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81) Rizzo's daughter
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"Brooklyn cop Joe Rizzo is ready to retire and spend the rest of his days with his wife, doting on their grown-up girls. But when his youngest daughter Carol decides to follow her dad onto the force, Joe decides to stay on until she's settled, calling in favors to get her assigned to the easiest house, the best training officer-- anything to protect his baby girl. And while there, he's expected to work a few cases, though he never would've guessed...
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Distilled in Texas and the Delta, a straight-no-chaser crime novel set around the legendary Dixie Mafia
Manfred Eugene "Hog" Webern, a retired Dallas County deputy sheriff, is talked into going undercover in Biloxi, Mississippi, in a multistate effort to nail a group of traveling Southern criminals who have been tagged by the press with the lurid name "Dixie Mafia." After making contact with the gang's nominal leader, the notorious Jasper Sparks,...
83) The kind one
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"In 1930s Los Angeles, someone desperately wants to know who Danny Landon is. That someone is Danny Landon himself. His more intimate associates call him "Two Gun Danny," but all the young man really knows about himself is that some terrible incident has erased his memory. Danny's boss is a mobster named Bud Seitz, a vicious, sadistic killer who's been given the ironic nickname of "The Kind One." According to Seitz, Danny's amnesia is the result of...
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"There isn't a strategy he can't execute, a target he can't eliminate, or a woman he can't have. And Bernard James, Jr. - aka Dutch -- has marshaled [sic] his loyal lieutenants plus a powerful Nigerian dictator's resources to take his organization worldwide." --P. [4] of cover.
85) Powder Blu
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What do you do when you have to choose between true love and the love of money? Blu thinks she knows all there is to know about the dope game. She's watched her momma serve out of the same place they lay their heads since she was a little girl. Then her brother's best friend, Budz, steps up and shows her that there is more to the game than just selling drugs. With love, loyalty, and wealth on her side, what more could she want? Blu quickly finds out...
86) Almost true
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Following a fatal stabbing, Ty and his family have been given new identities, but when his mum's boyfriend is killed by attackers, he finds himself torn between wanting to see his girlfriend and afraid that he is confided in her too much.
87) Blaque Pearle
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Before her Hollywood dreams were shattered, Pearle Monalise Brown was the tenacious aspiring actress from Compton's unforgiving, scarred streets. Never broken, Pearle switches gears to a fallback plan--resorting to her beauty and acting skills to swindle money and expensive jewels. When she's hired by the Colombian cartel to steal a priceless Basquiat from the debonair kingpin and art collector, Blaque, her talents might not be enough to keep her...
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His father had warned Howie, "You can't ride two horses with one ass." But here he was, living a double life-one racketeering with his crew and the other sitting in cafés reading Penguin Classics. To fit in, Howie hides his intellectual interests from his gangster friends, but they still suspect something is not right about him. The real problem is that someone has been bad-mouthing Howie to Vinnie Five-Five, his captain. Howie thinks he could...
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Kayla "Bossy" Ticker is a bona fide product of the streets, spending her time on the grind and settling scores. Years after forming alliances with a couple of the city's most notorious gangsters, she creates a formula to cook cocaine with a potency most dealers would pay top dollar to get their hands on.
Now in her prime, "Bossy" has gotten tired of looking over her shoulder and watching her own back. The death of her mentor hastens her decision...
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From the day he was born, Treacherous Freeman was never given a fair chance. He was raised by his father, a notorious gangster who deprived Treacherous of a normal childhood. Instead, he gave Treacherous an education in life on the streets of Virginia. Teflon Jackson is a beautiful woman who is the result of a horrible union. With a prostitute for a mother and a pimp for a father, Teflon's childhood was far from a fairy-tale. Treacherous and Teflon...
91) The ice harvest
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It's Christmas Eve, 1979, in Wichita, and Charlie Arglist, a crooked lawyer and strip-club owner, is drunkenly making the rounds before he blows town for good. Getting progressively drunker and deeper in trouble, Charlie needs to drop off a photograph of a local official in a compromising position and steal some drug money. Before it's all over, a lot of people are going to wind up dead.
93) Internal affairs
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Harlequin intrigue volume 1399
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"When the call came in over the radio, Sheriff's Deputy Rafe Franco thought he would be responding to a typical domestic dispute. But he didn't know that the perp was St. Louis's most notorious mobster - or that the victim was his college sweetheart, Lisa Tobin. Now, as Rafe is drawn into a web of crime and danger, he discovers that his feelings for Lisa are stronger than ever. And her three-year-old daughter, Chloe, is melting his heart in ways he'd...
94) Hallow point
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Learning that one of the four Kingly Hallows of Ireland is in Chicago, private investigator Mick Oberon works to prevent the legendary spear from falling into the wrong hands, including factions of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts.
96) Amberville
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"Eric Bear has it all: a successful career, a beautiful wife, a blissful home. He knows he's been lucky; a while back, his life revolved around drugs, gambling, a gang of stuffed-animal thugs, and notorious crime boss Nicholas Dove. But the past isn't as far away as Eric had hoped. Rumors are swirling that Dove is on the Death List and that he wants Eric to save him. If Eric fails to act, his beloved wife, Emma Rabbit, will be torn apart, limb by...
97) Unremarkable
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"In 1920s Chicago, postal employee Saul Imbierowicz is unwittingly swept up in a city-wide conflict between rival gangs, federal agents, and supernatural forces beyond his control. After striking out on his own from his overbearing Jewish family, Saul quickly becomes involved with the seductive and mysterious Moira. He soon becomes mixed up in the events of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, witnessing the shooting and fleeing from the scene after...
98) The neighborhood
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"From Anthony Pellicano--'Hollywood Fixer'--comes his first work of not-so-fictional fiction. Best friends Paulie and Vincent grew up without fathers on Chicago's west side. Paulie learned how to be a man from TV cop shows, while Vincent's role models were the wise guys who hung out on street corners. As men, Paulie joins the FBI with hopes to escape his past, while Vincent becomes a private investigator who works for the 'family' business. When their...
99) Gangsta twist 1
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Gangsta Twist volume 1
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A modern-day Robin Hood meets "Mission: Impossible" with a witty urban twist that will take readers on a fast-paced ride full of deceit, fast money, and revenge, where the winner takes all.
100) Bardzo cichy rozwód
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Zaczęło się jak w przypadku każdej wielkiej miłości. Zakochani w sobie bez pamięci pobrali się i przez jakiś czas świata poza sobą nie widzieli. Jednak po kilku wspólnych latach, kiedy w życie wkradła się rutyna, okazało się, że Zuzanna i Kacper nie są w stanie na siebie patrzeć i mają się serdecznie dość. Jedno i drugie powoli dochodzi do momentu, w którym ma ochotę powiedzieć "chcę rozwodu". Kiedy jednak udaje się już...