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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A legend in the biker community, Peter 'Big Pete' James was the most revered gangster in the Chicagoland Outlaws. He first perfected his skills with the Hells Angels, the Outlaws' chief rival, before persuading thousands of disgruntled members from splintered Outlaw Clubs to unite. Together they formed a powerful criminal syndicate involved in extortion, contract murders, drugs and arms trafficking, money laundering, and assassinations. Then a shocking...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Angie Watts once had what seemed like an idyllic life: a house in a small town in the English countryside with her beloved husband Steve and their three adored children. She never could have predicted how her life would one day turn out. When her oldest son, Liam, grows from a sweet-natured boy to a troubled teen, Angie's world begins to crumble. Expelled from school and disappearing from home for days on end, Liam falls in with a notorious local...
4) Queen divas
Author
Series
Divas (De'nesha Diamond) volume 6
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
While Ta'Shara fights for her life, Lucifer works a dangerous truce, Cleo aims to destroy the man controlling her, and police captain Hydeya Hawkins tries to survive her department's dirtiest secrets.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Miriam Schrock has one rule in her quest for a respectable Amish life--stay away from troublemakers like Aaron Raber. That is, until their employers play matchmaker and Miriam sees a different side to the former rebel. Aaron promises his time with an Englischer gang is behind him. But when his past returns, will protecting Miriam from their threats mean losing her for good? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope"--
Author
Publisher
Bookpress Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Will (Keeps) Holmes has dreamed of a career in music. Originally inspired and influence by Michael Jackson, Keeps felt the call to perform, to sing and to dance, and he knew there was magic in his voice. But growing up on the South Side of Chicago as gangs were a beginning to cast a long shadow over the city, the far more pressing need to appear strong and defend the people he loved put a stranglehold on his aspirations. Caught up in inescapable...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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. Special features: a trailer, featurette, behind the scenes, and interviews.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname "Bodymore, Murderland," and was made notorious by David Simon's classic HBO series The Wire. Drug deals dominate...
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 2
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Living on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus with his older brother Alex, a college student and ex-gang member, high school senior Carlos is not ready to give up his wild ways until he meets a shy classmate named Kiara and becomes unwillingly involved in a drug ring.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2008].
Language
English
Description
This raw and powerful memoir is not only of one woman's struggle to survive the streets but also of her ascent to the top ranks of the new Mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs were members of her own.
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Immortal Dragon, once the fiercest member of the yakuza, is now a married man devoted to supporting his loving wife as a househusband! But when the gangster-turned-homemaker needs to make some quick cash to buy her a present, he turns to the only skills he knows and gets his first part-time job! The cozy yakuza comedy continues!"-- cover page 4.
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On what begins as just another shopping trip, Tatsu has a run-in with a thiefof the feline persuasion! When the gangster-turned-homemaker gives chase, yakuza are quickly drawn into the fray, and chaos erupts in the streets of the shopping district. Even everyday errands can turn treacherous when youre the Immortal Dragon!
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"As he stumbled through high school, struggling to find a community among other fans of punk rock music, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious white power skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become an expert in racist philosophies, a terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to throw fists. When his mentor was arrested and sentenced to eleven years in prison,...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Tatsu is ambushed by a yakuza with a beef, and there's only one way to settle things--an epic rap battle! but this throwdown is only a warm-up for the buffet yet to come, because when you're the Immortal Dragon, you don't choose the househusband life, it chooses you!" -- Page 4 of cover.
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The legendary yakuza "the Immortal Dragon" has washed his hands of the gangster life for something far more dangerous--becoming a househusband! Cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, cooking... These days he's doing everything he can to succeed as man of the house, if it doesn't kill him first! The cozy yakuza comedy continues!"-- cover page 4.
18) Tricky
Author
Publisher
Agora Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Does your past define you forever? That's the question LAPD homicide detective Niels Madsen must answer after he gets in the middle of a standoff between two uniformed officers and Cisco, an intellectually disabled man. Cisco is found armed and standing over the body of a man with Down syndrome. Cisco swears the dead man was his good friend, and he didn't hurt him, but in his earlier life, Cisco had been a gang member, a brilliant and brutal killer....
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Tatsu ends up on the radar of an overeager police officer when he attends a traffic safety course, and it isn't long before a simple class demonstration turns deadly! Well, for the mascot dragged into it, anyway. Has the law finally caught up with this yakuza legend turned househusband, or will he get off clean once again?"--Back cover.
20) Furie
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
An ex-gangster lying low in the countryside after becoming a mother can't escape her violent past when her daughter is kidnapped.
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