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1) Heartwood
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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A lawyer solves a mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Language
English
Description
The murder of an ex-drug dealer ex-con-gunned down on his mother's doorstep-seems just another turf war fatality. Why then has Seattle homicide investigator J.P. Beaumont been instructed to keep this assignment hush-hush? Meanwhile, Beau's lover and fellow cop, Mel Soames, is involved in her own confidential investigation. Registered sex offenders from all over Washington State are dying at an alarming rate-and not all due to natural causes.
A...
Author
Series
Publisher
christianaudio.com
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Boone Drake has it made. He's a young cop rising rapidly through the ranks of the Chicago Police Department. He has a beautiful wife and a young son, a nice starter house, a great partner, and a career plan that should land him in the Organized Crime Division within five years. Everything is going right. Until everything goes horribly, terribly wrong. His personal life destroyed and his career and future in jeopardy, Boone buries himself in guilt...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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Series
Language
English
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"When Dooley Monahan saves Buffalo Bill Cody's life, Cody grubstakes him to purchase of a silver mine in the lawless, violent boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. When he guns down three outlaws, the grateful townsfolk make Dooley sheriff. Then he discovers a town tradition: if a sheriff's no good, they hang him. And fingers are starting to point"--
Author
Series
Michael Bennett volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
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
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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.
9) Homeboyz
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When his attempt to exact revenge on his little sister's killer places him under house arrest, Teddy Anderson is forced by his probation officer to tutor a twelve-year-old orphan--a community service assignment that changes his life.
10) Concrete rose
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
After making an impulsive choice on his way home from his birthday party, Bruce Wayne must do community service at Arkham Asylum, where he encounters Madeleine Wallace, a killer with ties to the Nightwalkers terrorizing Gotham.
12) An obvious fact
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming -- the nearest town to America's first national monument, Devils Tower -- to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, a military-grade vehicle donated...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
In an alternate version of present-day Manhattan, magic is dying, and Esta, a Mageus with a talent for manipulating time, travels back to 1901 to stop the destruction of a book that can possibly restore magic, but in Old New York, Esta must navigate gangs, secret societies, and her feelings for another magician in order to save the future of magic.
14) In seconds
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
In the whole state of Montana, there's nowhere to hide. Laurel Hodges has changed her identity twice. She's been on the run for the past four years, trying to outdistance the men who blame her for the death of one of their own. She's finally found the peace and stability she needs, for herself and her two children, in the small town of Pineview, Montana. But just when she thinks they're safe-- the nightmare starts all over again. The Crew, a ruthless...
15) Cold blooded
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Series
Hell's Half Acre volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Sheriff Jess Casey and his oddball band of sidekicks have pulled off the impossible: taming Hell's Half Acre, the most lawless town in Texas. But now the politicians in Austin have decided it's cheaper to dump hordes of criminals on Casey's town than hanging 'em. In one dreadful week it seems as if the gates of Hell have burst open: freed outlaws, gunslingers, rapists, drifters and miscreants are roaming Hell's Half Acre. And Casey and his deputies...
16) Lola: a novel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
"The Crenshaw Six are a small but up-and-coming gang in South Central LA who have recently been drawn into an escalating war between rival drug cartels. To outsiders, the Crenshaw Six appear to be led by a man named Garcia. but what no one has figured out is that the gang's real leader (and secret weapon) is Garcia's girlfriend, a brilliant young woman named Lola. Lola has mastered playing the role of submissive girlfriend, and in the man's world...
17) Becoming Beatriz
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"--
18) Full of beans
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
1934, the middle of the Great Depression. Beans Curry is a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper...
19) Bury the hatchet
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
"There are two things a man can never escape--his past and his destiny. For Buck Trammel, that past includes a fatal mistake that ended his career as a Pinkerton--and a deadly shootout with the Bower gang in a Witchita saloon. Call it luck or call it fate, but the famous Deputy Wyatt Earp was there to give Buck some advice--Run for your life. Maybe it was Earp's warning that saved him from the gang's wrath. Maybe it was destiny that brought him to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Johnstone Country. Where it's never quiet on the Western front.
Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker. But these reprobates are doing their damnedest to make an honest go of it. They've managed to safely deliver a church organ to a mountain parish when their sometime employer—Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. "Bleed-'m-So" Bledsoe—recruits...
Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker. But these reprobates are doing their damnedest to make an honest go of it. They've managed to safely deliver a church organ to a mountain parish when their sometime employer—Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. "Bleed-'m-So" Bledsoe—recruits...
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