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1) Jumped in
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Sixteen-year-old Rasheed is smart, tough and a survivor. In his neighborhood, he has to be. The streets are run by a gang called the E Street Locals, and they've been trying to jump him in since he was a child. So far, he's managed to escape their clutches. But the gang is not his only problem. Rasheed's sister, Daneeka, was paralyzed in a drive-by shooting, and now she's confined to a wheelchair, mentally frozen at the age of nine. His mother is...
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Los Angeles Times gang reporter Michael Lyons has just left his favorite downtown saloon when he is shot and wounded on the sidewalk two blocks from City Hall. After the initial shock, fellow reporters put together a betting pool. The bet? "Who Shot Mike?" There are a lot of contenders. When the LAPD's investigation stalls, the Times runs editorials critical of the police. Then, when detectives uncover an audio tape of Lyons talking to a gang member...
3) Dark eyes
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Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2012
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373 p. ; 22 cm.
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Adopted from a Russian orphanage by a wealthy New York family then growing into a rebellious street youth, fifteen year-old Wally resolves to find the birth mother who stole a fortune from her murderous, dark-eyed father.
4) Dear Yvette
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Throwback diaries volume 2
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After a street fights ends with a jail sentence, Yvette is forced to live far from anything and anyone she's ever known, but starting her life over again may show her what it means to have a real family.
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PowerHouse Books
Pub. Date
2011
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123 p. : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
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"A good street photographer must be possessed of many talents: an eye for detail, light, and composition; impeccable timing; a populist or humanitarian outlook; and a tireless ability to constantly shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot and never miss a moment. It is hard enough to find these qualities in trained photographers with the benefit of schooling and mentors and a community of fellow artists and aficionados supporting and rewarding their efforts. It...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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"Sixteen year old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City, but when she sets her sights on giving this life up for a prestigious home in Mega Towers, she must decide if she's willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants"--
7) Paris
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IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
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1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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While waiting for a heart transplant that could save his life, Pierre reunites with his sister and her lively children. This rediscovery of his family and observation of the teeming streets outside his window give Pierre hope, and a new sense of how he might spend the time still left to him. A story about the middle-class and bourgeois, immigrants and students, fashion models and the homeless, and all the lovers and strangers whose paths could cross...
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IQ novels volume 3
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Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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343 pages ; 25 cm.
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When a young painter approaches Isaiah Quintable for help tracking down her missing mother, it's not just the case IQ's looking for, but the human connection. When his new confidant turns out to be connected to a dangerous paramilitary operation, IQ falls victim to a threat even a genius can't see coming.
10) Downtown 81
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 Blu-ray (71 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After being released from the hospital, an artist travels around the streets of Manhattan in hopes of selling his artwork in order to earn money and make a living.
11) The Salton Sea
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
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1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jazz musician Danny Parker's wife was murdered, and Danny was powerless to prevent it. The heartbroken trumpet player is on the skids, lost in the lifestyle of Los Angeles' derelict tweakers. Or is he? In Danny's world nothing - most of all Danny - is what it seems.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
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x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Before becoming executive chef and part owner of the California soul food restaurant Alta Adams in West LA, Keith Corbin had spent a quarter of his life in prison. Renowned as the best cook of crack cocaine in Los Angeles, Corbin more or less raised himself on the streets of Watts, learning to cook crack when he was only thirteen. He knew he was doing it right if it had the consistency of the roux his granny made for her gumbo. It was a violent business-one...
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Plaza Jan?s
Pub. Date
2021
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377 pages ; 24 cm
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"Pablo llega a Madrid para empezar de cero y cumplir su sue?o de ser actor. Siguiendo esa continua necesidad de que pase cualquier cosa que lo cambie todo, se convierte en un «desgastaaceras» de tanto patear la ciudad y relacionarse con la extra?a fauna que la puebla. Dos personajes ser?n decisivos para su futuro: Elia, una segurata del museo Thyssen, fascinada por el pintor americano Edward Hopper, y? el fantasma de P?o Baroja." --back cover
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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304 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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Follows the lives of four street children in Lusaka, Zambia, as they navigate the city's violent and poverty-stricken underworld and cope with the impact of a murder investigation when the body of a ten-year-old child is discovered in Lusaka's largest landfill.
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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157 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances"--
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
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256 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Part memoir, part travelogue, part love letter to the people who live and work on a magical street in Paris. Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. 'I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs,' Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the neighborhood's rich history and vibrant lives. While many...
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Frank Miller's Sin City volume 5
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
v. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
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