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42) By the gun
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"Nick, a young Boston Italian, trying to find purpose in the ideology of the mafia and finding his world turned upside down"--www.imdb.com.
44) Blood highway
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When seventeen-year-old Rainy comes home late one evening and finds her mother dead of a suicide, she has no reason to suspect that her death is directly tied to the fact that her father, the notorious Sam Cain, has escaped from prison and is coming for her because he is convinced that both Rainy and her mother know where the stolen money is hidden.
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A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal from the 2018 winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. Broodingly handsome, worldly, and charismatic, Dr. Vladimir Dragan is a poet, a self-proclaimed holistic healer, and a welcome disruption to the monotony...
One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. Broodingly handsome, worldly, and charismatic, Dr. Vladimir Dragan is a poet, a self-proclaimed holistic healer, and a welcome disruption to the monotony...
48) Hell's house
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Independently produced by Bennie Zeidman, Hell's house (1932) is a Pre-Code melodrama that captured Bette Davis and Pat O'Brien just before they were catapulted to superstardom at Warner Bros. An exposé of the American penal system (not unlike I am a fugitive from a Chain Gang and The mayor of hell), Hell's house stars Junior Durkin as a wholesome farmboy who moves to the city after the death of his mother. Dazzled by the smooth talk and beautiful...
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"With gimlet eyed cool and razor sharp wit, The Low Desert explores both the depravity and humanity at the heart of Tod Goldberg's critically acclaimed gangster universe, first introduced in Gangsterland, continued in Gangster Nation, and expanded here with all-new and returning characters. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent acts of men; a cocktail waitress moves through several...
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"When a crooked federal agent is involved in a human sex trafficking ring, Sniper and CIA Rookie Brandon Beckett goes rogue, teaming up with his former allies Homeland Security Agent Zero and assassin Lady Death to uncover the corrupt agent and take down the criminal organization."--www.imdb.com.
51) Kings of London
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In the 60s, a battle for the soul of the city is fought between cops and criminals, the corrupt and the corrupted. November 1968. Judy Garland is performing drunk at the Palladium and the city of London is about to catch fire - literally. Called to a gas explosion, Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen unearths a shocking discovery beneath the rubble. Mind-bending paintings by Bridget Riley and Peter Blake - and the garrotted body of one Jacob Pugh, a playboy...
52) Property values
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Scott's about to lose the only house he's ever called home. In Vancouver's red-hot housing market, he doesn't have a chance-until he and his best friends take the desperate measure of staging a fake drive-by shooting on the property to push down the asking price. But when Scott's mobster-posturing stunt attracts the attention of the real criminals, his pretend gang soon finds itself in the middle of a deadly rivalry. With wicked humour and a brilliant...
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Paperback sleuth mysteries volume 1
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"Cordelia knows books. An addict-turned-dealer of classic paperbacks ... the most elusive prize of all, her white whale, has surfaced-- a set of magnificent, vintage Sleuth Hound crime novels. Gorgeous, and as rare as they come. Just one problem. They're not for sale. Still, that won't stop a resourceful woman like Cordelia ... One burglary later, the books are hers. Unfortunately, the man she's just robbed turns out be one of London's most dangerous...
55) Payback
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Masterminds trilogy volume 3
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After a serious betrayal from one of their former friends, the clones of Project Osiris are fighting to survive in the real world. To prove the existence of Project Osiris, Amber and Malik turn to the notorious mob boss Gus Alabaster, also known as Malik's DNA donor. Meanwhile, Eli and Tori get sucked into even bigger conspiracies as they hunt down where Eli's DNA comes from. Can they eventually end the Project Osiris?
56) The bag man
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When a career criminal is hired to perform a job, he is first ordered to visit a remote location where he discovers he's not the only one to have received the same request.
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"Simone 'Simmy' James never had it easy. When her father's drug operation, one of the biggest on the East Coast, was dismantled, Simone lost both of her parents to the system -- her father to a life sentence, and her mother to a 25-year sentence. Gone were the days of luxury cars, high-end clothes, and jewelry that Simmy had grown accustomed to. Forced to live in overcrowded conditions in her grandmother's house, Simmy has to learn how to make money...
59) The free
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Teenaged Isacc, who steals to give his younger sister the basic necessities that his alcoholic mother cannot provide, is sentenced to a juvenile detention center and during therapy sessions with fellow criminals, a repressed memory surfaces that changes everything.
60) Into the ashes
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"With an honest job and a loving wife, Nick Brenner believed he had safely escaped his violent, criminal history. But his old crew hasn't forgotten about him or the money he stole, and when they take what Nick now values the most - his wife - he has nothing left to lose. Confronted by the town sheriff, who is also his father-in-law, Nick must decide if he will stay on his new path or indulge in his need for revenge and force his enemies to pay for...
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