Big Read 2013: The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
The Immigrant Experience
Cannato, Vincent J. American Passage: The History of Ellis Island. Harper, 2009.
Ciongoli, A. Kenneth. Passage to Liberty: The Story of Italian Immigration and the rebirth of America. ReganBooks, 2002.
Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. The Italian American Family Album. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Mangione, Jerre Gerlando. La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience. Harper Perennial, 1992.
Serra, Ilarie. The Imagined Immigrant: Images of Italian Emigration to the United States Between 1890 and 1924. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009.
Ziegelman, Jane. 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement. Smithsonian Books, 2010.
Cookbooks
Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio. Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen. Knopf, 2001.
Scherb, Madeline. A Taste of Heaven: A Guide to Food and Drink Made by Monks and Nuns. Tarcher, 2009.
Scialabba, Matthew and Melissa Pellegrino. The Italian Farmer’s Table: Authentic Recipes and Local Lore from Northern Italy. Three Forks, 2009.
Trigiani, Adriana, et al.. Cooking with My Sisters: One Hundred Years of Family Recipes, from Bari to Big Stone Gap. Random House, 2004.
Northern Italy
Milan & the Lakes. DK, 2011.
Ratcliffe, Lucy and Matthew Teller. The Rough Guide to the Italian Lakes. Rough Guides, 2012.
Sylvers, Eric. Frommer’s Northern Italy: With Venice, Milan, & the Lakes. Wiley, 2012.
Opera
Caruso, Dorothy. Enrico Caruso: His Life and Death. Simon & Schuster, 1945.
Fiedler, Johanna. Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera. Talese, 2001.
Mayer, Martin. The Met: One Hundred Years of Grand Opera. Simon & Schuster, 1983.
Murray, William. Fortissimo: Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers. Crown, 2005.
Plotkin, Fred. Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera. Hyperion, 1994.
Scott, Michael. The Great Caruso. Knopf, 1988.
Smith, Peter Fox. A Passion for Opera: Learning to Love It: The Greatest Masters, Their Greatest Music. Trafalgar Square, 2004.
Shoemaking
Bergstein, Rachelle. Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us. HarperCollins, 2012.
DeMello, Margo. Feet and Footwear: A Cultural Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 2009.
WWI
Audoin-Rouzeau, Stephane. 14-18: Understanding the Great War. Hill and Wang, 2002.
Mead, Gary. The Doughboys: America and the First World War. Overlook Press, 2000.
Meyer, G. J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914 to 1918. Delacorte Press, 2006.
Nelson, James Carl. The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War. St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
Stone, Norman. World War One: A Short History. Basic Books, 2007.
Miscellaneous
Cohen, Miriam. Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City, 1900-1950. Cornell University Press, 1993.
Ingham, Rosemary. The Costume Designer’s Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Designers. Heinemann, 1992.
Israel, Elizabeth. Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century. Morrow, 2002.
The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing, 2000.
The Italian American Reader: A Collection of Outstanding Fiction, Memoirs, Journalism, Essays, and Poetry. Morrow, 2003.
Fiction
Alcott, Kate. The Dressmaker. Doubleday, 2012.
Cohen, Paula. Gramercy Park. St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
Duenas, Maria. The Time in Between. Atria, 2012.
Fast, Howard. The Immigrants. Houghton Mifflin, 1977.
Gentle, Mary. The Black Opera. Night Shade Books, 2012.
Mazzucco, Melania. Vita. Farrar, 2005.
McDonnell, Adrienne. The Doctor and the Diva. Pamela Dorman Books, 2010.
Moser, Nancy. An Unlikely Suitor. Bethany House, 2011.
Schoenewaldt, Pamela. When We Were Strangers. HarperCollins, 2011.
Trigiani, Adriana. Lucia, Lucia. Random House, 2003.
Trigiani, Adriana. Very Valentine. HarperCollins, 2009.
Wolff, Isabel. A Vintage Affair. Bantam, 2010.
Music CDs
Caruso, Enrico. Enrico Caruso: Historical Recordings 1902-1914. Gala Records, 1989.
Caruso, Enrico. Caruso, the Greatest Tenor in the World. RCA Red Seal: BMG Classics, 1999.
English, Jon. Over There! Songs from America’s Wars. Newport Classic, 2002.
Music Aboard the Titanic. Inside Sounds Classics, 1997.
Dawn of an Era: 1905-1919. BMG Special Products, 1999.
Gershwin, George. George Gershwin Plays Rhapsody in Blue. Klavier Records, 1987.
Songs of WWI. Take Two Records, 1997.
DVDs
Feature Films
War Horse, 2011
Downton Abbey, 2010
All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930
Enchanted April, 1992
The Trench, 1999
Beneath Hill 60, 2010
Lawrence of Arabia, 1962
The Sun Also Rises, 1957
Legends of The Fall, 1994
A Farewell to Arms, 1957
By the Light of the Silvery Moon, 1953
WWI Documentaries
World War I in Color, 2010
World War I: The “Great War”, 2006
War Horses of WWI, 2012
Websites
Ellis Island, NY
www.ellisisland.org/
New York City Metropolitan Opera History
www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/index.aspx
Consult your library’s online databases for Ancestry Library Edition and HeritageQuest.
Italian Immigration 1900: Digital History
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/italian_immigration.cfm
The National Archives
aad.archives.gov
Opera Clothing Design 1900: Royal Opera House Collections Online
www.rohcollections.org.uk/collectioncostumes.aspx
Sewing: Dressmaking Research
dressmakingresearch.com/index.htm
Shoemaking 1900: Shoes and Shoemaking Illustrated, 1897
archive.org/details/shoesshoemakingi00morgrich
Merchandise Manual for Shoe Department
Italian Cooking: Life in Italy
www.lifeinitaly.com/food/italian-regional-food.asp
