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My Books and Writings

NONFICTION

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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

Book cover for Slain Over Spumoni

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

Image of a funeral procession in downtown Roslyn, WA circa 1900

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

Book cover of the Writers Cooperative of the Pacific Northwest 2022 Anthology, The Bread Also Rises

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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