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My Books and Writings

NONFICTION

Italians in the Pacific Northwest

Stories about early Italian immigrants who bravely settled  throughout Idaho, Oregon, and Washington states from 1880

to 1950

HISTORICAL FICTION

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Slain Over 
Spumoni

Can a woman accused of murdering her uncle, The Gelato King of Italy, find the killer before her family's gelateria's hard-won title is lost forever?

HISTORY

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Substack column about Italians

Explore the lives of early Italians since the mass migration of the Gilded Age to post-WWII as they settled in British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington

ANTHOLOGIES

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The Bread
Also Rises

Colorful culinary-inspired stories to whet your literary appetite collected here as a fundraiser for the Writers Cooperative of the Pacific Northwest

My short story, Sfogliatelle
, is included!

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