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A Scandalous Life

Biographies & Memoirs

LOVELL, Mary S.

Community & Culture

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Fakes: Forgery and the Art World

Arts & Photography

Alice Beckett

Business of Art

Capo

THE FIRST DONSicily, 1879: After successfully smuggling a severed human ear past the police, Silvio Randazzo completes his dangerous first rite of passage--from peasant boy to Mafia soldier. The ear is a chilling ransom demand from Antonino Greco, Italy's most famous and feared Mafioso. But it is not until Silvio makes his first vendetta killing that he truly "makes his bones" as a worthy member of the society that values honor above all . . . and rewards betrayal with death.New Orleans, 1880: By exterminating the rivals of Angelo Priola, the most powerful gangster in America's most decadent city, the newly arrived Silvio makes his mark in the fledgling underworld of his new homeland. As the forces of the law close in on the notorious Greco, and dangerous new players vie for Priola's territory, the cunning, ruthless, and ever more ambitious Silvio watches the path made clear for his ascension to the throne of Capo--boss of bosses. . . .Based on fact, here is a stunning novel of the criminal empire that brought the mob to America, and the man who oversaw its bloody birth. . . .

PETER WATSON

This novel is based on the true-life story of Sylvano Randazzo, a young Sicilian who in the 1890s fled his native country to reach New Orleans. Within months he was to become one of the city's most notorious Mafia gansters.

Literature & Fiction

WATSON, PETER

Genre Fiction

Do UFOs really exist? Or are they figments of the imagination? Did Nostradamus have the uncanny gift of foretelling the future? Or was he simply a charlatan? Many people associated with the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb were said to be cursed. True? Or a classic example of a paranormal myth? Do spiritualists and mediums really contact the departed? Or is it a clever confidence trick? 
Fortune telling, psychic detectives, astrology, ghosts, hypnosis, coincidence, dowsing, fire walking, the Loch Ness Monster are some of the intriguing subjects covered in a lively and stimulating text (including over 100 photographs, engravings, paintings and cartoons in color and black and white) which helps the reader to choose whether to believe--or not.

Bizarre Beliefs

Religion & Spirituality

Hutchinson, Michael

Hoggart, Simon

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

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Victoria and Albert

HOUGH,Richard

Leaders & Notable People

Fast Greens

Pipkin, Turk

Contemporary

Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames an American Spy

TIM WEINER

My Darling Buffy: The Early Life of the Queen Mother

Forbes, Grania

TRIAL OF STRENGTH

Joshua Rozenberg

Legal Theory & Systems

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