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1) L.A. Times
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Language
English
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After discovering the way to make his dreams come true, Vinnie Callabrese combines a new identity and ill-gotten gains with deceit, coercion, and sexual conquest to carve out a place in Hollywood
2) Judge & jury
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Successfully arresting an influential mafia boss in an operation that leaves two fellow agents dead, a senior FBI agent struggles with internal corruption that could prevent the man's conviction, teaming up with a single mother juror to take justice into their own hands
3) Choke
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Language
English
Description
Two Key West police detectives investigate when a tennis pro stands accused of murdering the husband of one of his students
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Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Exploring the rich array of films, books, TV programs, music and even video games portraying or inspired by the mafia, this book offers not only a social, economic and political history of the mafia but a new way of understanding our enduring fascination with what lurks behind the sinister omertà of the family business.
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Gangsterland trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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...
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English
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Jackie Cogan is an enforcer, and when the mob's rules get broken, Cogan is called in to take care of business. This time a high-stakes card game has been held up by an unknown gang of thugs. Calculating, ruthless, businesslike, and with a shrewd sense of other people's weaknesses, Cogan plies his trade, moving among a variety of hoods, hangers-on, and big-timers, tracking those responsible, and returning "law and order" to the lawless Boston underworld....
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Troubleshooters volume 11
Language
English
Description
After rescuing the son of a crime lord from an assassin, a private detective and his assistant get the chance to infiltrate the crime boss' inner sanctum to investigate rumors that he has been smuggling terrorists into the United States
10) The wannabe
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, the story of a man obsessed with Mafia culture as he attempts to become a part of this lifestyle by fixing the 1992 trial of infamous mobster John Gotti and going on a crime spree of his own.
Author
Publisher
Arcturus Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Italy's most notorious export is the Mafia. as Sicilian immigrants arrived on Ellis Island, they brought their bad seeds with them, gangsters who would stop at nothing in pursuit of money.Soon they were rewriting the history of American blood. The deeds of ruthless hoods and criminal masterminds such as Al Capone, Toto Riina, and John Gotti have since become legend. The Mafia gives you the inside track on the personalities, the brutal exploits, and...
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English
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Hailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostra is a fascinating, violent, and darkly comic account that reads like fiction and takes us deep into the inner sanctum of this secret society where few have dared to tread. In this gripping history of the Sicilian mafia, John Dickie uses startling new research to reveal the inner workings of this secret society with a murderous record. He explains how the mafia...
13) Caliber 9
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
In the first time of the Tirology, small-tiem gangster Ugo Piazza has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia, and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes that he has {dollar}300,000 of stolen money hidden somewhere. Caliber 9's stylized violence, fast-paced action sequence, tight editing and plot twists prefigure the...
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English
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When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones; iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of the Mafia reveals both an organization and mindset dedicated to the preservation of tradition. It is no accident that the rise of the Mafia coincided with the unification of Italy and the influx of immigrants...
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Melody Grace McCartney novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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"A woman who has lost her identity to the Witness Protection Program flirts with trusting her life to the Mafioso hired to kill her"--Provided by publisher
17) Live by night
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Series
Language
English
Description
In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.
18) The informant
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Series
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English
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A professional killer betrayed by the Mafia finds his peaceful life threatened when a hit team finally catches up with him. He knows they won't stop coming and decides to take the fight to their door. Soon Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring, the only one who believed in the assassin's existence years ago, receives a surprise late-night visit from him, and a new assault on organized crime, and an uneasy alliance between opposite sides of...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A group of friends reunites at a classmate's funeral, and stumbles upon a financial opportunity that's too good to pass up. But when the investment goes south, they learn that part of their funding came from a notoriously ruthless crime boss, and now it's payback time. They have one perilous chance to the erase the debt, and if they can complete the task they just might escape with their lives.
20) The boss
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo's action-packed film- the final part of his Milieu Trilogy- is his boldest commentary on corruption and the criminal underworld. A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the members of one mafia family except for Cocchi. Realizing that the instigator of the bomb attack is Daniello from another mafia family, Cocchi is determined to revenge. Lanzetta, a hired killed employed by Daniello...
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