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1) Black rain
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two New York cops are caught in a Yakuza gang war. They capture the leader of one of the gangs and are told to bring him to Japan.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pinkie is a desperate youth who is hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime. When a young and very innocent waitress, Rose, stumbles on evidence linking him to a revenge killing, he sets out to seduce her to secure her silence.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sing, a hapless gangster, must overcome his inability to wield a knife and demonstrate his mettle in order to become a member of the notorious Axe Gang. He realizes he is the greatest kung fu master of them all, destined to protect the sacred streets.
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 28
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter is at the Tara Foundation’s annual Christmas party. The dog rescue organization has always been his true calling, and this is one holiday tradition he can get behind because every dog that’s come through the rescue—and their families—are invited to celebrate. This year’s party is no exception. But before the stockings can be hung by the chimney with care, homicide detectives ruin...
6) Who they was
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In an autobiographical novel, a young man who goes by two names in two very different worlds--Gabriel at the university he attends, and Snoopz, a hard-living member of London's gangs--must to come to terms with who he really is and the life he's chosen for himself.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The infiltration of crack cocaine in the inner city is shown through the stories of pre-op transsexual Marybeth who works as a prostitute; Manny, who works the late shift in an all night bodega and as a security guard in the Welfare Hotel; Willy, who is a ten year old boy who lives in the Welfare Hotel and begs on the street so he and his sister can eat; and Romeo, a gang member.
Author
Series
Claire DeWitt mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Augmenting her brilliant deductive skills with dream analysis, marijuana, and the written work of a mysterious French detective, private investigator Claire DeWitt reluctantly returns to post-Katrina New Orleans to solve the disappearance of an unpopular prosecutor.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Vida
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 209 pages ; 22 cm
Description
The son of El Salvadorian immigrants, Casey Diaz was brought to Los Angeles at the age of two. An abusive, impoverished family life propelled Casey at only eleven years of age into the Rockwood Street Locos gang. Casey was willing to do anything to be number one, but years of chasing rival gang members led to a dramatic ambush and arrest by the LAPD. At just sixteen, Casey was sentenced to more than twelve years in solitary confinement in California's...
10) Sin nombre
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sayra is a beautiful young Honduran woman who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with El Casper, a teenage Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documents the emergence of the Bloods and Crips and their growth beyond the borders of South Central Los Angeles. A cluster of neighborhoods lies in the heart of Southern California, streets that form a grid between concrete ribbons of freeway. Nearly a quarter of its young men will end up in prison. Many other will end up dead. These neighborhoods in South Los Angeles are home to two of the most infamous African-American gangs, the Crips and the...
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