 | In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu: A Novel by Tony Ardizzone
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $0.97 a wonderful story about real people. A must read for learning about our Immigrant Italian Ancestors
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 | The Stone Boudoir: Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicily by Theresa Maggio
Buy used from: $2.13 Wonderful little vignettes of recent life in small towns in Sicily. Wonderful color, genuine people.
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 | Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America by Maria Laurino
Buy new: $11.92 / Used from: $0.35 great well-written book, describing many aspects of Italian American life.
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 | La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience by Jerre Mangione
Buy new: $14.81 / Used from: $0.04 The History of life for Italian American immigrants. Thorough. A must read.
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 | Dances with Luigi: A Grandson's Determined Quest to Comprehend Italy and the Italians by Paul Paolicelli
Buy used from: $0.09 Person with southern Italian heritage meets his roots. Great book, excellent adventure. Couldn't put it down.
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 | Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted by Annie Hawes
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $0.14 I loved this book. These gals had an excellent adventure in the hills of Italy and are kind enough to tell us about it!
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 | Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year by Carlo Levi
Buy used from: $0.13 An opportunity to see Italian life in the 1940's in a small southern town. Vivid, stark, amazing
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 | Love And War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
Buy used from: $3.00 I generally have no interest in "war books" but this turns out to be a great "people book" describing intimately wonderful people in the hills of Italy
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 | Old Calabria (Marlboro Travel) by Norman Douglas
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $5.06 this was written almost 100 years ago. Excellent historical perspective of Calabria
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 | Torregreca: Life, Death, and Miracles in a Southern Italian Village (Italia Series) by Ann Cornelisen
Buy used from: $7.18 One of the most stark and shocking views of recent life in Southern Italy (1959)
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 | Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Redemption Under the Sicilian Sun by Frank Viviano
Buy used from: $0.07 If you like genealogical thrillers, read this. IF you want to learn about Southern Italy, read this
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 | The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $0.23 ITALIAN historical novel. written 100 years ago! This book shows up Norman Douglas's book by miles. This book takes you right to the time and place in Sicilia when people were still living off the sea
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 | The Miracles of Santo Fico by D. L. Smith
Buy new: $17.90 / Used from: $0.01 A light hearted novel about a special italian town. delightful!
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