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The Good Rat

By Jimmy Breslin

Nonfiction

Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witness of the ages. Breslin comes from the same Queens streets as mob bosses John Gotti and Vito Genovese. But even they couldn't match Kaplan…

The Genius in the Design

By Jake Morrissey

Biographies and Memoirs

"The remarkable story of the two seventeenth-century geniuses. . . . A highly successful double biography." — Booklist The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious…