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61) Shot caller
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a DUI sent him down the rabbit hole of the American prison system, Jacob Harlon was transformed into Money, a stoic and ruthless prison gangster. Upon his release from prison, he learns that the grip of his new family, the prison gang, goes beyond bars. Chased by law enforcement and threatened by his incarcerated 'protectors', he must orchestrate one last dangerous crime.
63) Ticktock
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Bantam mass market ed.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
After stumbling upon a mysterious rag doll on his doorstep, Tommy Phan finds himself hunted in his own home, as the doll begins to grow into a monster that is determined to kill him.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
445 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence--controversial, difficult, but Edenic--is upended when the ambitious young developer Maya...
Author
Publisher
Apollo
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Nowadays, I understand, the tourists come for miles to see Hendry Jones' grave out on the Punta del Diablo and to debate whether his bones are there or not...A stark and violent depiction of one of America's most alluring folk heroes, the mythical doomed gunslinger. Set on the majestic coast of Southern California, Doc Baker narrates his tale of the Kid's capture, trial, escape and eventual murder. Written in spare and subtle prose, this is one of...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Prosecuting attorney Joanne Kuhlman is concerned that one of the defendants being on trail for robbery, a developmentally disabled young man, was exploited by his crime partners and may now have been murdered to silence him.
68) Gunpowder empire
Author
Series
Crosstime traffic volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
69) Dark fissures
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
La Jolla Chief of Police Tony Moretti is convinced PI Rick Cahill killed a missing person. No body has been found, but the evidence that is piling up says murder, and it all points to Rick. With the bank about to foreclose on his house, Rick takes the case of country singer Brianne Colton, who is convinced her estranged husbands suicide was really murder. As each new piece of evidence convinces him shes right, Rick breaks his number one rule and...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four diverse junior high school students face adversity in the form of budding romantic relationships, gangs demanding proof of loyalty, feelings of insecurity, the quest for popularity in a new school, and more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Winning a vacation to a resort that caters to the whims of the rich and famous, Haley Randolph, while searching for the hottest beach bag, finds her dream holiday taking a murderous turn when she stumbles upon the body of a maid.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Best friends Lindsey, Kendra, and Dani endure every parent's nightmare when a tragic accident befalls their teenage boys, leaving one dead, another in a coma, and a third too traumatized to speak. Reeling from the worst night of their lives, the three mothers plunge into a desperate investigation of the bizarre incident. How could something so horrible happen in their wealthy Southern California suburb? They soon discover that the accident was just...
76) Graveyard shift
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles television reporter Maxi Poole must help her next-door neighbors' housekeeper locate her missing young son, Robert Ochoa"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Con ingenio y humor, María Amparo Escandón sigue a la familia Alvarado mientras esta lucha con evacuaciones inminentes, secretos, engaños y traiciones, y con la decisión más difícil que deben tomar hasta el momento: permanecer unidos o quemarlo todo. L.A. está seco como un desierto, Oscar, el patriarca de la familia Alvarado, está obsesionado con el clima y solo quiere un poco de lluvia. En realidad, alberga un secreto que lo distrae de todo...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1020L
Physical Desc
xix, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Members of the Navy SEAL elite sniper corps must complete some of the toughest and longest military training in the world. This is the dramatic tale of how Brandon Webb overcame a tough childhood to live his dream and enter the exciting and dangerous world of Navy SEALs and special forces snipers. From his grueling years of training in naval special operations to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, Tha Making of a Navy SEAL is a...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag
Language
English
Description
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao, is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...