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22) Forged in desire
Author
Series
The Protectors (Brenda Jackson) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When good girl Margo Connelly becomes Lamar 'Striker' Jennings's latest assignment, she knows she's in trouble. And not just because he's been hired to protect her from an underworld criminal. The reformed bad boy's appeal is breaching all her defenses, and as the threats against her increase, Margo isn't sure which is more dangerous: the gangster targeting her, or the far too alluring protector tempting her to let loose."-- Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Mick Oberon may look like just another 1930s private detective, but beneath the fedora and the overcoat, he's got pointy ears and he's packing a wand. The Spear of Lugh is in Chicago. And everyone, "everyone" wants it, for it is said that he who carries the spear into battle cannot be defeated. Those chasing it include an agent of the infamous Wild Hunt; a mobster who knows far more about these things than he should; and of course both the Seelie...
24) The don con
Author
Publisher
Pace Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Joey Volpe hit the high watermark of his acting career when he played a small role as a mobster on The Sopranos. If you blinked, you missed it. But now he's unemployed, broke, and forced to make a living by signing autographs at pop-culture fan conventions, or "Fan-Cons," for $35 a pop. His lack of income, along with his chronic womanizing, has put his marriage at risk, too. But Joey's life gets even worse when real mobster Tony Rosetti shows up...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
In Men in Miami Hotels, Smith tells the story of Cot Sims, a listing Miami gangster who returns to Key West aiming to{u2014}among other things{u2014}save his fool-proof mother from homelessness after a recent hurricane. For love, for cash, and for the hell of it, he snatches a trove of emeralds that his boss, the relentlessly vicious Albertson, keeps hidden on a small island. And then trouble, which has been coiling around him for years like a snake,...
Author
Series
Paperback sleuth mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Cordelia knows books. An addict-turned-dealer of classic paperbacks, when she's not spending her days combing the charity shops and jumble sales of suburban London for valuable collector's items, she's pining for the woman of her dreams and nimbly avoiding her landlord's demands for rent. The man she's just robbed turns out be one of London's most dangerous gangsters, and now he's on her trail and out for blood.
27) Lord of war
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. His relationship with his younger brother is somewhat volatile, he is married to a famous model, and he is relentlessly pursued...
Author
Series
Midnight series (Sister Souljah) volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Convinced that the American partner of an Albanian mafia organization has murdered her friend, Shy enlists the aid of another friend, Ryder, to maintain the fragile peace while she delves further into her investigation.
32) Some like it hot
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006, 1959
Language
English
Description
Two unemployed muscians accidently witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians.
33) Dogville
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and its a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever decided to bare its teeth.
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Este libro forma parte del largo recorrido period̕stico de Anabel Herǹndez en su incesante b︢sqeuda por entender el complejo imperio del crimen organizado y los c̀rteles de la droga en M̌xico, los cuales desde hace ďcadas tienen sumida a la naci̤n en una espiral de violencia en la que todos los d̕as son explotadas, desaparecidas o asesinadas decenas de personas inocentes, muchas de ellas del sexo femenino" -- Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Esther Diamond's year gets off to a rocky start when NYPD's Detective Connor Lopez, who slept with her and then didn't call, shuts down her current place of employment and gets her arrested. Once she's out of handcuffs, and with no paying work on the frigid horizon, Esther takes a small role in a grad student's film project in Chinatown--where her friend and semi-retired hit man Lucky Battistuzzi, who escaped Lopez's sweep at the Little Italy restaurant...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel (1906-1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas. In this captivating portrait, author Michael Shnayerson sets out not to absolve Bugsy Siegel but rather to understand him in all his complexity. Through the 1920s, 1930s, and most of...
37) The kitchen
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but an ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands, proving surprisingly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition, literally.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction, and debts that have come due. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
Description
Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story.
40) White heat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In his last role as a heartless gangster, James Cagney embarks on the prison break of a lifetime in this chilling tale that features one of the most riveting finales in movie history.
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