The Violent Gang - Lewis Yablonsky

PELICAN BOOKS A802

MIDDLESEX, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1967

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY COLLIER-MACMILLAN 1962

COVER PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARKER

When in June 1957 a fifteen-year-old polio victim was beaten to death by the Egyptian Kings gang in a New York park, a new kind of 'killing for kicks' violence had burst upon the American scene. The author of this book entered the world of two New York gangs, the Dragons and the Balkans, to discover the youths' real motives, hidden from the police, from other social workers, and even from themselves. His investigations reveal that the violent-gang member is a displaced person, unable for various social and psychological reasons to associate with others, within a gang or outside it. The gang itself emerges as a loose grouping, more a vehicle for its members' fantasies and desires for status than a well-oiled criminal machine. Traditional methods of gang control, which have accepted the power of the gang on its members' own valuation and attempted to divert it to more worthwhile ends, may be merely aggravating the problem. Professor Yablonsky himself suggests some totally new methods of control, based upon the revolutionary Synanon experiments in group control.

The Girl In The Spike-Heeled Shoes - Martin Yoseloff

"All The Boys Had Maybelle's Number"

POPULAR LIBRARY 573

TORONTO, CANADA

FIRST PRINTING APRIL 1954

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY E.P. DUTTON JULY 1949

SHE'D SHOW THEM!

When Maybelle Reardon came to Kenyon High that morning the boys looked at her queerly and the other girls ignored her completely. She knew that Dennis Morrisey had told.

But what had happened in her room yesterday had been Dennis' fault. How could they blame her? All right, she decided angrily. The next time it would be her own fault. She'd give this town something to really talk about!

"The author avoids bawdiness in a story that is essentially sexy and comes up with a tale that moves his readers to compassion for his fictional heroine."

- Atlanta CONSTITUTION

God's Junkie - Sonny Arguinzoni with Jorunn Oftedal Ricketts

"THE MIRACLE STORY OF GOD'S JUNKIE AND THE ADDICTS CHURCH"

LOGOS BOOKS L-314

NEW JERSEY, USA

LOGOS PRINTING 1971

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JIM HOWARD

'An exciting true story!' - Nicky CRUZ "Run Baby Run"

'Those who have read my books will want to read this one' - DAVID WILKERSON "THE CROSS AND THE SWITCHBLADE"

"Sonny Arguinzoni is doing great work for God...It is time the story was told...You will not put this book down until you have read it completely...This is a story of God's power in action."

- DAVID WILKERSON, author "THE CROSS AND THE SWITCHBLADE"

Part of Sonny's story was in Run Baby Run...now you can read the exciting account of God's Junkie...there is hope for the one involved in drugs, sex, rebellion...miracles do happen and Sonny Arguinzoni and his addicts church see them every day.

- NICKY CRUZ, author "RUN BABY RUN"

The Butchers - Leonard Bishop

"They Lived And Loved By The Law Of The Streets"

POPULAR LIBRARY SP11

NEW YORK, USA

FIRST PRINTING OCTOBER 1957

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY THE DIAL PRESS JULY 1956

COVER ART BY HOOKS

"TIMELY...POWERFUL...TRUE!"

-Dallas TIMES-HERALD

The frank, realistic story of a teen-age gutter-scrapper, who learned all he knew about life in the sordid streets and tenements of New York's Lower East Side.

It is also the story of three girls - a downtown floozie, an uptown fancy girl, and one decent woman - for whom he slugged his way out of the slums and broke the deadly hold of the Syndicate that owned him, body and soul.

"FURIOUSLY ALIVE"-New York HERALD TRIBUNE

"POWERFULLY, RELENTLESSLY WRITTEN"-Chicago SUN-TIMES

"TOUGH AND TENDER"-Washington POST & TIMES HERALD

"PASSION AND COMPASSION"-Bridgeport POST

The Blood Circus - Thomas K. Fitzpatrick

"First came 'Hell's Angels' - now on the sex and terror trail 'The Beasts'

NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY NEL 2611

LONDON, UK

3RD PRINTING NOVEMBER 1972

They're mean, vicious, sadistic. Sex and motorcycles are their scene.

They are THE BEASTS - a motorcycle gang to rival HELL'S ANGELS.

They've got the people in California living in terror, so the law decides to plant a man amongst them - but even he isn't prepared for the mind-blowing plans that their psychopathic leader devises...

How Rough Can It Get? - Joe Weiss

A startling story of modern youth

AVON BOOKS 582

NEW YORK, USA
NO DATE
SPECIALLY REVISED AND EDITED FOR AVON BOOKS

here is a picture
of present day New York City which
is overwhelming in its force and originality.

It is the story of a group of young men
and the hungers and frustrations that drive 
them from girl to girl, from job to job -
and which turns the city into a battleground
of human frailty, with no holds barred.

Black Boy - Richard Wright

"A Scorching Story Of A Negro Adolescent In A Hostile World"

ACE BOOKS H269

LONDON, UK

FIRST ACE BOOKS EDITION 1959

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY VICTOR GOLLANCZ 1945

A picture of suffering, squalor, and injustices: Richard Wright's account of his childhood makes painful but absorbing reading.

-Peter Quennell: DAILY MAIL

It is a distressingly truthful account of the life of a Negro boy...One of the few books I've read that I know I shall never forget.

-NEW STATESMAN

This is a grim book - it's bound to be, because it gives you the human aspect of a terrifying problem.

-B.B.C. BROADCAST

The best review of Black Boy would be in two words: 'Read it.' A record of loneliness, bewilderment and poverty.

-TIME AND TIDE