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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Boris Nayfeld, a.k.a. 'Biba,' is the last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America, and he’s survived to tell it all. Filled with sex, drugs, and murder, Biba’s story is a mind-boggling journey that took him from petty street crime in the USSR to billion-dollar embezzlement in America. Born in Soviet-era Belarus, abandoned by his parents in infancy, Biba’s brutal upbringing left him hungry for more—more power, control, and money....
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Series
Martin Hench volume 1
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows his way around good food and fine drink. He likes intelligent women, and they like him back often enough. Martin is a-contain your excitement-self-employed forensic accountant,...
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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...
Author
Series
Ripley novels volume 3
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 21 cm
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Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Girl about town volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When fate brings Lulu and Freddie together in 1930s Hollywood, sparks fly--and gunshots follow"--
Publisher
Kino Lorber Corporation
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
3 blu-rays : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This collection features three film noir classics. Undertow (1949) - a gambler just out of wartime military service who wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. But before this can take place he is framed for murder and forced to go on the run. Outside the Wall (1950) - a paroled officer from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence. He takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium, falls for a nurse and also falls into a robbery...
10) Transfusion
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Ex-special forces operative Ryan Logan has a sharply honed set of survival skills that have allowed him to walk the line between courage and fear. But after a personal tragedy shatters his family and sends his teenage son, Billy, into a world of drugs and delinquency, he is pushed to the edge. Desperate to make a new life for Billy, Ryan plunges into the criminal underground for one final mission in this muscular, emotionally charged thriller.
Author
Series
Scarlett and Browne volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
422 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Description
When their notoriety spreads a bit too far, Albert, who can read minds, and Scarlett, who has a way with weapons, must save their friends who are being held hostage by their enemies, a situation that forces them to pull off an impossible mission to win their freedom.
12) Sleepers
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xv, 412 pages ; 21 cm
Description
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.
13) Fast X
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: a terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything and everyone that Dom loves, forever.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Longing to be accepted as normal teenagers, the Turtle brothers, with the help of their friend April O'Neil, try to fight against a mysterious crime syndicate, but find themselves having to fight a mutant army.
Publisher
CBS Paramount Network Television
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 550 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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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When his lawsuit money starts to get low, Sonny Brown finds out from the most unusual sources that the pimp life may have been just a natural call of the wild.
The system hasn't been too kind to Angela "Angel" Cooper either, so she connects with Sonny on her eighteenth birthday since foster care is about to throw her to the wolves anyway.
There are many obstacles, and they find themselves in more than a few perplexing predicaments where Sonny...
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The Pirates of Panama presents a true account of the famous adventures and daring deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and other notorious freebooters of the Spanish Main. Written by John Esquemeling, a Dutch merchant clerk who turned to piracy and served under Captain Morgan, witnessing and participating in their crimes, the book offers a firsthand account of many different aspects of piracy and the life of pirates.
Esquemelingdescribeshow the democracy works...
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Only by God's grace, I am still alive and not in prison. I was born in a federal housing project, and my mother was fifteen years old when she became pregnant with me. Both of my parents served time in prison for trafficking heroin. My father had eight sons, and I am the only one who did not spend time in the penitentiary. Two of my brothers and four of my nephews have been murdered in the streets because of gang wars. After being raided by the police,...
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