37 Results for : sicilians
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Car Talk, Irreconcilable Road Trip, November 12, 2005, Hörbuch, Digital, 55min
This week, a very memorable Stump the Chumps. We check in with that (once) happily married couple about their cross-country trip with an in-law in tow. Linda's windshield wipers seem to have a mind of their own. Does she need a mechanic or an exorcist? Do Americans have more road rage than Italians? How do Sicilians keep their cool when everybody drives so badly? Plus, find out another creative use for duct tape, and hear the coolest Chevy vanity plate of all time. [Broadcast Date: November 12, 2005] Language: English. Narrator: Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/cart/051112/rt_cart_051112_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dixie's Italians
Dixie's Italians ab 56.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Sicilians Race and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geschichte,- Shop: hugendubel
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Dixie's Italians
Dixie's Italians ab 45.49 € als epub eBook: Sicilians Race and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,- Shop: hugendubel
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The War of the Sicilian Vespers: The History and Legacy of Sicily’s Rebellion Against the French in the Late 13th Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min
The largest island of the Mediterranean has always been a complicated place with a fraught relationship to the Italian mainland. Separated by only the narrow Strait of Messina, Sicily feels like a different country in many ways, and the differences between Sicilians and Italians are much vaster than the tiny geographical separating them might intimate. For example, the linguistic differences between the two are substantial, as Sicilian is practically its own language, rather than just a dialect. In fact, most Italians have difficulty understanding Sicilian if they can comprehend any of it, at all.However diverse Sicily might be, it is also paradoxically considered to be an emblem of Italy itself - a paradox it shares with Naples. In fact, Frederick II was the last ruler of a fully autonomous Sicily, and his son Manfred (r. 1254 - 1258), was the final Norman ruler in Sicily. Manfred met his death heroically on the battlefield, fighting the army of Charles of Anjou after Charles was made King of Rome by the Vatican in 1266.Charles chose Naples as the capital of his lands, and this created tensions between his people and the Sicilians, culminating with a rebellion known as the Sicilian Vespers of 1282. According to legend, the rebellion started after a French soldier harassed a Sicilian woman on Easter Sunday outside the Church of Santo Spirito.When it started, the rebellion inaugurated a period of anarchy in Sicily, and for a time, it was unclear who would take the crown. Two warring factions, the Aragonese and the Angevins, competed for the crown for 90 years, to the detriment of all involved.At one point, there were two different kings of Sicily, one from each side, and it was not until 1372 that peace was finally reached and the Aragonese were awarded rule of Sicily. As a result of all this geopolitical turmoil, Sicily’s status in the world was greatly diminished. Spain was on the rise, and even if Palermo received certain bureaucrati ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221558/bk_acx0_221558_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The French Detective (Jacques Dugas New Orleans Mysteries) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 531min
In 1900, the crumbling French Quarter is an enclave of immigrants, primarily Sicilian. Early one July evening, four-year-old Luigi Bova is lured from in front of his house by the promise of ice-cream by a man who tosses Luigi into the back of a passing wagon. A frantic search ensues but Sicilians are reluctant to call the New Orleans Police Department populated by mostly Irishmen. Detective Jacques Dugas, taking a short cut through the Quarter, comes upon a street full of people looking for the missing boy and takes command of the situation. An immediate search for the boy fails to locate Luigi or any leads and Det. Dugas begins a long, painstaking investigation among people who had no use for the police, people who speak a different language, people with their own way of dealing with crime. Assaulted from all sides, Dugas assembles a team of detectives, street cops, reluctant-but-sympathetic Italians and a strikingly-pretty woman, part Corsican, part English, who happens to be an expert linguist with a gift of getting Sicilians to talk. They are soon pitted against formidable villains including a crime boss known as il Maiale (the hog) and a terrifying henchman whose skeletal visage and cold black eyes have earned him the nickname il Cadavere (the cadaver). From the crowded French Quarter, across sprawling turn-of-the-century New Orleans, to the wilds of Algiers across the river, detectives follow false lead after false lead, as bogus ransom notes arrive almost daily, until Dugas finds a street urchin, another little boy who saw who took Luigi. With the blood-feud between Irish and Italians ready to rekindle - 10 years earlier the first NOPD chief of police was murdered by the Mafia - with growing unrest in the black community as the south begins to implement the hated Jim Crow Laws - with few allies - it takes an American with a French surname to remained focused on one mission. Find Luigi Bova. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Terence McGovern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131768/bk_acx0_131768_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Brewer of Preston , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 416min
