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Coldest winter ever volume 1
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English
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Winter Santiaga, the daughter of one of Brooklyn's most powerful drug czars, uses her own weapons-- including sex and an aggressive attitude-- to stay on top, after her father's empire is threatened by a drug war.
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English
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"1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents in the amid the horrors of the Jewish Ghetto in Krakow, Poland, during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her mother are forced to seek refuge in the sewers beneath the city. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed close alliances with the occupying Germans. While on an errand in the market, she...
3) Tight
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English
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After his quick-tempered father gets in a fight and is sent back to jail, sixth-grader Bryan, known for being quiet and thoughtful, snaps and follows new friend Mike into trouble.
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English
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This national bestseller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are eleven and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and neglectful bureaucracies.
Immersed
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English
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Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing....
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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An inspiring movie for the whole family that explores the struggles and challenges of a group of inner city kids from a poor neighborhood who bravely take on the undefeated Beverly Hills Junior National Karate Team in the ultimate karate showdown at Nationals.
Pub. Date
[2008]
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4 videodiscs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Detective Vic Mackey is the leader of an elite Strike Team unit, a group of cops effective at eliminating crime but also operating under Vic's own set of rules. But his rules sometimes cross the fine line between legal and illegal. Now the precinct has a new captain who doesn't like Vic's tactics and wants to bust him off the force-- even as the captain finds himself going to Vic for help whenever the going gets rough.
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
One day, one moment, one idea can change lives. Noah Davis is a Pastor in an affluent community. Depressed after losing his wife to illness, he is contacted by an old friend who has opened a mission in a rough inner city neighborhood. With Christmas approaching, he packs up and together with his two daughters, moves into Salvation Street Mission. Now the family must struggle with the challenges they face in the crime ridden community.
Pub. Date
[2008]
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4 videodiscs (approximately 686 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Television series of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to keep both the streets safe and their self-interests intact. In this season, after scoring big with the money train, the Strike Team plays it cool to avoid arousing suspicion as Dutch and Claudette investigate the robbery and murder of two Armenian gangsters. Tensions are stretched even further...
12) Change of habit
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Three women, keeping secret the fact that they are nuns, are assigned to a ghetto clinic to assist a young doctor who falls in love with one of them.
Pub. Date
[2008]
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4 videodiscs (approximately 498 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Even as a hardened cop, things have never been tougher for Detective Vic Mackey. In this season, he must deal with a vicious, gang-related slaughter with no leads, the desperate attempts of an Internal Affairs detective to discredit him, and the looming threat of forced retirement. To top it all, he's obsessed with finding the killer of a valued Strike Team member and friend. Meanwhile, Shane hooks up with the Armenian mob and becomes a dangerous...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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xii, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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English
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"On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto--a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot understand the entanglements of race, poverty, and place...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
With the fall of the Barksdale empire, and the ascent of a new young drug king in Baltimore, McNulty, Bunk and the rest of the detail continue to "follow the money" up the political ladder amidst a hotly contested mayoral campaign. Prez witnesses first-hand the role of inner-city education in the formation of youth as four students, Michael, Namond, Randy and Dukie, face dangerous decisions and adolescent angst in a city rife with the temptations...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 613 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a rocky start, Detective Vic Mackey and Captain David Aceveda have formed an uneasy alliance that Detective Claudette Wyms is determined to destroy. Vic's personal life is in shambles and a new nemesis on the street forces the Strike Team to risk everything in the pursuit of one last big score for their "retirement fund."
20) Seed magic
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Rose takes a gift from the crazy old Birdman and discovers that even in the bleak, gray city there are ways to make a beautiful garden.
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