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The whole language : the power of extravagant tenderness / by Boyle, Greg,author.;
Gregory Boyle, the beloved Jesuit priest and author of the inspirational bestsellers Tattoos on the Heart and Barking to the Choir, returns with a call to witness the transformative power of tenderness, rooted in his lifetime of experience counseling gang members in Los Angeles. Over the past thirty years, Gregory Boyle has transformed thousands of lives through his work as the founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest and most successful gang-intervention program in the world. Boyle's new book, The Whole Language, follows the acclaimed bestsellers Tattoos on the Heart, hailed as an "astounding literary and spiritual feat" (Publishers Weekly) that is "destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality" (Los Angeles Times), and Barking to the Choir, deemed "a beautiful and important and soul-transporting book" by Elizabeth Gilbert and declared by Ann Patchett to be "a book that shows what the platitudes of faith look like when they're put into action." In a community struggling to overcome systemic poverty and violence, The Whole Language shows how those at Homeboy Industries fight despair and remain generous, hopeful, and tender. When Saul was thirteen years old, he killed his abusive stepfather in self-defense; after spending twenty-three years in juvenile and adult jail, he enters the Homeboy Industries training and healing programs and embraces their mission. Declaring, "I've decided to grow up to be somebody I always needed as a child," Saul shows tenderness toward the young men in his former shoes, treating them all like his sons and helping them to find their way. Before coming to Homeboy Industries, a young man named Abel was shot thirty-three times, landing him in a coma for six months followed by a year and a half recuperating in the hospital. He now travels on speaking tours with Boyle and gives guided tours around the Homeboy offices. One day a new trainee joins Abel as a shadow, and Abel recognizes him as the young man who had put him in a coma. "You give good tours," the trainee tells Abel. They both have embarked on a path to wholeness. Boyle's moving stories challenge our ideas about God and about people, providing a window into a world filled with fellowship, compassion, and fewer barriers. Bursting with encouragement, humor, and hope, The Whole Language invites us to treat others-and ourselves-with acceptance and tenderness.
Subjects: Boyle, Greg.; Christian life; Church work with juvenile delinquents; Church work; Compassion.; Gang prevention.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hollywood hustle : a thriller / by Lindstrom, Jon,1957-author.;
Winston Greene, a has-been film star, wakes one morning to find his six-year-old granddaughter at his bedside--traumatized, unattended, and gripping onto a thumb drive. She comes bearing video proof that her mother, Win's troubled adult daughter, has been kidnapped by a murderous gang demanding all his "movie money" for her safe return. But what they don't know is ... his movie money is long gone. Unable to go to the police for fear the kidnappers will make good on their promise to kill his daughter, Winston turns to two close friends--a legendary Hollywood stuntman and a disgraced former LAPD detective. There's no easy way out for Winston or his daughter--the gang is violent and willing to do anything to get the money they're after, and Winston begins to realize that to get his daughter back, he'll have to beat the kidnappers at their own game. This propulsive and tense thriller will transport readers to the seedier side of LA, depicted in bold prose by a Hollywood insider.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Actors; Ex-police officers; Fathers and daughters; Gangs; Kidnapping; Ransom; Stunt performers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Claire DeWitt and the city of the dead / by Gran, Sara.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Gang members; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Missing persons; Public prosecutors; Women private investigators; DeWitt, Claire (Fictitious character);
© c2011., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Grease. [videorecording] / by Davila, Marisa,actor.; Fukuhara, Tricia,actor.; Hoffman, Jackie,actor.; Nieves, Jonathan,actor.; Notartomaso, Ari,actor.; Thompson, Madison,actor.; Wells, Cheyenne Isabel,actor.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,distributor.;
Marisa Davila, Tricia Fukuhara, Jackie Hoffman, Jonathan Nieves, Ari Notartomaso, Madison Thompson, Cheyenne Isabel Wells.GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES is a high-spirited musical series that traces the origins of the classic hit movie. Four outcast high school girls a brainiac student, a scandal-ridden cynic, a tomboy, and a fashion maven join together to form their own "girl gang" and trigger a rock-'n'-roll revolution at Rydell High. Of course, the adults are in a 1950s moral panic over the burgeoning new era, but the Pink Ladies are ready to get this party started.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Television musicals.; Television programs.; Female friendship; Female gangs; Teenagers; Nineteen fifties; High school students; Man-woman relationships;
For private home use only.
