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I miei nonni immigrati negli Stati Uniti nel secondo decennio del novecento erano stati sponsorizzati a New York da un fratello di mia nonna, immigrato anche lui alcuni anni prima.  Peró mio nonno non era contento di stare a New York, e dopo due anni tornarono in Sicilia.  Nato parecchi anni prima di mia nonna, una giovane nei primi ventenni, mio n...

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This bilingual picture book in Italian and English is an adventurous story featuring two cats, Octavia and Julius, who call the ancient monuments of Rome their home. Children follow the cats as they journey through Rome’s most famous sites including the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps and the Colosseum, to name a few. This book is a fun way to in...

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Say the word “Italian” and the word “food” almost always immediately comes to mind. The Italians know how to cook and they know how to eat. This isn’t news to author Andrew Cotto, whose new novel, Cucina Tipica: An Italian Adventure follows an American who travels to Italy and falls in love with just about everything there, including, of course, th...

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Good wine paired with good food and a mystery about tainted grappa to solve are among the ingredients for local author Gina Fava’s latest fast-paced thriller. In “Formula: Another HELL Ranger Thriller,” her Formula 1 race car champion and spy Devlin “Lucky” Lucchesi travels to a winery in Verona, Italy, to solve a modern day threat that endangers h...

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Congratulations to NIAF Member Rossella Rago for the release of her newest cookbook, “Cooking with Nonna: A Year of Italian Holidays: 130 Classic Holiday Recipes from Italian Grandmothers.” With advice from Italian grandmothers all over the country, the book covers holiday classics from every region of Italy and includes holiday memories from the g...

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Wednesday November 14, 7:00 pm. Book Passage 51 - Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA 94925. Meet author Donna DiGiuseppe at her Path to Publishing Event! Lady in Ermine: The Story of a Woman Who Painted the Renaissance reveals the discovery of an historic figure who embodies the struggle of women throughout the ages while immersing the reader in th...

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As a former international supermodel, Maria Liberati never dreamed that she would go from being a fashion diva to a domestic diva. Ironically, while jet-setting off to modeling assignments around the world, Maria became closer to the simplicity of life and food in the country setting of her family’s vineyard in the mountains of central Italy. She b...

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Generations of people have taken the leap that many of us only dream of by moving to Italy and immersing themselves into a completely new culture and way of life. The books below are the literary mirror to the experiences of those who did take the plunge and decided to live the dream: set in many different regions of Italy, they describe the experi...

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Sunday November 11, 3 pm. EDT, Garibaldi Meucci Museum · 420 Tompkins Avenue · Staten Island, NY 10305. John Anselmo Book Presentation, "Moonlight over Tuscany". "What happens in Tuscany, stays in Tuscany." "Oh, really? Well that is what Marissa Dodd's tells her just before she is about to depart for a Tuscan cooking school in the summer of 2014. I...

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The companion book to the documentary film, A Filmmaker’s Journey reveals the process by which the author/filmmaker was able to capture on film the island nation’s natural beauty, its passionate people and epic human struggles, the depth and diversity of its culture, the philosophic insights that originated there, and its wealth of historic sites -...

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