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1) Limbo
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven-year-old Afghan War veteran Manuela Paris returns to her hometown near Rome, where she struggles against the flashbacks and pain resulting from a bloody attack that left her seriously injured.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In April 1903, the steamship Republic spills more than two thousand immigrants onto Ellis Island. Among them are Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, nine, sent by their poor families in southern Italy to make their way in America. Amid the chaos and splendor of New York, the misery and criminality of Little Italy, and the shady tenants of Vita's father's decrepit Prince Street boarding house, Diamante and Vita struggle to survive, to create a new life,...