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It's Prohibition time in Chicago! Al Capone and his Outfit rule the city's gritty ganglands.
Sicilian-American Sal Scavuzzo takes full advantage of the underground activities. At 22, he drinks at the speakeasy, gambles, and is a hit with the dames. When he gets in too deep with the local organized crime, his pleasurable lifestyle turns upside down. Does he continue his careless ways or does he eventually settle down and go the straight and narrow?...
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Some legacies are best abandoned...
A well-placed stick of TNT ignites a full-blown investigation in A Legacy of Bones, a provocative murder mystery exploring the racial and cultural divide on a remote Hawaiian island between landed elite and villagers.
On Kaumaha Island (est 1850), the statue of Amyas Lathrop conceals a terrible secret-a legacy of massacres and madness that infects the island itself. Some will go to any lengths to keep it hidden,...
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In New York City's Spanish Harlem, Julio and Maritza are each searching for a path that will give their lives meaning, even if it's shadowed by controversy. Julio is an arsonist for hire, pocketing thousands of dollars from investors eager to capitalize on more expensive real estate. But when he has reason to stop setting his neighborhood ablaze and vows to change his ways, Julio's employers threaten his life -- and the lives of those close to him....
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A Dance of Death, Romance, and MurderVisitors hiking Manasota State park in Florida are horrified to discover the partial remains of an apparent alligator attack. Finding evidence of poaching, Park Ranger Seth Grayson and Florida Wildlife Commission Officer Liz Corday are determined to find out who sent the victim to his death. The poachers will stop at nothing to protect their illegal profits. The body count mounts and threats are made, putting Seth's...
6) Ligne brisée
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Lorsque qu'une jeune Métisse est victime d'une violente agression, les contrecoups se font sentir dans toute la communauté du quartier North End de Winnipeg. Policiers chargés de l'enquête, famille, amis et connaissances voient leurs certitudes ébranlées à mesure que se précise le fil des évènements.
Entre les femmes qui se relaient au chevet de l'adolescente et celles qui errent dans l'ombre, au dehors, des liens puissants se dessinent,...
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The sleepy hamlet of Inlet Cove in Westchester, New York, is about to have some excitement. After his attempted rubout and subsequent arrest, Tim Collins must reveal his secret. He's been, living a double life. His best friends know him as a good humored and successful businessman.
But, other acquaintances know him as a degenerate gambler. He's been able to keep the two worlds apart. But, after betting wrong on Superbowl LII, those two worlds collide....
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Secret identities, criminal conspiracies, and forbidden love converge in the Muslim communities of Rome.
The Italian secret service believes that a group of Muslim immigrants is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian translator who speaks perfect Arabic, goes undercover in Rome's Egyptian neighborhood, Viale Marconi, to infiltrate the group. Posing as a recently arrived Tunisian in search of a job and a place to sleep, Christian...
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Two sisters, their mother, and a Nazi thief.
In 1939, a beautiful enameled heirloom menorah was looted by the Nazis, grabbed from the hands of its young Jewish owner. Too beautiful to kill, Aurora herself was singled out by the SS for "special duties".
Eighty years later, Aurora's daughters Zara and Lilly discover the family menorah in a New York museum. Haunted by their mother's buried memories, the sister's scheme to get it back-but their quest...
10) Broken Lullaby
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Noah Kelly, son of Liam Kelly, the mafia Boss of New York and New Jersey, has been off to college in Boston. Hiding under his alias, Tony Hayes, he has led a normal existence except for the ever-present security guard. At his favorite club, he meets a woman unlike anyone else. They share one night of passion cut short by his father being gunned down.Scarlett Murphy, daughter of Pentecostal Preacher Weston Murphy, defieed her father's wishes and goes...
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Patti is a busy Senior Probation Officer working in Camden, London, with a teenager off to university the following year. Charmaine is a stressed out mum of twin toddlers and Rose is a Pastor's wife with five daughters. Life gets complicated when they meet the three Morgan brothers, Manley, Marcus and reggae star Junior, who are from a close knit Jamaican family. Loving The Brothers is set in gritty London and sun-kissed Jamaica. The women meet and...
