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41) The strange
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When the Silence comes, stopping all communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars, fourteen-year-old Annabelle Crisp, in 1931, New Galveston, Mars, sets off through the wastelands of the Martian desert to exact revenge on the man responsible for destroying her family.
42) City of God
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The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based, City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from one of Brazil's most notorious slums. Cidade de Deus: a place where the streets are awash with narcotics, where violence can erupt at any moment over drugs, money, and love – but also a place where the samba beat rocks till dawn, where the women are the most beautiful on earth, and where one young man wants to escape...
44) Tracker's end
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The third in a sexy romance series from the bestselling author of Saxon and Toxic Girl about the bad boys of the Wind Dragons Motorcycle Club and the women who fall in love with them.
After being seduced and humiliated, Lana swears she'll never trust a man again. When a friend draws her into the circle of the Wind Dragons MC, the bikers are so sexy, so masculine and assured, they're hard to resist-- especially Tracker.... He feels the explosive chemistry...
46) Lola: a novel
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"An astonishing debut crime thriller about an unforgettable woman who combines the genius and ferocity of Lisbeth Salander with the ruthless ambition of Walter White. The Crenshaw Six are a small but up-and-coming gang in South Central LA who have recently been drawn into an escalating war between rival drug cartels. To outsiders, the Crenshaw Six appear to be led by a man named Garcia. but what no one has figured out is that the gang's real leader...
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Quarantine volume 1
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When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarantine.
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Last magician volume 3
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"Esta and Harte race through time and across the country to steal back the remaining elemental stones needed to bind the book's power, stop the Order, and save the future of the Mageus"--
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In 1886 New York, a respectable architect should have no connection to the gang that rules the city's underbelly. But John Cross's son has racked up a huge gambling debt. Using his inside knowledge of mansions and museums, he crafts the perfect robbery. But his newfound talent becomes invaluable to the gang.
50) The music thief
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Living in San Antonio, Texas, eleven-year-old Alma tries to cope with the drive-by shooting death of her favorite Latina singer, as well as deal with the struggles of her various family members, and finds herself doing something she knows is wrong.
51) Red Rider's hood
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Dark fusion volume 2
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After learning that there are werewolves in his city, a sixteen-year-old is even more surprised to discover the identities of the hunters who drove them out decades earlier, but he soon infiltrates the Wolves gang to help destroy them for good.
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Vicious Cycle plunges readers into a world of danger and desire in her newest in the Vicious Cycle motorcycle club romance series. Looking for a walk on the wild side, Annabel Percy, the daughter of a powerful politician, gives in to an attraction to a sexy biker she meets one night. But she finds herself living a nightmare when she's kidnapped and transported into a hell on earth she never could have imagined....
53) Street magic
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Circle opens volume 2
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Former "street rat" Briar Moss must face his past when he discovers a young mage in need of a mentor.
54) The Barrio kings
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Rosario Gomez gave up gang life after his brother was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend shows up to ask him why he left the gang, Rosario realizes he was fooling himself if he thought his violent past would just go away. When his pregnant girlfriend is hit in a drive-by shooting, Rosario has to make some...
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"A slyly political collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcon's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In "The Thousands, " people are on the...
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"After weeks of torture at the hands of Syria's secret police, the bombing of his villa in the ancient city of Aleppo, and the murder of his daughter, trauma surgeon Dr. Hosam Khousa flees his fractured homeland with his wife and son. They make their way to Canada as refugees, where Hosam is forced to trade his prestigious scalpel for a barber's humble clippers. Though he aches to regain his once-prominent surgical career, cutting hair in Hamilton,...
57) The dark circle
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Jake Cantrell mystery volume 2
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Newly unemployed, ex-army officer Jake Cantrell takes on a missing person case, searching for college student Deborah Chapman. In the process he must face street gangs, ravages of an opioid epidemic, and an enigmatic group called the Knights.
58) Vicious cycle
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Vicious Cycle volume 1
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"New York Times bestselling author Katie Ashley revs up the danger and sexual tension in her brand-new Vicious Cycle romance series. Deacon Malloy's life is dedicated to the Hell's Raiders motorcycle club. Tough, hard, and fast with his fists, he serves the group as sergeant at arms. But his devil-may-care approach to life is thrown for a loop when the five-year-old daughter he never knew existed lands on the club steps. Alexandra Evans is devoted...
59) Gangsta
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Gangsta novels volume 1
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Crip assassin Lou-Loc, who wants to be a writer, and his sociopath counterpart Gutter, who has dreams of being a kingpin, leave Los Angeles for New York, each with his dream in tow.
60) Road Dawgz
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"It's the penthouse or the morgue. This is the philosophy adopted by Keshawn Wilson, a.k.a. K-Dawg, self-proclaimed lord of the streets. Keshawn is the youngest of five kids, and one of only two that don't belong to his mother's husband. As a little boy he feels the distance between he and his stepfather, and life becomes increasingly difficult for him as the years pass; his childhood and young adult years are spent in a home for boys and state prison,...