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2020.
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"También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nonetheless managing...until an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young girl from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out in the Big Sky Country of Montana, twisted family...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 22
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English
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"Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan.The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside.Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring. Why not? So begins a harrowing journey...
5) The mule
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Inspired by a true story, follows a man in his eighties who is desperate for money and becomes a drug courier for a Mexican cartel.
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2020.
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English
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"Jeffrey Archer's Hidden in Plain Sight is the second novel featuring Detective William Warwick, by the master storyteller and #1 New York times bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending Ahmed Rashedi, a notorious drug dealer, who operates...
7) Badlands
Author
Series
Cassie Dewell novels volume 2
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English
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In the aftermath of a learning-disabled youth's discovery of a cache of drugs and money, deputy sheriff Cassie Dewell struggles to keep the peace in a North Dakota community that has been transformed by oil discoveries and gang activity.
Cassie Dewell is the new deputy sheriff in town and the only female in the department. In this newly rich town where men outnumber women 20-1, the police need all the help they can get. With oil comes money. With...
8) Collide
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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After a heist goes terribly wrong, Casey Stein finds himself on the run from a ruthless gang headed by mob boss Hagen. Now Casey has precious cargo that belongs to Hagen, who will stop at nothing to retrieve it. Left with no choice, Casey calls his former employer and drug smuggler Geran to protect his longtime girlfriend Juliette before Hagen gets his hands on her. Casey sets out on an adrenaline-fueled car chase on the German highways to save the...
9) Traffic
Series
Criterion collection volume 151
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack cocaine addict.
Traffic is a mural of a war being fought and lost. In a culture devoted to instant gratification and the quick fix, it poses unanswerable questions about greed, corruption, economic inequity, pleasure, self-medication, dependency, and addiction. The stories of a well-meaning...
10) Sicario
Publisher
Lionsgate
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English
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After an idealistic FBI agent is recruited by a government task-force official to pursue a drug lord, she begins a perilous mission that forces her to question everything she believes, and pits her against a shadowy consultant with a dangerous agenda.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Approved to begin practicing law again, Jimmy McGill decides to operate under the name "Saul Goodman", using methods and representing clients that gives Kim Wexler some pause and puts Jimmy in some uniquely dangerous situations. Gustavo continues his war against the cartel by way of Lalo Salamanca, putting Nacho in the crosshairs, and leaving Mike at rock bottom
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Better Call Saul's final season concludes the complicated journey and transformation of its compromised hero, Jimmy McGill, into criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. From the cartel to the courthouse, from Albuquerque to Omaha, season six tracks Jimmy, Saul, and Gene as well as Jimmy's complex relationship with Kim, who is in the midst of her existential crisis. Meanwhile, Gus, Nacho, and Lalo are locked into a game of cat and mouse with mortal stakes.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Nicolas Cage plays... Nick Cage! Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, the fictionalized version of Cage accepts a million-dollar offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take an unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and he must use his legendary acting skills, channeling his most iconic and beloved characters to become a real-life action hero" --Container.
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[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Contains violence and strong language"--Container.
Aaron Pedersen returns as Det. Jay Swan in this mystery set in the Australian outback. When a body is found along the coast, Jay teams up with a local constable to investigate. Facing obstruction from an archaeologist working nearby, Jay must expose the web of corruption plaguing the town as the body count rises.
"When a decapitated body is found in the mangroves of a coastal town, [Detective Jay...
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When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence.
A man living in a small Texas town comes across a crime scene and finds two million dollars, and a killer is set on his trail to recover the money.
16) Moonlight
Publisher
A24 / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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"Walt and Jesse are in way over their heads. As their partnership reaches new heights, Walt and Jesse begin to see the extremes of the drug trafficking business. Their trademark blue meth is making them rich, but it's getting more difficult than ever for Walt to conceal the truth from his wife Skyler, his son Walter Jr., and his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank. Walt struggles to maintain control of his life as he contends with vicious drug dealers,...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
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A Mexican drug lord offers to free a DEA agent in return for an American gangster who is in jail in Thailand. In fact the gangster is dead, but the Mexican does not know this. Convicted killer Tim Kearney is offered his freedom by the DEA if he will impersonate the gangster and Kearney jumps at the opportunity, only to discover the Mexican wanted the gangster free so he could kill him. By the author of While Drowning in the Desert
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