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Series
Jess O'Hara novels volume 2
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While helping a relative find his missing daughter, Jesse O'Hara, aided by her near photographic memory and dogged perseverance, antagonizes the Ireland's most dangerous drug kingpin, and when she doesn't backoff and other people turn up dead, she must solve this case before she ends up six feet under.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxv, 387 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as the Cornbread Mafia. Author James Higdon—whose relationship with Johnny Boone, currently a federal fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed under the...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 25 cm
Description
When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she knows rebuilding her life at thirty years old won’t be easy. With no money and no prospects, she returns home to live with her siblings, who are both busy with their own problems. Her brother, a single dad, struggles with the ongoing effects of a brain injury he sustained years ago, and her sister’s fragile facade of calm and order is cracking under...
Author
Series
Detective Konrad novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him. Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to discover, and a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavik city...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Description
B’onca always knew how to get by. And then her daughter is born. She wouldn’t trade Mia for anything, but there is never enough cash to go around. When their gentrifying Memphis neighborhood results in higher prices and then an eviction notice, B’onca’s already fragile world spirals. Desperate to make things right, B’onca forges a risky plan to help pay the bills. But one wrong move could cost B’onca—and her family—everything.
6) La civil
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In northern Mexico, a mother sets out to save her daughter when she is kidnapped and the authorities are unhelpful.
7) Diva
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jules, a young mail courier, is an impassioned fan of Cynthia Hawkins, a legendary, and determinedly unrecorded opera star. He smuggles a tape recorder into a performance and tapes her singing. At the same time, a prostitute hides a tape recording that details the career of a French mobster in Jules' delivery bag. Dizzying chases and bizaare plot twists follow, as Jules is pursued through Paris, aided by his two eccentric friends, Gorodish and his...
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (317 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong. Eventually, reluctantly banding together, they unravel a political conspiracy fueling...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
To keep her parents from being evicted and fund her Clash-inspired punk band, Malika takes a job smuggling drugs over the mountains. Her partner in the run is a world-weary veteran drug mule, who unexpectedly wins Malika's sympathy.
10) Savage salvation
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After his fiancé dies of an overdose, a recovering addict embarks on a vengeful killing spree, hunting down the drug dealers before the town sheriff puts an end to his vigilante justice.
11) The border
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas is involved in an international drug smuggling operation, but decides to clean up his act to help a woman whose child has been sold across the border.
Author
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"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...
13) The peripheral
Author
Series
Peripheral volume 1
Publisher
Roca Editorial de Libros
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
523 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
William Gibson regresa con su primera novela desde Zero History, el éxito de ventas del New York Times de 2010. Donde viven Flynne y su hermano, Burton, los trabajos fuera del negocio de las drogas son escasos. Afortunadamente, Burton tiene sus beneficios de veterano, por el daño neuronal que sufrió debido a los implantes durante su tiempo en la fuerza de élite Haptic Recon del USMC. Entonces, una noche, Burton tiene que salir, pero hay un trabajo...
Author
Appears on list
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Description
Carmen and Grace have been inseparable since they were little girls—more like sisters than cousins, survivors of a childhood marked by neglect and addiction and a system that never valued them. For too long, all they had was each other. That is, until Doña Durka swept into their lives and changed everything, taking Grace into her home, providing stability and support, and playing an outsize role in Carmen’s upbringing too. Durka is more than...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Chinese police officer travels to Paris to stop a drug-trafficker, but is betrayed by his French partner. To survive, he teams up with an American prostitute whose daughter has been kidnapped by the same man.
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (423 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A fascinating exploration of the unintended and often dehumanizing consequences of the belief technological progress will benefit humanity; follows a solitary lifelong bureaucrat and her inner world; a documentary from the perspective of staff watching over a cemetery where many of Mexico's most notorious drug lords lie; the story of Almada's great-grandfather--a revolutionary general and one-time President of Mexico with a complicated legacy; a Mexican...
17) Seven girls gone
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For three years, women have been disappearing--and eventually turning up dead in the small bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who seems to care, but with every witness quickly silenced and a corrupt police department set on keeping the cases unsolved, Beau's investigation stalls at every turn. With nobody else to trust, Beau calls in a favor from his friend on the FBI's Mobile Response Team. While...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 589 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it's meant compromising her morals.She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother's care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her--one...
19) Carlito's way
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Description
Brian De Palma directs this classic crime thriller starring Al Pacino as Puerto Rican drugs boss Carlito Brigante. In 1970s New York, Carlito is determined to go straight and retire to the Bahamas with his girlfriend, Gail (Penelope Ann Miller) after he is released from prison. However, he is tempted to return to his criminal past by his lawyer, sleazy cocaine addict David Kleinfeld (Sean Penn), for one last job.
20) Tequila sunrise
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : digital, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mac McKussic has decided to quit the drug-smuggling business, but it won't quit him. Nick Frescia, the cop assigned to reel in boyhood pal Mac, and a sexy restaurateur make for sexy, tough, volatile thriller.
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