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"Beatrice Carraway has dreams. Although she's aged out of the childhood pageant circuit, she's intent on carrying her talents all the way to the big screen--if only she can escape the poverty of West Dallas first. But as the Great Depression drags the working class further and further under, Beatrice struggles just to keep herself, her mother, and her younger sister afloat. After a string of failed auditions, she feels defeated.And then in walks Jack...
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Ripley novels volume 3
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008
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272 pages ; 21 cm
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Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Just released from prison, Laea returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro's fiercely authoritarian and militarized government, Chitara's women claim the streets for themselves as a declaration of...
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Girl about town volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2016]
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321 pages ; 22 cm
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"When fate brings Lulu and Freddie together in 1930s Hollywood, sparks fly--and gunshots follow"--
6) Sleepers
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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xv, 412 pages ; 21 cm
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The author recounts his youth in a New York City boys' home, where the severe mistreatment and brutalization of the young men at the home led to a terrible revenge.
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CBS Paramount Network Television
Pub. Date
2009.
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3 DVDs (approximately 550 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A unique group of cops, members of a highly-skilled team, do whatever they must to save lives. Whether they are negotiating, getting inside the suspect's head, busting gangs, or defusing bombs, this unique group risks their lives to diffuse any situation.
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Over the last thirty years, many people who have heard my life's testimony suggested that I write this book. The book starts off with my verbally and emotional abusive relationship with my father that eventually caused me to accept atheism and to run away from home at the age of fourteen. I went to Hell's Kitchen in New York City and joined a local gang, the Park Rats.
The middle section shows my association with The Genovese Mafia due to work provided...
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Based on a true story, this gripping debut novel tells the tale of a young lady entering womanhood, ensnared in the vicious cycle of dematerialized soul tie symptoms, addiction, violence, and crime. A single mother in a world where other women knew their position, she played the game. Set against the gritty backdrop of a harsh world, the protagonist grapples with the loss of loved ones and battles addiction to crack cocaine while navigating the perilous...
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Buddies are well-organized groups of teen hackers from Ivory Coast, West Africa. They can hack anything they want. They scam international institutions, credit and debit cards, international humanitarian organizations, armies, transport companies and more.
They work hand-in-hand with bank workers, law enforcement officers and men in power of different countries so that they can safely blow thousands of dollars in one night to have fun in nightclubs...
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Writing my true-crime autobiography is only half the story. The second half is my redemption and repentance to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ. The book is 100 percent truth, from my wild childhood days in New York City to me joining the US Navy at age sixteen and serving eight years honorably. The only problem, I was living a double life. I was also a mob associate and worked with a crew from one of the five families. It was the early 1990s, the...
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La historia de Jeffrey Epstein y otras historias ha capturado la atención del mundo entero. Este financiero multimillonario, conocido por su relación con prominentes figuras políticas, celebridades y empresarios, fue acusado de dirigir una red de tráfico sexual de menores y enfrentaba graves cargos criminales. Sin embargo, su muerte en prisión en agosto de 2019, oficialmente catalogada como suicidio, dejó muchas preguntas sin respuesta y alimentó...
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 DVD (208 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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While trying to save the family farm, cousins Bo Duke, Luke Duke, and Daisy Duke stay one step ahead of Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane in their 1969 Dodge Charger, the General Lee; two street-wise cops fight crime in their red Torino with the help of their friend Huggy Bear.
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I'm an Irish author from Dublin.
This is my autobiography called,
"How Much Pain Can Our Hearts Endure"
My wife Audrey and I have been living a nightmare since Amy went missing in Spain back in 2008.
I write about the death of my stepson, Dean.
I also write about life behind bars in Dublin's notorious prisons, from Mountjoy, Wheatfield and Cloverhill.
The Shark, or should I say Cancer, that has affected all of my family...
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The truth about the disappearances in Mexico and the links between drug cartels and the Mexican government, that is basically the content of this book, the historical relationship between López Obrador, now president of Mexico, and the organized crime groups that have financed his electoral campaigns and a group of his favorites to gain power. A book about the degradation of democracy in the last five years, the collapse of the economy and the use...
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Seix Barral
Pub. Date
junio de 2023.
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199 pages ; 23 cm
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"Desde que su padre asesinó a su madre y a sus hermanos, Martin --de apenas once años-- vive solo en una choza. Su única campañía es un gallo que siempre se queda dormido y se olvida de cantarle al sol en las mañanas; con él ha forjado una hermosa e inquebrantable amistad. Su oscuro pasado lleva a los aldeanos a pensar que está poseído, pero Martin es un niño con una inteligencia poco común y una desinteresada inclinación por el bien....
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"Raised in one of the few well to do areas left in metro Detroit, Morgan's parents spoiled their daughter with the most lavish life they could afford and placed her on a pedestal of greatness. With dreams of her becoming a top-tier businesswoman working in the newly revised Downtown Detroit district, her parents were shocked when their daughter ran off with Javon Bates, one of the most dangerous thugs in the city. He’s better known as Always...
19) Raw: A Memoir
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Raw chronicles a childhood marred by physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and a man's subsequent innefective search for identity in gangs, dysfunctional relationships, the military and even politics. The ongoing impacts of childhood trauma reach a climax when Damien firebombs the home of a man accused of rape. He subsequently becomes an artist and writer in prison.
"Childhood trauma. Unanswered cries for help. Coming to terms with sex, love and...
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This story will take you through the life of John Palermo: how I grew up, and how I was influenced by some of the most celebrated historical top organized-crime figures in America for over thirty years. This journey by one child and a man will take you through some of the most corrupt courts, mob-controlled towns, and politicians. This story is my firsthand account of corruption in my own situations and what I have been told and seen. I formed my...
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