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Unrest / by Tuinman, Gwen,author.;
"Bytown, 1836: The lawless cesspool that will become the city of Ottawa is beginning to reek of more than just swamp water. Rife with squalor, corruption, and organized crime, class injustice divides the town more starkly than the canal that bisects it, cutting off its Irish poor--who are ready to fight back. On a homestead in the woods near Bytown, a domestic drama is also reaching a fever pitch. Quiet, ungainly Mariah, her face scarred in a dog attack back home in Ireland, has been living on sufferance in her sister Biddy's home since they sailed for a new life. She's treated as the spinster aunt, a farmhand working alongside Biddy's husband, Seamus. But the three of them are keeping a bitter secret: Mariah, in love with Seamus, is the mother of Thomas, the family's oldest child. And she's about to burst under the strain of making herself small. While Mariah plots to claim her rightful place in the world, Thomas keeps secrets of his own. Eager to escape the roiling tensions at home, he's apprenticed himself to a blacksmith in Bytown, but soon falls into trouble too big for him to handle. To save himself, he's made a deal with the one man colder than the devil--Peter Aylen, leader of a powerful Irish rebel gang. As danger mounts, both for Thomas and for the town, there's only one way for Mariah to save her son: by becoming the hero of her own story, facing her deepest fears with a determination she never knew she had."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Gangs; Irish; Mothers and sons; Secrecy; Sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nine dragons : a novel / by Connelly, Michael,1956-;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Bosch, Harry (Fictitious character); Chinese Americans; Kidnapping; Murder; Police; Triads (Gangs);
© 2009., Little, Brown and Co.,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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The hunt for the secret papyrus / by Stilton, Geronimo.; Brambilla, Valeria.; Babboni, Mirko.; Dami, Elisabetta.; Tramontozzi, Lidia Morson.; Schaffer, Andrea(Translator);
The hunt for the secret papyrus -- Mini mystery: the cat gang -- Geronimo's jokes.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Stilton, Geronimo; Mice; Antiquities; Art thefts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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After death / by Koontz, Dean R.(Dean Ray),1945-author.;
"Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished--including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he--or anyone else--has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby greatly admired. Although what Michael does for Nina is life changing, his actions also evoke the wrath of John's father, a member of one of the most violent street gangs in Los Angeles. But an even greater threat is descending: the Internal Security Agency's most vicious assassin, Durand Calaphas. Calaphas will stop at nothing to get his man. If Michael dies twice, he will not live a third time. From the tarnished glamour of Beverly Hills to the streets of South Central to a walled estate in Rancho Santa Fe, only Michael can protect Nina and John--and ensure that light survives in a rapidly darkening world"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Ability; Assassins; Biological weapons; Death; Gangs; Good and evil; Laboratories; Threats;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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After death [sound recording] / by Koontz, Dean R.(Dean Ray),1945-author.; Ballerini, Edoardo,1970-narrator.; Brilliance Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Edoardo Ballerini."Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished--including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he--or anyone else--has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby greatly admired. Although what Michael does for Nina is life changing, his actions also evoke the wrath of John's father, a member of one of the most violent street gangs in Los Angeles. But an even greater threat is descending: the Internal Security Agency's most vicious assassin, Durand Calaphas. Calaphas will stop at nothing to get his man. If Michael dies twice, he will not live a third time. From the tarnished glamour of Beverly Hills to the streets of South Central to a walled estate in Rancho Santa Fe, only Michael can protect Nina and John--and ensure that light survives in a rapidly darkening world"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Ability; Assassins; Biological weapons; Death; Gangs; Good and evil; Laboratories; Threats;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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You got a rock, Charlie Brown! / by Testa, Maggie.; Schulz, Charles M.(Charles Monroe),1922-2000.; Pope, Robert.;
The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween, and Charlie Brown seems to have the worst luck.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Humorous fiction.; Brown, Charlie (Fictitious character); Halloween;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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