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11) Gangster
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Fleeing his father and a shadowy past, Angelo Vestieri finds a second family in early twentieth-century New York's mob, where he encounters dangerous betrayals and an abandoned boy in need of a father figure.
12) Villa Mirabella
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After settling into his role as caretaker of his family's Rhode Island bed and breakfast, Jason Mirabella begins to carve out a place for himself among family, old friends and a new love, until he is tested by a sudden change in circumstance.
14) An Italian wife
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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.
15) Big night
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Primo & Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring a famous musician to save their struggling restaurant.
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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 delivers it.
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Aspiring playwright Kit Zanetti lucks into the story of a lifetime when she accepts an invitation to tea from her elderly upstairs neighbor Aunt Lu and is treated to the tale of Lu's life in Greenwich Village in the 1950s as a beautiful, independent apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at a chic Fifth Avenue department store.
18) Moonstruck
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An Italian American widow engaged to be married, falls in love with her fiance's brother just weeks before her wedding.
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t's 1918, WW1 is in full swing, and a Spanish Influenza outbreak is on the horizon. In the midst of the chaos, families are being terrorized and people are being killed by a lone man with an axe. As Gianna and her friend Enzo investigate the heinous crimes, she realizes she's connected to the killer in a way she could have never imagined.
Gianna is the average seventeen-year-old girl living in 1918 New Orleans. She worries about her family's store,...
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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 ItalyFor 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 feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's...
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