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61) Love and war 2
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Awaiting news of Blaze's fate in the wake of a much-anticipated wedding gone catastrophically wrong, Quick navigates a corrupt police force. Meanwhile Shadow combs Chicago to find those responsible. Babyface uses the violence he would avoid-- but doing so may push away the only girl to steal his heart. Can the Hoover Gang overcome all the secrets, deceits, and greed? -- adapted from back cover
62) Your corner dark
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Frankie Green yearns to leave Jamaica and study in the United States, but when his father is shot he is forced to give up his scholarship and join his uncle Joe's gang.--Provided by Publisher.
The second Frankie Green gets that scholarship letter, he has his ticket out of Jamaica. The second his longtime crush, Leah, asks him on a date, he's in trouble. The second his father gets shot, suddenly nothing else matters. And the second...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Nita Gonzalez takes readers on a terrifying tour of the streets of North Philadelphia, where the code of the streets rules supreme. Told in such vivid detail and with a gritty and compelling style, this story of mayhem in the City of Brotherly Love is soon to be a hood classic. Raised by a crack addict, Lil' Bert has a chip on his shoulder and murder in his heart. As the leader of Philly's most dangerous drug gang, he is determined to keep the city's...
65) King Reece
Author
Series
Crescent Crew volume 2
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Life couldn't get better for the Crescent Crew. With an exclusive Mexican pipeline, they've got the Southern drug trade on lock. Former founder Qwess is leveraging rap superstardom to break the music industry's commercial stranglehold. And former leader Reece is fresh off a five-year prison bid-and out to forever secure the Crew's dominance. But as Reece is working a brutal vendetta, a Crew mutiny will drag him back into all-out street war. Now, between...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2008].
Language
English
Description
Discusses the various gangs of nineteenth-century New York, such as the Plug Uglies, the Dead Rabbits, and the Bowery Boys, and describes the settings of their activities, such as saloon halls and gambling dens, covering figures such as Dandy John Dolan, Bill the Butcher and Hell-Cat Maggie.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"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"--
68) The Loners
Author
Series
Quarantine volume 1
Publisher
EgmontUSA
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarantine.
Author
Publisher
Kingston Imperial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The story of one of the most controversial figures in all of hip-hop history, Dummy Boy tells the tale of Tekashi 6ix9ine and his meteoric rise to fame. In tracing Danny "Tekashi 6ix9ine" Hernandez's life from Bushwick to the heights of the rap scene, Complex reporter Shawn Setaro illuminates the story of the young rapper who forged an alliance with a notorious street gang to bolster his image and boost his internet clout. Before long, Tekashi's...
Author
Publisher
Melodrama Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Cartier Timmons is infuriated by the tragedy and vengeance inflicted upon her family. She's making savage rounds through Miami until she can bring her own brand of hood justice to the cartel who messed with hers."--Page [4] of cover.
71) February's son
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A man hangs himself in a neighborhood chapel. Bodies of young girls are being found in canals and rivers across the city with high levels of Mandrax in their bloodstream. Harry McCoy is asked to watch over a colleague's niece, who has left home young and is running with a bad crowd in Glasgow. DS Wattie is attempting to become a sergeant. Drugs in Glasgow have got darker and more dangerous. Glasgow, its music and its inhabitants all have rough edges...
72) West side story
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1961
Language
English
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Wagon trains carrying immigrants along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. Most families surrender their valuables and goods peacefully, but anybody brave enough to resist gets a bullet. The gang's latest victim was a wagon master who sought to protect his charges only to die in the dust. With the blood of good men being spilled and families being terrorized, Preacher and Jamie MacCallister volunteer to escort the next wagon train. Preacher...
74) Seven crows
Author
Series
Killian Delaney novels volume 1
Publisher
Redhook Books/Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Killian Delaney has a skewed moral compass, a high threshold for pain, and has just been released from prison to discover that someone has taken her niece. Killian does not hesitate. Loyalty is the most important thing in her life, and when she gets a call from her sister saying that her daughter is missing, Killian immediately begins hunting down the men responsible. She quickly discovers her niece was involved with a notorious biker gang who are...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"She has brains, beauty, and she's eager to please. Krystal Davenport can be anything in life she desires. Well, at least that's what her teachers tell her. However, the brutal truth is that Krystal has one destiny, and that path defines who she is, who she was born to be. This conniving female is indeed her mother's child. Being Ms. Thang's offspring means Krystal is hood royalty. Her family is infamous in the game. They live and die by the code...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Wise Son and Tech-9 have returned from their military tours in Afghanistan--and life in Dakota City could not be more different. While Icon and Rocket have been busy cleaning up the streets, Bang Babies have been forming rival gang factions. With Holocaust's influence--and super-powered army-growing, who will look out for the people of Paris Island when the capes aren't watching? What secrets do Wise and Tech hide from their time overseas? As the...
77) Pray for rain
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Young New York journalist Emma Gardner returns to the idyllic Central California farming community where she was raised, only to find it has been ravaged by drought and has become a place ruled by gangs, violent threats, and greed. She is forced to investigate the suspicious circumstances of her father's death even though it puts her in great danger.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1964
Language
English
Description
A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim and dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw", the stranger soon receives lucrative offers of employment from each gang.
79) Grease
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
It's love when a greaser falls for a good girl in this classic musical depicting young life in the fifties.
80) Smoke and steel
Author
Series
Wild West MC volume 2
Publisher
Rock Chick Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
She wasn't a white dress type of girl ... Hellen Moynihan didn't have dreams. She had goals. She knew who she was and what she wanted. She also knew what she didn't. So when her long-term boyfriend didn't make the grade, she moved on. And when her best friend's boyfriend showed signs of being a scam artist, Hellen was on the case. And he wasn't a white hat type of guy ... Dustin "Hardcore" Cutler didn't have dreams or goals. A troubled past led Core...
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