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Oprah's book clubCollins, Jackie.
Summary: "Legendary mega-seller Jackie Collins chronicles passion and power in one of America's most glamorous families. A vicious hit. A vengeful enemy. A drug addled Colombian club owner. A sex crazed Italian family. And the ever powerful Lucky Santangelo has to deal with them all, while Max--her teenage daughter is becoming The "It" girl in Europe's modeling world. And her Kennedyesque son, Bobby, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Collins 2015Napolitano, Ann
Summary: William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him, so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it's as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family's dreamer, is happiest with her nose in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NAPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NAPTrigiani, Adriana.
Summary: A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes shoe designer and businesswomen Valentine Roncalli from the winding streets of Greenwich Village to the sun-kissed cobblestones of Buenos Aires, where she finds a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal. Once unearthed, the truth rocks the Roncallis and Valentine is determined to hold her family together as she longs to create one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Trigiani 2010Trigiani, Adriana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TriHood, 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 HOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOLancelotta, Victoria
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANTrigiani, Adriana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TRITrigiani, Adriana.
Summary: Valentine Roncalli struggles to save her decades-old family business, finding love and the life she wants along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Trigiani 2009Trigiani, Adriana
Summary: When a secret about her business partner and lover is revealed during her family's celebration of The Feast of the Seven Fishes, Valentine Roncalli must make life-altering choices as she fights for everything she wants while sustaining her family's business and enjoying life to the fullest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Trigiani 2013Trigiani, Adriana.
Summary: Ambitious teen Nella, the daughter of an Italian family from a small Pennsylvania village, aspires to live in society far from the rigors of farm life, a dream that is compromised when a poet she loves mysteriously disappears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRITrigiani, Adriana.
Summary: Valentine Roncalli is finally getting her fairytale ending on the roof of the Angelini Shoe Company. Gianluca Vechiarelli is the man of her dreams. But is life ever easy? Once the whirlwind of the wedding dies down, Valentine quickly realizes that juggling her beloved shoe company with marriage and an upcoming family will be the most difficult balancing act she's had to learn. Combined with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TRITrigiani, Adriana.
Summary: The daughter of an Italian immigrant family in 1950 Greenwich Village, Lucia Sartori pursues a career in the fashion industry until she falls in love with a handsome stranger, who must win over her traditional family to marry her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRINapolitano, Ann
Summary: "William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 0000
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Summary: "William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1981
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRODeFino, Terri-Lynne
Summary: "An utterly delightful and surprising family drama--think "Moonstruck" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" set in New Jersey--about a boisterous, complicated Italian family determined to help their widowed mother find a new boyfriend"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC DEFHegi, Ursula.
Summary: When his aunt and cousins move into his 1950s Bronx home after his uncle goes to jail again, young Anthony Amedeo struggles with sharing a room with his twin female cousins, resulting in an event that irrevocably changes the family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEGTrigiani, Adriana
Summary: "Chi Chi Donatelli and Saverio Armandonada meet one summer on the Jersey shore before World War II. Chi Chi is a talented and ambitious singer-songwriter working in a local blouse factory looking for her big break, while Saverio, a singer already on the rise, is fronting a touring band and has the good looks and smooth vocals that make success seem assured. It isn't long before Saverio becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TRITrigiani, Adriana
Summary: "Chi Chi Donatelli and Saverio Armandonada meet one summer on the Jersey shore before World War II. Chi Chi is a talented and ambitious singer-songwriter working in a local blouse factory looking for her big break, while Saverio, a singer already on the rise, is fronting a touring band and has the good looks and smooth vocals that make success seem assured. It isn't long before Saverio becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION TRIErmelino, Louisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERMMerullo, Roland.
Summary: The story of an Italian family in Boston, narrated by its members. The central figure is Peter, a real estate salesman and gambler, in debt to a loan shark who is being investigated by Peter's sister, a journalist. Old country flavor is provided by the father. By the author of Leaving Losapas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MERBreslin, Jimmy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREMaguire, Gregory
Summary: Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy Maguire 2020Castellani, Christopher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2005