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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 101 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland, the men of an Italian infantry division have been given one objective: retake a commanding height from the enemy. Unfortunately, the tactical ingenuity of general Leone, the unpopular division commander, consists of supplementing frontal attacks against machine-guns with medieval fighting schemes. His dispirited troops must be prodded with...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In April 1903, the steamship Republic spills more than two thousand immigrants onto Ellis Island. Among them are Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, nine, sent by their poor families in southern Italy to make their way in America. Amid the chaos and splendor of New York, the misery and criminality of Little Italy, and the shady tenants of Vita's father's decrepit Prince Street boarding house, Diamante and Vita struggle to survive, to create a new life,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A richly imagined portrait of an immigrant woman in the heady and unpredictable first half of the twentieth century.
Sweeping and panoramic, You Were There Before My Eyes is the epic and intimate story of a young woman who chafes at the stifling routine and tradition of her small, turn-of-the-century Italian village.
When an opportunity presents itself for her to emigrate to America, her hunger for escape compels her to leave everything behind for...
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Language
English
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Description
New York City, 1894. To Gramercy Park, bordered by elegant town houses, cloistered behind its high iron fence, comes Mario Alfieri, the world's greatest tenor. Poised for his premier at the Metropolitan Opera, the summit of society, the handsome Alfieri needs a refuge from the clamor of New York's elite... and from the eager women who rule it. He finds it, he thinks, at Gramercy Park, in the elegant mansion of the recently deceased Henry Ogden Slade....
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Language
English
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"Mere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles, Eugenia, a typical Italian teenager, is rudely yanked from her privileged Roman milieu by her hippie-ish filmmaker parents and transplanted to the strange suburban world of the San Fernando Valley. With only the Virgin Mary to call on for guidance as her parents struggle to make it big, Hollywood fashion, she must navigate her huge new public high school, complete with Crips and Bloods...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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 share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother's great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew. . . . In the halcyon past, Domenica Cabrelli thrives in the coastal town of Viareggio until her beloved...
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taking on the running of her niece's deli while Cat is attending a wedding in Italy, Isabel Dalhousie encounters a recent heart transplant patient who is troubled by memories of events that never happened to him.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A tale rich in color, character, and vivid historical detail, When we were strangers chronicles the tumultuous life journey of a young immigrant seamstress, as she travels from her isolated Italian mountain village through the dark corners of late nineteenth century America."--From publisher's description.
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The residents of the Greek island of Cephallonia are caught in the occupation of the Italian army. Among them are the willful Pelagia and her two suitors Mandras a gentle fisherman turned guerrilla and the mandolin playing Captain Corelli a reluctant Italian officer.
14) About my father
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Sebastian is encouraged by his fiancé to bring his Italian hairdresser father Salvo to a weekend get-together to meet her wealthy and eccentric family. As the weekend turns into an outrageous clash of cultures, Sebastian and Salvo discover that the great thing about family is everything about family."--container.
15) In a flash
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
550L
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Caught in Japan and separated from their father when World War II begins, Italian sisters Simona, thirteen, and Carolina, ten, embark on a trying journey hoping to reach safety. Includes historical notes.
16) Mina: a novel
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
19) The Tin Snail
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A thirteen-year-old French boy tries to save his father's job by inventing a special kind of car, but it isn't easy--especially when the Nazis are planning to steal his design"--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition
Lexile measure
1040L
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, facsmilies ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1920s, a Red Scare gripped America. Many of those targeted were Italians, Eastern Europeans, and other immigrants. When an armed robbery resulting in the death of two people broke headlines in Massachusetts, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti—both Italian immigrants—were quick to be accused. A heated trial ensued, but through it all, the two men maintained their innocence. The controversial case quickly rippled past borders as...
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