Sons of Italy Releases Fall 2005 Book Club Selections
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Contact: Kylie Cafiero, (202) 547-2900 kcafiero@osia.org
WASHINGTON,
D.C. - October 12, 2005 Enjoy
Italian American Heritage month
by reading the Sons of Italy Fall
Book Club selections. Sail the
ocean with Columbus, examine Italian
ethnicity in America, and walk
along the battle trenches with
the heroic John Basilone.
• Cipango!
(The Story) by Anne Paolucci.
Marco Polo's description of Cipango,
(Renaissance Italian for
"Japan"), inspired Columbus to cross
an ocean to find it as we learn in this
short but powerful biography
of the greatest navigator of the Renaissance
by noted Columbus scholar
Anne Paolucci. The facts are enhanced
by excerpts from Paolucci's award-winning play, also named Cipango! A
"must-read" for adults and teens. [$14.95; paperback;
144 pages; Griffon House: to order call 302/677-0019]
• Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America by Thomas
J. Ferraro. How are Italian Americans different from today's Italians
and yesterday's immigrants? And are they losing their ethnicity? Feeling
Italian explores how Sinatra's music, Coppola's Godfather, Madonna's
Italian background and other cultural phenomena have shaped the Italian
American identity. [$21.00; paperback; 256 pages; NYU Press]
• I'm staying with my boys…: The heroic life
of Sgt. John Basilone by Jim Proser. Today, exactly 60 years after John
Basilone's death, author Jim Proser, tells Basilone's story in his own
voice, based on hundreds of hours of interviews with people who knew
him well. This is the only family-authorized biography of Basilone and
features many never-before-published family photographs. [$19.95; paperback;
354 pages; Lightbearer Communications Company]
ALSO
WORTH READING…
• Vita
By Melania G. Mazzucco
Winner of Italy's prestigious
Strega literary award, this novel follows two cousins
who arrive on Ellis Island in 1903 with 2,000 other
southern Italians. Mazzucco's inspiring immigrant
story follows the pair as they take on this often
harsh new world and try to make it their own. [$25.00;
hardcover; 448 pages; Farrar Straus Giroux]
• Odyssey
of an Etruscan Noblewoman
By Rosalind Burgundy
Etruscan scholar Burgundy brings
the ancient world to life through fictional heroine,
Larthia, an Etruscan noblewoman, living 500 years before
Christ. To escape her society's taboos for women, she
disguises herself as a man, becomes a scribe and faces
many life-threatening adventures. [$22.99; paperback;
347 pages; Xlibris Corporation]
• When One Stood Alone:
John J. Sirica's Battle Against the Watergate Conspiracy
By
Donald J. Farinacci, J.D.
Author Farinacci vividly
describes how Judge John J. Sirica, the judge that
presided over the Watergate trial, defeated the criminal
conspiracy led by President Nixon to cover up his administration's
role in this infamous episode that eventually led to
Nixon's resignation. [$17.84; paperback; 109 pages;
Xlibris Corporation]
The
Sons of Italy National Book Club is dedicated to
the works of writers who focus on Italian American
issues, themes, experiences and Italian culture.
OSIA chooses three to four fiction and non-fiction
books each quarter for a total of 12 to 16 titles
a year.
OSIA encourages its 700+ lodges as well as
other Italian American organizations, clubs and individuals
to choose one or more of the books each quarter to
read and donate copies to their local schools or
public libraries.
Most book club selections can be bought
on the OSIA Web site (www.osia.org).
Order all your
books, magazines, etc. through OSIA and Amazon.com.
Just go to www.osia.org, click on "Sons of Italy
Book Club" and choose either
a Book Club selection or another book or product. Most orders are shipped
within 24 hours.
As a special bonus, Amazon.com will donate a percentage
of all sales ordered on our site to OSIA.
OSIA is the largest and oldest national organization in the U.S. for men and women of Italian heritage in the United States. It has more than 600,000 members and supporters and a network of more than 700 chapters coast to coast. OSIA works at the community, national and international levels to promote the heritage and culture of an estimated 26 million Italian Americans, the nation's fifth largest ethnic group, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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