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121) Harlem shuffle
Author
Series
Harlem trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked' ... To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Oliver Single, working as a children's magician in the English countryside, goes on the run when a deposit of over five million pounds to his infant daughter's modest trust alerts him that his past has caught up with him.
123) Ciudad en llamas
Author
Series
City volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Providence, Rhode Island, 1986. Danny Ryan, de veintinueve años, es un estibador muy trabajador, un esposo amoroso, un amigo leal y, ocasionalmente, un "músculo" del sindicato del crimen irlandés que supervisa gran parte de la ciudad. Anhela algo más y sueña con empezar de cero, en algún lugar lejano. Pero cuando una Helena de Troya moderna desencadena una guerra entre facciones mafiosas rivales, Danny se ve envuelto en un conflicto del que...
Author
Series
Spenser volume 47
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, Spenser heads to the City of Angels to meet old friends and new enemies in a baffling missing person case that might shake Tinseltown to its core"--
Series
The Sapranos volume s. 3
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
℗♭2001
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 12 hr., 1 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano continues his struggle to balance between his home family and his mob family. The FBI goes to great lengths to wiretap his home. The son of his late friend Jackie Aprile is causing him trouble. A Russian housekeeper is searching for her missing leg. His son is vandalizing school property and his daughter is getting her heart broken. His wife is both consulting a psychiatrist and confessing to a priest. And he is still seeing Dr. Melfi...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
579 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa. From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other. Kennedy's battle with Hoffa burst into the public consciousness with the 1957 Senate Rackets Committee hearings and intensified when his brother named him...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Great Depression. High-level corruption. And a murder that’s about to become Seattle’s hottest mystery. It’s the kind of story that can make a reporter’s career. If he lives to write about it.
Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William “Shoe” Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There’s been...
128) Broken inn
Author
Series
(Andrew Wayne),Relic volume 5
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
303 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A moonshining hermit -- A budding reporter -- A $25 million misdirection. The mob, undercover agents, and secret payloads make Broken Inn a dangerous place for a fresh reporter, a newspaper photographer, and a moonshining hermit. Hailey witnesses a murder at the enigmatic Broken Inn, but when she learns that the hotel manager and her editor are pals, she investigates on her own. When a corrupt guard finds her snooping, she flees into a box canyon,...
129) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (209 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
A longtime mob associate relates his descent into a life of crime, his position as both a hit man and head of the Teamsters union in Wilmington, Delaware, and his inside knowledge of payoffs, mob hits, and the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts Megascope
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
155 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Clair-the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and found success in New York, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem's mafia and a fierce defender of the Black community. A racketeer and a bootlegger, Saint-Clair dedicated her wealth...
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