrigiani, Adriana
Summary: It's 1949 in south Philadelphia. Diligent, hard-working, and proud, the Palazzinis have built a solid life for themselves and their three sons. Now that World War II is over, their sons, each one a decorated veteran, have returned home to the family cab company, to rejoin their world as it was before they left. But their future and fortunes are forever changed by a telegram, and the nephew who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRIFalco, Edward.
Summary: New York, 1933. The crime families have prospered in the Depression, but with the coming end of Prohibition a battle is looming... one which will determine which organizations will rise, and which will face a violent end. Vito Corleone pushes his oldest child, teenaged Sonny, to be a businessman. But Sonny-- impatient and reckless-- wants to become a part of the real family business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FALTrigiani, Adriana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRICardillo, Linda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARPuzo, Mario
Summary: Novel delves into the operation of the Cosa Nostre by focusing on Mafia leader Vito Corteleone and his underworld domain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1969
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PUZWilliams, Beatriz
Summary: "2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer on Makeover Mansion, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historical houses. Andie's latest project features the once glorious but now crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport ... But the mansion's reclusive owner, Lucia 'Lucky' Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILPezzelli, Peter.
Summary: When Jason Mirabella returns to his childhood home on a blustery winter day, the only thing he's sure of is that he'll be staying in Providence just long enough to get on his feet again. It's been four years since Jason moved to Los Angeles. Brimming with ambition, smart and hardworking, he found the kind of high-flying success that he cold never have achieved working for his family's B &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PEZWells, Rosemary.
Summary: Jennie is as close to her grandfather as a mouse can be, and when he suddenly dies she keeps thinking she sees him turning a corner, sitting on a bench, heading for the pier, or walking along their beloved beach, seeking the elusive Queen's teacup seashell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Wells 2012Bartone, Elisa.
Summary: Peppe's father is upset when he learns that Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lamps in his New York City neighborhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARTrigiani, Adriana.
Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TRIHerman, Christine Lynn
Summary: Sixteen-year-old fledgling mediums Mina and Evelyn navigate their growing attraction as they investigate the connection between a vengeful spirit and murders that rocked their costal Long Island town six years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMTrigiani, Adriana.
Summary: This intricately woven tapestry of love and family, war and loss, risk and destiny follows star-crossed lovers Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who, after their first meeting in the Italian Alps, find their destinies inexplicably entwined as they build their lives in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Trigiani 2012Collins, Jackie.
Summary: SHE'S A HOT-BLOODED BEAUTY IN LOVE WITH POWER, HUNGRY FOR PLEASURE...WILD, NOTORIOUS, TROUBLE... SHE'S... LUCKY.THE FABULOUS HEROINE OF CHANCES RETURNS. With the sensual grace of a panther, Lucky Santangelo prowled her Las Vegas casino, restless, ready, eager for action. That night began a dazzling odyssey, filled with dangerous passion and sun-drenched sex, sadistic vengeance and breathless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chances, Inc. 2013
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Trigiani, Adriana.
Summary: It's 1949 in south Philadelphia. Diligent, hard-working, and proud, the Palazzinis have built a solid life for themselves and their three sons. Now that World War II is over, their sons, each one a decorated veteran, have returned home to the family cab company, to rejoin their world as it was before they left. But their future and fortunes are forever changed by a telegram, and the nephew who...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TRITrinchieri, Camilla
Summary: "Set in the heart of Tuscan wine country, Camilla Trinchieri's new mystery introduces Nico Doyle, a former NYPD homicide detective who's just looking for space to grieve when he finds himself pulled into a local muder investigation. Mourning the loss of his wife, Rita, former NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle moves to her hometown of Gravigna in the wine-soaked region of Chianti. Half-Italian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime, an imprint of Soho Press 2020