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81) Rob the mob
Pub. Date
2014
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A thrilling and poignant crime-thriller about two lovers whose daring heists of Mafia social clubs result in a discovery that could forever change the face of organized crime in America. The film is based on the true story of Thomas and Rosemarie Uva.
83) Gangster nation
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"Gangster Nation is a razor. It will slice you open and reveal your insides. And like the best of Tod Goldberg's work, it'll show you everything you are at your core." --Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling author of The President's Shadow. It's been two years since the events of Gangsterland , when legendary Chicago hitman Sal Cupertine disappeared into the guise of Vegas Rabbi David Cohen. It's September of 2001 and for David, everything is...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 24
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"In the next highly anticipated installment of Lee Child's acclaimed suspense series, Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple...and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you...
85) The commuter
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home.
86) Bullet head
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After pulling off the heist of a lifetime, three career criminals find themselves trapped in a warehouse with the law closing in. But, inside the warehouse a more dangerous threat awaits as the fugitives are plunged into a furious battle for their lives.
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[2020]
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viii, 214 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
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Meltzer, a master storyteller, counts down the world's top ten conspiracy theories. He sifts through the evidence, weighs competing theories, separates what we know to be true from what is unproved or unprovable. In the end, he decodes the mystery and arrives at the most like explanation... or does he? -- adapted from back cover
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2017.
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Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson effect": Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing off of proactive policing, and criminals are becoming...
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Lance draws on three decades of once secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a.k.a. the "Grim Reaper," a Mafia capo who "stopped counting" after 50 murders, while secretly betraying a crime family as an informant for the FBI.--From publisher's description.
90) American sicario
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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American gangster Erik Vasquez schemes to become the top dog in the Mexican underworld, only to find himself making enemies out of both the powerful cartels and his own allies.
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"She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in the New York of the 1930s--and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia boss in history, would never have been convicted. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected twenty lawyers to help him clean up the city's underworld, she was the only member...
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Scottsdale, Arizona, may not be the liveliest place on earth, but it has never been as dead as this. Hundreds of fans have gathered together for the first annual Old Town Zombie Walk, and Mel, Angie, and the Fairy Tale Cupcake crew are donning their best undead attire to sell some horror themed desserts to the hungry hordes.
94) The outfit
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An expert tailor must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.
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[2019]
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3 videodiscs (approximately 490 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The television series is a spinoff from the popular Breaking Bad television show. The series takes place six years before the events of Breaking Bad and features small-time lawyer Jimmy McGill. The series follows the exploits of Jimmy and the circumstances that lead to his metamorphosis into criminal-minded lawyer Saul Goodman.
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2021.
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xii, 462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white and brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. In this first comprehensive history of the trade, historian Benjamin T. Smith tells the real story of how and why this once-peaceful industry turned violent. He uncovers its origins and explains how this illicit business essentially built modern Mexico, affecting...
99) The Last Turn
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A Los Angeles detective is brought in to investigate a suspicious suicide. The huge secret he uncovers behind the case threatens to end his career - and his life - in this action-packed crime thriller. In Arabic with English subtitles.
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Spiral volume 2
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Judge Roban's investigation into possible corruption makes waves in high places.
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