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41) The short and tragic life of Robert Peace: a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Peace was a talented young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University, only to succumb to the dangers of the streets -- and of one's own nature -- when he returned home. When Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with Peace, his college roommate for four years. Peace's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, and he carried with him the difficult dual nature...
Author
Series
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
Examines the murky world of narcotics dealing and control through the activities of Miami-based fashion photographer Baruch Vega, who helped to negotiate the surrender to the D.E.A. of more than a hundred Columbian drug traffickers.
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Todo lo que no sabías del narcotraficante más buscado del mundo contado por los criminales que lo traicionaron. El juicio del hombre más buscado por la policía estadounidense: un repaso de sus actividades en el narcotráfico, sus venganzas y los nexos con políticos y delincuentes. Un retrato severo, implacable, de El Chapo Guzmán en la corte de Estados Unidos. Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul fue de las pocas periodistas en el mundo que cubrió todo...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"At nine-years-old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad's lotto numbers, keeping his Nikes free of creases, and being a man. Directly in his periphery is east Baltimore, a poverty-stricken city battling the height of a crack epidemic just hours from the nation's capital. Watkins, like many boys around him, is thrust out of childhood and into a world where manhood means surviving by slinging crack on street corners and finding himself...