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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Detective Harry Bosch searches for the man who killed John Li, the owner of a small shop located in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles, but his investigation becomes even more personal when the person he holds most dear is taken and Bosch must travel to Hong Kong during the city's Hungry Ghosts festival to recover what he has lost.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Light of the Diddicoy is the riveting and immersive saga of Irish gangs on the Brooklyn waterfront in the early part of the 20th century, told through the eyes of young newcomer Liam Garrity. Forced at age 14 to travel alone to America after money grew scarce in Ireland, Garrity stumbles directly into the hard-knock streets of the Irish-run waterfront and falls in with a Bridge District gang called the White Hand. Through a series of increasingly...
11) Lola: a novel
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
Hiding her role as the true leader of a small gang in South Central Los Angeles, Lola pretends to be the submissive girlfriend of the gang's purported boss while her intelligence and leadership are increasingly tested by high-stakes betrayals and escalating violence between rival drug cartels.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
While on a tennis vacation in Antigua, a young English couple are charmed by Dima, a Russian money launderer who has set his sights on the couple's fortune, and find themselves in a danger game with the British Secret Service, the Russian mafia, and others who want them dead.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Reporter Nick Daniels, interviewing a notorious baseball player at Lombardo's Steak House in New York, witnesses the murder of a mob lawyer and in the confusion captures a key piece of evidence that puts him on the most-wanted lists of the Italian and Russian mafias, the media, and the NYPD.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
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.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1946, the newly elected county prosecutor of Hot Springs, Arkansas, hires Earl Swagger, a war veteran disturbed by dark memories of Iwo Jima and of his brutal father, to fight a war against the city's gangsters, led by an Englishman named Owney Maddox, who has a taste for brothels and casinos.
16) Full of Beans
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
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.
17) The moonlit vine
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Told with interstitial historical chapters, fourteen-year-old Taína (Ty) must draw from the strength of her Taíno ancestors to bring her family and community hope and healing after a devastating incident.
18) Concrete rose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leaves 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...
19) Animal kingdom
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
J is taken in by his family, who happen to be the Cody Brothers gang, but his youth and inexperience may prove helpful to senior police officer Nathan Leckie in bringing the gang down.
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
All Honest Men is based on the true-life story of J. Willis Newton, a feisty sharecropper's son who fled the Texas cotton fields to become the leader of the most successful band of outlaws in American history. It is also a window into one of the country's most pivotal eras, the early twentieth century--when the United States was passing from a primarily rural society into an industrialized and urban one, and the American Dream was changing from owning...
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