Author: Mike FioritoPublisher: Ovunque Siamo
ISBN: 9781733994804
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Both confronting and courting stereotypes, Call Me Guido describes growing up Italian-American during the 70's in Queens, NYC.
Call Me Guido
Author: Mike FioritoPublisher: Ovunque Siamo
ISBN: 9781733994804
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Both confronting and courting stereotypes, Call Me Guido describes growing up Italian-American during the 70's in Queens, NYC.
Guido
Author: JAFKPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477104356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Guido is the authors first novel he is a retired General and Electrical Contractor and lives with his wife in the wine country of Napa Valley California. He was born in Brooklyn New York and left at age thirty then traveled the country and eventually landed in San Francisco in the 1970. By amazing coincidence he met my wife with in the first month in San Francisco and she was also an expatriate from Brooklyn. His first job was in carpentry then buying and selling refurbished houses then started an Electrical contracting business in San Francisco. He moved on to hard wiring computer systems for telecommunications company in northern and central California until his retirement. He and his wife have two children a boy and a girl and two grandchildren. Guido was born in Florence in Tuscany but under the worst circumstances he was abandoned to the street as an urchin who has a telltale six fingers on his left hand. This will dog him the rest of his life. He is rescued by the Sisters of Clare and is taken to a doctor and his wife. He was home schooled by the doctors wife who was a linguist. He quickly accelerated his studies and was considered a genius at a very young age. Consequently he was fluent in reading and writing in all the romance languages. He was accepted into the University of Bologna the age of sixteen where he excelled in translating the ancient languages of Greek Latin and Hebrew. He finished his studies before his eighteenth birthday and returned to Florence. He was duped into following a man to Spain that he has unintentionally offended this starts his trek through Spain being pursued by the inquisition which eventually leads him the London where he begins his startling career.
Works
Author: Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Karoo
Author: Steve TesichPublisher: Open City Books
ISBN: 1890447374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 727
Book Description
The unnecessary scenes that a successful Hollywood script doctor has effortlessly cut from other people's screenplays seem to be threatening his own life. The ultimate fixer must now find an emotional and intellectual solution to the problems of his own life.
Nothing Ventured
Author: Publisher: Kendall Carson Press
ISBN: 0979223512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
Brief And Bitter Hearts
Author: Dorothy DaviesPublisher: Fiction4All
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Remember, remember the Fifth of November/Gunpowder, Treason and Plot but do we really know the truth behind that most famous of attempts to blow up the Houses of Parliament? Is Guy Fawkes the evil fiend we have been led to believe he is? In this book, dictated by Guy Fawkes himself, the reader is shown a different person, a devout, almost monkish young man who was drawn into the conspiracy through his own fanatical faith. Here is the true story of the so-called plot, Guy's unfortunate part in it, the truth about his torture and trial, and his execution. History is about to be rewritten!
Alphonso Barbo, Or, The Punishment of Death
Author: Charles F. EllermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Poems ... Reprinted from the American Octavo Edition
Author: Mrs. HemansOf Stranger Things
Author: David G. IadevaiaPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434336417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
What starts with the arrival of a package that contains four notebooks written by a scientist becomes an adventure for Professor Guido Galileo and several of his students. Come enjoy the thrill of discovery and danger with Guido, Elinor, and the students as they experience the effect "of stranger things" while traditional science is challenged by fringe science!
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