George P Pelecanos
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295 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting--"The Double"--Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend stole from her. It's the sort of thing Spero Lucas specializes in: finding what's missing, and doing it quietly. But Grace wants more. She wants Lucas to find the man who humiliated her--a violent career criminal with a small gang of brutal thugs at his beck and call. Lucas is a man who knows how to get what he wants, whether it's a thief on the...
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294 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Thirty-five years after a devastating accident that irrevocably shapes the lives of six people, a pair of redemption-seeking survivors reaches out to one another in an effort that is compromised by a fellow survivor's release from prison.
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377 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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When the body of a local teenager turns up in a community garden, veteran homicide detective Gus Ramone teams up with T. C. Cook, a legendary, now retired detective, and Dan "Doc" Holiday, his former partner who left the force under a cloud of suspicion.
Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the city's Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa whose body...
7) Nick's trip
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295, 6, 8 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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An old high-school friend drags Nick Stefanos into a complex and deadly conspiracy involving drugs, theft, intrigue, and murder.
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376 pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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Cuando el cuerpo de un adolescente paraece en un jardín comunitario de Washington, el detective Gus Ramone revive un caso en el que trabajó veinte años atrás. Siendo novatos, Ramone y Dan Holiday ayudaron al legendario detective Cook en la investigación de los asesinatos de tres adolescentes que aparecieron muertos en parques de la ciudad. Jamás atraparon al asesino, al que apodaron el Jardinero Nocturno. Después de aquello, Holiday abandonó...
10) Sin retorno
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317 pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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Thirty-five years after a devastating accident that irrevocably shapes the lives of six people, a pair of redemption-seeking survivors reaches out to one another in an effort that is compromised by a fellow survivor's release from prison.
11) Drama City
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Best-selling author George Pelecanos takes listeners into the mean streets of Washington D.C. in his latest thought-provoking work of crime fiction. Lorenzo Brown has just been released from prison. Once the member of a brutal gang, he has vowed to change his life for the better. But his new job brings him face-to-face with the members of his old crew on a daily basis-and now it looks like he may be caught in the midst of a brewing turf war.
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295 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Short stories and a novella from one of crime fiction's most revered writers. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers...
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3 videodiscs (approximately 500 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Chronicles the rise of the porn industry that began in New York City in 1971-72, driven by the gradual legalization of porn and a politically motivated effort to 'clean up' Times Square. Over the course of eight episodes, viewers will get an up-close look at a gritty world of sex, crime, high times and sudden violence, as the porn business begins its climb to legitimacy, cultural permanence, and billion-dollar profitability.
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xii, 335 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Thrilling crime stories about cars, driving, and the road from the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed writers. Like fiction, cars take us into a different world: from the tony enclaves of upper crust society to the lowliest barrio; from muscle car-driving con men to hardscrabble kids on the road during the Great Depression; from a psychotic traveling salesman to a Mexican drug lord who drives a tricked-out VW Bus. We all share the roads,...
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5 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Follows a single sprawling drug investigation in Baltimore, against the backdrop of the mayor's reelection campaign. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, where easy distinctions between good and evil are challenged at every turn.
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4 videodiscs (approximately 632 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Amid the ruins of New Orleans, ordinary people -- musicians, chefs, residents -- find themselves clinging to a unique culture and wondering if the city that gave birth to that culture still has a future.
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4 videodiscs (approximately 674 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Over a year has passed since Katrina, but residents are finding it harder than ever to rebuild their lives, much less hold on to their special cultural identity. So why bother to stay? Because it's New Orleans. And New Orleans must go on.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 410 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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New Orleans, 38 months after. The city's musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and others continue to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But the promise of recovery, heightened by the historic election of a new president, is tempered by sobering economics, continued police corruption, and the ongoing specter of violence and crime. In these five final episodes of Treme, New Orleans' protagonists strive to build their own legacy...
19) The Pacific
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6 videodiscs (approximately 530 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
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5 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"McNutty has been demoted to harbour patrol. Daniels is in the police-archive dungeon, Prez is chafing in the suburbs, and Greggs is stuck behind a desk. Meanwhile, on the docks of Baltimore harbour, the rank and fire scrounge for work and the union bosses take illegitimate measures to reinvigorate business, but a horrific discovery is about to blow the whole port inside out. While the detail is on ice, a new case begins"--Container.
Told from the...