The Life We Chose: William “Big Billy” D'Elia and the Last Secrets of America's Most Powerful Mafia Family
By: Matt Birkbeck
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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1. 81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness
By: Brian Murphy , None
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight t… read more
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2. Casino
By: Nicholas Pileggi
4.09
Format: 148 pages, Mass Market Paperback
From the author of the best-selling Mafia expose, Wiseguy, comes this inside story of the billion-d… read more
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3. Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra
By: None , None , None
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
Mafia Princeis the first-person account of one of the most violent eras in Mafia history --"Little"… read more
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4. The Bad Guys Won!
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
The Bad Guys Won, award-winning Sports Illustratedbaseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innoc… read more
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5. The Sinatra Club: My Life Inside the New York Mafia
By: None
3.23
Format: 304 pages,
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6. The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History
By: None
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijua… read more
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7. I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
By: Charles Brandt
4.12
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint hou… read more
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8. The Life We Chose: William “Big Billy” D'Elia and the Last Secrets of America's Most Powerful Mafia Family
By: Matt Birkbeck
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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9. The Cigar: Carmine Galante, Mafia Terror
By: Frank DiMatteo
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
From the godfathers of American Mafia history, the brutal and blood-stained biography of Carmine Ga… read more
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10. The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster
By: John Gleeson
4.25
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
“Riveting…an electrifying true crime story of the Mafia-smitten eighties and nineties. Suspenseful … read more
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11. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
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12. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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13. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
By: David Zucker
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more
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14. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
By: John Glatt
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more
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15. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America
By: Harry N. MacLean
3.71
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more
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16. The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
By: Tom Clavin
3.67
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multipl… read more
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17. For Love of Country: Why I Left the Democratic Party
By: Tulsi Gabbard
4.43
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
Tulsi Gabbard was the rising star of the Democratic Party. But the growing wokeness, racism, and in… read more
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18. Sonny: The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John "Sonny" Franzese
By: S.J. Peddie
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Couldn’t put it down.” —Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy (Goodfellas) and CasinoThe extraordina… read more
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19. Entrances and Exits
By: Michael Richards
4.12
Format: 425 pages, Hardcover
The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved… read more
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20. Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas
By: Glenn Kenny
3.73
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For the thirtieth anniversary of its premiere comes the vivid and immersive history behind Martin S… read more
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" Irwin Winkler did not share the credit of “Producer."-Glenn Kenny, Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas
"Barbara De Fina said that Irwin Winkler was, and has been, “ nothing but nasty "-Glenn Kenny, Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas
"Who found the material, who pursued the material and how, who bought the material, whose account is true or accurate: these might not seem consequential questions now. But they have definite implicat…"-Glenn Kenny, Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas
21. Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession
By: Laurence Leamer
3.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author of Capote’s Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic … read more
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22. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more
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23. In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
By: Jack Goldsmith
4.14
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
"In Hoffa’s Shadow is compulsively readable, deeply affecting, and truly groundbreaking in its re-e… read more
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24. The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
By: T.J. English
4.05
Format: 538 pages, Kindle Edition
In the tradition of The Godfather, The Westies is a powerful tale spanning 60 years. A gang of Iris… read more
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25. Friends of the Family: The Inside Story of the Mafia Cops Case
By: Tommy Dades
4.10
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
A deep dive into “one of the most spectacular cases of police corruption in the city” from the dete… read more
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26. The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn
By: Josh Young
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting tell-all biography that delves into the extraordinary life of Hollywood’s most infamous … read more
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27. Steel City Mafia: Blood, Betrayal and Pittsburgh’s Last Don (True Crime)
By: Paul N. Hodos
3.63
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
Pittsburgh's small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crow… read more
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28. Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
By: Henry Hemming
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four Shots in the Night is the story of the killing of Frank Hegarty, an IRA member turned British … read more
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29. Hoodlum Lawyer: The Untold Story of Joseph Imburgio Bulger, The Secret Mafia Leader of the Chicago Outfit
By: M. D. Jones
3.61
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
You’ve probably never heard of Joseph Bulger. That’s by design. A shoeless dock hand from New Orlea… read more
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30. The Bruno-Scarfo Mafia Crime Family: The Complete and Fascinating History of a Philadelphia Criminal Organization
By: Mafia Library
3.96
Format: 108 pages, Kindle Edition
You may have heard of the Five Families of the New York Mafia.But have you heard of the Bruno-Scarf… read more
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31. The Patriarca Mafia Crime Family: The Complete History of a New England Criminal Organization
By: Mafia Library
4.12
Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition
Step into the shadowy realm of the Patriarca Mafia Crime Family, where power, deception, and ambiti… read more
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