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Fulcrum
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English
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Started by Italian brothers from North Denver, the high-profile Smaldone crime syndicate began in the bootlegging days of the 1920s and flourished well into the late twentieth century. Connected to such notorious crime figures as Al Capone and Carlos Marcello, as well as to presidents and other politicians, charismatic Clyde Smaldone was the crime family's leader from the Prohibition era to the rise of gambling to the family's waning days. Uncovering...
2) Omerta
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Godfather series (Mario Puzo) volume 3
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2000.
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English
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First came "The Godfather", then "The Last Don". Now prepare for the final chapter in Puzo's Mafia trilogy about power and morality in America. "Omerta", from the Italian word for "code of silence", is a powerful epitaph for the Mafia at the century's end and a final triumph for a great American storyteller.
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Jesse Stone, police chief in the small coastal town of Paradise, Massachusetts, is faced with one of the most dangerous and personal cases of his career when nearby Stiles Island, a wealthy community accessible only by bridge, is attacked by robber James Macklin who sees the opportunity for the ultimate score.
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Lucy Baker was a prominent attorney until she got fed up with helping one too many ruthless criminals back onto the stree. So she quit her job, left New York, and now spends much of her time gardening. Then something happens that shocks Lucy to her core--the FBI reveals that her fiancé, Jonathan St. Clair, is leading a double life! Reeling over the betrayal, Lucy finds solace in an unexpected place--the arms of Wylie Wilson, the handsome man next...
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"A new edition of the iconic, best-selling account of America's most fascinating serial killer, "perhaps the most unnerving true-crime book ever published" (Victoria Beale, The New Yorker), with a foreword by Georgia Hardstark. In 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later, eight young women disappeared in...
7) Paper money
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As various stories break--the awarding of an oil-drilling contract, a mammoth cash robbery, the blackmailing of a politician--awkward questions begin to tie the events together, but will the full story ever make the headlines? A tautly woven, intriguing story of a single day in the life of the London Evening Post.
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In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial...
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Martin Hench volume 1
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2023.
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English
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"New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows...
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When journalist Judy Muller first met Cheri Mathews, a woman serving lifetime parole for murder, she knew immediately that Cheri had a story worth sharing. But she could not have foreseen how their year-long collaboration would have such a profound impact on both of their lives. Despite their disparate pasts, they learned that they shared the common bond of alcoholism and addiction, a bond that would be both enriched and strained during Cheri's deep...
11) Get The Gringo
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
12) Maximum Bob
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Kathy Baker, a young probation officer, finds herself caught in the middle when someone in Palm Beach County, Florida, threatens the life of bigoted redneck judge "Maximum Bob" Briggs.
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"In the town of Night Vale, there's a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone's home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from... until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks, the story of The Faceless Old Woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood on a Mediterranean Estate in the early nineteenth century, her rise in the criminal underworld of Europe, a nautical adventure with...
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Lorien Legacies volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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The aliens must come together because their power is in numbers.
The third installment in the action-packed Lorien Legacies series that launched with "I Am Number Four" and "The Power of Six", finds the stakes higher than ever as John, Number Six, and Number Seven desperately try to find the rest of the Lorien Nine before it's too late.
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Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known equally for his brilliant tactics and for taking only "righteous" assignments. But then Paul gets caught. And the arresting officer offers him a stark choice: prison or covert government service. Paul is asked to pose as a journalist covering the summer Olympics taking place in Berlin. He's to hunt down and kill Reinhardt Ernst, the ruthless architect of Hitler's...
16) Deceptions
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2015.
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English
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"Olivia Taylor Jones's life has exploded. She's discovered she is not only adopted, but her real parents are convicted serial killers. Fleeing the media frenzy, she took refuge in the oddly secluded town of Cainsville. She has since solved the town's mysteries and finds herself not only the target of its secretive elders but also her stalker ex-fiance. Visions continue to haunt her: particularly a little blond girl in a green sundress who insists...
17) Sick puppy
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 4
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An eco-terrorist in Florida strikes at a polluter by kidnaping his wife. In the process, Twilly Spree discovers a conspiracy by state politicians to turn a wildlife sanctuary into a golf course. He also discovers that the polluter's wife fancies him. A comedy by the author of Kick Ass.
18) The Big Lebowski
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1998.
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English
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A lazy, unemployed Southern Californian stoner who loves bowling gets mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. He's beaten up by men looking for money from the rich man's wife and gets drawn into the kidnapping of the millionaire's wife.
19) Criminal
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The memories and skills of a CIA agent are implanted into the brain of a dangerous criminal in order to stop an international terrorist.
20) Death Wish
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A family man becomes a vigilante killing machine when his family is violently attacked by robbers.
When his wife and daughter are violently attacked, Dr. Paul Kersey hunts down his family's assailants to deliver justice. Fury and fate collide in this intense action-thriller.