From Andrea Camilleri, the best-selling author of the Inspector Montalbano mysteries, comes The Brewer of Preston, a hilarious standalone comedy. 1870s Sicily. Much to the displeasure of Vigàta's stubborn populace, the town has just been unified under the Kingdom of Italy. They're now in the hands of a new government they don't understand, and they definitely don't like. Eugenio Bortuzzi has been named Prefect for Vigàta, a regional representative from the Italian government tasked to oversee the town. But the rowdy and unruly Sicilians don't care much for this rather pompous mainlander nor the mediocre opera he's hell-bent on producing in their new municipal theatre. The Brewer of Preston, it's called, and the Vigàtese are revving up to wreak havoc on the performance's opening night.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Meadows. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001836/bk_macm_001836_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How to Cook like a Hot Sicilian Mama , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 56min
Gina Ferrari has developed a three E's plan, and not one of the E's is for eggplant. Economical ingredients, enjoyable recipes, and easy instructions. Enjoy the hot Sicilian cookbook. Do you desire to be a hot Sicilian mom? It is rather simple. Embrace the spirit of who you are and what you want for your life, and go for it! Inside How to Cook like a Hot Sicilian Mama are time-tested family recipes from skinny Sicilians who implemented a lot of fresh and Mediterranean-style ingredients in their cooking. Flavorful, healthful recipes include: green olive spread, Grandma Rose’s salsa, the Brooklyn mama bruscetta, Aunt Rose’s tallerina, veal scaloppini, chicken cacciatore, Luca’s favorite easy pizza, and dozens more. Intertwined between yummy Sicilian-Italian dishes, you will find short stories such as "Salute", "Raise Your Glass", "You Might Be Italian", "Kitchen Chemistry", "Down the Wharf", and more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Darcey Kobs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/232791/bk_acx0_232791_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Touch of Greed: A Nick Bracco Thriller, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 378min
From award-winning, best-selling author Gary Ponzo, comes another Nick Bracco thriller!In this high-octane thriller, Nick Bracco, FBI's top anti-terrorist agent, is drawn into the hostile environment of the Arizona-Mexico border. A member of his task force is ambushed by Mexican assassin, Antonio Garza, known as "The Butcher," while trying to prevent the cartel staffer from transporting a dirty bomb into the US. As the agent is on the verge of slaughter, he calls Bracco with one last plea: kill him.Unable to trust US law enforcement, Bracco turns to the mafia. Garza, however, uses his cartel money to reach over the border and secure a network of US law enforcement to be on his payroll. Bracco is forced to track him down with just a couple of agents he can trust, plus his cousin Tommy.Tommy is a shrewd character with extensive mafia contacts who offer their underground assistance as Bracco spearheads the deadly game of Sicilians versus the cartels.Can Nick Bracco track down Garza before the assassin finds him first? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Kilday. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167069/bk_acx0_167069_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A House in Sicily , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 486min
Near Mount Etna in Sicily lies Casa Cuseni, a beautiful house built in golden stone - and the home that Daphne Phelps was astonished to find she had inherited in 1947. At the age of 34, war-weary from working as a psychiatric social worker, with barely any Italian, and precious little money, she plunged into a fascinating Sicilian world. Every imaginable problem had to be overcome, not only financial difficulties but local authorities and a house staff who initially felt no loyalty to the new Signorina but who gradually accepted her as a respected member of their small community. To help make ends meet, for many years she ran Casa Cuseni as a pensione and to her doors came Roald Dahl, Tennessee Williams, Bertrand Russell and Henry Faulkner. But just as important to her life and her story are the Sicilians with whom she shared the love and care of Casa Cuseni: Don Ciccio, the local mafia leader; Vincenzio, general manservant who recited while he served the meals; Beppe, a Don Juan who scented his eyebrows and his moustache to attract the local girls; and above all the steadfast cook and housekeeper who lives with Daphne still and to whom this book is dedicated. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carolyn Bonnyman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000332/bk_twuk_000332_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fascination: The Sicilian's Ruthless Marriage Revenge (The Sicilians Book 1) / At the Sicilian Count's Command (The Sicilians Book 2) / The Sicilian's Innocent Mistress (The Sicilians Book 3)
Fascination: The Sicilian's Ruthless Marriage Revenge (The Sicilians Book 1) / At the Sicilian Count's Command (The Sicilians Book 2) / The Sicilian's Innocent Mistress (The Sicilians Book 3): ab 5.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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