Peter Rizzolo

Besides Pasta Two, My Middle Years covers high school, college, medical school, internship, residency, military service, practice as a family doctor, and the beginning of my academic career. Family life throughout that period is an integral part of the narrative. The memoir is not a homogenous blend of joyous events, although there were many, but …

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The sequel begins as a mulatto slave named Chambers, who had been raised as a white man is transported down river to be auctioned off in the Baton Rouge slave market. Chambers was despised by the other slaves on the Louisiana plantation and hated by his ignorant master, John Tibbets. Chambers is unable to make …

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Beatrice Beatle is editor and CEO of the Insect Gazette. A newspaper for, by, and about insects and others creatures. Her staff consists of a perky grasshopper named Hyper Hopper, Cathy Caterpillar, Ms. Ladybug and Hopper Junior their photographer. The paper also publishes weather reports, recipes and general happenings in the forest community. The reporters …

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This is a story of an immigrant family’s struggle survive the Great Depression. My mother at age sixteen came to America in the wave of Italian immigrants in the early nineteenth century. This random gathering of memories and events is like a family album, where the connections between the pictures and the stories they tell, …

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In the 1950s, they didn’t talk much about domestic violence, infidelity or alcoholism. Fifteen-year-old Mathew Sweeney has no guidelines to help him navigate, as he is hurled into an internal journey of conflicting emotions. He is in love with Maria with whom he works at a summer job at the community swimming pool. She is …

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Historical Context“As Haiti headed down the perilous path toward elections in 1987, violence erupted from the Ton tons Macoute and from the Army, both of which felt threatened by the prospect of popular empowerment.” —Amy Wilentz The Rainy Season DescriptionA young pediatrician, Dr. Frank Tupelo, and his bride, Tina, a nurse, go to a small …

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FLY AWAY TO ZION, Peter Rizzolo’s fourth novel, will be launched at The Chapel Hill Chamber of Commerce on September 10, 2017 The protagonist, Steven Johnson, is a young man whose deceased father was a family doctor in a small town in Kansas. He idolized his dad, who told him that medicine was not about …

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Peter Rizzolo’s third novel, JUDGING LAURA was launched at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC July 7, 2016 “…She held onto the edge of the chaise. She has drunk only a few sips of watered-down vodka. What was happening to her? As she walked along the edge of the pool, her legs seemed to have …

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When does a hero become a villain? In this new medical thriller, Peter Rizzolo’s character, Dr. Ken Bernholtz, is deep into preserving human organs for transplant. When the hospital where he spent his exemplary career refuses to condone his experiments, Dr. Bernholtz takes the law into his own hands. This cliffhanger plot engages Bernholtz’s godson, …

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