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"Gregory Scarpa, Sr. was a stone-cold killer in the Colombo crime family, but to Linda, he was also a loving, devoted father. She reveals what it was like to grow up in the violent world of the mob and to come to grips with the truth about her father and the devastation he wrought"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"This story is true. All the characters are real and were alive during the great manhunt of April 1865. Their words are authentic and come from original sources: letters, manuscripts, trial transcripts, newspapers, government reports, pamphlets, books and other documents. What happened in Washington, D.C., that spring, and in the swamps and rivers, forests and fields of Maryland and Virginia during the next twelve days, is far too incredible to have...
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Steerforth Press
Language
English
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The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and for his friend Hoffa. Sheeran learned to kill in the U.S. Army, where he saw an astonishing...
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Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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With their elite organization shut down by the CIA, agent Ethan Hunt and his team must race against time to stop The Syndicate, a deadly network of rogue operatives turned traitors. To stop this global threat, Ethan must join forces with an elusive, disavowed agent whose loyalty is suspect as he faces his most impossible mission ever.
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Series
Jason Kolarich novels volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Jason Kolarich accepts the case of a homeless Iraq War veteran accused of murdering a young paralegal, his course seems clear: to mount an insanity defense for a man suffering so badly from post-traumatic stress disorder that he has no real memory of the crime. But as Kolarich digs deeper, he realizes that, unlikely as it seems, his client is probably innocent. Only days before her death, the murdered paralegal had stumbled onto something she...
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Most people know the name John Wilkes Booth, but few likely have heard of his elder brother Edwin. Find out about the brothers through first-hand accounts. Learn how alike and how different they were, and how each made a lasting impression on American history.
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Publisher
National Press Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Still serving his 99-year sentence for the slaying of Martin Luther King in Memphis in 1968, Ray offers compelling arguments for reopening the case in this dramatic, spirited chronicle. An escaped con, self-described as a ``two-bit career criminal'' having no strongly held racial views, Ray tells of smuggling ``contraband'' between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. for a man known to him only as Raoul, who directed him to Memphis a few days before the shooting....
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In this spoof of independent films, hitmen Sam and Harvey are on their way to pull a heist in Las Vegas. Instead of picking up the rest of their crew, they find swinging hepcat Johnny Vince. Along the way they take a store clerk and encounter a wide range of characters.
13) Deadly impact
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Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Hard-nosed cop Thomas Armstrong's life was shattered when he became the helpless target of a mastermind assassin. Now the killer has returned to terrorize the city with an explosive game of cat and mouse. In a thrilling race against time, Armstrong must stay one step ahead to capture the madman and save innocent lives.
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With their elite organization shut down by the CIA, agent Ethan Hunt and his team must race against time to stop The Syndicate, a deadly network of rogue operatives turned traitors. To stop this global threat, Ethan must join forces with an elusive, disavowed agent whose loyalty is suspect as he faces his most impossible mission ever.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With their elite organization shut down by the CIA, agent Ethan Hunt and his team must race against time to stop The Syndicate, a deadly network of rogue operatives turned traitors. To stop this global threat, Ethan must join forces with an elusive, disavowed agent whose loyalty is suspect as he faces his most impossible mission ever.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
12 monkeys: A lone time traveller from the year 2035 must solve a riddle that may save his people ... but it may also take him to the brink of madness. Mercury rising: Art Jefferies, a renegade FBI agent, combats ruthless Federal agents to protect Simon, a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the govrenment's new "unbreakable" code. The jackal: A ruthless assassin has been hired to emiminate someone at the very top of the U.S. govrnment. Constantly...
18) President Lincoln assassinated!!: the firsthand story of the murder, manhunt, trial, and mourning
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"President Lincoln Assassinated!! recaptures the dramatic and terrifying immediacy of Lincoln's murder and the coordinated attack on Secretary of State William H. Seward, the hunt for the conspirators, their military trial, and the unprecedented national mourning for our first martyred president. The story is told through more than eighty original documents ... [and] by more than seventy-five participants and observers, including the assassin John...
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