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Joey "Crazy Joe" Gallo and his President Street mob waged a deadly Mafia civil war with the Colombo crime family, and in particular, Carmine "the Snake" Persico. And on that fateful night of April 7, 1972, in a Little Italy restaurant, Gallo was assassinated...by Carmine "Sonny" DiBiasi. This is the true story of who really whacked "Crazy Joe" Gallo on that fateful night of April 7, 1972.

In this blistering street-level account, "Mafia survivor" Frank DiMatteo teams up with true-crime master Michael Benson to take down one of the most notorious figures in the American La Cosa Nostra. This is the real inside story of Carmine "The Snake" Persico, from his crime-filled childhood on the streets of Brooklyn to the long-term jail sentences that didn't stop him from controlling his criminal empire, with the help of his brother - the equally kill-crazy Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico.

The son of Sicilian immigrants, Camillo Carmine Galante was raised in Manhattan's Little Italy and by all accounts born bad. By fifteen he was terrorizing the streets of New York's Lower East Side, scoring high marks for the "errands" he was running for his La Cosa Nostra elders. When he turned twenty, Galante was already one of the mob's top enforcers­-a sadistic thrill killer and clinically diagnosed psychopath with big dreams.

As you know, running a successful chiropractic practice is a juggling act. You need clinical expertise to provide impeccable care to your patients. You also need the know-how to run a small business. You've probably been well prepared by your education and experience for the technical ins and outs of chiropractic practice. Yet, what training has prepared you to run a business? The E-Myth Chiropractor fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for either starting a successful practice from scratch or maximizing an existing practice's performance.

With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Greenwich Village apartment one Saturday afternoon to ask her a question about the Juderia, the neighborhood in Rhodes where she’d grown up in a Jewish community that had thrived there for half a millennium. Probing and courageous, candid and sly, Stella is a modern-day Scheherazade whose stories reveal what it was like to grow up in an extraordinary place in an extraordinary time—and to construct a life after that place has vanished.

Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was born in Italy at the turn of the century. Five decades later, he would be gunned down in a barber shop in New York City. What happened in the years in between is one of the most brutal and fascinating stories in the history of American organized crime. This in-depth account of the man who became one of the most powerful and homicidal crime bosses of the 20th century from Mafia insider Frank Dimatteo is the first full-length book to chronicle Anastasia's bloody rise from immigrant to founder of the notorious killer's club Murder, Inc.

Jughead Jones has always had an insatiable appetite...but what if his hunger came from a sinister place? When a murderous menace is on the prowl, taking the lives of some of the most well-known and esteemed inhabitants of Riverdale, Jughead and his family's dark legacy comes to light. Join writer Frank Tieri (Wolverine) and artists Michael Walsh (Secret Avengers) and Pat & Tim Kennedy (Death of Archie) for this horrifying audiobook series.

Irreverent, charming, and eminently quotable, this handbook - an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race - contains 69 aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain’s private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; and more specialized tips, such as those for dealing with annoying salesmen and burglars.

Archie's Madhouse collects four stories from the terrifying horror series that tears through Riverdale's cast of characters.

It was once a utopian dream. But today’s internet, despite its conveniences and connectivity, is the primary cause of a pervasive unease that has taken hold in the U.S. and other democratic societies. The roots of this crisis, argue Frank McCourt and Michael Casey, lie in the prevailing order of the internet. In plain but forceful language, the authors—a civic entrepreneur and an acclaimed journalist—show how a centralized system controlled by a small group of for-profit entities has set this catastrophe in motion and eroded our personhood.

In this volume, what you will find in the sections that follow are twenty-one amazing stories of death and wealth set around a wandering cousin far out in the cold edges of our solar system. You will find Vikings, knights, warriors defending home and hearth, of triumph and tragedy, and, yes, even the god himself. You will listen to tales of great courage and great loss. Of sacrifice for a greater good and of justice delivered to the overly greedy. You will even find the aforementioned Walt Disney himself.

From the survivor of 10 Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, an inspiring memoir about finding strength in the face of despair. On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring 19, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.

Costanza Ansaldo, a half-Italian and half-American translator, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband, an eminent writer, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth, and there she meets, first, Andrew Weissman, an acutely sensitive 17-year-old, and, soon afterward, his father, Henry Weissman, a charismatic New York physician who specializes in - as it happens - reproductive medicine.

Packed with jaw-dropping stories of public violence and personal vengeance, vivid insights into the Mafia's way of life, and shocking portraits of America's most wanted crime families, Red Hook is a must-listen for anyone fascinated by the history of organized crime in America.

Für den Zauberer Beelzebub Irrwitzer und seine Tante, die Hexe Tyrannja Vamperl, kann es gar nicht genug Böses auf der Welt geben. Während die beiden einen unheilvollen Zauber aushecken, rotten sich Rabe Jakob und Kater Maurizio zusammen und tun alles, um den Plan zu durchkreuzen. Es zischt und blubbert im Wunschpunsch-Labor! Regisseur Frank Gustavus inszeniert Michael Endes knalligen Klassiker als irrwitziges Hörspiel, mit geheimnisumwobener Musik von Jan-Peter Pflug und untermalt von Feuerknistern und Zaubertrankbrodeln.

Den fabelagtige familien Frank er et gribende portræt af en familie, der smuldrer under én kvindes dominerende personlighed. Kan anbefales til læsere af Jonathan Franzen Korrektioner, Delphine de Vigan og Jeannette Walls' Glasslottet. Michael Frank vokser op i en usædvanlig tætvævet familie: Hans fars søster er gift med hans mors bror. Michaels faster Hankie er barnløs og arbejder som manuskriptforfatter i Hollywood.

Matthew Drax und Aruula kommen auf der Suche nach Hank Williams in Paris an. Matt ist erschüttert, als er erkennt, dass von der einst so schönen Stadt nur noch Ruinen übrig sind. Doch es kommt noch schlimmer. Denn schon kurz nach ihrer Ankunft werden Matt und Aruula von einem Feind angegriffen, mit dem sie es noch nie zu tun hatten.

Matt und Aruula sind in Paris von den kriegerischen Méros gefangengenommen worden. Doch als sie von ihren Feinden tief in die U-Bahn-Katakomben geführt werden, gibt es eine Überraschung. Sie treffen auf Hank Williams, der ebenfalls dort unten festgehalten wird. Doch ein Entkommen erscheint unmöglich.

Matt sieht ein, dass die ziellose Suche nach den verschollenen Kameraden nichts bringt. Also beschließt er, sich auf den Weg nach Berlin zu machen, seinem ehemaligen Militärstützpunkt. Er hofft, dass er seine Freunde dort wiederfindet. Doch als Maddrax mit Aruula die Alpen überquert, stoßen sie auf ein Monster, gegen das sie keine Chance zu haben scheinen.

Eine alte Sage erzählt von Paradies Ethera. Einer Stadt, in der noch alles so sein soll, wie vor dem Einschlag des Kometen? Christopher Floyd? Als Matt und Aruula auf Pilger treffen, die zu wissen scheinen, wo Ethera liegt, schließen sie sich ihnen an. Und tatsächlich. Sie kommen in eine unversehrte Stadt, die Matt schnell als München erkennt. Dort wird ihnen ein Leben wie im Paradies geboten. Doch dank ihrer telepathischen Fähigkeiten merkt Aruula schnell, dass etwas nicht stimmt.