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Harry Bosch volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Investigating the shooting death of a Chinese liquor store owner, detective Harry Bosch identifies a suspect as a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad only to have his daughter go missing, a situation that prompts his high-stakes search across the Pacific.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Michael Bennett takes his family to upstate New York in an effort to escape a lawless crime wave erupting in Manhattan only to find themselves immersed in another nightmare, one that endangers his relationship with his wife.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
377 p.; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The murder of John Li, a South L.A. liquour store owner, hits LAPD Detective Harry Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. As he uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad--a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.--his world instantly explodes and the person he holds most dear is taken from him.
5) Rope burn
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. JAILHOUSE TERROR.
Those Jensen boys, Ace and Chance, find themselves on the wrong side of the law-and the raw end of justice-inside the meanest, dirtiest prison in the Arizona territory ...
WELCOME TO THE CHAIN GANG ...
When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jailmates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
"A gang leader's son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one's brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning 'The Hate U Give'"--
8) Red Knife
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor volume 8
Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Cork O'Connor finds himself caught in the middle of a racial gang war that's turning picturesque Tamarack County, Minnesota, into a battlefield. When the daughter of a powerful businessman dies as a result of her meth addiction, her father, strong-willed and brutal Buck Reinhardt, vows revenge. His target is the Red Boyz, a gang of Ojibwe youths accused of supplying the girl's fatal drug dose. When the head of the Red Boyz and...
10) Dream town
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Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
LASD detective Eve Ronin struggles to investigate the murder of a reality star that brings her into a music industry war and puts her into conflict with a vicious Chilean gang.
Author
Series
These violent delights volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.
12) After death
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished--including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he--or anyone else--has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John,...
14) Black Duck
Author
Publisher
Sleuth Philomel
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
252 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.
15) City of orphans
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
16) The brotherhood
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
v, 371 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Boone Drake is a young cop rising through the ranks in Chicago-- until everything goes horribly wrong. His personal life destroyed and his career and future in jeopardy, Boone buries himself in guilt and bitterness. Face-to-face with the most vicious gang leader Chicago has seen in decades, he begins to realize that God is a God of second chances... and can forgive the worst of crimes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1925, after witnessing the violent actions of some gangsters, twelve-year-old Emily accompanies her older sister on a trip to a hotel on the New Jersey shore but worries that the gangsters have come to the same hotel.
Author
Publisher
New Horizon Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
52 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When one of his classmates is killed by a random drive-by-shooting, Joshua is particularly affected by the incident and must come to terms with the feelings of fear, mistrust, and worry he now experiences.
20) Sheep Pen Canon
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lee Sowell tells us about the Pard Newman battles which nearly cost him his life in this sequel to The Ox That Gored. It takes three battles, one in the Long Branch Saloon of Dodge City, one in Texas, and one in the Territory of New Mexico to finally subdue the Newman gang. The journey back to Sheep Pen Canon is interrupted by a fight in the infamous Kansas City Bottoms of Joplin, Missouri and by the county seat war of Gray County, Kansas.