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Sometimes the Truth is Stranger than Fiction
(Adults)
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Flyin' Cut Sleeves, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. The project grew out of the experiences of Rita Fecher, the film's co-producer. Fecher, who taught in a South Bronx school in the late 1960s and early 1970s, became intimately involved with the gangs, their leaders, and the leaders' families and began to document their lives. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation,...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace still stir the public's imagination after 20 years. Yet law enforcement has been at a standstill to produce results. The producers of American Federale and the first two Assassination films finally unravel the tangled cases and expose not only who may have done it, but also why these cases have never seen justice.
Pub. Date
[2006], c1999
Language
English
Description
Police estimate that there are 31,000 gangs currently operating in the U.S., with more than 800,000 members-many of whom are women. In this program, ABC News correspondent Cynthia McFadden interviews female members of two Los Angeles gangs-the Drifters and Tepa 13-while correspondent John Quinones talks with King Tone, the radical leader of New York City's notorious Latin Kings. In addition, extensive unscripted video footage shot by members of these...
Series
Pub. Date
[2007], c1998
Language
English
Description
Prisons have become incubators for hate, where ethnic and white supremacist enclaves vie for control through violence and coercion directed along color lines. In part one of this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel talks with prisoners doomed to solitary confinement due to their gang affiliations. They discuss the dangers that drove them to join-and that keep them looking over their shoulders even in the so-called protective environment of a supermax...
Pub. Date
[1951]
Language
English
Description
The Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce, headed by Senator Estes Kefauver (D, TN), was the largest effort to expose organized crime in U.S. history. Frank Erickson, who was indicted on charges of gambling, invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions. Frank Costello, one of the most notorious Mafia figures of the day, also refused to answer any questions, citing illness. Despite Costello's silence, the...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume Prequel
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Every week, a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through Customs and loads them into armored trucks. Ruban Betancourt has always played by the rules. But the bank taking his house and his restaurant business going bust has driven him over the edge. He and his wife deserve more than life has handed them, and he's come...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of the infamous Gloria Denton, a mob luminary who reigned during the Golden Era of Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. Notoriously cunning and ruthless, Gloria shows her eager young protegee the ropes. Suddenly the word is at her feet -- as long as she doesn't take any chances, like falling for the wrong guy. As the roulette wheel turns, both mentor and protegee...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This feature documentary is a timely and engrossing portrait of one of the world's most wanted men, drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzmán--the head of one of the largest drug cartels in history. The Sinaloa cartel has been behind the violence responsible for thousands of deaths in Mexico in recent years, and drugs from its operations are sold throughout the U.S. and as far away as Europe and Africa.
13) Ballistic
Author
Series
Gray Man thrillers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"After he was betrayed by his compatriots and then forced to take on a near-suicidal covert mission by the CIA, master assassin Court Gentry thought he could find refuge off the grid, living in self-imposed isolation in the Amazonian rain forest. But even there, his bloody past finds him when a vengeful Russian crime lord forces him to go on the run once again. Without a country or a home to call his own, Court's options are narrow enough, but when...
14) The black market
Author
Series
Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
At first, Misty Heiress just wants to help. With her cousin Jillian in constant pain, and the doctor refusing to prescribe, Misty steals opioids from the Virginia Beach pharmacy where she works. But when Jillian starts reselling them to local dealers and gets big money, Misty grabs an unbelievable opportunity to get out of debt-and fulfill all of her and Jillian's dreams... Misty soon realizes that her boss, Sanjay, has the same idea, ordering more...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
David and Creeper, are "tax collectors" for the crime lord Wizard, collecting his cut from the profits of local gangs2 illicit dealings. But when Wizard2s old rival returns to Los Angeles from Mexico, the business is upended, and David finds himself desperate to protect what matters more to him than anything else: his family.
16) Lethal people
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Former CIA assassin Donovan Creed is pursuing his latest love interest when he discovers a severely burned girl. Soon, Creed's suspicions about what hurt the girl lead to a deadly confrontation.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob. Known on both sides of the law as "the Corporation," the Cuban mob's power stemmed from a criminal culture embedded in south Florida's exile community-those who had been chased from the island by Castro's revolution and planned to overthrow the Marxist dictator and reclaim their...
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