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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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"Mario Puzo's classic saga of an American crime family that became a global phenomenon--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather burned its way into our national consciousness. This unforgettable saga of crime and corruption, passion and loyalty continues to stand the test of time, as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld....
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Adult - National Mental Health Awareness Month
Books about Mental Health
Mental Health Fiction and Nonfiction
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#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection
"Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget." — USA Today
Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut,
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Batholomeo di Crespi, a bachelor decorator in the upscale New Jersey town of Our Lady of Fatima, circa 1970. His exquisite taste in fabrics and decor have made B well respected in OLOF; he's decorated all the important houses, from his divorced older sister's Georgian manor to Aurelia Mandelbaum's mansion. Aurelia's myopic daughter Capri, still living at home at age 40, has been B's unofficial fiancee for 20 years, but this was their mothers' idea,...
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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.
In turn-of-the-century Italy, fourteen-year-old Josephine, sheltered and naive, is forced into an arranged marriage to a man she doesn't know or love who is about to depart for America, where she later joins him. Bound by tradition, Josephine gives birth to seven children. The last, Valentina, is conceived...
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Italian American Heritage Month
OBD Audiobooks - Historical Fiction
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Italian American Heritage Month
OBD Audiobooks - Historical Fiction
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Two star-crossed lovers--Enza and Ciro--meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever. Set during the years preceding and during World War I.
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Count Down To New Years
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Green Hills February Bind Date with a Book Display
HPL Cozy Winter Reads 2023
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Green Hills February Bind Date with a Book Display
HPL Cozy Winter Reads 2023
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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 Italy. 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...
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Primas of power volume 2
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AMPL National Hispanic Heritage
Adult - Hispanic Heritage Month
Best Books of 2021 (SCPL)
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Adult - Hispanic Heritage Month
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After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic designer. So what if her love life is nonexistent? She's perfectly fine being the black sheep of her marriage-obsessed Puerto Rican-Italian family. Besides, the only guy who ever made her want happily-ever-after disappeared thirteen years ago. Gabriel Aguilar left the Bronx at eighteen to escape his parents' demanding expectations,...
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D'Angelos volume 2
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"With two protective older brothers and a traditional Catholic Italian mother, it's surprising that Chloe D'Angelo can manage a date without someone in the family naysaying her romantic choice. And Dante Mancuso...oh, no. Her brother's best friend is not a dating-app right swipe. But when they are left unsupervised on a late night in Vegas, all of that changes. Add in a Vegas wedding chapel and a couple of "I dos" and Chloe wakes up with a ring on...
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"When midwife Sarah and detective Frank Malloy's friend and new partner Gino Donatelli is accused of murder, he and Sarah must catch the real killer to keep him alive. . . . A young woman is missing in the upper Manhattan neighborhood called Italian Harlem, and everyone knows who's responsible--the Black Hand, a notorious group known for terrorizing their own community with violence and kidnappings. Gino and Frank set out to learn more about the disreputable...
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Godfather series (Mark Winegardner) volume 2
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It is 1963 in New York, and things have never been better for the Corleones. One problem remains however - Michael has sworn revenge upon the traitorous former Corleone capo, Nick Geraci. Up until now Geraci has evaded him. And to add to this Jimmy Shea, president of the United States and close friend of the Corleone's, is assassinated.
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For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family's future. He worries most about his eldest son, who wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a part of the family business. A prequel to The Godfather, The Family Corleone is an exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, and will appeal to the legions of fans who can never get enough of The Godfather, as well as introduce it to a whole...
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Godfather series (Mark Winegardner) volume 1
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Michael Corleone, youngest son of crime boss Vito Corleone and reigning Don of the Corleone Family, returns from exile in Sicily intending to take over the family organization; however, he must first face his main adversary, Nick Geraci, who worked as a Corleone street enforcer and is every bit as deadly as Michael.
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2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America's gilded class, famous for the lavish 'summer cottages' of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who...
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 10
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Mary DiNunzio is approached by Trish Gambone, a high school friend, about Lisa's abusive partner who belongs to the South Philly mob. Mary finds she is pulled into a case which touches her own emotions and memories of growing up in Philadelphia.
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