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Jack Reacher novels volume 24
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English
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Jack Reacher meets an elderly couple on a Greyhound bus and gets embroiled in a dangerous gang war trying to protect them
"In the next highly anticipated installment of Lee Child's acclaimed suspense series, Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple...and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the...
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English
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"The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece, East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia, one of the most violent gangs in the United States. Born in the prisons of California in the late 1960s, Nuestra Familia expanded to control drug trafficking and extortion operations throughout the northern half of the state, and left a trail of bodies in its wake. Award-winning journalist...
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Reaktion Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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"'Power on the inside' is the first book to examine the historical development of prison gangs worldwide, from those that emerged inside mid-nineteenth-century Neapolitan prisons to the new generation of younger inmates who are challenging the status quo within gang subcultures. Historian-criminologist Mitchel P. Roth examines prison gangs throughout the world, from the Americas, Oceania and South Africa to Southeast Asia, Europe and beyond. The book...
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Trail West series volume 3
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English
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Accidental outlaw Dooley Monahan unexpectedly finds himself first the owner of a silver mine in the lawless boomtown of Leadville, Colorado, and then the town's marshal, which forces him into the crossfire between two rival gangs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center
7) Daisy Haites
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Magnolia Parks universe volume 2
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English
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"All twenty-year-old Daisy Haites has ever wanted is a normal life, but as the heiress to London's most notorious criminal empire, it's just not in the cards for her. Raised by her older brother, Julian, after their parents were murdered, Daisy has never been able to escape the watchful gaze of her gang-lord brother. But Julian's line of work means that Daisy's life is . . . complicated. And things don't become any easier when she falls hard for the...
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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In the distant future, a gang of thieves and murderers called the Blades have begun their assault on Lattice Light City. Dr. Phillip Redman, a scientist out to protect the citizens and take the Blades down, initiates his biggest, and most controversial experiment to date. Project Nitro. Five individuals are transformed into super-powered biohumans, each with their own unique abilities to better help their cause. Together, they must fight through the...
10) Concrete rose
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
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Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"It took sacrifice, pain, and more than a few dead bodies, but Lola has clawed her way to the top of her South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. Her gang has grown beyond a few trusted soldiers into a full-fledged empire, and the influx of cash has opened up a world that she has never knownone where her daughter can attend a good school, where her mother can live in safety, and where Lola can finally dream of a better life. But with great opportunity...
12) Mad dogs
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CHERUB novels volume 8
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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The British underworld is controlled by gangs. When two of them start a turf war, violence explodes on to the streets. The police need information fast, and James Adams has the contacts to infiltrate the most dangerous gang of all. He works for Cherub. Cherubs are trained professionals, aged between ten and seventeen. They exist because criminals never suspect that kids are spying on them. For official purposes, these children do not exist
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Perfect chemistry series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be, they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates--and others
14) The outsiders
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Coming of age movie set in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the mid sixties
15) An Obvious Fact
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Series
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English
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In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming - the nearest town to America's first national monument, Devils Tower - to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; a military-grade vehicle donated...
16) The brotherhood
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Precinct 11 volume 1
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English
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Boone Drake is a young cop rising through the ranks in Chicago-- until everything goes horribly wrong. His personal life destroyed and his career and future in jeopardy, Boone buries himself in guilt and bitterness. Face-to-face with the most vicious gang leader Chicago has seen in decades, he begins to realize that God is a God of second chances... and can forgive the worst of crimes
17) City of speed
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Battle dragons volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
"In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground dragon battles and a high-stakes gang war that could tear his family apart. In the city of Drakopolis, dragons and humans have co-existed for centuries. Dragons burn the city's garbage, taxi its busy citizens from place to place, and even compete in vicious underground battles for ganglike kins. But the dragons also compete in legal sports, like the spectacular...
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English
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"Bethany Jernigan owes her bestie. Big time. So when wedding planning overburdens the bride-to-be, Bethany steps in to handle the nitty-gritty. But the guy in charge isn't anything like she imagined. He's gruff, tattooed, and 100% male. His staff is even rougher around the edges, and it's not long before she feels as if she's stepped into some kind of crazy alternate reality. Trey Harding never wanted this to get so out of hand. One little lie somehow...
19) City of thieves
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Series
Battle dragons volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
To protect his friends and family, Abel must figure out what is worth fighting for when he partners with a stolen dragon, an action that has him riding in kin battles and keeping more secrets than a dragon has scales
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