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Testament: A Novel

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A stunning fictional biography, Testament presents the earthly life of Jesus from the perspectives of four fascinating figures. In powerful accounts colored by their own beliefs and desires, the following men and women tell the captivating story:

Yihuda of Qiryat (Judas Iscariot), a freedom fighter working for Rome’s overthrow who is drawn to the charismatic teacher; Miryam of Migdal (Mary Magdalene), a disciple who finds in Jesus' presence the intellectual stimulation that society has denied her; Miryam (Mary), the mother of Jesus, who has a complex relationship with her precocious son; Simon of Gergesa, a plainspoken shepherd who travels to Jerusalem and witnesses the last days of the Jewish preacher.

With exquisite detail, Nino Ricci offers a vivid and provocative portrait of the historical Jesus, an ordinary man living in a time of political turmoil and spiritual uncertainty.
 
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The Origin of Species

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Winner of the 2008 Governor General’s Award for Fiction

Montreal during the turbulent mid-1980s: Chernobyl has set Geiger counters thrumming across the globe, HIV/AIDS is cutting a deadly swath through the gay population worldwide, and locally, tempers are flaring over the recent codification of French as the official language of Quebec. Hiding out in a seedy apartment near campus, Alex Fratarcangeli (“Don’t worry. . . . I can’t even pronounce it myself”), an awkward, thirty-something grad student, is plagued by the sensation that his entire life is a fraud. Scarred by a distant father and a dangerous relationship with his ex Liz, and consumed by a floundering dissertation linking Darwin’s theory of evolution with the history of human narrative, Alex has come to view love and other human emotions as “evolutionary surplus, haphazard neural responses that nature had latched onto for its own insidious purposes.” When Alex receives a letter from Ingrid, the beautiful woman he knew years ago in Sweden, notifying him of the existence of his five-year-old son, he is gripped by a paralytic terror. Whenever Alex’s thoughts grow darkest, he recalls Desmond, the British professor with dubious credentials whom he met years ago in the Galapagos. Treacherous and despicable, wearing his ignominy like his rumpled jacket, Desmond nonetheless caught Alex in his thrall and led him to some life-altering truths during their weeks exploring Darwin’s islands together. It is only now that Alex can begin to comprehend these unlikely life lessons, and see a glimmer of hope shining through what he had thought was meaninglessness.
The Book of Saints

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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction

Set in a small, golden village nestled in folds of the Italian Apennines, The Book of Saints is a deceptively simple novel of startling power and mythic dimension. Young Vittorio Innocente is the pampered son of Cristina, a women whose husband has left Italy for work in North America. Beneath her placid surface, Cristina yearns to escape the restrictive village; and, one day, Vittorio is startled to find her in the family's stable, her ankle swelling from a snakebite. But what really happened to Cristina that day becomes the center of this tale—a story of passion and superstition beneath pastoral calm, a mother's secret life witnessed by a child. The first novel in a trilogy that follows Vittorio to adulthood, The Book of Saints is Ricci's acclaimed debut.
In a Glass House

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This is the second novel in Nino Ricci's Vittorio Innocente trilogy, following the award-winning The Book of Saints. As the young Italian boy Vittorio Innocente arrives in the New World, leaving the arms of his dying mother for the troubled haven of his father, he and his half-sister Rita must make their way in a farming community whose ways are both magical and forbidding.
Where She Has Gone: A Novel

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In the final installment of Nino Ricci's acclaimed Vittorio Innocente trilogy, we find Ricci's hero Vittorio strangely drawn to his half-sister Rita. After a disturbing moment between them, he realizes that what he's been searching for is not just his sister—it's their shared history and secret burdens. At once a resolution of previous tensions and a luminous portrayal of discovery and absolution, Where She Has Gone completes a haunting trilogy of the immigrant experience.
Not Paved With Gold: Italian-Canadian Immigrants in the 1970s

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This collection of stunning photographs and inspired commentary documents the lives of Italian immigrants to Toronto. Award-winning photographer and cultural historian Vincenzo Pietropaolo has spent much of his life taking pictures inside the tightly knit Italian-Canadian community. While the images in this book are part of the fabric of life in Toronto, they transcend the specificity of place to evoke the lives of immigrants in cities around the world.

With a foreword by novelist Nino Ricci, and context provided by the photographer, Not Paved with Gold pays tribute to the broad spectrum of the immigrant experience.

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Nino Ricci, Pasha Malla up for Trillium Book Awards - CBC.ca
CBC.ca, Canada - Feb 08, 6546
Nino Ricci, Pasha Malla up for Trillium Book AwardsNino Ricci's Origin of Species and Pasha Malla's The Withdrawal Method are among the finalists for this year's Trillium Book Awards. The finalists for the $20000 award for fiction in English and French were announced Wednesday, along with three Nino Ricci novel among Trillium Prize contenders Gov. Gen. Award winner Nino Ricci up for Trillium Book Award Finalists announced for Ontario's 22nd annual Trillium Book Awards  -

When Cornyn And Krauthammer Urge A Cool-Off ...
Atlantic Online - May 29, 2009
But the Ricci case strikes me as over-reach. All Sotomayor did was adhere to the established precedents. It wasn't up to her to wage a judicial campaign against affirmative action. The system was clear, and as Wiki points out, On appeal, a three-judge

Ricci and fellow alumni get 'up close and personal' - Concordia Journal
Concordia Journal, Canada - May 07, 2009
Ricci and fellow alumni get 'up close and personal'Award-winning author Nino Ricci was invited by Advancement and Alumni Relations to join fellow Concordia alumni for a discussion of his new novel, The Origin of Species, at the JA DeSève Cinema during the city's Blue Metropolis Festival last week.

An elegant little book about Trudeau - Guelph Mercury
Guelph Mercury, Canada - May 23, 2009
An elegant little book about Trudeauby Nino Ricci There was not much that I liked about Pierre Trudeau. His only two political acts that I supported without reservation were his first resignation in 1979 and his second resignation in 1984. I have never been able to understand why people

Arts Events - Guelph Mercury
Guelph Mercury, Canada - Feb 08, 362
Arts EventsElora Writers' Festival readings with Nino Ricci, Sandra Sabatini, Jill Battson and others, 1 to 4 pm; $15; Keating Lounge, 20 Station Square, Elora; 519-843-4391. Author Event Kevin Sylvester (The Gold Medal for Weird), 7 pm; free, hosted by South