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Away

By Amy Bloom
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Siberia to find the missing girl.

Bella Fortuna

By Rosanna Chiofalo

Preparing for her wedding in Venice to a man she has loved since childhood, bridal gown designer Valentina DeLuca is forced to re-evaluate her life in this magical city where she hopes her luck will change.

Big Cherry Holler

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Big Stone Gap Novels
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Big Cherry Holler, the extraordinary sequel to Big Stone Gap, takes us back to the mountain life that enchanted us in Adriana Trigiani’s best selling debut novel (From the Publisher).”

Big Stone Gap

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Big Stone Gap Novels
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Ave Maria's life in Big Stone Gap, VA, is essentially the same as it's been for all 35 years of her life, but after her mother's will reveals that the man Ave thought was her father isn't, she begins to lose hold of her routine… In between panic attacks and shouting matches, Ave tries to figure out what all these changes mean in her life (Library Journal).”

Black Madonna

By Louise Ermelino

Three mothers from New York’s Little Italy struggle to maintain their traditions while their sons chafe under the oppressive weight of their ethnic community

Brava, Valentine

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Valentine Trilogy
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

When Valentine Roncalli discovers a long-lost shoe design, a family secret unravels that helps her take control of the company from a conniving relative, but first she seeks the counsel of her ex-fiancé, Bret Fitzpatrick, to help re-boot the business.

Elizabeth Street

By Laurie Fabiano

A multigenerational saga that opens in an Italian village in the 1900s and then crosses the ocean to New York's Lower East Side to tell the dramatic story of the heroine, Giovanna, and how she triumphs over tragedy.

Ellis Island

By Kate Kerrigan

After her husband, a soldier for the Irish Republican Army, is injured and can no longer work, Ellie Hogan immigrates to New York City where she, working as a maid for a wealthy socialite, becomes tempted by this glittering new world -- and by a charming suitor who can give her all she ever wanted.

Fortunate Pilgrim

By Mario Puzo
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, March 14, 2011.  7 PM.

At the head of the Angeluzzi-Corbo family stands Lucia Santa, wife, widow and mother of two families. It is her formidable will that steers them through the Depression. But even she cannot prevent the violence which follows.

Good American

By Alex George
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The Meisenheimer family struggle to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than just music and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.

Her Mother’s Hope

By Francine Rivers
Series Marta's Legacy
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“The first in an epic two-book saga, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters over several generations… Each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world (From the Publisher).”

Home to Big Stone Gap

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Big Stone Gap Novels
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney confronts dramatic changes in her life--her daughter's marriage and move to Italy, her husband's new job, and a mysterious stranger with a long-buried secret--as she must come to terms with the past in order to build a new life for herself… (From the Publisher).”

Immigrants

By Howard Fast
Series Lavette Family

In this first novel of an epic family saga recounting the rise of a poor fisherman's son from the cataclysmic depths of the San Francisco earthquake to become the head of a powerful shipping empire. He will risk all for a forbidden love.

Milk Glass Moon

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Big Stone Gap Novels
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Ave Maria faces unexpected tests of her faith, conscience, and understanding as her daughter, Etta, confronts adulthood, her friends in Big Stone Gap deal with major life changes of their own, and her husband sets out to reinvent his life (From the Publisher).”

My New American Life

By Francine Prose

While working for an idealistic college professor, twenty-six-year old Lula, an Albanian trying to make a better life for herself in America, finds her life taking a complicated turn when her Albanian "brothers" return, in a novel set in the aftermath of 9/11.

Once We Were Brothers

By Ronald H. Balson
Recommended By Susan L., Library Page
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 25, 2017. 1:30 PM.

Elliot Rosenzweig, a wealthy Chicago philanthropist, is attending opening night at the opera. Ben Solomon, a retired Polish immigrant, makes his way through the crowd and shoves a gun in Rosenzweig's face, denouncing him as former SS officer. Rosenzweig uses his enormous influence to get Solomon released from jail, but Solomon commences a relentless pursuit to bring Rosenzweig before the courts to answer for war crimes.

Panic in a Suitcase

By Yelena Akhtiorskaya
In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the fall of communism and the rise of globalization are artfully reflected in the experience of a single family. Ironies, subtle and glaring, are revealed: the Nasmertovs left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a huge sense of finality, only to find that the divide between the old world and the new is not nearly as clear-cut as they thought.

Playing for Pizza

By John Grisham
Recommended By Rosemary Moran, Senior Library Clerk

Cut from the Cleveland Browns after the worst performance in the history of the NFL, Rick Dockery, desperate to play football, is hired by the Panthers of Parma, Italy, and finds himself confronted by the confusing diversity of Italian culture, language,and romance.

Run

Run

By Ann Patchett
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons' career choices before a violent event forces the members of his family to reconsider their priorities.

Russian Debutante's Handbook

By Gary Shteyngart

Vladimir Girshkin just wants to figure out who he is — neurotic kid trying to prove his worth to his parents or Russian gangster — but he has a ways to go before he gets an inkling. Manic, often absurdist, and lots of fun, Shteyngart’s debut novel is also one of his best, told in his signature quirky, ironic tone with more than a hint of social commentary.

School of Essential Ingredients

By Erica Bauermeister

Gathering at Lillian's Restaurant for a weekly cooking class, a young mother struggles with the growing demands of her family, an Italian kitchen designer works to adapt to life in America, and a widower mourns the loss of his wife to breast cancer.

Snow in August

By Pete Hamill

Michael Devlin, an 11–year–old Irish American, meets Rabbi Hirsch, recently arrived from Europe, and in return for teaching the rabbi about baseball and English, the rabbi teaches Michael Yiddish and tells him about Prague, until an Irish gang becomes violent in its anti–Semitism.

Speed of Light

By Elizabeth Rosner
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

“It’s not hard to like this lyrical, gently paced debut that confronts the terrible legacy carried by children of trauma and tragedy.  Paula Perel and her older brother Julian bear the anguish of their father’s Holocaust memories in vastly different ways … thoughtful, earnest novel … (Kirkus Reviews).”

Very Valentine

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Valentine Trilogy
Recommended By Ann Competello, Library Clerk

Very Valentine is a sumptuous treat, a journey of dreams fulfilled, a celebration of love and loss filled with Trigiani's trademark heart and humor (From the Publisher).”

Villa Mirabella

By Peter Pezzelli
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk

“In his acclaimed novels of Italian-American life, Pezzelli explores themes of friendship, hope, and second chances. With Villa Mirabella, he invites readers into the lives of an unforgettable family - and into the warmth of one very special bed and breakfast... (From the Publisher).”