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1) Dog eat dog
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Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life. The California three strikes law looms over them, but what the hell, they're going to do it, and they're going to do it their way. Troy, an aloof mastermind, seeks an uncomplicated, clean life but cannot get away from his hatred for...
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Cemetery Dance Publications
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In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.
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In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than 50 years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the laws of the streets.
4) Fast X
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Universal
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Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything and everyone that Dom loves, forever.
5) Panther Gap
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"The thrilling follow-up to the Edgar Award-winning Bearskin, about two siblings on the verge of inheriting millions but who discover dark secrets in their family's past. Siblings Bowman and Summer were raised by their father and two uncles on a remote Colorado ranch. They react differently to his radical teachings and the confusions of adolescence. As young adults, they become estranged but are brought back together in their thirties by the prospect...
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Shadow volume 2
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Grand Central
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In the year 2088, the doomsday clock inches towards midnight. The Command, synonymously the World Destroyer, is on the loose. Not even Lamont Cranston, the Shadow's alter ego, knows who he is, but the clock is ticking as people around the world drop dead by the day, with the attack at the World's Fair the most sinister yet. It's up The Shadow and his band of allies to stop the end of the world.
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The U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that Americans in the early 1970s were smoking upwards of 35,000 pounds of marijuana per day. By the time the decade drew to a close, Time magazine reported that reefer had become "the most widely accepted illegal indulgence since drinking during Prohibition. " You can thank Jimmy Moree for helping to feed America's insatiable pot habit. Nicknamed "Jimmy Divine" for his teetotaling ways, he would...
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Writing my true-crime autobiography is only half the story. The second half is my redemption and repentance to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ. The book is 100 percent truth, from my wild childhood days in New York City to me joining the US Navy at age sixteen and serving eight years honorably. The only problem, I was living a double life. I was also a mob associate and worked with a crew from one of the five families. It was the early 1990s, the...
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When John Wilkes Booth died-shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln-all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancé.
And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg.
Before he shot the president...
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When his lawsuit money starts to get low, Sonny Brown finds out from the most unusual sources that the pimp life may have been just a natural call of the wild.
The system hasn't been too kind to Angela "Angel" Cooper either, so she connects with Sonny on her eighteenth birthday since foster care is about to throw her to the wolves anyway.
There are many obstacles, and they find themselves in more than a few perplexing predicaments where Sonny...
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In June 1948, 27-year-old petty criminal Caryl Chessman was sentenced in California on two counts of sexual assault, receiving two death sentences as punishment in a case that remains one of the most baffling episodes in American legal history. Maintaining his innocence of these crimes, Chessman lived in Cell 2455, a four-by-ten-foot space on Death Row in San Quentin for the twelve years between his sentencing and eventual execution. He spent this...
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Not everyone gets a second chance, but Cino has taken many, but this time, his time may just be running out, with enemies lurking around death's corner. But one is in the shadows, or is he? Cino, Mayham, and Chanelle are about to learn a cold lesson: keep your friends close and your enemies closer. As Cino faces his greatest two foes, his demons, and one worthy opponent that he shares a cell with, he is plotting like only a true mastermind would do,...
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Over the last thirty years, many people who have heard my life's testimony suggested that I write this book. The book starts off with my verbally and emotional abusive relationship with my father that eventually caused me to accept atheism and to run away from home at the age of fourteen. I went to Hell's Kitchen in New York City and joined a local gang, the Park Rats.
The middle section shows my association with The Genovese Mafia due to work provided...
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At the height of his powers, Howard Marks - or 'Mr. Nice' - was smuggling up to thirty tons of dope from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada. How did a nice Welsh boy and Oxford graduate end up with forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and twenty-five companies to his name, and contacts within MI6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia? Mr. Nice is Howard Marks' staggering story of Britain's most wanted man: the dazzling ascent and crashing...
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Based on a true story, this gripping debut novel tells the tale of a young lady entering womanhood, ensnared in the vicious cycle of dematerialized soul tie symptoms, addiction, violence, and crime. A single mother in a world where other women knew their position, she played the game. Set against the gritty backdrop of a harsh world, the protagonist grapples with the loss of loved ones and battles addiction to crack cocaine while navigating the perilous...
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Buddies are well-organized groups of teen hackers from Ivory Coast, West Africa. They can hack anything they want. They scam international institutions, credit and debit cards, international humanitarian organizations, armies, transport companies and more.
They work hand-in-hand with bank workers, law enforcement officers and men in power of different countries so that they can safely blow thousands of dollars in one night to have fun in nightclubs...
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Only by God's grace, I am still alive and not in prison. I was born in a federal housing project, and my mother was fifteen years old when she became pregnant with me. Both of my parents served time in prison for trafficking heroin. My father had eight sons, and I am the only one who did not spend time in the penitentiary. Two of my brothers and four of my nephews have been murdered in the streets because of gang wars. After being raided by the police,...
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An Unforgettable Look Inside the Godfather's Own House that Inspired the CBS Miniseries Love, Honor and Obey
She Was A Profaci. He Was A Bonanno.
Rosalie Profaci was a Mafia princess. Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno, oldest son of Mafia Don Joe Bonanno, the real-life model for The Godfather, was organized crime's crown prince. And Bill, deeply involved in his father's "business" of mob schemes thought pretty Rosalie knew what it meant to be a "Mafia wife."...
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Have you ever pondered the circumstances surrounding COVID-19, when the entire world was under lockdown, and prison visitations were prohibited? Despite these restrictions, prisoners were still succumbing to overdoses. Have you ever wondered about the untold aspects that popular shows like "Locked Up," "Hard Time," and "Sixty Days In" fail to reveal? The media either lacks knowledge or chooses not to disclose the truth to the public, such as the compromising...
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