'Trouble began in 1963. I'm not blaming it on President Kennedy's assassination or its being the beginning of the sixties or the Vietnam War or The Beatles...The trouble I'm talking about was my first real trouble, the age-old trouble. The getting in trouble as in ' Is she in trouble?' trouble. As in pregnant. As in the girl who got pregnant in ...
Beverly Donofrio has been won over: what began as a fetish for kitsch became a journalistic foray into Mary sightings for NPR and finally evolved into a personal rediscovery of faith. LOOKING FOR MARY is the memoir of Donofrio's spiritual journey to Mary's altar; the memory-trips that reach back through her acutely atheistic history are juxtaposed ...
She was born a Profaci and married a Bonanno. She lived inside an ancient Sicilian tradition. This is Rosalie Bonanno's amazing story--of panic, danger, and abandonment; of the hardship of raising four children alone; of a husband who left but always returned--a Sicilian story of love and marriage inside the Mafia. Photos.
First published in 1990, this memoir was the first intimate account of life inside the secretive world of the Mafia by the daughter-in-law of Mafia Don Joseph Bonanno, the real-life model for Mario Puzo's "The Godfather." of photos.
Mary lives in a big house with a very little mouse. The mouse lives in a little house inside of a very big house. Even though Mary is warned to stay away from mice--and Mouse is warned to steer clear of people--the two can't help but peek at one another. Full color.
It's the first day of fifth grade, and Ally is psyched. She and her best friend, Betsy, are in the same class, and have already planned on singing in the annual talent show together. But it's not long before she sees that Betsy has made a new best friend, and Ally is no longer on her radar screen. Not to mention that the weird new kid, Tina, has ...
The author's outrageous and touching memoir is the basis for a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures scheduled for release in October, 2001, starring Drew Barrymore and directed by Penny Marshall. Donofrio writes about a teenage mother who, as her son grows up, becomes an adult herself.
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