USA Today Bestselling Author Shandi Boyes has published over fifty titles, including mafia romance, contemporary romance, and romantic suspense!
In The Craft John Dickie, a leading expert on the Italian mafia, looks at the world of Freemasonry. Many of us associate the Freemasons with weird handshakes, strange rituals and possibly behind-the-scenes world domination. But truth can be stranger than fiction... Read expert recommendations ...
How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science. In 1749, the cele… September 21, 2024 Women of the Mafia Felia Allum Hosted byMiranda Melcher Women of the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra ...
Below, we've collected together all the times books by winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature have been recommended on Five Books. These books were chosen in interviews on an array of topics.Buy now Listen now The Vegetarian by Han Kang 🏆 Winner of the 2016 International Booker Prize...
movies likeThe Godfather,Goodfellas, and many more, we’re all at least a little bit familiar with the Italian organized crime structure known as the mafia. We know about the importance of family, about making them an “offer they can’t refuse,”“sleeping with the fishes,” and so on...
Title and brief summaries of the seven books about the Mafia that Jerry Capeci has authored and co-authored over the years.
Italian Women in Chicago: Madonna Mia! QUI debbo vivere? By Karen Tintori Featuring two accounts by Karen Tintori, this latest book from Casa Italia is an anthology about the Italian American experience as seen through the eyes of women. The first book to focus exclusively on Chicago, it reve...
InTalking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know(2019), Gladwell focuses on how people have difficulty communicating with strangers and how the consequences of such interactions can be life-altering.The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of ...
Italian journalist Roberto Saviano was twenty-six years old when he published his first book, Gomorrah, to international acclaim. The book, which has gone on to sell 10 million copies worldwide, was a detailed exposé of the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, whose organized crime tactics have ...
The mafia reality is too tawdry for anything but the good days to have been in the past. There’s much talk about inheritance—”among the inheritors [of the old-world, Italian mafia and mafia practices] were such men as Frank Labruzzo and Bill Bonanno, who now, in the mid-1960s, ...