The Crack Chronicles

The Crack Chronicles
Author: Syreeta Nelson
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2013-08-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989762113

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A Crack in the Sky

A Crack in the Sky
Author: Mark Peter Hughes
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2011-08-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385737092

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Thirteen-year-old Eli Papadapoulous is worried. Even though he's part of in the most powerful family in the world. Even though his grandfather founded InfiniCorp, the massive corporation that runs everything in the bustling dome-cities. Even though InfiniCorp ads and billboards are plastered everywhere, proclaiming: DON'T WORRY! INFINICORP IS TAKING CARE OF EVERYTHING! Recently, Eli noticed there's something wrong with the artificial sky. It keeps shorting out, displaying strange colors and random, pixellated images. And though the Department of Cool and Comfortable Air is working overtime, the dome-city is hotter than it's ever been. Eli has been raised to believe that the dome-cities are safe and comfortable; that the important thing is to keep working, keep consuming; that InfiniCorp knows better than he, and he should leave everything in their hands. But now he begins asking questions.

Crack Chronicles

Crack Chronicles
Author: Marlisha Martinez
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2007-02-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781491010921

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Crack Chronicles is a true story of events, that happen during the time. My now ex-husband was addicted. He had one of the worst crack cocaine addictions you could ever imagine! This is my story of survival !

Kendra Kandlestar and the Crack in Kazah

Kendra Kandlestar and the Crack in Kazah
Author: Lee Edward Fodi
Publisher: Kendra Kandlestar
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781927018286

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According to Een legend, a Kazah stone grants a wizard the power to catch an echo of the past - and a glimpse of the future. But when Kendra Kandlestar is given her own cracked and broken Kazah stone, she soon discovers that it's capable of so much more. With her faithful friend Oki, Kendra is sent on an unimaginable journey across the cosmos. Trapped in this adventure, Kendra finds herself faced with choices that just may unravel the mysterious history of the Eens - and destroy their future.

Dark Alliance

Dark Alliance
Author: Gary Webb
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1609802020

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Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014 In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. Webb’s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media—not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story—had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the “Dark Alliance” story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury News and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.

Kaylid Chronicles Complete Series

Kaylid Chronicles Complete Series
Author: Mel Todd
Publisher: Bad Ash Publishing
Total Pages: 2581
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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When 2% of the world changed into animals, police officer McKenna Largo found herself at the center of the social media storm and cultural shift. If you are looking for action and adventure with no romance? Want characters that grow and learn? Grab this complete series and go from small town cop to last hope for humanity. No Choice Handling the cat calling as a female police officer is one thing, being a literal cat is something else. When the world's population shifts into animals, the last thing McKenna expected was to be at the center of the controversy. When she gets caught in the crossfire of a get rich quick scheme, she'll have to decide what price she'll pay to protect the innocent. And if she'll still be human by the end. Commander It can always get worse, unfortunately. Discovering an Artificial Intelligence lives in your head, strike one. Having the Artificial Intelligence explain aliens are the origin of shifters on Earth, strike two. Having it announce you are the commanding officer of the earth shifters, strike three. After one too many successes, these enemies target not just on her, but also her family and friends. Finding herself in a situation she never imagined, McKenna must step up and be the leader they need, a true commander. Now if she could just devise a plan that won't get them all killed. Incoming Aliens are coming! Getting back home with the knowledge that aliens are coming for your planet is one thing. Figuring out how to get anyone in a position of power to listen to you is something else. With the knowledge that the Elentrin are weeks away from Earth, McKenna must persuade the government that she isn't crazy and that aliens are coming. But first she has to convince friends and family, after that the world will be easy. Allies Having a dragon walk out of a portal changed everything. When a member of the Drakyn race, the ones the Elentrin want to destroy, shows up to offer aid in Earth's fight for survival, McKenna has hope. Their visitor unlocks information buried in her friends' heads and gives them a chance against this enemy. Calling in the government seems like the best idea, after all it's a worldwide battle. But they soon discover the Drakyn don't have weapons, ships, or even troops to help in this war. What they do offer is a way onto the ships hanging over Earth. The catch is McKenna and her friends are the only ones who can lead the way. Because not only are more Elentrin coming, but when they are done, they'll destroy the Earth. Family What price would you pay? Being in the middle of creating history isn't a comfortable place. Toni Diaz has dealt with a lot in her life, but turning into an animal, meeting aliens, and trying to save the world wasn't anything she'd ever seen in her future. Trying to do the best thing for everyone she'll need to balance the good of her family with what is best for Earth. Even as she prepares to do the impossible, she'll try to keep her loved ones safe, and pray the choices they have made are the right ones. Not just for her, but for all Kaylid left on Earth.

Lucky Street Chronicles

Lucky Street Chronicles
Author: Lucas Rivera
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595234666

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The Cocaine Chronicles

The Cocaine Chronicles
Author: Gary Phillips
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-06-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1453259392

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A new anthology of cocaine stories from the creators of The Speed Chronicles—“Caution: these stories are addicting” (Harlan Coben). This ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon. Cocaine is the subject, the whys and whereofs in The Cocaine Chronicles, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. The Cocaine Chronicles contains tough tales by a cross-section of today’s most thought-provoking writers. Featuring brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry E. West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and Detrice Jones.

The Fossil Chronicles

The Fossil Chronicles
Author: Dean Falk
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2011-10-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0520274466

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"With wit and authority, Falk tells the parallel stories of two fossil discoveries that surprised the world, revealing the larger significance of these finds. Her lively recounting combines new historical research with her first-hand involvement in controversial interpretations."—Pat Shipman, author of The Animal Connection and The Man Who Found the Missing Link “An absorbing and engagingly personal account, by a leading participant, of two of the major “brain wars” that have raged along the path to our current understanding of human evolution.”--Ian Tattersall, author of The Fossil Trail and Human Origins “In The Fossil Chronicles, Falk engages us with a ‘tale of two brains’. While navigating the surfaces of these ancient brains, she reveals the convolutions of scientific controversies and how personalities and paleopolitics shape the ways we think about human evolution.”—Nina G. Jablonski, author of Skin: A Natural History

S Street Rising

S Street Rising
Author: Ruben Castaneda
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1620400057

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During the height of the crack epidemic that decimated the streets of D.C., Ruben Castaneda covered the crime beat for the Washington Post. The first in his family to graduate from college, he had landed a job at one of the country's premier newspapers. But his apparent success masked a devastating secret: he was a crack addict. Even as he covered the drug-fueled violence that was destroying the city, he was prowling S Street, a 24/7 open-air crack market, during his off hours, looking for his next fix. Castaneda's remarkable book, S Street Rising, is more than a memoir; it's a portrait of a city in crisis. It's the adrenalin-infused story of the street where Castaneda quickly became a regular, and where a fledgling church led by a charismatic and streetwise pastorwas protected by the local drug kingpin, a dangerous man who followed an old-school code of honor. It's the story of Castaneda's friendship with an exceptional police homicide commander whose career was derailed when he ran afoul of Mayor Marion Barry and his political cronies. And it's a study of the city itself as it tried to rise above the bloody crack epidemic and the corrosive politics of the Barry era. S Street Rising is The Wire meets the Oscar-winning movie Crash. And it's all true.