gangsters

Midnight, a fierce fighter with heart, is willing to do anything to defend his family, the woman he loves, his business, and his property. Follow Midnight from the wealthy North African estate of his father to the Brooklyn projects where he lives with his mother.

Chronicles the life and criminal career of Whitey Bulger, who, after being raised in Boston, rose through the ranks of organized crime and became one of America's most wanted fugitives.

On the run with a stolen set of famous Spanish diamonds known as "The Planets," tough guy Henry Dante meets Grace McGlone at a car wash in a small Wisconsin town, a woman who refuses to have anything to do with the ill-gotten jewels, and together the unlikely couple embarks on a cross-country odyssey, pursued by a gangster obsessed with the diamonds.

A teenage girl in 1970's Brooklyn falls in love with an aspiring mobster, risking everything for a chance at love.

Cornet player Dixie Dwyer plays in Harlem's Cotton Club and has ambitions that are complicated by his connections with mobsters.

Two Filipino brothers struggle to make ends meet in contemporary California.

A portrait of Al Capone, the most notorious gangster in American history. Includes photographs, films and interviews.

A compendium of information about the gangster and outlaw era which took place in the United States between 1920 and 1940 that provides short biographies and period photographs; discusses Prohibition, Chicago's beer wars, the Great Depression, and crime control; and includes quotes, a chronology, and an extensive bibliography.

"After a dangerous assignment, tough magazine reporter Nick Daniels wants only to rest -- until his editor, Courtney, asks him to conduct an exclusive interview. It's an offer Nick can't refuse and he will do anything for his beautiful boss, who's engaged to the magazine's wealthy owner. But Nick's interview goes to hell when a mob lawyer is killed in front of him and he captures a key piece of evidence. Back off is the clear message he receives even as he's caught in an all-out war between forces on both sides of the law. Trusting no one, Nick only knows that someone very powerful desperately needs him dead."--back cover.

In 1925, after witnessing the violent actions of some gangsters, twelve-year-old Emily accompanies her older sister on a trip to a luxurious hotel on the New Jersey shore but worries that the gangsters have come to the same hotel.