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Author:John Florio
Blind Moon Alley
The latest sequel in the Prohibition-Era crime series is "hard-boiled enough to remind readers of Hammett and Chandler," featuring the biracial bartender up against a corrupt cop (Kirkus Reviews). Jersey Leo knows what it means to be the underdog. After all, he's the guy...- $23.99
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Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti & the End of the American Dream
From John Florio and Emmy Award-winning writer Ouisie Shapiro comes a monumental YA nonfiction book about the heartbreaking case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants who were wrongfully executed for murder. In the early 1920s, a Red Scare gripped America. Many of those...- $20.99
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Florio's Italian English Dictionary of 1611
John Florio (1553-1625), known in Italian as Giovanni Florio [dʒoˈvanni ˈflɔːrjo], was a linguist and lexicographer, a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, and a possible friend and influence on William Shakespeare. He was also the first translator of Montaigne into...- $59.00
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Marked Man: Frank Serpico's Inside Battle Against Police Corruption
1971. Brooklyn, New York. Undercover cop Frank Serpico is knocking on a drug dealer's door. His partners are there to back him up, but when the door opens, he's staring down the barrel of a gun--and his partners are nowhere to be found. For...- $21.99
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One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime
One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America's pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport--fairness, competition, and mythology--came under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era that reshaped the game: the Koufax...- $19.95
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Author:John Florio
Sugar Pop Moon
The debut novel in a "riveting" Prohibition-era crime series "for readers who follow Kelli Stanley's Miranda Corbie series or Reed Farrel Coleman's Moe Prager books" (Library Journal). On the streets of Prohibition-era New York, Jersey Leo is one of a kind. A biracial albino...- $21.99
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The Decameron: (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels
Decameron, collection of tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, probably composed between 1349 and 1353. The work is regarded as a masterpiece of classical Italian prose. While romantic in tone and form, it breaks from medieval sensibility in its insistence on the human ability to overcome,...- $26.00
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The Decameron: (Day 6 to Day 10) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels
Decameron, collection of tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, probably composed between 1349 and 1353. The work is regarded as a masterpiece of classical Italian prose. While romantic in tone and form, it breaks from medieval sensibility in its insistence on the human ability to overcome,...- $23.00
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War in the Ring: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and the Fight Between America and Hitler
War in the Ring presents a riveting nonfiction book for kids about a boxing match that represented the growing tensions between the United States and Nazi Germany in the lead up to World War II.Joe Louis was born on an Alabama cotton patch and...- $19.99
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War in the Ring: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and the Fight Between America and Hitler
War in the Ring presents a riveting nonfiction book for kids about a boxing match that represented the growing tensions between the United States and Nazi Germany in the lead up to World War II.Joe Louis was born on an Alabama cotton patch and...- $12.99
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