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Bitter Seeds: The Quest for Black Gold
Bitter Seeds: The Quest for Black Gold
Bitter Seeds: The Quest for Black Gold
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Love, hate, sibling rivalry, the Italian mafia, the Vatican, mental disorders, and war are some of the topics that will engulf you in this family saga that has its beginnings in Alciello, a small village in the mountainous region of Naples from where twins Alessandro and Nicola descend. Alessandro will be the first to become a coffee magnate of Rome and Nicola to be the personal secretary of Pope Leo XIII. Their search for “black gold” in the island of Puerto Rico will unite them in spite of their philosophical and religious differences and will plunge Alessandro into the midst of the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Release dateOct 13, 2023
ISBN9781035813605
Bitter Seeds: The Quest for Black Gold
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Eddie Ferraioli

Eddie Ferraioli is one of the best-known glass artists in Puerto Rico with a carrier that spans forty-five years working stained glass and mosasics. His other passion is writing and is a bilingual author in Spanish and English and is the author of Virgenes Eroticas, poetry in Spanish, Mosaikus, haikus in Spanish and Diosas/Goddesses a bilingual anthology of his mosaics and writings as they pertain to gender violence book. Bitter Seeds: The Quest for Black Gold is his first English novel.

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