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Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After spending 20 years in federal prison for myriad crimes, ailing mafia boss Joseph "Mr. Joe" Scoleri is released with a strict requirement not to interact with his old contacts in the mafia - and to ensure this, an FBI tail follows him. He quickly realizes that while the world around him may have changed, the habits of a mafia boss die hard.
83) Vanilla Ride
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In this Texas-sized thriller, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine--best friends, freelance troublemakers, and tough guys with good intentions--find themselves in the crosshairs of the Dixie Mafia and the lethal Vanilla Ride after an old friend asks Leonard to rescue his daughter from an abusive, no-good drug dealer.
84) Dark lady
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In Steelton, a struggling Midwestern city on the cusp of an economic turnaround, two prominent men are found dead within days of each other. One is Tommy Fielding, a senior officer of the company building a new baseball stadium, the city's hope for the future. The other is Jack Novak, the local drug dealers' attorney of choice. Fielding's death with a prostitute, from an overdose of heroin, seems accidental; Novak is apparently the victim of a ritual...
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In the early 1900s, the young Vito flees Sicily for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy. There he kills the local Black Hand Fanucci after he demands his customary cut of the tyro's business. With Fanucci gone, Vito's stature grows. The family legacy is upended by Michael's business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xii, 382 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Describes the history of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The author plots the trajectory of everything from organized crime to America's fraught racial past, examining how a town synonymous with white gangsters supported a burgeoning black middle class. He revealshow the underbelly of the South was also home to veterans hospitals and baseball's spring training grounds, giving rise to everyone from Babe Ruth to President Bill Clinton.
Before Vegas was big,...
87) Takedown twenty
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Series
Description
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore 'Uncle Sunny' Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in -- not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the...
88) House of Lords
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
467 p. ; 23 cm.
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Description
"The brilliant new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
10 CDs (11 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Arlyne Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the daughter of a Jewish mobster who ran an auto sales business as a front. From a young age she idolized Virginia Hill, the girlfriend of gangster Bugsy Siegel, and aspired to what she saw as a glamorous and exciting life. After a brief marriage to a furrier named Norman Brickman, she achieved her goal and then some, inserting herself into the lives of dozens of wiseguys, Italian mobsters...
91) Wiseguy
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true-crime best seller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese's film masterpiece, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds with Henry Hill's crackling narration and overseeing all the unforgettable action.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2018-
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"The chapters in this book were originally published as issues #1-8 of the comic book Stray Bullets: Sunshine and Roses."--Title page verso.
Dark and twisted, funny and heartbreaking, intimate and epic--Sunshine and Roses tells the story of a boy and a girl, how they fell in love and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimore underworld. There is no crime book remotely like Stray Bullets, and with Sunshine and Roses, the uncompromising Eisner award-winning...
Series
Criterion collection volume 550
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Estranged siblings David, a depressive late-night radio talk show host, and Jason, extroverted con man, come together when Jason drags his younger brother to a dreary Atlantic City and into a real-estate scam, events spiral into tragedy.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (202 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family. Tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In a parallel story, Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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Series
Billy Boyle World War II mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Billy Boyle awakens in a field hospital in Sicily with amnesia. In his pocket is a yellow silk handkerchief embroidered with the initial L. Gradually he remembers: he has been sent ashore in advance of the troops with this token from Lucky Luciano to contact the head of the Sicilian Mafia. But he must also thwart a murderous band of counterfeiters of Army scrip led by Vito Genovese.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (11.5 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tony Soprano is your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife, a not-so-dutiful daughter, a son named Anthony Jr. a mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home, a hot-headed uncle, a not-too-secret mistress and a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss.
98) 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.
100) Staten Island
Publisher
National Entertainment Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Parmie wants to take control over the Mafia connections in Staten Island. Sully is a dim-witted septic tank cleaner who is going to be a dad. Jasper works in a deli and gets caught up in Parmie's dealings. The lives of three ambitious men intersect when Sully decides to rob a local mob boss of $50,000.
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