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Justice de classe, justice de race plonge le lecteur dans le quotidien d'une jeune juriste racisée appartenant à la classe moyenne. D'origine modeste, elle a entrepris des études de droit ne supportant plus l'injustice et voyant, outre le fait d'activer son propre ascenseur social, un moyen d'aider son entourage et d'impacter sa génération. Pourtant, elle se trouve aujourd'hui dans une situation qui l'oppose à des détracteurs n'ayant pour seul...
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Voici l'heure o commence l'histoire de Germaine Malorthy, du bourg de Terninques, en Artois. Son père était un de ces Malorthy du Boulonnais qui sont une dynastie de meuniers et de minotiers, tous gens de même farine, à faire d'un sac de blé bonne mesure, mais larges en affaires, et bien vivants. Malorthy le père vint le premier s'établir à Campagne, s'y maria et, laissant le blé pour l'orge, fit de la politique et de la bière, l'une et...
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In 1915 Italy, a teenaged girl believed she had conjured the perfect lie to protect herself. Even though she deserved the full weight of responsibility for her foolish recklessness, the lie deftly deflected all blame to her innocent, oblivious best friend, Fredo, who was in America and should have been out of harm's way. That's how it should have gone, but we all know no lie is ever perfect, and no one is ever out of harm's way.
It took more...
15) Elégie du froid
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Ponctué en beuveries, ce roman n'a portant pas l'allégresse d'un chant andalou. Les errances bachiques dans une capitale assiégée par des poules au bec ensanglanté, échappées d'un carnage, sont en quête d'une esthétique évanescente dans la déchéance même des zéphyrs de cabarets ternes et vont à la rencontre des territoires d'écritures en même temps qu'elles nourrissent un personnage qui se refuse de l'être et d'être, de mots, de...
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Quelques années après l'indépendance du pays, un ancien officier de l'ALN revient sur les lieux du malentendu quémander le pardon. Alors, toutes les langues, restées engourdies sur ce passé traumatisant, se délient dans une noria de personnages d'une même famille qui l'exorcise en même temps qu'ils se livrent, entiers, dans les secrets de leur généalogie intime. Chacun des protagonistes, de l'aïeul aux petits-fils, se raconte et procède...
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Two prisoners form a bond in this novel that reveals the darker side of Hawaii.
Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He's tough looking, a hard case. His cellmate is Cal-the mute tattoo artist of the prison who murdered his own wife. Ken, already inked with a gang symbol and a Japanese emblem, eventually asks Cal to create an elaborate tattoo on his back, in kanji script, of Musashi's Book of the Void.
While he is being...
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Light of the Diddicoy is the riveting and immersive saga of Irish gangs on the Brooklyn waterfront in the early part of the 20th century, told through the eyes of young newcomer Liam Garrity. Forced at age 14 to travel alone to America after money grew scarce in Ireland, Garrity stumbles directly into the hard-knock streets of the Irish-run waterfront and falls in with a Bridge District gang called the White Hand. Through a series of increasingly...
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Derek doesn't have much going for him. He only puts up with the long hours minding his brother's strawberry stall because at night he can become a different person... calling himself 'Hank', donning a Stetson and fronting a country-and-western band. Derek has modelled his voice on that of his idol, Nashville star George Jones, and fantasizes that one day he might fly to the United States of America to see him sing at the Grand Ole Opry. But with a...
20) Le Fils
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Extrait: "Un matin du mois d'août 1873, une voiture de place, qui venait de l'intérieur de Paris, s'arrêta à la porte de Vincennes, devant la grille de l'octroi. Deux hommes mirent pied à terre. L'un deux dit au cocher: — Nous avons quelqu'un à voir à Vincennes, vous allez nous attendre ici. Le cocher jeta un regard soupçonneux sur les deux individus et fit une grimace significative."
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