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The Linden Triangle is the intersection of Linden Avenue and Linden Place in Hempstead, Long Island. Here, the dream of suburban comfort and safety has evolved into a nightmare of flying bullets and bloodshed. The war between the Bloods and Crips gangs has torn a once peaceful neighborhood apart. As the conflict spreads to New York City, young men wielding military-grade weaponry fight over pride, respect, revenge and their legacies.

Midnight, a fierce fighter with heart, is willing to do anything to defend his family, the woman he loves, his business, and his property. Follow Midnight from the wealthy North African estate of his father to the Brooklyn projects where he lives with his mother.

As a gang of urban teenagers known as the TKO Club makes random attacks on bystanders, Erica, who is dating the gang leader, wrestles with her dark side and "good kid" identity.

With the help of a dog named Sophie, eleven-year-old boys from different time periods work together to stop the activities of a gang.

Journalist Asbury pulled this book together from several official sources, including police records as well as unofficial ones such as the rough memories of criminals. True to the title, the book is a history of crime both organized and not that permeated the dirty underbelly of New York City and its boroughs in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Some of these gangs were so vicious they would post signs warning police to stay out of their neighborhoods or else! The 1927 volume is the basis of Martin Scorsese's film of the same name starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Titanic heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio. This edition contains numerous illustrations and a foreword by Jorge Luis Borges.

Emphasis is placed on the importance of early prevention efforts intended to decrease the development of destructive behaviors. Topics include, the effects of a dysfunctional family, physical and sexual abuse, low self-esteem, depression, stress, eating disorders, pregnancy, AIDS, suicide, gang membership, school dropout, and homelessness.

"It's hate at first sight--or rather a knee to the head at first sight--when Raku Ichijo meets Chitoge Kirisaki! Unfortunately, Raku's gangster father arranges a false love match between Raku and their rival gang leader's daughter, who just so happens to be Chitoge! Raku's searching for his childhood sweetheart from ten years ago, however, with a pendant around his neck as a memento...but he can't even remember the girl's name or face!"--Back cover.

After his twin sister dies in a car wreck caused by a gang's initiation rite, Lucas forms a group of vigilantes bent on avenging her death.

Living in a violent, impoverished town outside Washington, D.C., fifteen-year-old Blaise joins an infamous gang against the advice and warnings of her best friends only to be required by her new leader to put herself in life-threatening situations.