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Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Pinkie is a desperate youth who is hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime. When a young and very innocent waitress, Rose, stumbles on evidence linking him to a revenge killing, he sets out to seduce her to secure her silence. Special features: a trailer, featurette, behind the scenes, and interviews.
3) Charlie
Publisher
Key Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This electrifying true story chronicles the violent rise and fall of Charlie Richardson, England's most notorious gang leader.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Sing, a hapless gangster, must overcome his inability to wield a knife and demonstrate his mettle in order to become a member of the notorious Axe Gang. He realizes he is the greatest kung fu master of them all, destined to protect the sacred streets.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Jorja Leap began studying Los Angeles gang violence in 2002, she encountered a myriad of proposed solutions to the seemingly intractable "gang problem" and set out to discover what was really going on. The stakes--then and now--could not be higher: a child or teenager is killed by gunfire every three hours. Here, Leap brings us stories that reach behind the statistics and media images to the real lives. With the eye of an anthropologist and a...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Veteran journalist Gini Sikes spends a year in the ghettos following the lives of several key gang members in South Central Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Milwaukee. In 8 Ball Chicks, we discover the fear and desperate desire for respect and status that drive girls into gangs in the first place--and the dreams and ambitions that occasionally help them to escape the catch-22 of their existence"--Amazon.
12) Cyborg conquest
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The American government has funded a covert operation to create an army of cyborgs. However, the brains behind the plan have gone against the government and are creating robots that will infiltrate America. The cyborgs look and act just like humans, but the problem is they are actually bombs capable of exploding at a one hundred mile radius. A maverick motorcycle gang made up of rough and tumble women and on the run from the law, encounter these cyborgs...
13) Urban justice
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Simon has a dark and violent past, and now is bent on revenge after his son is murdered.
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry novel volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Carlos Fuentes doesn't want any part of the life his older brother, Alex, has laid out for him in Boulder, Colorado. He wants to keep living on the edge, and carve his own path -- just like Alex did. Unfortunately, his ties to a Mexican gang aren't easy to break, and he soon finds himself being set up by a drug lord. When Alex arranges for Carlos to live with his former professor and his family to keep him from being sent to jail, Carlos feels completely...