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"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...
2) After death
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"Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished -- including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he -- or anyone else -- has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son,...
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"Dante 'Worlds' is fresh from the joint. Leaner, but more importantly--wiser. He's smart enough now to not get 'caught up' again. But also knows a life of crime is unsustainable. His main goal now is to return to the old game but with a few new tricks. Ones that will keep him off radar to the authorities. Once he's stashed away enough coin, it's the 'straight and narrow' for him"--Amazon.com.
4) Keanu
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Clarence and Rell, cousins who live in the city but are far from streetwise. When Rell₂s beloved kitten, Keanu, is catnapped, the hopelessly straight-laced pair must impersonate ruthless killers in order to infiltrate a street gang and retrieve the purloined feline. But the incredibly adorable kitten becomes so coveted that the fight over his custody creates a gang war, forcing our two unwitting heroes to take the law into their own hands.
5) Street rap
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"For Reece and Qwess, being rap superstars was the dream, but in real life nothing moved without money. So they formed the Crescent Crew, and outfit of young, ruthless hustlers that locked the Southern drug trade in a stranglehold. They're at the height of their power when Qwess is offered a record deal from a major label. He accepts and makes plans for his whole crew to go legit, but Reece enjoys his position as king of the streets and has no desire...
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When Finn Wallace, the head of London's most powerful crime family, is assassinated, no one knows who ordered the hit. With rivals everywhere, Finn's impulsive son Sean takes over and puts a stop to all criminal business in London until his father's killer is found. As the city is torn apart by the power struggles of the international gangs that control it, Sean finds the only person he can rely on is Elliot Finch, a low level enforcer with a mysterious...
9) Trell
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Determined to clear her father of the wrongful conviction for a gang-related crossfire death, thirteen-year-old Trell persuades a reporter and a lawyer to investigate the case and uncover the truth.
10) Eve
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When her best friend ends up dead after being caught in the crossfire of the strong-arm tactics of the De Nardis, one of the most powerful drug suppliers in the city, during their attempt to take over control of Harlem, Eve Panelli, a young woman whose only family is the infamous Twenty-Gang, launches her own campaign to seek revenge on those responsible.
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"Trutice Wallace better known as Truth is nothing to play with. She's all beauty on the outside but a force to reckon with. Trutice has given up on men until she meets the infamous Legend Hendrix. He's a business man during the day and the leader of GMB at night. Trutice and Legend are both lost when it comes to love but the unexpected happens when they meet. The drama instantly begins to unfold from murders to crazy ex's and even a kidnapping. Just...
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After taking a slug to the crown, street hood Menace has been out of commission for two long years. Now fully healed he aims to pick up where he and cohort Speedy left off, and there's no time like the present. With Menace on the 'disabled list,' Speedy has grown the old gang into a force to be reckoned with. Their influence, firepower and manpower three times what it used to be. As Speedy and the boys help Menace regain his 'underworld footing,'...
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"In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname "Bodymore, Murderland," and was made notorious by David Simon's classic HBO series The Wire. Drug deals dominate...
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"Banks Wales can't catch a break. After losing his son in a failed prison escape scheme, Banks is immediately forced to deal with the stowaways on his plane, Mason and his family. Forced to take them to his private island, he is immediately greeted by Whoyawanmetabe, the mystery man who did odd jobs for him back in America. Believing at first that the Jamaican native wanted money for his work, he soon learns that his payment plan involves a creepy...
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"Young Resean 'Boss' Holmes is known and loved throughout the city of Atlanta. But his home life is vastly different. He and his Stepfather despise each other. Forcing his Mother to make a difficult choice, choosing her lover over her own son. She sends Boss to Miami to live with his real father. Or so she says. Resean's arrival in Miami unlocks many shocking family secrets, which not only anger him. But place Boss in a very tough predicament. Especially...
17) Kali
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"Stabbed in the back, poisoned, and left for dead by her own biker gang, Kali sets off on a one-way road of vengeance across a war-torn desert battlefield. With impending death coursing through her veins and a fascist army hot on her tail, she will stop at nothing to get her revenge, even if it's the last thing Kali ever does."--
18) Chi-raq
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Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago₂s Southside creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.
19) Mad Max
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In a world after a nuclear war, where gas is scarce, civilization is slowly fading away. After one cop's family is killed by a ruthless gang, he goes after them, seeking revenge.
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