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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
2) Armored
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English
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"A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney's Audible Original drama, Armored. Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent-a professional bodyguard- and, as such, he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high-the loss of Josh's lower left leg. There's not much call for a high-end guardian with such an injury....
3) Savages
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force, and The Border
A New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Chicago Sun-Times Favorite Book of the Year
"A revelation...This is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on autoload." —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly
"Startling...Stylish...Mega-cool." —Janet Maslin,...
A New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Chicago Sun-Times Favorite Book of the Year
"A revelation...This is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on autoload." —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly
"Startling...Stylish...Mega-cool." —Janet Maslin,...
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"A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her own brand of justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter—from a global investigative correspondent for The New York Times “Azam Ahmed has written a page-turning mystery but also a stunning, color-saturated portrait of the collapse of formal justice in one Mexican town.”٬٢٠١٤؛Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize–winning author...
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Baby's heart is in the right place, but she's got problems--namely, a fierce taste for booze and an on-again, off-again boyfriend who can't commit. She's living and working at Oakwood Hills, a crumbling lakeside resort, with her friends, Crystal Nugget and DJ Overalls, reeling since her adoptive mother died of a stroke. And now, the return of the local drug kingpin, Bad Mike, is about to throw her already unstable summer into full-blown chaos"--
"Baby’s...
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"The man was smart and he didn't mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Lucas Davenport's first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but for the U.S. Marshals Service, and with unusual scope. He gets...
8) The wolf
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"In the next installment of bestselling author J.R. Ward's Prison Camp series, things get steamy when Lucan, a wolven forced into bartering drug deals for the infamous Prison Colony, meets Rio, the second in command for the shadowy Caldwell supplier, Mozart. After a deal goes awry, a wolf with piercing golden eyes swoops in to save her from certain death. As shocking truths unfurl, Rio is uncertain of who to trust and what to believe--but with her...
10) Private Paris
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English
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"When Jack Morgan stops by Private's Paris office, he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing trip filled with fine food and sightseeing. But Jack is quickly pressed into duty after a call from his client Sherman Wilkerson, asking Jack to track down his young granddaughter who is on the run from a brutal drug dealer. Before Jack can locate her, several members of France's cultural elite are found dead--murdered in stunning, symbolic fashion....
11) The shooters
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Presidential Agent novels volume 4
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English
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A key DEA agent has been kidnapped by drugrunners. As much as the news angers Presidential Agent Castillo, he thinks there’s no way he could get permission to rescue the man. But Castillo’s wrong—the President himself orders Castillo to do anything it takes to bring back the agent...anything except get caught.
12) Slide
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Series
Publisher
Hardcase Crime/Dorchester Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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In a hilarious sequel to "Bust," fugitive Angela Petrakos hooks up with a serial killer in Ireland, while failed New York businessman Max Fisher finds a new calling as a crack dealer. But will their paths cross again? Original.
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Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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Teresa Mendoza's boyfriend is a drug smuggler who the narcos of Sinaloa, Mexico, call "the king of the short runway," because he can get a plane full of coke off the ground in three hundred yards. But in a ruthless business, life can be short, and Teresa even has a special cell phone that Guero gave her along with a dark warning. If that phone rings, it means he's dead, and she'd better run, because they're coming for her next. Then the call comes...
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Family business volume 2
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Welcome to the world of Duncans. By day they are upstanding citizens running one of New York's most respected car dealerships; but by night, they're criminals who control most of the East Coast drug traffic. No matter whether they're on their day or night jobs, one thing is true about the Duncan's: there is never a dull moment to be found. Baby momma drama has taken over the Duncan clan as a mad scramble ensues to find out who has fathered the Duncan...
15) Dope
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
16) Cold pursuit
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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When a snowplow driver learns that his son was killed by a drug cartel, he seeks revenge for his son's murder.
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Publisher
Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Irvine Welsh returns to Edinburgh, the home of Trainspotting and so many of his novels since, with a new novel featuring one of his most iconic and beloved characters 'Juice' Terry Lawson that's thick on the Scottish brogue, heavy on the filth and masterful in its comedic timing. A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back in Edinburgh, this time with one of his most compelling and popular characters front and center: the rampaging force of nature that...
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Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Finn is a gentle, tortured dealer and addict whose life is slipping away. When he finds an almost magical drug called Indigo, he thinks it will let him break free, but he's dead wrong"--
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark Ride"--
"From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark Ride Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardly” Reed—good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned—is drifting through life. A minimum-wage...
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Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Oliver Stone, "The Accountant's Story"--written by the surviving brother and chief accountant of infamous drug kingpin Pablo Escobar--tells the inside story of the Medelln Drug Cartel.
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