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The Assistant
Bernard Malamud - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book
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An Intimate Window into the American Immigrant Experience. Morris Bober, the family patriarch, yearns for better fortune as he runs a grocery store, never expecting how two robbers would change his life. Working alongside Morris, Frank Alpine, with his own complex relationship with the Jewish... |
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The Family
Naomi Krupitsky - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Book
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Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate.
Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathers' unspoken community: the Family. Sunday... |
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The Good Left Undone
Adriana Trigiani - Dutton
Format: Book
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Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to leave no stone unturned, including her own mother's revelation about her two great loves: her childhood friend, Silvio, and proud Scottish... |
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In the Name of the Family
Sarah Dunant - Random House
Format: Book
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The author of Blood and Beauty returns with another captivating novel about Renaissance Italy and one of history's most notorious families. Before the Corleones, before the Lannisters, there was the Borgias. Bestselling novelist Sarah Dunant has long been drawn to the high... |
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The Light of Luna Park
Addison Armstrong - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Paperback
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A nurse's choice. A daughter's search for answers.New York City, 1926. Nurse Althea Anderson's heart is near breaking when she witnesses another premature baby die at Bellevue Hospital. So when she reads an article detailing the amazing survival rates of babies treated in incubators... |
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The Queen of Steeplechase Park
David Ciminello - Forest Avenue Press
Format: Paperback
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The Queen of Steeplechase Park is the absolutely, positively, practically, almost-true story of infamous burlesque queen and magic meatball maker Belladonna Marie Donato. Pregnant at fifteen after gleefully losing her virginity to pansexual neighborhood strongman Francis Anthony Mozzarelli,... |
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
Juliet Grames - Ecco
Format: Book
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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 feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's own mother is convinced that... |
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When We Were Strangers
Pamela Schoenewaldt - HarperCollins; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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Introduction "If you leave Opi, you'll die with strangers," Irma Vitale's mother always warned. Even after her beloved mother's passing, 20-year-old Irma longs to stay in her Abruzzo mountain village, plying her needle. But too poor and plain to marry and subject... |
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