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1) 22 seconds
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 22
Language
English
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Description
"22 seconds...until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge--or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it's Lindsay's...
Author
Series
Intervention volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she's the newborn daughter of a meth addict he's been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan--the man whom she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own. Kent...
4) Naked lunch
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
vii, 289 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume-that contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished contemporaneous writings by Burroughs, his own later introductions...
5) Revenge
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Edition
First North American edition.
Language
English
Description
A new standalone thriller in trade paperback original from the World's #1 Bestselling Author. Former SAS soldier David Shelley was part of the most covert operations team in the special forces. Now settling down to civilian life in London, he has plans for a safer and more stable existence. But the shocking death of a young woman Shelley once helped protect puts those plans on hold. The police rule the death a suicide but the grieving parents can't...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a terrorist leader and a drug warlord form a dangerous alliance, three new Hendley Associates agents--FBI agent Dominic Caruso, his Marine captain brother Brian, and their cousin, Jack Ryan, Jr.--encounter unexpected dangers.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tumultuous love affair between Reena and Sawyer ends when Sawyer abruptly abandons their Florida town, causing Reena to bear their child alone and struggle with mistrust when Sawyer returns three years later.
Author
Series
The Hate U Give volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"It's December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner when he's confronted in his office by a young boy named Slide. Homeless and alone, Slide has found refuge with an organization named Street Business, which gives shelter and seeks job opportunities for the homeless and lost. Slide's mentor, Jackie Alvarez, is being threatened, and Street Business is in danger of losing its tenuous foothold in the community, turning...
Author
Series
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Wedding cake decorator and maid of honor in her beloved cousin's wedding, Piper Donovan must save the day when the impending nuptials are threatened by the disappearance of a bridesmaid, the discovery of a body on the wedding beach, and the arrival of the lecherous, ex-drug dealer best man.
11) Stolen prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the brutal killing of a family in a small Minnesota town reveals unsettling similarities to drug-retribution crimes, baffled police officer Lucas Davenport is shocked by findings that lead him into the darkest case of his career.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
xv, 323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the South from the viewpoint of the author, an African American woman who lost five young men dear to her through drugs, accidents and suicide. "Men We Reaped" explores the racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family relationships which ultimately led to the death of these young men and how it affected her life.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The story of one teenager's descent into methamphetamine addiction is told from his father's point of view, describing how a varsity athlete and honor student became addicted to the dangerous drug and its impact on his family.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
489 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned and drugged in a restricted island psychiatric facility for government intelligence employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler manages a daring escape and sets out to discover why he was placed there.
17) Think twice
Author
Language
English
Description
Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connelly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that's what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin. Alice underestimates Bennie, though, and the evil she has unleashed in her twin's psyche, as well as Bennie's determination to stay alive long enough to exact revenge.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three novellas from three cozy mystery writers all feature murders that happen at Halloween parties, including a fete in a Victorian home where someone overdoses on tainted drugs and a teenage sleepover where the attendees discover a murdered neighbor.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedian and television personality Craig Ferguson presents an emotional critique of the 'American Dream.' Raised in Scotland, Ferguson chronicles his experiences with drug and alcohol addictions as well as how he overcame them when he moved to America. Landing a role on The Drew Carey Show, Ferguson's career took off, paving the way for a bright and successful future.
20) Cherry
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq....