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1) Cocaine Bear
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens congregate in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after accidentally ingesting cocaine.
2) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Kristina is introduced to crystal meth on a visit to her wayward father, and her drug use soon takes over, leaving her "starving for speed" and for boys who will leave her scarred and pregnant.
3) Scarface
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pacino plays a ruthless Cuban gangster involved in a cocaine empire, in this violent crime epic inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title.
4) Love me back
Author
Language
English
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Description
Marie, a young single mother, lands a job at an upscale Dallas steakhouse. She is preternaturally attuned to the appetites of her patrons, but quickly learns to hide her private struggle behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. In a world of long hours and late nights, where everything runs on a currency of favors, cash and cachet, Marie gives in to brutally self-destructive impulses. She loses herself in a tangle of bodies and the kind of coke...
Author
Language
English
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"The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan's war on drugs, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey's exacting work exposes the undeniable links between the last triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement and the consequences we live with today-a racist criminal justice system, continued mass incarceration and gentrification, and increased police brutality. When...
6) The cobra
Author
Language
English
Description
For decades, the West has been fighting the cocaine cartels-and losing- until the president decides enough is enough and asks one man to take charge. His task: to destroy the cocaine industry. His name: Cobra. It is the ultimate secret war. But only one side can win...
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a cocaine shipment is compromised, a drug cartel's CEO orders his most trusted henchman on a dangerous journey to audit the company's supply chain. As the drugs make their perilous trek across international borders, they are also being tracked by Federal Agents. When they find the problem, it might be too late to keep the cartel satisfied.
Author
Language
English
Description
From David Carr (1956-2015), the “undeniably brilliant and dogged journalist” (Entertainment Weekly) and author of the instant New York Times bestseller that the Chicago Sun-Times called “a compelling tale of drug abuse, despair, and, finally, hope.”
Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In The Night of the Gun, David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his...
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Series
Publisher
Wahida Clark Presents Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Tanisha Hopkins a.k.a. Tiny dreams of living the glamorous life by any means necessary. A bona fide, certified, authentic material girl in every sense of the description, Tiny is Feenin to live life fast and furious, and has, found the perfect man, to make all her dreams a reality. But, everything that glitters isn t always gold. Meeting her match, Roscoe proves to be a disaster in the making. A hustler with a dream, a scheme, and his hand in the...
10) White lines
Author
Series
White lines volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Jada left home at the age of sixteen, running from her own demons and the horrors of physical abuse inflicted by her mother's boyfriend. She partied hard, and life seemed good when she was with Born, the neighborhood kingpin whose name was synonymous with money, power, and respect. But all his love couldn't save her from a crack addiction. Jada goes from crack addict and prostitute to survivor and back again before she finds the strength to...
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A page-turning account of the international cocaine trade, presented as five lessons in how to move tons of the drug across borders
Forget about cocaine concealed in false-bottomed suitcases or swallowed in ovules resistant to gastric juices. When entire national economies are kept afloat by the money from cocaine smuggling, the quantities these tactics represent are meaningless. When a commodity like cocaine becomes a mainstay of the international...
13) Cocaine
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Cocaine is a deadly, addictive drug that ruins people's lives. This title explores the history of cocaine, how it affects the body, the laws and policies surrounding it, and ways in which people suffering from addiction can recover and quit" --
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Few drugs have as many cultural and social implications as cocaine and crack. These drugs link Hollywood and Detroit, and are signifiers of classic rock icons and racial inequality. How have these drugs shaped the world we live in? How do they shape lives today? How can addictions to these drugs be overcome? Cocaine and crack are highly addictive and can cause severe health problems, but there are ways to get support and treatment. This book offers...
17) Cocaine
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
20) Zero zero zero
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An analysis of the international cocaine trade and its less-understood role in the global economy explores its rules, armies and influence on everyday life, detailing the arrangements among leading cartels and the violent extent of their power.