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"Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation's most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially,...
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
63) House of Gucci
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
64) Camino winds
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Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen-even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
65) Stolen
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Millennium
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ed.
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1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A now former thief frantically searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi by a former partner who believes he has hidden ten million dollars. Montgomery must partner up with another old partner to pull off one more heist to get his daughter back. All this takes place during ten frantic hours on Mardi Gras day.
68) Uncut Gems
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2020
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Widescreen ed.
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1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
71) The informant
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
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325 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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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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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[2017]
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360 pages ; 24 cm
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"They are the victims no one has ever cared about, until now. Agents Stevens and Windermere return in the blistering new crime novel from the fast-rising, multi-award-nominated suspense star. She was a forgotten girl, a runaway found murdered on the High Line train through the northern Rocky Mountains and, with little local interest, put into a dead file. But she was not alone. When Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint FBI-BCA violent crime...
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Verso
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2013
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x, 362 p. ; 25 cm
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English
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Narcoland takes readers to the front lines of the "war on drugs," which has cost more than 60,000 lives in six years. The author explains in detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet.
74) Burner
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Gray man volume 12
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xii, 512 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"In the latest thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Gray Man series, Court Gentry is sent on a mission by a person he doesn't trust to snatch a target he can't stand from the clutches of Russian assassins he can't defeat...and those are the upsides of the job. Alex Velesky is in a world of trouble. He has the key that can unlock the truth behind a web of illicit payments the Russians have spread around the globe. The money is used...
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Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when J. D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author, drops dead—very dead—on the hotel’s tearoom floor.
When Detective Stark, Molly’s old foe, investigates...
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Max Geller volume 1
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
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344 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Fired for bias against the U.S. president, ex-CIA Russia expert Max Geller gets a chance to redeem his reputation and make a fortune when he is hired to investigate the president's incriminating ties to Moscow. Jill Rucker, an undercover CIA agent, is assigned to work with him - and she does - when she's not pursuing her own conflicting goals. The search takes them to England, Russia, Panama, and Switzerland. Along the way, Max runs afoul of British...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct everyone inside to stay put until they determine there is no threat. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers who had been sitting in the reading room get to chatting and quickly become friendly. Harriet, Marigold, Whit, and Caine...
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xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Drawing on research culled from police files, court records, transcripts, uncollected evidence and new interviews, this gripping work of investigative journalism revisits the 1990 unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruett in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, revealing the dark secrets teens tell--and keep"--
79) The Man in Milan
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Polis Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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For fans of Daniel Silva and David Baldacci comes a gripping thriller based on real world events that will have you riveted until the final page is turned. When NYPD detectives Paul Rossi and Hamilton P. Turner begin investigating the Sutton Place murder of an Italian air force pilot, the last thing they expect is that they will and find themselves sucked into the potential cover-up of the Ustica massacre, the most horrific aviation crime in Italian...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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First edition.
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337 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Overhearing how the brothers in a powerful crime family intend to tie up loose ends before retiring, a New York actor flies to London to warn an intended victim and endures a madcap game of cat-and-mouse.