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Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Even though his cancer's in remission, chemistry teacher turned meth maker Walter White still can't catch a break. His wife has filed for divorce, his DEA agent brother-in-law is out to bust him, and a Mexican cartel just wants him dead. But with his family's future still at stake, Walt cooks up a deal that will make him a fortune, a scheme with a terrible price.
42) Blank confession
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A new and enigmatic student named Shayne appears at high school one day, befriends the smallest boy in the school, and takes on a notorious drug dealer before turning himself in to the police for killing someone.
43) Something Noble
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In order to save her son's life, a single mom must try to convince a selfish drug dealer to donate one of his kidneys to his half-brother.
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Mick Hardin is an Army CID officer home on leave, recovering from an IED attack and flirting with prescription painkillers, when a body is found in the center of town. It's Barney Kissick, the local heroin dealer, and the city police see it as an occupational hazard. But when Barney's mother, Shifty, asks Mick to take a look, it seems there's more to the killing than it seems. Mick should be rehabbing his leg, signing his divorce papers, and getting...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Just as Anthony Bourdain did for the world of food, in Dopeworld, writer Niko Vorobyov travels the globe to find out more about the war on drugs and how it affects global politics and our day-to-day lives. Dopeworld is a bold and intoxicating journey into the world of drugs. From the cocaine farms in South America to the streets of Manila, this book traces the emergence of psychoactive substances and our intimate relationship with them. With unparalleled...
48) Jack's run
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Kidnapped by drug czar Alonzo Asnar and held hostage in Argentina, Jack and his sister Joanne attempt a daring escape while their parents, aided by some old friends, set out to rescue them.
49) Moonlight
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Description
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
50) Nobody
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
When a man beats up a gang of thugs, it turns out that one of them is the brother of a mob enforcer who now wants to avenge him.
51) The system
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"An electrifying, multi-voiced thriller tackling our criminal justice system, from the writer Michael Connelly called "one of our most gifted novelists.""--
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
This memoir reveals what really happened to the man whose career was dramatized in the 2007 feature film American gangster. In his own words, Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Lucas realized that in order to gain success he would have to break the Italian mafia's monopoly in New York, so he cut out middlemen and began smuggling heroin into the United...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail him out of trouble one last time. Frustrated by the slow pace and limitations of the law, Raymond decides to take matters into his own hands. After a workplace accident left him out of a job and in pain, Denny Rattler has spent years chasing his next high. He supports his habit through careful theft, following strict rules that keep him under the radar...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade.After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children--until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to...
55) Out of control
Author
Series
Apartment 4A volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Bree knew her boss was dealing drugs. But she needed the job. Her brother only came home for money. And her aunt was ill, "Just one last job," Bree thought."
56) Chasing justice
Author
Series
National Forest K-9 novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"After losing her military K-9, former marine Maya Thompson swears she'll never work with dogs again. But when she returns home to Colorado and accepts a job with US Forest Service law enforcement, fate brings K-9 Juniper into her life just as another tragedy unfolds. Juniper, a beautiful two-year-old Malinois, isn't the only new addition to Maya's life. Josh Colten, the local deputy sheriff, insists on helping with her new case. Handsome and mysterious,...
58) Narrow escape
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
"Arissa Tiong and her three-year-old niece are snatched off the street by members of a notorious drug gang. Having lost her police officer brother to a drug bust gone bad, Arissa knows the danger she's in. But she has no idea why they want her. Desperate to protect the little girl, Arissa escapes and runs straight to Nathan Fischer. She knows the handsome, weary former narcotics cop hasn't told her everything about the night that ended her brother's...
59) Blow
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Based on the true story of George Jung. This is an uncompromising look at the rise and fall of the man who became the largest importer of Colombia cocaine to the United States in the 1970's.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
El Narco draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico's drug cartels and how they have radically transformed in the last decade. El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands from bullet-ridden barrios to marijuana-growing mountains. And it has created paramilitary death squads with tens of thousands of men-at-arms from Guatemala to the Texas border.