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Sons of Italy Book Club
The Sons of Italy Book Club is dedicated to the fiction and non-fiction works of Italian American writers who focus on Italian American issues, themes and history.
Preference is given to books published by the major publishing houses (Random House, HarperCollins, Penguin Books, etc.) because such titles are widely available through bookstores nationally and on amazon.com. (See "How to Order Online")
The Sons of Italy Book Club will choose three to four titles each quarter for a total of 12 to 16 titles a year. The selections will be announced to the press, posted on the Sons of Italy Web site (www.osia.org) and published in the Sons of Italy magazine, Italian America, the most widely read cultural publication for Italian Americans in the United States.
The Sons of Italy encourages its 745 chapters around the country to choose one or more of the books each quarter and use part of their monthly meeting time to discuss it.
HOW TO ORDER:
- Book Club selections are available through local bookstores nationwide.
- To order online, click on the "Buy from amazon.com" button next to each book.
- Buy ANY product from Amazon.com through a partnership with the Sons of Italy.
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WINTER 2008 SELECTIONS:
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Kimchi & Calamari
By Rose Kent
Fourteen-year-old Korean adoptee Joseph Calderaro is stumped when his social studies teacher assigns an ancestry essay. He doesn’t know his birth parents and even though he thoroughly enjoys his Italian American family he begins a search for his birth family.
Kent's debut novel humorously captures a young teen as he fights with his sisters, has crushes on girls and makes a new friend. The book has special appeal for adoptees, but the questions about family roots that it raises are universal. A great read for ages 9-12. [$15.99; hardcover; 240 pages; HarperCollins]
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Italian Lessons
By Peter Pezzelli
Two lonely men form an unlikely friendship in Pezzelli’s latest novel. Fresh out of college, Carter Quinn returns to Providence, R.I. unsure of everything except his plans to go to Abruzzo to pursue the woman he loves. He can’t speak Italian so he turns to Professor Giancarlo Rosa, who knows first-hand what disappointments and betrayals are found under Italy’s blue skies. What begins as an apparent mismatch between teacher and student soon blossoms into a friendship that teaches both of them about life, love and forgotten secrets. [$14.00; paperback; 320 pages; Kensington]
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
By Rick Atkinson
Vol. II of Pulitzer-winning author Rick Atkinson’s projected trilogy on WW II covers the liberation of Italy from German control. It follows the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and attack on the mainland Italy two months later, ending with the liberation of Rome in June 1944.
Military historians still debate whether the Italian campaign was necessary, but Atkinson shows it was there that the American army honed its battle skills despite paying a high price for the mistakes their generals made. [$35.00; hardcover; 816 pages; Henry Holt and Co.]
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Playing for Pizza
By John Grisham
After causing his team to lose a championship game, third-string quarterback Rick Dockery flees vengeful fans and finds refuge in the most unlikely corner of professional football: the Italian National Football League. First baffled and then enchanted by all things Italian, Rick navigates his new home in this charming fish-out-of-water novel. [$21.95; hardcover; 272 pages; Doubleday]
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Sicily Through Symbolism and Myth
By Paolo Fiorentino
“Sicily for the Ancient Greet was what America was for the19th century Europeans: a promised land of plenty,” writes Sicilian scholar Gaetano Cipolla in the introduction to Fiorentino’s study, which offers an in-depth, analysis of the Greek and Roman myths associated with the largest island in the Mediterranean. [$12.95; paperback; 124 pages; Legas]
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