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The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" - the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.
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Lone Wolf, Roach, Goose, and Dutchboy - four wild ones who have lived their lives on the wrong side of the law. They are members of the outlaw motorcycle gang, the Scorpions - men with their own brand of justice. Now they stand accused of the gang-rape of a motel maid of dubious reputation and the brutal murder of a friend of hers in the mountains outside Santa Fe. But they claim they are innocent.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Against the Wind
- By shelley on 04-19-14
By: J. F. Freedman
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The Choirboys
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- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
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- Unabridged
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Story4 out of 5 stars 221
Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch - shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice. Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap - each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends–he is afraid of himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitely Funny, Probably Offensive
- By John Strange on 12-18-14
By: Joseph Wambaugh
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90 Church
- Inside America's Notorious First Narcotics Squad
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90 Church is both the unbelievable memoir of one man's confrontation with the dark corners of the human experience and a fascinating window into a little-known time in American history. Learn the story of the agents who make the DEA look like choirboys.
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AMAZING!!!
- By Nick on 03-22-16
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Picking Cotton
- Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
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Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape and eventually identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken - but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After 11 years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed.
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Listen for the story not the writing
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In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age - mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs - Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark and the righteous indignation that only a native son can possess, journalist Charlie LeDuff sets out to uncover what has brought low this once-vibrant city, his city.
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WOW
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By: Charlie LeDuff
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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In a remote northern California town, a huge task force from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration conducts a raid on the stronghold of one of the biggest drug-dealing rings in the country. During the raid, the infamous, reclusive leader of the ring, Reynaldo Juarez, is shot and killed - despite direct orders from the Attorney General that he is to be taken alive at any cost because of his immense value to the government as a witness in other drug cases.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Book great ending
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By: J.F. Freedman
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No Lesser Plea
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- By: Robert K. Tanenbaum
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 622
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 550
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Story4 out of 5 stars 546
Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp has been around New York long enough to realize that the judicial system can be dirty and cynical. But he still believes in justice. So when a vicious sociopath tries to dodge a brutal murder charge by convincing the court he is incompetent to stand trial, Karp teams up with firecracker Assistant DA Marlene Ciampi to unleash the full force of their relentless energy, hardboiled wit, and passion for the truth to put the killer away for good. They will accept no lesser plea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Decent LIsten
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A Certain Justice
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Somewhere in the once-placid streets of San Francisco, a young man is on the run, charged by the media with a crime he didn't commit, hounded by demagogues, hunted by a desperate police department. One cop knows that Kevin Shea is innocent of a brutal racial murder. An ambitious politician will use Shea for her own ends. And a down-and-out lawyer is all that stands between Kevin Shea and an even more atrocious crime. For when there's no law left, justice is the only hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Race riots ... in San Francisco?
- By Snoodely on 02-10-10
By: John Lescroart
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Cash Landing
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 179
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Story4 out of 5 stars 159
Every week a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through customs and loads them into armored trucks.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Start To The Series
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By: James Grippando
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Motion to Suppress
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 139
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 105
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Story4 out of 5 stars 106
Leaving her ex-husband and old job in San Francisco, attorney Nina Reilly opens a practice in Lake Tahoe hoping to start life over. As she waits for a big case, Nina decides to help Misty Patterson divorce her abusive husband. When said husband is found murdered, Nina agrees to defend Misty against murder charges.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Legally Soap
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Wild Justice
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 256
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 253
Phillip Margolin, best selling author of The Undertaker's Widow, introduces the world to the first genuinely monstrous psychopath of the new century. Also available abridged.
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4 out of 5 stars
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De gustibus...
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By: Phillip Margolin
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In Contempt
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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This number-one New York Times best seller is an unflinching look at what the television cameras could not show: behind-the-scenes meetings, the deteriorating relationships between the defense and prosecution teams, the taunting, baiting, and pushing matches between Darden and Simpson, the intimate relationship between Darden and Marcia Clark, and the candid factors behind Darden's controversial decision for Simpson to try on the infamous glove, and much more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Author-narrated/well-written - yet abridged
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By: Christopher A. Darden, and others
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Always Running
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 472
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By age 12, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as that culture claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Book for all educators
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Chiefs
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,305
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In 1919, Delano, Georgia, appoints its first chief of police. Honest and hardworking, the new chief is puzzled when young men start to disappear. But his investigation is ended by the fatal blast from a shotgun. Delano's second chief-of-police is no hero, yet he is also disturbed by what he sees in the missing-persons bulletins. In 1969, when Delano's third chief takes over, the unsolved disappearances still haunt the police files.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In my 'Top Ten' books of all time!
- By karen on 09-17-13
By: Stuart Woods
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The Intuitionist
- By: Colson Whitehead
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Lila Mae Watson - the first black female inspector in the world's tallest city - has the highest performance rating of anyone in the Department of Elevator Inspectors. This upsets her superiors, because Lila is an Intuitionist: she inspects elevators simply by the feelings she gets riding in them. When a brand new elevator crashes, Lila becomes caught in the conflict between her Intuitionist methods and the beliefs of the power-holding Empiricists.
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Fires on all cylinders; GREAT ! ! !
- By Robert on 08-24-12
By: Colson Whitehead
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- Ismael Armendariz
- 12-02-21
Amazing! A Chicano classic.
Amazing! A Chicano classic. Read with an open mind and a critical lens. A must read for all.
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- Roland
- 11-09-22
This is a hidden gem.
If you want to understand or have any knowledge of the turbulence of the early70s. get this book
If you want a true insider view to the Chicano rights/civil rights movement Without the empty rhetoric and without an outsider's point of view... Read this book. Oscar Zeta Acosta led a fascinating life as a civil and Chicano rights lawyer. He immersed himself in the madness of of the Chicano blowouts / ran for sheriff of LA county and just the madness that was this time frame... get this book. The man partied more than the people he defended! This book was NOT written by any Hispanic but by a Chicano!! you wanna know the difference...you know what to do!
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-21-21
Death is life’s greatest invention.
I think zeta will end up being one of those wild writers that’ll end up influencing my own style the most. A big fan of both volumes of his work I am.
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- Nancy
- 09-27-22
loved it
i finished it in one day . It was so good and descriptive .
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