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Author
Series
Once upon a crime family volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Penny Landlow, seventeen, the overprotected daughter of a powerful crime family, has rarely left the family estate due to a blood disorder but when tragedy strikes and she is left alone in New York City, she must prove she is not as fragile as everyone believes.
103) Gang land
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Nicky Passero, associate of Chicago crime boss Tony Accardo, is tasked with tracking down and returning items taken during a jewelry heist by whatever means necessary, an undertaking made more complicated by his being an FBI informant.
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Explores the shocking practices of NXIVM, a cult run by Keith Raniere and many enablers, detailing its rise as a personal development company, its ability to evade prosecution for decades, and the investigation that finally revealed its dark secrets to the world.
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.
106) Button Man: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As usual, narrator Edoardo Ballerini's narration is eminently listenable...He captures the rich details of the era while engaging listeners with the story's relatable family dynamics." — AudioFile Magazine
Following up The One Man and The Saboteur, Andrew Gross's next historical thriller audiobook brings to life the dramatic birth of organized crime in 1930s New York City from the tale of one family.
After
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a murder, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up an elite world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture cliches of "Greek life" lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power. With unprecedented immersion, this...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Going deep undercover in the infamous Pagan motorcycle gang, a longtime ATF agent relates how he lived among the club's most violent and criminally insane members for two years, covertly building a case that would eventually take down the top members of the gang in a massive federal prosecution.
109) How to disappear
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A tale told in alternating voices traces the experiences and growing attraction between an adventurous girl who goes into hiding in the wake of a brutal murder and the straight A, star athlete who is recruited by his assassin father to take her out.
110) Button men
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A disadvantaged but once happy immigrant family is brought together and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in 1930s New York City.
111) Finestkind
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Set in New Bedford, Mass., America's biggest commercial fishing port, two brothers from opposite sides of the tracks, are reunited as adults over one fateful summer. When desperate circumstances force them to strike a deal with a dangerous Boston crime syndicate, a young woman finds herself caught in the middle. Along the way, sacrifices must be made, and bonds between brothers, friends, and a father and his son are put to the test.
112) The departed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Rookie cop Billy Costigan infiltrates the mob to help bring boss Frank Costello down, but Costello has a mole of his own winning everyone's trust within the police department.
113) The equalizer 3
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he's done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall must become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in South Boston, Sean Scott Hicks was running jobs for the Irish mob before his voice changed. Mistreated by his drug-addled mother, Hicks found sanctuary with his adoptive family of felonious uncles--known to law enforcement as the Winter Hill Gang. These crooks knew where all the bodies were buried--because they'd done the burying--but they also looked out for young Sean. After such an upbringing, a life of crime was a given. In this...
115) Deep tide
Author
Series
Texas murder files volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When one of her employees is murdered, Leyla Breda joins forces with undercover FBI agent Sean Moran, garnering the attention of several crime syndicates and plunging them into something darker than they ever could’ve imagined.
117) The takedown
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Going undercover to gather evidence on her sister’s fiancé, Johnny Jones, the heir of an organized crime dynasty, CIA field officer Sydney Swift is distracted from her assignment by Johnny’s handsome bodyguard and decides this time, love is a target she can’t afford to miss.
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