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Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The child of an incarcerated father, Antong Lucky grew up in an impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhood in East Dallas, Texas, born at the same time as East Dallas experienced an alarming rise in crack cocaine and heroin use. Despite his high grades and strong love for learning, Antong is introduced to gang life and its consequences when confronted by law enforcement. Antong eventually forms the Dallas Bloods gang, inaugurating a period in the 1990s...
243) Great expectations
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Nothing is quite as it seems in this lush retelling of Dickens' classic coming-of-age story with colorful characters: conspirators, rogues, rakes, and wretches.
245) The innocent
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
The horror of one night is forever etched in Matt Hunter's memory; the night he innocently tried to break up a fight-and ended up a killer. Now nine years after his release from prison, his innocence long forgotten, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. With his wife Olivia pregnant and the two of them closing on a house in his home town, things are looking up. Until the day Matt gets a shocking, inexplicable video call from Olivia's phone....
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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Description
"Inés is released after fifteen years in prison for murdering Charo, the lover of her ex-husband. Her life has changed, but so has the society with the progress of feminism, the laws for equal marriage and abortion, and the use of inclusive language. Now Inés, a traditional housewife for whom motherhood was not a happy experience, understands that she must be practical and that has to adapt. Even if it costs her. She associates with La Manca, the...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Just weeks after graduating on the Dean's List from Tennessee State University, Keeda Haynes became an inmate at Alderson Federal Prison Camp, all for a crime she didn't commit. This was never meant to be her story. Her childhood was spent in church, band practice, and Girl Scout meetings, and when she enrolled at TSU, the path ahead had seemed bright. Then one day her boyfriend had asked for a simple favor, to sign to receive some FedEx packages-packages...
249) Out of the furnace
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Russell and his younger brother Rodney live in the economically depressed Rust Belt, and have always dreamed of escaping and finding better lives. But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, his brother becomes involved with one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northeast - a mistake that will cost him everything. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom or risking it all to seek justice for his brother....
250) Sunrise crossing
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Yancy Grey is slowly putting his life back together after serving time for petty theft. As he rebuilds an old house, he finally has a sense of stability, but he can't stop thinking of himself as just an ex-con. Until one night, he finds a mysterious dark-haired beauty hiding in his loft. But who is she, and what secret is she protecting? The art gallery Parker Lacey manages is her life -- she has no time for friends, and certainly not lovers....
251) Cape fear
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
Fourteen years after being imprisoned, vicious psychopath Max Cady emerges with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney.
Fourteen years after being imprisoned, vicious psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro) emerges with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte).
253) Furious 7
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After the team's activities in London leave criminal mastermind Owen Shaw comatose, Shaw's brother seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family, while Somalian terrorists try to steal a computer program that can turn any device into a weapon.
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the...
255) Bandits
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Bandits assembles an unlikely crew: an ex-nun, an ex-cop, and an ex-con. They've got their eyes on several million dollars that they've decided should not be spent to aid the Contras in Nicaraugua. Of course , a lot of other people have their eyes on the money, too.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A deeply humane and touching novel; highly recommended for book clubs and fans of Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures." — Booklist "A beautiful, big-hearted treasure of a novel." —Lily King From the award-winning author of The One-in-a-Million Boy comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookstore, exploring redemption, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing power of sharing stories. Our Reasons meet...
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