Captures the pulse of Little Italy as Joey Dee, whose heart's desire is to cruise Vegas in a blue Caddy, postpones his dream to save his slow-learning friend Vito, an accidental witness to a brutal murder

Joey Dee Gets Wise: A Novel of Little Italy

Literature & Fiction

Ermelino, Louisa

United States

St Martins Pr

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. 15,000 first printing.

The Black Madonna: A Novel

Simon&Schuster

Coming of age in the tough 1920s Irish neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, Italian sisters Helen, a widow and libertine, and Mary, a possible mobster's wife, protectively encourage their third sister, Aggie, to leave her gambler husband and consider drastic measures to get her away from him. 25,000 first printing.

The Sisters Mallone: Una Storia di Famiglia

Three mothers--Teresa, Magdalena, and Antoinette--from New York's Little Italy, struggling to maintain their traditions while their sons chafe under the oppressive weight of their ethnic community, find their lives forever changed by the power of love and faith. Reprint.

The Black Madonna

Contemporary

Kensington Pub. Corp

Captures the pulse of Little Italy as Joey Dee, whose goal in life is to cruise Vegas in a blue Caddy, postpones his dream to save his slow-learning friend Vito, an accidental witness to a brutal murder, while fending off the amorous advances of his girlfriend's mother. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Joey Dee Gets Wise

Coming of age in the tough 1920s Irish neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, Italian sisters Helen and Mary, protectively encourage their third sister, Aggie, to leave her gambler husband and consider drastic measures to get her away from him. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

The Sisters Mallone

Women's Fiction

The Black Madonna has long protected her mountain villagers in southern Italy, and some say she followed her people to America. What else explains the magic and miracles on Spring Street in Little Italy over the decades?  Teresa, whose son Nicky should never have walked again after his four-story fall, keeps a holy card of the Black Madonna hidden beneath her underwear. Magdalena, beautiful and mysterious, can make any man fall in love with her, including her stepson Salvatore, by praying secretly to an image of the Black Madonna in her attic. And Antoinette, after giving birth to five girls, had Jumbo, the biggest baby Spring Street ever saw -- once she had the Black Madonna's portrait in her kitchen.  Vibrant, dark-souled creatures who get their way, control their lives, and pass on arcane knowledge like family heirlooms from generation to generation, Teresa, Magdalena, and Antoinette, with their intersecting lives, take center stage in The Black Madonna. This is an exploration of how each woman, and her beloved son, is forever changed by the Madonna of Viggiano. Louisa Ermelino's wonderful novel reveals a delicious truth: that it is the Italian-American women who hold the secrets -- and the power -- from the "other side," and that they know how to use them.  A celebration of mother love and magic, The Black Madonna is filled with the sights, sounds, smells, and taste of Little Italy. Ultimately, it is a vibrant and life-affirming saga that all Americans will want to embrace as their own.

The Mallone sisters look Irish, but don’t let their blue eyes fool you. “It’s all in how you say it,” their grandma Anona proudly says. “Ma-llone is Irish. Mal-lon-e is Italian.” Growing up Italian in the 1920s, in Hell’s Kitchen, an Irish enclave, requires toughness, thrift, and a calculating mind―even for the three beautiful Mallone sisters. And when their baby sister Gracie is swept off her feet by no-good Frankie Merelli, Helen and Mary will do anything to make sure Grace gets the life she deserves, even if that means going after her husband… The Sisters Mallone is a black comedy about the power of sisterhood and the importance of family―and family connections. Through irrepressible characters, and infectious and suspenseful writing, The Sisters Mallone reveals the American immigrant’s dream―with a twist.

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A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road 
2014 James Beard Award Nominee and 2014 Society of Travel Writers Foundation Thomas Lowell Travel Journalism Bronze Award Winner for Travel Book 
Join us at the table for this 34-course banquet of original stories from food-obsessed writers and chefs sharing their life-changing food experiences. 
The dubious joy of a Twinkie, the hunger-sauced rhapsody of fish heads, the grand celebration of an Indian wedding feast; the things we eat and the people we eat with remain powerful signposts in our memories, long after the plates have been cleared. Tuck in, and bon appetit! 
Featuring tales from: James Oseland, Frances Mayes, Giles Coren, Curtis Stone, Annabel Langbein, Neil Perry, Tamasin Day-Lewis, Jay Rayner, Madhur Jaffrey, Michael Pollan, Josh Ozersky, Marcus Samuelsson, Naomi Duguid, Jane and Michael Stern, Francine Prose, Ma Thanegi, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Rita Mae Brown, Monique Truong, Fuschia Dunlop, David Kamp, Mas Masumoto, Daniel Vaughn, Tom Carson, Andre Aciman, MJ Hyland, Alan Richman, Beth Kracklauer, Sigrid Nunez, Chang Rae Lee, Julia Reed, Gael Greene 
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A Fork In The Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery On The Road (Lonely Planet Travel Literature)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

MAYES, Frances

Carson, Tom

Pollan, Michael

Yan, Martin

Nuñez, Sigrid

Prose, Francine

SAMUELSSON, MARCUS

Duguid, Naomi

Masumoto, David Mas

Truong, Monique

Oseland, James

Kamp, David

Dunlop, Fuchsia

Thanegi, Ma

LANGBEIN, Annabel

Hemmings, Kaui Hart

Tan, Sandi

RAYNER, Jay

Perry, Neil

Day-Lewis, Tamasin

Hall, Carla

DUNTHORNE, JOE

Ozersky, Josh

Stone, Curtis

GREENE, Gael

Vaughn, Daniel

Richman, Alan

Coren, Giles

Kracklauer, Beth

Michael, Jane Stern

Hyland, M.J.

Brown, Rita Mae.

Aciman, André

JAFFREY,Madhur

Cooking Education & Reference

Lonely Planet

Louisa Ermelino's stories follow women living dangerously at home and abroad, whether in Italian-American neighborhoods or in the countriesIndia, Turkey, Afghanistanwhere they seek escape. At home, they break ancient Italian taboos and fall victim to mobsters. Overseas, they smoke opium-laced hashish and sleep with strange men. Ermelino's voice is boisterous and endearingly blunt. There is lyricism in the language of Ms. Ermelino’s splendid collection that lulls us, line after seductive line, from the mundane to the menacing. Malafemmena is the work of a bold and original writer.” Gay Talese "Written with generosity, curiosity, and a great deal of sharp wit.... Will speak to anyone who's found themselves gloriously stranded in a foreign land...or bemused by the strange rituals of their own tribe." Hanya Yanagihara What Louisa Ermelino knows about the heart could fill a book and has. The unadorned authenticity of her prose is so powerful, it gave me whiplash. I read Malafemmena in one sitting and wanted more, more, more. The writer's a genius, or an alchemist, or maybe both.” Patricia Volk, author of Stuffed and Shocked Louisa Ermelino is a gorgeous writer and master storyteller. Imagine a cross between Maugham and The Sopranos. She captures the madness, comedy, violence, and superstition of domestic life in NYC’s Little Italy, but also takes us all over the worldJakarta, India, Turkeywhere her characters stumble in and out of heartbreak and trouble. This book is irresistible. I loved it.” Delia Ephron Louisa Ermelino is the author of three previous novels: Joey Dee Gets Wise (Kensington, 2004), The Black Madonna (Simon &amp; Schuster, reprint, 2013), and The Sisters Mallone (Simon &amp; Schuster, reprint, 2013). She is Vice President and Reviews Director at Publishers Weekly in New York City.

Malafemmena

Sarabande Books

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