Following Antonietta and Loris's first kiss in the shadows of the Italian Alps barely a year after the end of the Second World War, the couple was divided by a distance far greater than could ever have been imagined. With...
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Auteur:Ricci, NinoSommaire:Set in Toronto and Italy, this powerful sequel to In a Glass House explores the sometimes forbidden aspect of desire and one's longing for what is unrecoverable. Victor Innocente remeets his half-sister in Toronto, shortly after...
- Auteur:Tomchuk, TravisSommaire:
Italian anarchism emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century, during that country’s long and bloody unification. Often facing economic hardship and political persecution, many of Italy’s anarchists migrated to North America....
- Auteur:Edwards, CaterinaSommaire:
Fulvia, the Mafia Princess, must be a dutiful daughter or the family will be dishonoured. Though she eventually escapes and makes a new life in Canada, she is betrayed and then her husband is murdered on the Sicilian coast. The police...
- Auteur:Trigiani, AdrianaSommaire:
The fateful first meeting of Enza and Ciro takes place amid the haunting majesty of the Italian Alps at the turn of the last century. Still teenagers, they are separated when Ciro is banished from his village and sent to hide in New...
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Auteur:Favro, TerriSommaire:In Niagara of the 1960s, a mysterious proxy bride arrives from Italy to marry a candy shop owner with crime connections, only to fall in love with her proxy husband’s teenaged son. Part fairy tale, part gritty realism, The Proxy Bride...
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Auteur:Pepper-Smith, RobertSommaire:Robert Pepper-Smith's trilogy of novels chronicling the lives of those with deep roots in the orchard lands of British Columbia comes full circle with this volume, collecting newly revised editions of The Wheel Keeper and House of...
- Auteur:Temelini, WalterSommaire:
The Leamington Italian Community intertwines personal and family stories with both empirical and intuitive writing to offer new historical insights into the complex social, economic, and psychological causes and effects of the migration...
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Auteur:Medaglia, LinaSommaire:A mesmerizing novel of betrayal, loss, and multiple identities, this is the story of Licia Giganteschi, for whom it takes half a lifetime to go back home, to a place she loves and hates at the same time. Licia grows up in the beautiful...
- Auteur:Battigelli, Rosanna MicelottaSommaire:
The characters in Pigeon Soup & Other Stories are navigating relationships and grappling with issues of translocation, language and identity, religion and culture, and food. These tales portray the dark places they inhabit...
- Auteur:Morgan, SarahSommaire:
Laurel Ferrara wouldn't know a happy ending if she fell over it--of course her whirlwind wedding was always going to end in disaster. But it wasn't as simple as just walking away. From the moment she is summoned back to Sicily, the...
- Auteur:Carbone, StanislaoSommaire:
Italians in Winnipeg offers an overview of the Italian-Canadian experience in Winnipeg based on general social history and the stories of families and individuals. The book’s six chapters cover several historical periods, as well as the...
- Auteur:Di Sciascio-Andrews, JosieSommaire:
From the moment explorer Giovanni Caboto stepped onto Canadian soil, Italians have left their footprints on Canadian history.
- Auteur:McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
When her niece Cat travels to a wedding in Italy, Isabel agrees to fill in at Cat's delicatessen. She takes note of a customer named Ian, who is avoiding chocolate--doctors say it's bad for the new heart he recently recieved. Ian is...
- Auteur:Cancian, SoniaSommaire:
In a micro-analysis of 400 private letters, including three collections that incorporate letters from both sides of the Atlantic, Sonia Cancian provides new evidence on the bidirectional flow of communication during migration. She...
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Auteur:DiGiovanni, Caroline MorganSommaire:This is the third anthology of Italian Canadian writers organized and edited by Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni with support from Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana, Toronto. The first Italian Canadian Voices in 1984 contained the first...
- Auteur:Moser, NancySommaire:
Moser whisks listeners away to 1895 Newport, Rhode Island--summer playground to the elite of the Gilded Age--for a tale of unexpected romance. As the lives of an immigrant dressmaker, her socialite friend, and their unlikely suitors...
- Auteur:Porter, JaneSommaire:
Vittorio d'Severano was everything Jillian Smith wanted - until she discovered his secret life & her dreams of living happily ever after crumbled into dust. Brokenhearted, Jill disappeared. Now Vitt has returned - to claim the tiny...
