Lovato, Roberto
Summary: Roberto Lovato shares a timely and no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerilla warfare, immigration, and intergenerational trauma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "At the heart of the story are two teenagers: Marshal Mariot, an introverted video gamer and bike rider, and Frankie Paul, who leaves foster care to direct his cousin's drug business while he's in prison. Frankie devises a plan to attack Marshall and his friends--it is his best chance to showcase his toughness and win respect for his crew. Catching wind of the plan, Marshall and his friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 VENDudley, Steven S.
Summary: Looks at the most dangerous street gang in America, MS-13, as seen through the lives of one family caught in its malicious web.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1066 DUDBowden, Mark
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 BOWFujiwara, Kiyo.
Summary: Sachie Wakamura just lost her mother, and her estranged grandfather has shown up to take care of her. The only problem is that Grandpa is the head of a yakuza gang! Sachie tries to continue living her normal life, but she can't run far since Rakuto, on of the most popular guys in school, is part of her grandfather's gang and her new protector. Soon Sachie finds herself falling for her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WILCroke, Ken
Summary: "Longtime ATF agent Ken Croke had earned the right to coast to the end of a storied career, having routinely gone undercover to apprehend white supremacists, gun runners, and gang members. But after a chance encounter with an associate of the Pagan Motorcycle Gang created an opening, he transformed himself into "Slam," a monstrous, axe-handle wielding enforcer whose duty was to protect the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: See how Wild West gangs used Mississippi rifles and Arkansas toothpicks to terrorize the frontier. Spotlights the hoodlums of the wild West and the weapons that made their criminal deeds possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WILMiller, Nancy
Summary: "After her online mischief threatens her father's job, sixteen-year-old Sasha is eager to leave for Canada with her mother. She thinks she has found a new start in CREW (Confident, Remarkable, Excellent, Welcoming), a girls' volunteerism group at her new school. But she quickly learns that the group is a front for a girl gang--and their true philosophy is to Con, Rip Off, Exploit, and Weaken...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Power on the Inside is the first book to examine the historical development of prison gangs worldwide, from those that emerged inside mid-nineteenth-century Neapolitan prisons to the new generation of younger inmates challenging the status quo within gang subcultures today. Historian-criminologist Mitchel P. Roth examines prison gangs throughout the world, from the Americas, Oceania, and South...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reaktion Books, Ltd 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.6 ROTKavieff, Paul R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barricade Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1066 KAVShakur, Sanyika
Summary: Portrait of gang life in South Central Los Angeles today
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1993
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Summary: "A history of the Denver neighborhood known as the Holly and the controversial anti-gang activist Terrance Roberts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 RUBFremon, Celeste.
Summary: This paperback edition of the book originally published in 1995 updates us on the lives of the East Los Angeles homeboys with whom Father Greg Boyle continues to work, allowing for an analysis as to how some former gang members are able to make it out, while others are not.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 259.5092 FRESummary: The 12 O'Clock Boys are a notorious urban dirt bike pack in Baltimore that pops wheelies, weaves at excessive speeds through traffic, and impressively evades the hamstrung police. Their antics are viewed through the eyes of adolescent Taekwon Ford, known as Pug, a bright kid from the Westside obsessed with the riders and willing to do anything to join their ranks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TWESummary: The end of the Dalton Gang: October 5th, 1892. Former U.S. Marshals turned notorious desperadoes Emmett Dalton, Grat Dalton and Bob Dalton return to their hometown of Coffeeville, Kansas to rob banks and wreak havoc on the townspeople. Bank cashier Charley Ball and others find the strength and courage to defeat the Daltons in a deadly shootout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS News 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV YOUOh! Great.
Summary: "The exciting battle between Kogarasumaru and Animal House comes to an explosive conclusion as secrets about Sleeping Forest surface and Ikki gets more involved with team Tool Toul To. Pressing questions are answered at last when Ikki and team Kogarasumaru descend deep into a Tower Trophaeum of mystery! --P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AIRStone, Michael
Summary: The fall of New York's notorious Wild Cowboy gang is chronicled in this account of the Homicide Investigations Unit and its role in cracking this dangerous crime syndicate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1066 STOClement, Jennifer
Summary: Born in a rural Mexico region where girls are disguised as boys to avoid the attentions of traffickers, Ladydi dreams of a better life before moving to Mexico City, where she falls in love and ends up in a prison with other women who share her experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEHockensmith, Steve.
Summary: Crime-solving cowboys Gus 'Old Red' and Otto 'Big Red' Amlingmeyer are wandering around San Francisco when they stumble onto another mystery to be solved: the death of their acquaintance, Dr. Chan. It turns out that no one wants this mystery solved, but that doesn't stop the brothers from riling up the locals with their heavy-handed investigations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media Inc. 2008
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HOCLanh, Andrew
Summary: On a sunny afternoon in Hartford, Connecticut, PI Rick Van Lam’s Vietnam-vet mentor and partner, Jimmy, and Jimmy’s old army pal, Ralph, are attacked as they walk down a city sidewalk. Ralph is killed, and Jimmy, backing up, is struck by a car. While the battered Jimmy is under the care of Rick’s landlord and friend, Gracie, where an improbable romance seems to be blooming, Rick finds himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANLeerhsen, Charles
Summary: "For a century Butch Cassidy has been the subject of legends about his life and death, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. Charles Leerhsen sorts out fact from fiction to find the real Butch Cassidy, who is far more complicated and fascinating than legend has it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CASSIDY, BUTCH LEEAnastasia, George
Summary: "Dr. James Kauffman and his wife, April, were the perfect couple: a respected endocrinologist and a beautiful radio host. But under the surface lurked a world of drugs, sex, and biker gangs--and Dr. Kauffman would kill to keep it secret. In May 2012, April Kauffman, a well-known local radio personality and staunch advocate of military veterans rights, was found shot to death in the bedroom of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 ANAGardner, Mark L.
Summary: Draws on primary sources, including newspaper reports, to recreate the hour-by-hour story of the James-Younger gang's last robbery, the ensuing manhunt and the bloody final shootout on the Watonwan River.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2013