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author of Hollywood Riptide,
Targeted Demographics,
Per Verse Vengeance,
Sofia, The Ninth Sphere, Mia,
Mr. Laurence, I Presume and the upcoming
My Grandmother's Apron
Nick, posing as a graduate student at a local polytechnic institute, is assigned to build a case against a suspected terrorist.
Abdul, a brilliant engineering student, is suspected of building bombs for Hezbollah. Is he the villain or the victim?
The military man. Is he devious, incompetent, or the fall guy?
The beautiful but troubled art student with a tragic past.
At the center of a hornet's nest of political malfeasance and unbridled greed is a shadowy figure known only as "The Professor."
Nick soon finds himself struggling to balance his passion for Gabrielle, his friendship with Abdul and his assignment.
Nick finds himself drawn into a friendship with the charismatic young engineer, then falls hard for Abdul's adopted sister.
What should have been an open-and-shut case soon becomes a tangled mess in which something is rotten at the highest levels of government.
Is greed
As the pressure increases in his personal life against a distant backdrop of geopolitical conflicts, Nick must decide whom to trust.
Tensions mount as an insidious intel boss whose sick ambitions threaten not only Nick and Gabrielle but the entire planet.
Nick weaves between the sea of cars converging at the Arc de Triomphe. Would he survive the day?
The Parisian Professor explores the roots of state-sanctioned corruption and the scourge of dictatorship.
Is equal justice under the law a guarantee or a fairy tale?
Joseph Sciuto was born and raised in New York City where he spent his early years listening to his Italian-American grandmother’s vivid stories about how their family was responsible for building much of the impressive Manhattan skyline, including the Empire State Building.
The rich flavor of her stories about their family’s heritage still works its way through his writing.
Sciuto holds degrees from both John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Stony Brook University and a certificate in film studies from New York University.
After studying psychology, film, theater, literature, and English as an undergraduate, he relocated to Southern California to attend graduate school at Loyola Marymount University, where he studied writing and film.
Married for over 30 years to Hollywood studio veteran and novelist, Melissa J. L. Smith, the couple currently is collaborating on their first book together, "My Grandmother's Apron." In addition to writing, the couple spends time spoiling their cats, Bogie and Bette.
The Parisian Professor is Joseph Sciuto's sixth Joseph's eight novels. His other titles include Hollywood Riptide, Targeted Demographics, Per Verse Vengeance, Sofia, The Ninth Sphere, Mr. Laurence, I Presume, and Mia. My Grandmother's Apron is due to be published in late 2023.
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Eighteen-year-old Joe has taken a serious bump to the head, and his beloved girlfriend, Angie, has landed on the wrong side of the law as a result of an untenable situation.
How is a young couple supposed to start a life together when one of them is behind bars and the other is too immature to cope?
Enter Mr. Laurence, a mysterious veteran and charming philanthropist who brings magic and healing wherever he goes.
Beloved in the Long Island enclave where he continues his in-laws' mission to save endangered children, Mr. Laurence and his scintillating wife, Isabelle, take Joe under their wing and help the young man chart a new direction toward success.
Native New Yorker Joe Caggiano moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s with a dream to make it big in the movie business. Instead, like millions of young hopefuls, he spent 30 years working in the restaurant business.
An avid reader with multiple advanced degrees but no instinct for self-promotion, Joe watched his dreams fritter away while others in his circle achieved their goals and, in some cases, made the world a better place. Now suddenly unemployed, Joe seems destined to spend the rest of his life on the sidelines, until a chance meeting with a bright young girl turns everything around.
Thanks to an angel-faced orphan on the run from an abusive foster home, Joe embarks on a path of discovery, happiness, and enlightenment that promises to far outshine any of the Hollywood dreams that originally brought him to the City of Angels.
"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from coming up to bat." ...BABE RUTH
As the beloved, hard-working general manager of a Major League Baseball team in California, "Baseball Wizard" Joe Ciotola has given his life to the sport but lost too much in the bargain.
Joe meets Mia, a pitiful creature whose future has been written by the town's leaders, and who can't stay without making the ultimate sacrifice.
The choices Joe and Mia make together, and the bonds they create with another woman who emerges from Joe's past, shape their lives forever, revealing the power of connections formed from the ashes of great loss.
Joe is the successful screenwriter behind a series of blockbuster movies, but his personal life is in shambles. He hasn't had a date in over eighteen years, and his relationship with the daughter he raised by himself has gone off the rails.
Once a sweet and affectionate child, Sofia's personality changed dramatically in her early teens, and her increasingly explosive, irrational behavior has wreaked havoc on Joe's family back home in the Bronx.
Joe's grasp of what’s really important shifts from the make-believe world of the movies to the everlasting hope that we can all make a positive difference for those fighting just to live.
Hollywood. Vegas. Beverly Hills. A world of corrupt movie moguls, heartless kidnappers and girls sold into slavery by their own families.
When Nicole Tyler ditches her handlers in Las Vegas and sets out to avenge the death of her best friend, her bloody rampage threatens a powerful network of kidnappers who will stop at nothing to protect their own interests.
Bent on toppling their illegal enterprise and determined to save her sister from becoming its latest victim...
Joe Rossetti is a marketing guru, the very best in the business. His motto is: "It's okay if I know it's a lie, as long as my target audience believes the lie and buys the product."
It's a simple maxim to live by and he has made a lot money. But one night, standing at the bar at The Smoke House Restaurant located on the Los Angeles-Burbank border, he meets Nancy, a brilliant mathematician with the face of a goddess,
Like a bolt of unexpected lightning, Nancy challenges everything Joe thinks he believes.
Eerily mirroring today's headlines...
A seismic shift in Hollywood's power structure occurred during the 1980s.
Gone were the moguls and founders of the motion picture industry -- Jack L. Warner, Louis B. Mayer, Carl Laemmle, Samuel Goldwyn, and Darryl Zanuck.
The studios were being taken over by technological giants such as Sony and Panasonic, and the new owners turned to lawyers and talent agents to run their newly obtained properties.
In 1982, an aspiring young screenwriter, Nick Caggiano, moves from the Bronx to Los Angeles, hoping to find work in the industry.
Husband and wife novelists, Joseph Sciuto and Melissa J. L. Smith, have collaborated for the first time on a series of fictionalziaed short stories about family and the ties that bind.
Sciuto, the grandson of Italian immigrants, and Smith, whose descendents arrived over 100 years before the Revolutionary War, would not seem, on paper at least, to have much in common in family traditions.
But both were fortunate enough to have their grandmothers living in with them. While their approaches were different, the outcome was the same. Love is the prevalent theme and the stories show that the more different we are, the more the alike we may be.
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