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"With vivid storytelling and access to insider accounts, Weiner sets out to trace the roots of Russian-American political warfare--conflict waged without weapons--over the last seven decades to understand how a president landed in the White House with thehelp of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most significant threats to democracy in the United States and around...
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Private Investigator Regan Reilly and her New York police officer husband Jack thought that they might finally get a chance to relax when they travel to California to see some old friends. But when they visit Regan's old friend Zelda, they suspect something is amiss. She's suddenly turned into a health fanatic, taking in all the advice of her somewhat shady business manager. Regan thinks that Zelda is getting gypped, and she sets out to prove it.
64) The law busters
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2023.
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288 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"Bad men were their business. The names Ripley and Gibbs were known from one end of the West to the other. When there was trouble -- big trouble -- you sent for them. The price was high, but so were the odds against them -- and if Ripley and Gibbs didn't make it, you didn't pay one red cent. Rainbow Ripley and Grumpy Gibbs were just finishing a job and had decided they would take some time off when they rode into Lively, a town that was struggling...
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[2014]
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1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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A sweeping and revelatory documentary film that follows the trial of the infamous gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger, using the courtroom action as a springboard to examine accusations of multi-faceted corruption within the nation's law enforcement and legal systems.
66) Pandemic
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[2018]
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"The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: First, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and...
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℗2017
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9 discs(10 hours,47 minutes) CD audio, digital 4 3/4 in.
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"When the world's most notorious cartel bosses get arrested, they call Benn Bluestone. A drug lawyer sharp enough to exploit loopholes in the system, Bluestone loves the money, the women, the action that come with his career... but working between the lines of justice and crime has taken its toll, and he desperately wants out. He's convinced himself that only an insanely rich client can guarantee him a lavish retirement. When the New Year begins...
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2021.
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226 pages ; 22 cm.
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Sixth-graders Ashley and her best friend Maya were banished from the live "News at Nine" broadcast at John Dos Passos Elementary in Baltimore after an embarrassing incident in the previous year; at loose ends the pair, together with their classmate Brielle, decide to become investigative reporters with their own online broadcast: "The Underground News"--and soon they stumble upon a major story about an educational software company that is illegally...
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2023.
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415 pages ; 24 cm.
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"When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father's fox and rabbit sermononce a parable...
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2019.
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301 pages ; 22 cm
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On February 27, 2019, with the world watching, Michael Cohen--former lawyer and fixer for President Donald J. Trump--took the stand in front of the House Oversight Committee and delivered one of the most sensational days of Congressional testimony in history. Not since President Richard Nixon's White House counsel John Dean turned on him during the Watergate scandal has a close Presidential associate attacked the character of the Chief of State and...
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[2014]
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x, 596 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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An account of the 1971 break-in of the FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists cites their roles in triggering major changes in the FBI and confirming that J. Edgar Hoover had run a personal shadow-FBI.
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©2001
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Terry Malloy is a washed-up ex-prize fighter corrupted along with brother Charley at an early age by a ruthless Mob-connected union boss named Johnny Friendly, who runs the waterfront. Malloy is now an errand-boy for the union, while Charley (in return for a college education) is now a lawyer for them. Malloy assists in the killing of a longshoreman who was talking to the crime commission investigating the union. He soon meets the dead man's agonized...
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"New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most women reporters are still delegated to the fashion and lifestyle pages. But Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a man's world of serious journalism. Shortly after the world-famous Hope Diamond is acquired for a record sum, Vera begins...
74) Savage Range
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2024.
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166 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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"Dan Mitchell had been out of the cavalry for five years when he suddenly received an urgent message from his old commanding officer. Colonel Ames needed him fast and needed him bad, for he knew Dan could do some cool thinking and fast gunslinging. Dan knew it meant trouble with a fast fuse. But he never dreamed he'd find the whole Sioux reservation sizzling with war talk. If the Sioux donned war paint, the whole territory would be alive with singing...
75) FrackNation
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[2013]
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1 videodisc (77 min.): sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Journalist Phelim McAleer faces gun threats, mailcious 911 calls and bogus lawsuits when questioning green extremists for the truth about hydraulic fracturing. Made in response to the anti-fracking film Gasland.
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c2010
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305 p. ; 24 cm.
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In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer, who wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead...
78) West of Railhead
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2024.
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261 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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"'WELCOME TO EDEN GROVE -- FASTEST GROWING CITY IN THE WEST.' That was the message that greeted newspaperman Clark Tanner as he rode into the raw, new town in the summer of 1872. A lot of people, Tanner included, were putting all their hopes and dreams into founding the town and making a fresh start of things. Perhaps no one of them wanted to wipe the slate clean more than Clark Tanner, whose crusade against the corruption of a powerful block of Nebraska...
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