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61) In darkness
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.
62) City of thieves
Author
Series
Battle dragons volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
To protect his friends and family, Abel must figure out what is worth fighting for when he partners with a stolen dragon, an action that has him riding in kin battles and keeping more secrets than a dragon has scales.
63) Rope burn
Author
Series
Those Jensen boys! volume 05
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it’s just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jailmates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Which earns them even more hard time—on a brutal prison chain gang . . . Things go from bad to worse awfully fast. One prisoner tries to escape and gets blasted in the back. Others face horrific torture at the hands of sadistic...
64) Blue moon
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the next highly anticipated installment of Lee Child's acclaimed suspense series, Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple...and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you...
65) Surf Monkeys
Author
Series
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
While surfing in California, a surfer disappears and the reader must investigate the disappearance, a search that leads to a gang called the Surf Monkeys.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies and her estranged grandfather shows up to care for her, Sachie Wakamura discovers that her grandfather is the head of a yakuza gang and Rakuto, one of the most popular boys in school, is her new protector.
67) Borderless
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Caught in the cross hairs of gang violence, seventeen-year-old fashion designer, Maya, and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US-Mexico border.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies and her estranged grandfather shows up to care for her, Sachie Wakamura discovers that her grandfather is the head of a yakuza gang and Rakuto, one of the most popular boys in school, is her new protector.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger. When the man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down the vanished coach--and a mysterious fortune left aboard--Benjamin is drawn into a drama whose scope he could never have imagined, for they discover on reaching the coach that its passengers include Nell, a pregnant young woman, and her...
Author
Series
Hell's half acre volume 03
Language
English
Formats
Description
They call him "The Butcher of Baxter Pass," the notorious former Union General who massacred 200 Conferate prisoners - just because he could. Now it's Sheriff Jess Casey's unenviable job to protect the bloodthirsty murderer from those who want him dead, which turns out be pretty much everyone south of the Mason-Dixon Line. When the Butcher arrives in Fort Worth - followed by the vengeance-hungry McNamara clan - Casey has to swallow his disgust and...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"She has brains, beauty, and she's eager to please. Krystal Davenport can be anything in life she desires. Well, at least that's what her teachers tell her. However, the brutal truth is that Krystal has one destiny, and that path defines who she is, who she was born to be. This conniving female is indeed her mother's child. Being Ms. Thang's offspring means Krystal is hood royalty. Her family is infamous in the game. They live and die by the code...
Author
Series
John Milton volume 2
Publisher
Black Dog Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. But now, after ten years, he's had enough - there's blood on his hands and he wants out. Trouble is, this job is not one you can just walk away from.
Author
Series
The last magician volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Esta and Harte set off on a cross-country chase through time to steal back the elemental stones they need to save the future of magic"--
74) Dough boys
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, thirteen-year-old best friends Simp and Rollie play on a basketball team in their housing project, but Rollie dreams of being a drummer and Simp, to impress the gang leader, Coach Tez.
Author
Series
Lost sanctuary volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Dani Gallagher finds a tattered diary written in the Roaring Twenties--and clues to a lost treasure. Chef Nicky Fiorini helps unravel the clues, and attraction ignites, but Dani is hiding her own secret. In hopes of a great story, she's using questionable means to gather information on a local teen gang. Just as she and Nicky are on the verge of solving the mystery, internal fighting breaks out in the gang. Dani is caught the middle, and...
76) Bones of a saint
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1970s northern California, fifteen-year-old RJ Armante must fight to save himself and his disabled brother from the Blackjacks gang, and free his hometown, Arcangel, from its past.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
For twelve-year-old Owen, it's the opportunity for a new life and an end to his family's isolation. He quickly falls in with a gang of three local boys and forms a strong bond with Jennifer, the rebellious daughter of a violent, alcoholic father. As summer brings release from school, two figures preside over the boys' activities: Walter Gribbs, a benign old watchman at the yacht club, and Hodgson Fisk, a vindictive farmer tormented by his past. Then...
78) High white sun
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of Sheriff Stanford Ross's death, former deputy Chris Cherry--now Sheriff Cherry--is the new law in Big Bend County, yet he still struggles to escape the long, dark shadow of that infamous lawman. As Chris tries to remake and modernize his corrupt department, bringing in new deputies, including ... a veteran homicide detective now lured out of retirement-- he finds himself constantly staring down a town unwilling to change, friends and...
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Years ago, Marco turned against the Hunters, submitting to the "curse" Constance set on him to live and atone for his sins. But the bonds of the past aren't so easily severed, and now Striker has tracked them down, still enraged by Marco's betrayal and hell-bent on making him pay. Meanwhile, with their partnership in pieces, Worick and Nic struggle to cope with the shifting boundaries of loyalty, faith and duty."--Page [4] of cover.
80) Full of Beans
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.