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Past
Book Club Selections
View Past Book Club
Selections
WINTER 2004 SELECTIONS:
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Italian
American Writers on New Jersey Editors Jennifer
Gillian, Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Edvige Giunta.
This anthology of poetry, fiction, memoirs and stories
present New Jersey life as experienced by such gifted
Italian American writers as Gay Talese, Louise De
Salvo and Maria Laurino, author of Were You Always
Italian? [$21.95*; soft cover; 290 pages;
Rutgers University Press] |
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Christ
in Concrete by Pietro di Donato.
This classic novel, written during the Depression,
depicts life in an Italian American working class
family. The novel describes how this blue-collar
family struggles to find work, overcome discrimination
and survive tragedy in search of the American dream.
[$6.95*; soft cover; 236 pages; Signet Classics]
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Where
the Birds Never Sing by Jack Sacco.
This biography of Joe Sacco, written by his son
Jack, reveals his life as a soldier during World
War II, and includes the liberation of the infamous
Dachau concentration camp. Sacco’s story is
accompanied by historic photographs of what he saw.
[$24.95*; hardcover; 336 pages; Regan Books]
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*Reflects list price. Discounts may apply through
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