Books written by John Florio
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Blind Moon Alley
It's Prohibition.
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A Worlde of Wordes
ZUCCI-IERlNI, a kind of weete meate made of sugar like marchpane, of which they make of divers formes and fashions, as of beasts and birds. Zucchero / Zuzzulino ZUCCHERO, sugar. ZUCCHEROSO, sweete, candied, full of.
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One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime
One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America’s pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport—fairness, competition, and mythology—came under scrutiny.
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Florio's Italian English Dictionary of 1611
Contribuli, men of one tribe,"r borne in the selfe same parish. - Contributiéne, a contribution. ... Contumácia, contempt, soulbornenesse, disobedience, stiffeneckednesse, frew— ardnesse against law. - Contumélia, retroth, spite ...
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Giardino di Ricreatione
Giardino di Ricreatione
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War in the Ring: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and the Fight between America and Hitler
War in the Ring presents a riveting nonfiction book for kids about a boxing match that represented the growing tensions between the United States and Nazi Germany in the lead up to World War II. Joe Louis was born on an Alabama cotton patch ...
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Blind Moon Alley
But that doesn’t stop Jersey from hiding the escaped convict while he uncovers the real story about what happened that night Aaron pulled the trigger.
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Sugar Pop Moon
The debut novel in a “riveting” Prohibition-era crime series “for readers who follow Kelli Stanley’s Miranda Corbie series or Reed Farrel Coleman’s Moe Prager books” (Library Journal).
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One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime
... Max Schmeling, and the Fight between America and Hitler Other works by John Florio Sugar Pop Moon Blind Moon Alley Other works by Ouisie Shapiro Autism and Me: Sibling Stories Bullying and Me: Schoolyard Stories.
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One Punch from the Promised Land: Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, and the Myth of the Heavyweight Title
He is also the author of the Jersey Leo crime novels, Sugar Pop Moon and the forthcoming Blind Moon Alley. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can visit him atjohnfloriowriter.com. Ouisie Shapiro is a five-time Emmy-winning writer and ...
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Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti & the End of the American Dream
From John Florio and Emmy Award-winning writer Ouisie Shapiro comes a monumental YA nonfiction book about the heartbreaking case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants who were wrongfully executed for murder.
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One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime
“What Baseball Means to Me.” Look, July 26, 1966. Koufax, Sandy, and Ed Linn. Koufax. New York: Viking Adult, 1966. Krell, David. Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture. Jefferson nc: McFarland, 2015.
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Giardino Di Ricreatione (Annotated)
GIARDINO DI RICREATIONE nel quale crescono fronde, fiori e frutti, vaghe, leggiadrie, e soaui, sotto nome di sei mila Prouerbij, e piaceuoli riboboli Italiani, colti e scelti da Giouanni Florio, non solo vtili, ma diletteuoli per ogni ...