Meralli, Swann
Summary: Based on truth, lies, myths, and rumors, this is the story of the greatest gangster of all time: Al Capone. Family man, community leader, industrious smuggler, or vicious killer? You decide. Born into a poor Italian family in Brooklyn in 1899, little Alphonse didn't have a lot of options, so he'd have to get creative in order to make a name for himself. A bit of cards, some enforcing, maybe a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Panel Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPONE, AL MERSummary: The 47-year old Al Capone, after ten years in prison, suffering from syphilis and dementia, comes to be haunted by his violent past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CAPSummary: Noise music mockumentary about the band Shame on You, an abstract painter, a sound perfectionist, and a social agitator. Things take an ugly turn when their pimp manager, Captain Monroe, books them to play at the Sandstorm Noise Music Festival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOISummary: It's been a year of calm. Homelander (Antony Starr) has been subdued. Butcher (Karl Urban) works for the government, supervised by Hughie (Jack Quaid), but both men itch to turn this peace and quiet into blood and bone. So when the Boys learn of a mysterious anti-supe weapon, it sends them crashing into the Seven, starting a war, and chasing the legend of the first superhero: Soldier Boy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV BOYCapote, Truman.
Summary: In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Capote, Truman
Summary: "Catapulted from a childhood spent in a Missouri orphanage to the dizzying peaks of New York high society, the destitute and debauched writer P. B. Jones spends his days moving between the paltry cell of a Manhattan Y.M.C.A. and the opulent playgrounds of the metropolitan elite. Though Jones struggles to make ends meet, his effortless associations with the moneyed and powerful thrust him into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 2024
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Summary: The protagonists of these nine short stories learn to accept the harsh loneliness of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPCapote, Truman.
Summary: Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012