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261) Cartel land
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the Mexican state of Michoacán Dr. José Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley, Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico's drug wars from seeping across our border.
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 242 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rising sun: A special liaison officer is called in to investigate the murder of a call girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. Sugar Hill: When the younger brother tries to break free from his world of crime and violence he is reluctantly lured back to help his brother keep the mob from taking over his territory.
265) The Siberia job
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 272 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Texas businessman John Mills and his Czech companion, Petr Kovac, travel to the furthest reaches of post-Soviet Russia to acquire vouchers for the country's national oil company, Gazneft, moving town to town with suitcases full of cash--until the Russian mafia and Gazneft catch wind of their successes.
266) Gamma Draconis
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aiko Moriyama has a secret passion for the Occult. But when several experts are mysteriously attacked, she finds herself at the center of a conspiracy involving a sinister organization hell-bent on releasing a demonic entity into our world. Determined to solve the enigma, Aiko must discover exactly how her family is involved, and why she is the only one who can stop the dreaded Gamma Draconis...
267) Brawler
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school champion wrestler Eddie MacIntyre does not mind his well-earned reputation as a loose cannon, but when he punches a referee he not only loses his chance at the state championships, he gets expelled from school--facing the strong possibility of joining his father in prison, he runs away and joins an illegal underground fighting ring, where he and a girl fighter named Khajee find themselves trapped in a violent world, run by bad men and...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Diversion books edition.
Physical Desc
x, 389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On the 100th anniversary of The Volstead Act comes the epic, definitive story of the man who cracked the Prohibition system, became one of the world's richest criminal masterminds, and helped inspire The Great Gatsby. Love, murder, political intrigue, mountains of cash, and rivers of bourbon ... The tale of George Remus is a grand spectacle and a lens into the dark heart of Prohibition. Yes, Congress gave teeth to Prohibition in October 1919, but...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, decades-in-the-writing memoir from the determined young prosecutor who, in two of America's most celebrated trials, managed to convict famed mob boss John Gotti--and subsequently took down the Mafia altogether."--Amazon.
John Gotti was without a doubt the flashiest and most feared Mafioso in American history. He became the boss of the Gambino Crime Family in spectacular fashionwith the brazen and very public murder of Paul Castellano...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent face off against fascist elements in World War II-era Boston. June, 1943. Wartime tensions are running high, and an atmosphere of distrust and unease is dividing friends and neighbors. The two protagonists of Thomas Mullen's gripping historical thriller find themselves at the center of a dangerous tinderbox, trying to douse the sparks before flames engulf the city. Reporter Anne Lemire writes the Rumor...
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The worlds youngest, brightest, and most dangerous criminal mastermind is back. Artemis Fowl receives an urgent e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father. As Artemis rushes to his dads rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis: Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. Now, instead of battling the fairies, Artemis must join them if he wants to save one of the few people in the...
273) Jack of hearts
Author
Series
Publisher
AugustBooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"FBI Special Agent Kim Otto won't believe Reacher's dead until she sees his body for herself. Which she hasn't. Yet. But if Reacher's not dead, where is he? Seven years ago, in Lee Child's Worth Dying For, Reacher rescued Eleanor Duncan and saved sixteen Thai women from fates much worse than death. Eleanor's tormentors were controlled by a powerful mob boss with a long memory. He wants his property back and will stop at nothing to get it. Now Reacher...
274) White American youth: my descent into America's most violent hate movement -- and how I got out
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 275 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"As he stumbled through high school, struggling to find a community among other fans of punk rock music, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious white power skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to 'protect the white race from extinction.' Soon, he had become an expert in racist philosophies, a terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to throw fists. When his mentor was arrested and sentenced to eleven years in prison,...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
On a spring day in 1961, over-the-road trucker Jim Harper was en route from Mauston, Wisconsin, to his home in Minneapolis. At 70 miles per hour, with a combined 60,000 pounds of man, machine, and material, he approached a curve along the Great River Road and hit the brakes. The tractor-trailer didn't slow. Harper's brake lines had been cut. In preceding months, Harper had led an insurgency in his Teamsters' Local 544 to clean up corruption among...
278) Running scared
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Struggling Mob hand Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) finds his life turned inside out when a "hot" weapon he's in charge of concealing goes missing. With two Mafia families and a team of crooked cops watching his every move, Joey sets out on a chilling, bloody pursuit, maneuvering his way through a horrific web of creeps and criminals, praying he can retrieve the gun and make it home to his family-alive." -- from container.
279) The Chicago outfit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English