The Sixth Family

Author : Adrian Humphreys
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443427500
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sixth Family written by Adrian Humphreys and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book about the explosive Rizzuto crime family On May 5, 1981, three rebellious members of New York’s Bonanno crime family were gunned down in a Brooklyn social club. One of the gunmen was Vito Rizzuto, a man who would rise to the top of the underworld in Canada and then expand his reign across continents to become a global superboss. The Sixth Family, now revised and updated, reveals the hidden history of the rise of the Rizzuto clan, the alliances it forged around the world and the bloody events that led to charges against Vito Rizzuto in the United States and Italy for racketeering and corruption. As police in the United States, Italy and Canada meticulously pieced together the puzzle that is Vito Rizzuto, established notions about the nature of authority within the Mafia were called into question. Who was this so-called “John Gotti of Canada”? How did he become one of the biggest names in global crime? And how did he survive the deadly assault from gangland rivals that almost destroyed his family?

Author : Robert Kolker
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385543778
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Valley Road written by Robert Kolker and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. "Reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness." —Oprah Winfrey Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amid profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family's unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope.

Author : Peter Diapoulos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780553102956
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sixth Family written by Peter Diapoulos and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lan Cao
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984878182
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family in Six Tones written by Lan Cao and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual first-person memoir by the acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist and her thoroughly American teenage daughter In 1975, thirteen-year-old Lan Cao boarded an airplane in Saigon and got off in a world where she faced hosts she had not met before, a language she didn't speak, and food she didn't recognize, with the faint hope that she would be able to go home soon. Lan fought her way through confusion, and racism, to become a successful lawyer and novelist. Four decades later, she faced the biggest challenge in her life: raising her daughter Harlan--half Vietnamese by birth and 100 percent American teenager by inclination. In their lyrical joint memoir, told in alternating voices, mother and daughter cross ages and ethnicities to tackle the hardest questions about assimilation, aspiration, and family. Lan wrestles with her identities as not merely an immigrant but a refugee from an unpopular war. She has bigoted teachers who undermine her in the classroom and tormenting inner demons, but she does achieve--either despite or because of the work ethic and tight support of a traditional Vietnamese family struggling to get by in a small American town. Lan has ambitions, for herself, and for her daughter, but even as an adult feels tentative about her place in her adoptive country, and ventures through motherhood as if it is a foreign landscape. Reflecting and refracting her mother's narrative, Harlan fiercely describes the rites of passage of childhood and adolescence, filtered through the aftereffects of her family's history of war, tragedy, and migration. Harlan's struggle to make friends in high school challenges her mother to step back and let her daughter find her own way. Family in Six Tones speaks both to the unique struggles of refugees and to the universal tug-of-war between mothers and daughters. The journey of an immigrant--away from war and loss toward peace and a new life--and the journey of a mother raising a child to be secure and happy are both steep paths filled with detours and stumbling blocks. Through explosive fights and painful setbacks, mother and daughter search for a way to accept the past and face the future together.

Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher : Bounty Books
ISBN 13 : 9780753725603
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Six Bad Boys written by Enid Blyton and published by Bounty Books. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enid Blyton's timeless Family Adventures revived for a new generation. Both living in a new town and starting at a new school, Tom and Bob wish they had a happy settled family like the Mackenzies next door. As they start to spend more time away from their unhappy homes, they discover 'The Four Terrors' and their secret hideout. But trouble soon comes their way when they join the gang...

Author : Maggie Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792365133
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unchosen Ruler written by Maggie Cole and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's the future unchosen ruler of the O'Malleys. Locked away for too many years. Underestimated and pissed off. Protective beyond all rationale. Possessive unlike any man I've ever known. I should run. Except Liam O'Malley isn't a choice. He's the air I breathe. Still, I wonder if I can really be queen of the O'Malleys-especially when I discover the truth about who I am. Anyone else in our shoes would make a different choice, but nothing with Liam is predictable. In our world, anything but strength gets you killed. It's what makes him the perfect unchosen ruler. "Unchosen Ruler" is the sixth jaw-dropping installment of the "Mafia Wars" series. It begins the O'Malley crime family reign and is a forbidden Dark Mafia romance, interconnecting stand-alone, and guaranteed to have an HEA.

Author : Peter Diapoulos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780525204923
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sixth Family written by Peter Diapoulos and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : DUTY.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Whole Duty of Prayer: Containing Fifty-six Family Prayers ... and a Variety of Other Devotions and Thanksgivings, Etc written by DUTY. and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony Felicette
Publisher : La Gerencia Publications, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781941425008
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sixth Family Seeds of Power written by Anthony Felicette and published by La Gerencia Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the era of Freestyle music, Guido's, Guidette's and GM muscle cars. It's also the era of five very powerful Mafia crime families controlling New York and the distribution of drugs throughout the rest of the country. That era is about to start its decline as three teens inadvertently begin the demise of the five families and plant the seeds of power that leads to the birth of a sixth family which will become more powerful than the original five put together. When a depressed Enzo Crescenti, the neighborhood car thief, asks Anthony Farrell, a local loan shark, to get him drugs from a mutual friend and dealer, Mike Maffasio, it sets Anthony down a path that will change not only his life, but also shake and destroy the foundations of the entire Mafia landscape. Anthony's loyal and loving girlfriend, Debbie, doesn't like his work, but she stays by his side. Upon meeting her half-sisters he is thrust even deeper into problems when he finds out one of them is being physically abused by her boyfriend, whom has ties to a Dominican drug cartel. After a fateful night at a barbeque, and ignoring Debbie's pleas to not get involved with her sisters problems, Anthony finds himself with his back against the wall, and a price on his head by the two brothers that run the Dominican organization. Abandoned by the Italian families because he is not a made guy, his only hope is to rely on Mariana, a very powerful and mysterious Colombian drug Queen; who foresees the powerful future that Anthony has in front of him. Together, the two wreak havoc across the city and bring about a bloody street war between the two cartels that claim hundreds of lives, innocent and the not so innocent. Come experience the exciting journey of The Sixth Family in this first chapter of a five part series!

Author : Job Orton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.X3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Discourses on Family Worship written by Job Orton and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: