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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
438 p. ;
Description
Based on a true story, describes how a Sicilian landowner who opposed Mussolini fled to America after being implicated in a horrific murder and navigated a turf war in the Lower East Side of Manhattan between Irish and Italian gangs.
2) Prime cut
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A member of the Chicago mafia is sent to a Kansas City ranch to settle a debt with a cattle rancher.
3) Analyze this
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col., double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A spoof on the gangster roles that have been associated with De Niro's film career, this is the story of an anxiety-ridden Mafia boss who monopolizes the services of a family psychiatrist.
4) The witness
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
488 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer,...
6) The Mexican
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jerry has to do one last errand for the mob before they let him find employment elsewhere--he has to go to Mexico and recover a rare and very valuable pistol "The Mexican", which is said to be cursed. While his girlfriend, Samantha, objects to Jerry taking the assignment, he isn't in much of a position to argue. Once in Mexico, Jerry finds the pistol easily enough, but making his way back to the States proves to be an unexpected challenge. Meanwhile,...
Author
Series
Butcher's boy volume 4
Formats
Description
"Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den--the States--to figure out why the mafia is after him again, and how to stop them. Eddie's Boy jumps between Michael's current...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], c1972, c1974, c1990
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 730 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Coppola paints a chilling portrait of a Sicilian family's rise and fall from power in America, and the passage of rites from father to son. He masterfully balances the story between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.
11) City heat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Kansas City 1933, wisecracking detective Murphy (Burt Reynolds) tracks the killer of his partner. Police Lt. Speer (Clint Eastwood) doesn't have much tolerance for the local mob war's body count. Neither guy likes each other, so that makes them a dream team. And it provides the ideal scenario as they clean up the town with slugfests and shoot-'em-ups that parody Reynolds' and Eastwood's macho screen images.
Author
Series
Publisher
Perserverance Press/John Daniel & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Affable young parking valet Tyler Benson, a master of bad timing, is accidentally involved in cases of auto theft and murder on the lot at Alba, an upscale Seattle restaurant. There's a body in a parked car, and someone shooting at tech zillionaire Scott Duckworth. Mysterious Italian beauty Flavia Torcelli and even Tyler's spectacularly unsuccessful dad seem somehow connected to the crime wave. The more Tyler tries to sort things out, the more the...
13) Angela
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For Angela, the world of organized crime provides an exciting and sexy alternative to the life she's known. Dreaming of glamorous presents and nearly unimaginable power, Angela marries Saro, placing her in the center of a life of stolen goods, and questionable moral codes. Fascinated by risk, Angela has become the front woman in a shoe shop which is used as cover for her husband's growing drug business.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia, known for his ability to get in and out of a crime without a trace. Until now, that is. His first-ever mistake forces Sal to botch an assassination, killing three undercover FBI agents in the process. This puts too much heat on Sal, and he knows this botched job will be his death sentence to the Mafia. So he agrees to their radical idea to save his own skin. A few surgeries and some intensive...
15) Cajun justice
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The Bayou is a unique place to live and it provides a grit and passion to any who hail from it, including Cain Lemaire, an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. Cain had the dream job he had always wanted, protecting the President, until a single night resulted in a scandal that lost him his post. Needing a new direction for his life and with help from his sister who works in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a very...
16) The client
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mark Sway is an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but unseasoned attorney who risks her career for him ... but never imagines...
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 23 cm
Description
At fifty-nine, facing a dull and lonely future, Phillip Vail yearns for a way to put vigor and purpose into his remaining years. Then he finds the Mafia. While riding a commuter train, enjoying a chat with a younger woman sitting next to him, he encounters three violent drunks. Phil is powerless and terrified but the woman is neither; her father is the caporegime of New York's Sforza crime family and a quick call brings her three mobster brothers...
19) The Godfather
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.
20) Stormy Monday
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brendan, a young loafer is taken under the wing of jazz club owner Finney, who's under pressure from American mobster Cosmo to sell up in exchange for a cut of a local land development deal. Brendan just wants to earn an honest crust, but his burgeoning relationship with Cosmo's ex-lover Kate threatens to drag him into the middle of the impending showdown.
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