Robb, Peter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.8 ROBGrayson, Devin K.
Contents: ch. 1. Cosa nostra familia -- ch. 2. Cosa nostra thicker than blood -- ch. 3. Cosa nostra black sheep -- ch. 4. Cosa nostra autonomy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2003
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GraysonSummary: Year by Year looks back at 1963, John F. Kennedy's assassination, and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famed 'I Have a Dream' speech.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The Valachi papers: Former mob "button man" Joe Valachi turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese has put a contract out on his life. From thievery add extortion to vengeance and murder, Valachi spills the innermost workings of the Cosa Nostra, culminating in his riveting testimony before a Senate subcommittee.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CHABrandt, Charles
Summary: Provides an account of the life and activities of late Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran, based on taped interviews with Sheeran, one of only two non-Italians to appear on the FBI's La Cosa Nostra list, discussing his childhood, World War II service, and work as a hustler, hitman, and head of the Teamsters local in Wilmington, Delaware.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 BRABeck, Jeff.
Contents: All shook up (4:52) -- Spanish boots (3:34) -- Girl from Mill Valley (3:49) -- Jailhouse rock (3:12) -- Plynth (Water down the drain) (3:06) -- The hangman's knee (4:48) -- Rice pudding (7:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BECPuzo, Mario
Summary: The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore Guiliano back with him to America. But Guiliano is a man entwined in a bloody web of violence and vendettas. In Sicily, Guiliano is a modern day Robin Hood who has defied corruption--and defied the Cosa Nostra. Now, in the land of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUZHortis, C. Alexander
Summary: Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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Summary: Jeff Talley, a former LAPD SWAT team negotiator takes a job as a police chief in a small Southern California town after a hostage situation gone bad results in recurring nightmares for him. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley's town. Soon the deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken a man and his two children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAFulsom, Don
Summary: Unbeknownst to most people even now, the election of 1968 placed the patron saint of the Mafia in the White House. In other words, Richard Nixon would go on to not only lead a criminal presidency; he would be totally indebted to our nation's top mobsters. By 1969, thanks in large part to his long-time campaign manager and political advisor Murray Chotiner, a lawyer who specialized in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 FULJones, Tobias.
Summary: FROM THE PUBLISHER: In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year voyage across the Italian peninsula. Jones writes not just about Italy's art,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.093 JONVenegas, Julieta.
Summary: Julieta Venegas' unique style and sound have made her one of the most recognizable Latina artists in the world. Otra Cosa is her fifth studio album and first since 2006's Limon y Sal.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Latin 2010