Literature
Bookstores

Online

Internet Bookshop.  One of the largest online sellers of Italian language publications, music
and movies.   
Books

More information on these books can be found at Amazon.com, and also purchased there.

Overviews of Italy and its people, culture and institutions

The Italian Way by Mario Costantino, Lawrence R. Gambella
The Italians by Luigi Barzini
Italian for Dummies (With CD-ROM) by Francesca Romana Onofri, Karen Antje Möller
The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Italian History and Culture by Gabrielle Euvino, Michael San
Filippo

History

A Concise History of Italy (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Christopher Duggan

Local

The Enemy Among Us: German and Italian POWs in Missouri During World War II by David
Fiedler
The Italians in Kansas City: The Messenger (Il Messaggero) 50th Anniversary by J.B. Bisceglia
(1975)
The Italians in Missouri by Giovanni Eremenegildo Schiavo (1929)
Magazines

Italy Magazine.  A UK publication, but still one of the best publications about all things Italian.

Informer. An invaluable resource for the last 16 years for expatriates in Italy, helping them to
settle into Italy and enjoy their lives there more by trying to resolve their problems, especially
those to do with Italian bureaucracy.  It's equally interesting for non-expatriates.