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Author
Series
Panorama de narrativas volume 952
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Nápoles, hoy, es una ciudad bella y terrible: es el reino de la camorra, y los chicos que crecen allí lo hacen bajo su influjo. Una pandilla formada por diez de ellos se lanza a la conquista de la ciudad: provienen de familias normales, les gusta lucir calzado de marca y tatuarse el símbolo de su banda. Liderados por Nicolas Fiorillo, alias Marajá, el grupo de adolescentes utiliza las motos como los forajidos de las películas del Oeste usaban...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Marie, a nurse in Mayotte, a far-flung, tropical department of France in the Indian Ocean, adopts a baby abandoned at birth by his mother, a refugee from Comoros. She names him Moïse and raises him as her own--and she avoids his increasing questions about his origins as he grows up. When Marie suddenly dies, thirteen-year-old Moïse is left completely alone, plunged into uncertainty and turmoil. In a state of panic, he runs away from home, and sets...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the true story of Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants, the first all-female gang of London. London in the 1920s is no place for a woman with a mind of her own. Gang wars, violence, and an unforgiving world have left pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambling to survive in the Mint, the gritty neighborhood her family has run for generations. When her father goes to jail yet again and her scam artist brother finds himself in debt to the dangerous...
44) Deliver me
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Dogge is from affluent Rönnviken. Billy lives in the concrete towers of Våringe, only a few hundred yards across a highway, but a world apart. They met as six-year-olds at Rönnviken's playground and have been unlikely best friends ever since. From the outside, Dogge looks privileged: he lives in a large home and there is plenty of money-at first. But his parents are addicts whose negligence becomes a form of abuse. Meanwhile, Billy's family are...
Author
Publisher
Action Lab Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Collecting the hit mini-series, GOING TO THE CHAPEL follows Emily, a conflicted bride whose wedding is crashed by the bank-robbing Bad Elvis Gang. But when the heist goes south and police surround the chapel, Emily must become the ringleader of her own hostage situation to escape walking down the aisle - that is, assuming her unsuspecting fiancé doesn't "rescue" her first! -- from Amazon.
46) Dangerous ends
Author
Series
Publisher
POLIS Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Pete Fernandez has settled into an easy, if somewhat boring life as a P.I.. He takes pictures of cheating husbands. He tracks criminals who've skipped bail and he attends weekly AA meetings The days of chasing murderous killers are behind him. Or are they? When his partner Kathy Bentley approaches him with a potential new client, Pete balks. Not because he doesn't need the money, but because the case involves Gaspar Varela, a former Miami police...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Sunrise, despite its name, is a wicked town. It is the only wide open town in the Crazy Butte country. It attracts gamblers, above all Dan Farlin, who works in the Red Arrow, the most prosperous saloon in Sunrise, owned by Big Tom Lester, who runs the town if anyone does. Sheriff Mills usually stays in Rocky Point, the county seat, and rarely comes to Sunrise, in part because of a tacit agreement he has with outlaw leader Ed Lawson, who in exchange...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"December, 1924. Young widow Maddie Pastore feels fortunate to be employed by the well-meaning but fraudulent medium Carlotta Romany. Investigating Carlotta's clients isn't work she's proud of, but she's proud of how well she does it. Maddie's talents, however, draw them unwelcome attention: sharp-eyed Officer O'Rourke from the Chicago Police. He doesn't believe in spiritualism - but in a city packed with mobsters, con artists and criminals, he'll...
49) Boomtown
Author
Series
Delia Mariola novels volume 3
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Police captain Delia Mariola is still struggling to drive the predatory drug dealers from the rustbelt town of Baxter, before the new Nissan plant owners lose faith in this forgotten corner of America. It doesn't help that a boomtown has grown up just outside of city limits--a wild west designed to feed every unsavory desire of the workers building the plant. And like vultures homing in on the weak, criminal gangs from the big cities have also been...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From one of Korea's literary stars, a novel about two orphans from the streets of Seoul: one becomes the head of a powerful motorcycle gang, and the other follows him at all costs. In South Korea, underground motorcycle gangs attract society's castoffs. They form groups of hundreds and speed wildly through cities at night. For Jae and Dongyu, two orphans, their motorcycles are a way of survival. Jae is born in a bathroom stall at the Seoul Express...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"A slyly political collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcon's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In "The Thousands," people are on the...
Author
Series
Last magician volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Esta and Harte set off on a cross-country chase through time to steal back the elemental stones they need to save the future of magic"--
Hunt the Stones. Beware the Thief. Avenge the Past. Esta's parents were murdered. Her life was stolen. And everything she knew about magic was a lie. She thought the Book of Mysteries held the key to freeing the Mageus from the Order's grasp, but the danger within its pages was greater than she ever imagined....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Despite the fact that his wedding is right around the corner, John Quincannon takes on what may be his riskiest assignment: going undercover into a gold mine to ferret out a gang hijacking high-grade ore before it reaches the surface ... John discovers the clever methods by which the scheme is being worked and exposes the conspirators ... following him leads to an unexpected rendezvous with Sabina, who has uncovered vital information about the thief's...
Author
Series
Michael Forsythe novels volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"I didn't want to go to America, I didn't want to work for Darkey White. I had my reasons. But I went." So admits Michael Forsythe, an illegal immigrant escaping the Troubles in Belfast. But young Michael is strong and fearless and clever—just the fellow to be tapped by Darkey, a crime boss, to join a gang of Irish thugs struggling against the rising Dominican powers in Harlem and the Bronx. The time is pre-Giuliani New York, when crack rules the...
55) High white sun
Author
Series
Sheriff Chris Cherry novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Even though the corrupt Sheriff Ross is dead and gone, outlaws still walk free, peace comes at a price, and redemption remains hard to find in this fiery and violent novel from the author of The Far Empty Sometimes we have to be wolves... In the wake of Sheriff Stanford Ross's death, former deputy Chris Cherry--now Sheriff Cherry--is the new "law" in Big Bend County, yet he still struggles to escape the long, dark shadow of that infamous lawman. As...
56) King Bullet
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 12
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The incredible finale of the page-turning, high-octane Sandman Slim series filled with an explosive ending and intense kick-ass action. It's been three months since Stark stopped a death cult and a potential ghost apocalypse, and he's at loose ends. His personal life is a mess. His professional life isn't much better. And the world...well, the world is going to shit. L.A. is gripped by a viral epidemic that has everyone wearing masks and keeping their...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"1925. London. When Alice Diamond, AKA "Diamond Annie," is elected the Queen of the Forty Elephants, she's determined to take the all-girl gang to new heights. She's ambitious, tough as nails, and a brilliant mastermind, with a plan to create a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen. Alice demands absolute loyalty from her "family"--it's how she's always kept the cops in line. Too bad she's now the target for one of Britain's first female...
58) Bluescreen
Author
Series
Mirador volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Bluescreen is a stunning deluge of imagination, filled with suspense and twists and unforgettable characters. This book is just plain awesome.-James Dashner, bestselling author of The Maze Runner From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence, comes the first book in a new sci-fi-noir series. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni-a smart device...
Author
Series
Cannibal Club chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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