A tribute to the late baseball commissioner interweaves Giamatti's own words--excerpted from his writing on baseball and literature--with comments from fans, colleagues, and baseball aficionados

Bart: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti by Him and About Him

Sports & Outdoors

VALERIO, Anthony

Baseball

Mariner Books

Bart: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti, by Him and About Him (A Harvest/Hbj Book)

Harcourt

Anita Garibaldi: A Biography (Italian and Italian American Studies)

Illiterate and poor, the daughter of a herdsman in 19th century Brazil, Anita Ribeiro was lifted from a life of obscurity to one that is the stuff of romance and adventure. When she and a young Italian exile by the name of Captain Garibaldi met in 1839, they joined in the cause of founding a Brazilian republic. Later they went on to lead the defense of Montevideo from an Argentine siege―just one episode among many in their idealistic, nationalistic crusade in a time of immense revolutionary upheaval. It was Anita who taught Garibaldi the guerrilla ways of the gauchos, and they lived as man and wife through a series of adventure and wars. Returning to Italy in 1848 to fight for a united republican Italy, as revolution swept throughout Europe, Anita and Garibaldi were tragically separated by her untimely death the following year. Garibaldi went on to ultimate fame as the father of modern Italy―while Anita's story drifted into the mists of legend. This book, the first full biography of the remarkable life of Anita Garibaldi, tells the true story of a fascinating and important woman.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Praeger Pub Text

"Like most of Valerio's narrative fiction, 'The Little Sailor' alchemically combines personal and popular cultural histories; but unlikethe earlier work, this opus resolves the logic and emotion of its protagonist's episodic memory in a linear plot, transmuting the Little Sailor's childhood experience of his community (particularly its women) in the first section, 'Brooklyn, Rome,' into the action of second section, 'The Bensonhurst Pigeon,' a whimsical adaptation of Hammett's and Huston'sThe Maltese Falcon."--(Professor G. Guida, CUNY)

The Little Sailor: a Romantic Thriller

Memoirs

Daisy H Productions, LLC

The incomparable Lefty--a redheaded, left-handed, cross-eyed, married and very sexy woman--reduces her Italian-American lover, Nicholas, to that of a sex slave, her own private Button Man--propelling him back to the neighborhood don, Johnny, for counsel and wisdom. Lefty is also their muse and their salvation, humanizing both the Italian poet and the Italian gangster, and even transforms them to the godfather of the future, the unforgettable Don Pippo--reformed, wise, gentle.

Lefty and the Button Men

Literature & Fiction

Xlibris, Corp.

The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn

Contemporary

Short stories deal with the narrator's memories of his childhood, pride in his Italian heritage, and flights of fantasy into the past

Valentino and the Great Italians: According to Anthony Valerio

Historical

Freundlich Books

Valentino and the Great Italians (Prose Series 21)

Guernica Editions

Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn

United States

H B Davis Co

This startling portrait of the great writer of children's books, songs and plays Shel Silverstein presents him in a rare humane light. What he was like as a man and a friend. What interested and inspired him. Some of the women in his life. The loving often hilarious relationship between Shel Silverstein & Anthony Valerio depicted in these pages entertains as much as informs. Take a ground-breaking walk beside them through Greenwich Village on a routine work day. Their stops, their conversations. Meet a Shel Silverstein Not (Only) for Kids. A university professor recently wrote: "Readers will be riveted by the portrait of the beloved children's author that emerges in these pages. Not exactly what they may have expected." Lending beauty and life to this charming memoir of an historical time and place are never before seen photos by the great graphic artist and photographer Dave Barry. About Anthony Valerio, Shel Silverstein wrote: "He knows his people. He knows his craft. He gets in, tells his story & gets out. It's what good writing should be." "Shel was one of my people. I was one of his people. This is our story."--A.V. About Anthony Valerio critics are saying: Best Sellers: "...He really knows his history and his subject very well. No less important is the fact thst he is a first-rate writer who can really tell a good story..."Los Angeles Times: "...Valerio writes with energy & a rich style and has an unusually good eye for detail....""Baltimore Sun: "...Anthony Valerio's fiction bears likeness to our best dreams, when the fantastical elements of the subconscious play themselves out in a vivid replica of reality..." Contributor NY Times Book Review & Vogue Magazine--"Anthony Valerio writes a prose like no one else's. It reminds me of nothing so much as Chaplan's walk: the funny dignity, the sly humility, the fastidious pathos." "Gripping, Literate, Naughty, Bawdy"

BEFORE THE SIDEWALK ENDED: A WALK WITH SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Humor & Entertainment

Daisy H. Productions L.L.C.

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