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Mafia New York (State) New York History New York (N.Y.) Fiction New York (State) New York Organized crime Organized crime Drama Organized crime Fiction Organized crime New York (State) New York Drama Organized crime New York (State) New York Fiction Organized crime New York (State) New York History Organized crime New York (State) New York History 20th centurySummary: Four very different Irish-American brothers, Kevin, Jimmy, Tommy and Sean, have sworn to live by the code of "family first." But as they become increasingly involved in the ruthless world of New York organized crime, their loyalties to their friends, to their loved ones, and especially to each other will be put to the ultimate test.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLAGross, Andrew
Summary: A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GROGleeson, John
Summary: "This epic, page-turning courtroom drama is a brilliantly told crime story of a tenacious prosecutor who managed to end John Gotti's reign with a murder conviction that subsequently took down the Mafia altogether"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 GLEThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "When midwife Sarah and detective Frank Malloy's friend and new partner Gino Donatelli is accused of murder, he and Sarah must catch the real killer to keep him alive. . . . A young woman is missing in the upper Manhattan neighborhood called Italian Harlem, and everyone knows whoʼs responsible--the Black Hand, a notorious group known for terrorizing their own community with violence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THOOller, John
Summary: "From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment in the bustling streets of Old New York"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2 OLLSummary: Follows James "Ghost" St. Patrick as he seeks vengeance, aims to get even with Tommy, builds the Queen's Child Project to consecrate Raina's legacy, and works to achieve a legitimate lifestyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV POWSummary: Charlie, a 27-year-old, tries to work his way up the bottom rungs of organized crime's ladder. Teresa, is the girlfriend Charlie's family declares "unsuitable" because she has epilepsy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MEASummary: This is the true-life story of a junkie turned multimillionaire drug lord. With the first hand testimony of the Godfather himself, Nicky Barnes, who was the most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history. From humble beginnings, he came to dominate the heroin distribution business. Trusted and trained by the Italians, he set up his own crime family --The Council.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MRAubray, Camille
Summary: Godmothers to one another's children, four women who married into a prosperous Italian family must come together, despite secrets and betrayals, when their husbands are forced to leave them during World War II, pitting them against notorious gangsters who run the streets of New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUBHuston, Charlie.
Summary: Tending bar after a sports injury ends his baseball career, alcoholic Hank Thompson is beaten up by thugs while cat-sitting for a neighbor and discovers a hidden key to a locker stuffed with millions of dollars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSBreslin, Jimmy.
Summary: A street-savvy journey behind the scenes of the Mafia during its golden era chronicles the people, places, and events that defined organized crime and traces the rise and fall of the mob in New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1060 BRERaab, Selwyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 RAACannell, Michael
Summary: "The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a legendary moment in Mob history. In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was set to begin that threatened to end the careersand lives of New York's most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1092 CANCaunitz, William J.
Summary: Fearful that a new drug war will hurt her career, New York deputy police commissioner Suzanne Albrecht turns to an old flame for help. Lieutenant Stuart of the intelligence unit goes undercover and in a blaze of gunfire restores peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAUSummary: After getting out of jail, a Puerto Rican drug lord wants to go straight, but his cohorts in the New York underworld won't let him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CARPolisi, Salvatore
Summary: An insider's account of the downfall of the New York mob profiles organized crime at the height of its influence while recounting the author's participation in several lucrative heists and relating his decision to become a federal informant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 POLColomba, Elizabeth
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 COLHarrison, Colin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHill, Henry
Contents: The city -- Food to die for -- Hitting the mattress -- Where they lived -- Where they died -- Where they lie -- Clubbing, without a bat -- Wiseguy playgrounds -- Shows, festivals, and parties -- Shopping and shoplifting -- Staying in -- For the little goodfellas and felletes -- Unwritten rules of the street, written.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.47 HILHortis, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 HORIce-T
Summary: Twenty years ago, Marcus "Crush" Casey was the leader of the Vicetown Kings, the most powerful crime syndicate in New York City. Then he was betrayed by his second-in-command and sent to prison. Now he's back on the streets and he needs to take back everything he lost-- find the friend who betrayed him and killed his only son; keep the cops at bay; and resist the one woman he knows he can't have.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ICEBlack, Matthew
Summary: An improbable tale of espionage and crime recounts the Allied war effort's clandestine coalition between the Mafia and the U.S. government to protect New York Harbor against sabotage and assist in the 1943 U.S. invasion of Sicily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BLAComey, James B.
Summary: When a years-long case against a powerful mobster finally cracks and an unimpeachable witness takes the stand, federal prosecutor Nora Carleton is looking forward to putting the defendant away for good. The mobster has other plans, and a note is passed to the prosecution offering information into the assassination of a disgraced former New York governor, murdered in his penthouse apartment. Now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COMCussler, Clive
Summary: "It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special 'Black Hand Squad,' but the gangsters appear to be everywhere--so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016