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1) Judge & jury
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Successfully arresting Dominic "The Electrician" Cavello, an influential mafia boss, in an operation that leaves two fellow agents dead, senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante struggles with internal corruption that could prevent the man's conviction.
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English
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by a small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
4) Omerta
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Language
English
Description
When Don Raymonde Aprile, an old-school Mafia leader who has retired, is killed, it is not his children, who were kept strictly away from their father's business, who seek to avenge him, but his Sicilian-born ward, Astorre, the son of an even greater Mafia chieftain.
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John Sutter novel volume 2
Language
English
Description
Now living in close proximity to his ex-wife Susan, John Sutter is targeted by her dead lover's mafia son Anthony, who seeks revenge against his father's murderer and attempts to lure John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa crime family.
When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later,...
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English
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"The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family. As a result of this movie and other popular portrayals, the image of mobsters as "men of honor and tradition" has become iconic throughout America. Yet the truth of the matter belies this more noble image. The Mafia is a ruthless organization. Their concept of...
8) The client
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mark Sway, 11, witnesses a Mafia lawyer's suicide, which puts him in danger from Barry the Blade & a politically ambitious U.S. attorney. In the two years since The Firm first captured the imagination of America's readers, John Grisham, with three consecutive number-one bestsellers, has become one of the most popular authors of our time. Now, in The Client, he has written a novel so irresistible, so thoroughly entertaining and satisfying, that it...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Features The Mob's infiltration from the East to the West coast into the booming cities of Las Vegas and Hollywood throughout the first half of the 20th century. The titles contained in this set are: Las Vegas - The City The Mob Made; and Hollywood vs. The Mob. Special features include: Vegas & The Mob timeline, and Hollywood actor and the real-life Mob boss photo slide show comparison. Warning: Contains material suitable for mature audiences.
10) The family
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
A mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. Despite Agent Stansfield's best efforts to keep them in line, Fred Blake and his family can't help resorting to old habits by handling their problems the 'family' way. Chaos ensues as their former Mafia cronies try to track them down, and scores are settled in the unlikeliest of settings.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"The hold of the Mafia on southern Italy---from Naples, home of Mafia-controlled mozzarella and toxic waste, through no-less-rotten Calabria, to Sicily, cradle of Cosa Nostra---is as strong as ever. In this memorable journey around the cities and villages of the Italian South, out of his unrivaled knowledge of Italy, David Lane gives us a telling expose of the operations of the Mafia today." "Over decades of living in Italy and traveling in the South,...
12) The informant
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Series
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English
Description
Years after the Butcher's Boy wipes out several mobsters and disappears, Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is approached by the mythical hit man, who asks her for crucial information in exchange for helping her to crack an unsolved murder case.
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Series
Jesse Stone novels volume 15
Language
English
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...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Hijackings, betrayals, extortion, revenge killings...it's all in a day's work and it's all in the "family" for the gangsters of the mafia. There are established methods, regimented hierarchies and a code of conduct that members must adhere to, or else. These three programs reveal the true stories that the kingpins of the underworld would kill to keep secret.
17) Casino
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English
Description
In an era of over-the-top glitz, Sam "Ace" Rothstein is riding high as front man for the Mob's multi-billion-dollar Las Vegas operation. To protect their "investment, " the bosses send in Ace's boyhood pal, hot-headed enforcer Nicky Santoro. It's a winning hand: Ace's brain and Nicky's muscle--until sexy wild card Ginger McKenna turns up the heat.
19) The prince
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Prince Ferdinando Licata is a wealthy Sicilian landowner who uses his personal power and charm to placate Sicilian peasants and fight off Mussolini's fascists. As tensions rise in Italy during the 1930s, with increasingly violent consequences, Licata attracts many friends and far more enemies. Eventually implicated in a grisly murder, the prince flees to America, where he ends up navigating a turf war between Irish and Italian gangs of the Lower East...
20) L.A. times
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
In this enjoyably high- sleaze potboiler about a mafioso who conquers Hollywood, there's no need for character growth: Every member of the cast is a blackhearted villain, and the great fun is watching them claw each other as the author spins out one unexpected twist, loop, and climax after another.