Merullo, Roland.
Summary: Anthony Benedetto, a young boy in a large extended Italian-American family, descibes growing up in the working-class community of Revere, Massachusetts, but his youth is changed forever by the tragic deaths of his parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2002
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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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Summary: The American political system is thrown into a tizzy when Jesus appears and announces that he is planning to run for president, sending the two major party candidates and the world media into a last-ditch effort to discredit him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2008
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Summary: Left adrift after the tragic death of the woman he loved, Jake finds himself falling for the beautiful woman who backs into his truck, despite the fact that she is involved in an affair with the governor and suffers from cystic fibrosis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2005
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Summary: Meeting during a highly publicized official visit at the Vatican, the Pope and the Dalai Lama embark on an unsanctioned, undercover vacation through the Italian countryside to rediscover the everyday joys of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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Summary: "The first fifty or so years of Otto's journey were pretty good. He felt he had it all until one day he didn't. Looking for answers, he calls on his enlightened brother-in-law, Volya Rinpoche, a wise man with Russian roots, a Tibetan heritage, and an international reputation as a spiritual teacher ... Otto needs his brother-in-law's wisdom, ... and ... it turns out that Rinpoche himself is also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2011
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Merullo, Roland.
Summary: Manifesting intense religious episodes after losing first her grandmother and then her priest friend, Cynthia becomes convinced that God intends for her to become Catholicism's first female priest and pursues her belief all the way to the Vatican.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Crown Publishing Group 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, c1993. 1994