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Both a top world-ranked professional poker player and long-time columnist
for the premiere poker magazine, CardPlayer, Vince Burgio is one of the
poker world’s most notable Italian-American players/celebrities.
In his much-anticipated and colorful autobiography, “Pizza, Pasta and Poker: The Private and Public Life of a Professional Poker Player,” Vince opens up to his readers and takes them on an emotional journey filled with laughter and tears.
Against the backdrop of his Italian heritage, Vince begins his story as
a young boy in Kansas City, Missouri, where his passion for poker began.
Visit Vince's website at www.PokerVince.com
Vince Burgio |
 My friends say I'm cute, charming, truthful and loveable. My friends never lie. I pay them well. Read my memoir, Marriage, Kidneys, and Other Dark Organs, if you want to really know me. Don't forget to look for my new fiction novel "They Was Holdin' Hands."
Birth Place: Albany, NY USA
Accomplishments: Venera Di Bella Barles is a writer living on Bainbridge
Island, Washington and an active member of the writing community. She has
compleated three books, one of which is her memoir, Marriage, Kidneys,
and Other Dark Organs. Her latest book a Mainstream literary fiction about
the the suicide deaths of three elderly women living in a remote mining
town. They Was Holdin Hands will be released soon. She has examples of
her writings on various sites on the web. Venera also enjoys writing essays
and short stories.
Remembering a Son and Daughter of Italy by Venera Di Bella Barles is, "A prologue of the reasons I wrote
my memoir telling the stories of my Italian immigrant parents...."
Visit the web site of Venera Di Bella Barles |
 Calabria! It was there on the sign up ahead. I hadn’t anticipated this strong reaction. Tears edged down my face.
“No, you can’t cry,” I told myself. “You’re not familiar with this road, nor with the crazy Italian drivers.”
We weren’t even near my grandpa’s tiny town of Umbriatico. The rugged mountains he had talked about hadn’t begun to appear yet. But we were actually in Calabria. I felt like I had come home.
Please, God, all I want is to see the house where Grandma and Grandpa lived. I don’t know how we’ll know where it is. I’ll trust that to you. I just want to see where they lived.
Treasure of My Heart by Christine Caligiuri is an Italian immigrant experience you will not forget. |
I once bought a tee shirt at the feast of San Genaro, in Little Italy in
New York City.
It read: "America – We Discovered It – We Built It – And We Feed It
"
That statement is so true.
Comming to America - Lou's story
My Summers at Orchard Beach
Lou Cubello |
 The child of Italian immigrants, Antonia Sparano Geiser learned to appreciate her family's traditions and cultural heritage together
with their reverence for education, great food, and great operatic music.
Her book: Innocent Heart, Laughter and Tears is a captivating
account of the life of Maria Marzia Maiello, her beloved mother, Vincenza, and
her loving brothers.
Born in 1920, Maria was raised in the small Italian town of San Nicola
La Strada, in the Campania Region, twenty miles north of Naples. Maria
learned early that family was the only true wealth, and hard work was at
the core of life.
Antonia Sparano Geiser |
I first started tracing my family history in 1992.
Naturally, just like everyone else, I started with who and what I already
knew about my Di Bernardo History.
What I didn't know was the rewards that I would find waiting for me eleven
years later.
A Dream Comes True - Toni's Story
My Memory Of My Trip To Camigliano
Toni DiBernardo Jones |
 Regina Marracco - Jeano was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and comes from a very traditional
Italian family. She boasts that she makes ‘the best meatballs in the entire
world.’
She enjoyed a successful career as a Travel Agent, visiting much of the world.
Upon the death of her husband, she embarked on a long dreamed of adventure; she packed up and moved to Weybridge, England for six months, knowing not a single soul there.
"It should have been a disaster" she says now. "It was the most incredible experience. I made friends, lifelong friends, found the ‘self’ who wasn’t just "Jerry’s wife", and I started writing again, the blog and articles for an on-line satire magazine, The Rockall Times."
Jeano started writing a journal she dubbed "Oh to be in England" as a way for the folks at home to share her experiences. It has grown into a blog favorite at MSN Spaces, was featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and will soon be published on line on a literary e-zine. It’s wry, sarcastic, and very, very funny, and the culture and customs on both sides of the Atlantic are not spared.
Jeano is back in Weybridge now, has just finished a novel, and continues to write her blog.
The current web address is: www.rmcroyal.spaces.live.com The original blog is located at: www.livelogcity.com/users/rmcroyal |
Anthony Maulucci is the author of two novels, The Rosselli Cantata and The Discovery of Luminous Being, a collection of short stories, Adriana's Eyes and Other Stories, and a poetry chapbook, All for Love.
His work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines. He also writes plays and does stage and radio adaptations of the classics, including The Trojan Women, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Brothers Karamazov.
Primavera On Mulberry Street
Anthony Maulucci |
The Book
Vito Petracca is dead. Now his family must learn to cope with the loss of their father. Through the eyes of his family, Vito Petracca is perceived by his children as a strong figure in their lives. Mary, his widow emerges from the cocoon of his influence into her own persona.
Strong passions, pride, and vendettas propel each character to sculpt their
own destinies. Their lives are ruled by their Sicilian traditions. As the
tapestry of their lives unfolds none of what happens is predictable.
The web of intrigue is a stunning revelation of a medieval Sicilian culture, who’s roots are in the Greek Norman, Spanish, French and Arabic cultures.
The PaTriarch : a Sicilian Tale is available through Author House - Click Here
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 The Author
Anna Mione born in 1929 of Sicilian immigrants in East Harlem, New York City. Educated in New York, she earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano and a Masters in Music Education at Manhattan School of Music.
She taught in Catholic as well as public schools, and did the bulk of her public school teaching in Ossining, New York.
Married to a Metropolitan opera basso, Ezio Flagello, they had four children. Twenty five years later, after the divorce, Anna traveled extensively abroad and sought her family’s roots in Corleone, Sicily.
The visit followed by other visits, stimulated her imagination, and she turned her writing skills to telling the story of the Sicilian emigration. In December of 1999, she began her stories. She’s written two trilogies.
The Patriarch is the first novel in her second trilogy. Two other books Matriarch I and Matriarch II complete the tome.
Visit the website of Anna Mione
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 Being a 13th generation American of English descent and marrying a first generation Italian-American, my eyes have been opened to the rich Italian culture of the hard working Italians who worked long, back breaking days with a pick and shovel digging out the New York subways.
These poor uneducated immigrants came through Ellis Island with only a hope for a better life for their family. With hard work and determination they were able to realized their "American dream."
My Pop's Fruit & Vegetable Business
Bette Scavone |
My memoir "
From the Door to the Gate" starts at the Door, an opening in the wall that once protected the hilltop town in Southern Italy, still living with the Feudal class system, when I was born in 1922. The peasant,the middle class and the gentry lived separate lives. I was born a peasant but because of my unique situation I was able to observe the lifestyle of all three. I write about the details of daily living that led to immigration of so many and about which they did not talk once they got to America. I came to the U.S. in 1934 and entered the NYC school system as a 12 year old first grader.
Rose Costanza Tangredi |
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