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201) Unrest
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"Bytown, 1836: The lawless cesspool that will become the city of Ottawa is beginning to reek of more than just swamp water. Rife with squalor, corruption, and organized crime, class injustice divides the town more starkly than the canal that bisects it, cutting off its Irish poor--who are ready to fight back. On a homestead in the woods near Bytown, a domestic drama is also reaching a fever pitch. Quiet, ungainly Mariah, her face scarred in a dog...
204) Under a veiled moon
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Inspector Corravan Mystery volume Book 2
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"September 1878. One night, as the pleasure boat The Princess Alice makes her daily trip up the Thames, she collides with the Bywell Castle, a huge iron-hulled collier. The Princess Alice shears apart, throwing all 600 passengers into the river; only 130 survive. It is the worst maritime disaster London has ever seen, and early clues point to sabotage by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, who believe violence is the path to restoring Irish Home Rule....
205) Les misérables
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Résumé: "Stéphane, tout juste arrivé de Cherbourg, intègre la Brigade Anti-Criminalité de Montfermeil, dans le 93. Il va faire la rencontre de ses nouveaux coéquipiers, Chris et Gwada, deux "Bacqueux" d'expérience. Il découvre rapidement les tensions entre les différents groupes du quartier. Alors qu'ils se trouvent débordés lors d'une altercation, un drone filme leurs moindres faits et gestes..."--Conteneur.
208) Righteous
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IQ novels volume 2
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"Isaiah Quintabe has, against many odds, built a proper life for himself: a respected detective in his hometown of East Long Beach, a well-kept home, a growing library, and even a rehabilitated horse-sized pit bull (courtesy of his previous client). But something is wrong: the death of his older brother nearly a decade ago has sent him down a dark path, one that he's never truly been able to escape. Righteous is the story of Isaiah's investigation...
209) The dark remains
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Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he's dead and it was no accident. Besides a distraught family and a heap of powerful friends, Carter's left behind his share of enemies. So, who dealt the fatal blow? DC Jack Laidlaw's reputation precedes him. He's not a team player, but he's got a sixth sense for what's happening on the streets. His boss chalks the violence up to the usual rivalries, but is it that simple? As...
210) Counterplay
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Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 18
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While the manhunt for the sociopathic fugitive Andrew Kane continues, Butch Karp and a colleague open the cold case of the missing wife of a wealthy Manhattan banker. Meanwhile Karp's wife, Marlene Ciampi, lets her fascination with some of Butch's relatives lead her into the dark underworld of Russian gangs.
213) Stop them dead
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Roy Grace novels volume 19
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A ruthless crime. A race against time. When a young farmer confronts intruders in the middle of the night, he has no idea that just minutes later he will be left dying in a pool of blood. What's more chilling is what the perpetrators were willing to kill for. At the scene of the crime, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realizes this is no isolated robbery gone wrong, but the tip of the iceberg of a nationwide crime wave in which ruthless organized...
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A look at the shooting death of fifteen-year-old Jane Creba on Boxing Day 2005 in downtown Toronto and its aftermath, including the sensationalism and prejudice that clouded the story from the outset and the questions that should be asked to find out the whole truth about it.
216) The system
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On December 6, 1993, a drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on the lawn outside her mother's house in South Central Los Angeles. Augie, a heroin addict, witnesses the whole thing before he steals all the drugs on her person, as well as the gun that was dropped at the scene. When Augie gets busted, he names local gang members Wizard and Dreamer the shooters. A search of their premises finds the gun that was used in the shooting. They...
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A kid raised by his father's fists on the wrong side of a blue-collar town, Lorne Campbell grew up watching the local bikers ride past, making him wonder what that kind of freedom and power would feel like. He soon found out. At the age of seventeen, he became the youngest - ever member of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club and spent the next five decades living a life for which he does not ask forgiveness, only that his story finally be told. Includes...
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"For a century Butch Cassidy has been the subject of legends about his life and death, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. Charles Leerhsen sorts out fact from fiction to find the real Butch Cassidy, who is far more complicated and fascinating than legend has it"--Provided by publisher.
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Based on a New York Times account of actual events, this film depicts a single, fateful day in the life of a fifteen-year-old Latina gang leader. Leaving the gang, she discovers, is more difficult than joining. Raw and authentic, the film was shot on location in South-Central Los Angeles and stars local youths who deliver powerful performances for their first time in front of the camera.
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