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Dying to Live introduces Brendon Merullo, a boy with the usual childhood fantasies of winning the World Series for the Yankees, the NBA Championship for the Knicks, and the Super Bowl for the Jets. Unfortunately for the cause of New York sports, he puts away his dreams and then works-hard-and makes a success of his life, at least, according to the world's standards. The author, Vincent J. Monteleone, shares the outcome of dreams and work colliding:

The eight-year-old version of me would actually be disgusted with the man I grew up to be. I rarely do anything that I want to do...

A fascinating addition to any criminal law history library or collection, this book will likely be perused often. With a new introduction by Bryan A. Garner, President, LawProse, Inc. 1-2 new introduction], 292 pp. Originally published: Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1949.
Monteleone was a police officer with thirty-two years of service throughout the United States. He compiled this collection of words and phrases used by the "gangster, tramp or hobo" over the course of a career that spanned the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Both instructive and amusing, it contains hundreds of entries...

Fed up with hearing about his sibling's children and their perfect lives, Frank Bellincioni decides to remind his sister and brother where they came from. One Christmas Eve he begins to fill in his great nephew Michael on all the family history that the past two generations know nothing about. Currently all pillars of society, benefactors of the church and highly respected city attorneys, Uncle Frank spills the beans on the family's connection to the mafia, money laundering, grandma's love of weed, great grandpa's bookmaking operation and small town motel room sex. It all takes place in the...