Orem Library

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'.

"A gang leader's son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one's brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning 'The Hate U Give'"--

"A slyly political collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcon's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In "The Thousands," people are on the...

Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the kids involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy.

Johnny is the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hellbent for destruction until he falls for Kathie, a "good girl" whose father happens to be a cop.

"Stay the hell out of Fort Worth." These were the last words uttered by the boomtown's most recent sheriff. Half-starved cowpuncher Jess Casey ignores the travel advice and not only enters Fort Worth, he becomes the new sheriff -- inheriting the body-riddled little slice of heaven called Hell's Half Acre. The deadliest piece of real estate on the American frontier, it's home to Kurt Koenig and his gang-run empire. For Koenig, the only good lawman...

After his mother dies, seventeen-year-old Josh goes to live with his closest relatives who happen to be the notorious Cody gang and ends up in the middle of a murder plot, forced to choose between family loyalty and the police.

In the wake of a gangland shooting at a popular tourist site in Philadelphia, Matthew Payne pursues a suspicion that the case is related to a murder near the Schuykill River, and follows a hunch to the Texas-Mexico border, where he encounters more danger than anticipated.

Dr. Peyton Westlake, attacked by a gang who destroy his laboratory when he is on the verge of a major breakthrough in producing synthetic skin, turns avenger when he alters himself by an experimental procedure.