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Pub. Date
2019.
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2 videodiscs (4 hrs. 20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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This five-part documentary series features interviews of current and retired officers of the Los Agneles Police Department who have served on S.W.A.T. teams and 9-1-1 dispatches over the last 30 years, during the city's most troubled times.
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IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more...
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"One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who...
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A friend's death drives an Italian woman to collaborate against her criminal family in this "propulsive, neatly structured thriller" (Guardian (UK)).
She is an Italian accountancy student in London, and her boyfriend Eddie teaches at a language school. But the prime reason Immacolata Borelli came to Britain was to look after her gangster brother, wanted for multiple murders back home in Naples. For the Borelli clan are major players in the Camorra,...
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Forensic Instincts volume 3
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Casey Woods and the Forensic Instincts team investigate a serial killer targeting young redheaded victims, each of whom has a unique connection to Casey.
8) One way
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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No wrong turn goes unpunished in this wildly entertaining action-packed thrill ride. After stealing from the biggest mob boss in town, Freddy is badly wounded and on the run with a one-way ticket to salvage what is left of his crime-ridden life, for one last shot at redemption with his family.
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In the tenth audiobook in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most controversial subject yet: The Mob.
Killing the Mob is the tenth audiobook in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
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10) Beyond the Law
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 videodisc (circa 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A former mobster turned businessman and a police detective must contend with a dirty ex-cop looking to bring the killer of his son to justice.
11) Plugged: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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When his girlfriend and several people close to him are murdered, Daniel McEvoy finds himself targeted by the New Jersey mafia, corrupt cops, and an eccentric neighbor and searches for a hair-plug technician who may hold crucial answers.
12) White Boy Rick
Pub. Date
2018
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1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the moving true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe, who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s, before he was arrested for drug trafficking, abandoned by his handlers, and sentenced to life in prison.
"A compelling if sometimes muddled true-life crime drama."--Newsday
"...an engrossing-enough cautionary tale, if that's what it is. It's even an entertaining one, in an unsavory kind of way."--Washington...
13) True crime story
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"A strikingly original novel in the vein of DAISY JONES AND THE SIX meets Riley Sager, TRUE CRIME STORY twists together transcripts, emails, and documents into an investigation of a missing college girl, also weaving in the mysteries of how the narrator "Joseph Knox" came to be in possession of these files and what fate befell the original author, as well as why Knox might not be telling us everything he knows. Zoe Nolan disappeared from Manchester...
14) Widows
Pub. Date
2019
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1 videodisc (ca. 147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Four women with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands' criminal acts conspire to take fate into their own hands.
"With a killer cast led by Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Rodriquez and Elizabeth Debicki, director Steve McQueen turns four women and a heist into the powerhouse thriller of the year."--Rolling Stone
"It presents an enjoyably dark and sleazy vision of ordinary lives intertwining with the hurly-burly of street...
15) Charlie Says
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 videodisc (circa 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women killed for him, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Susan Atkins, remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader. Confined to an isolated cellblock in a California penitentiary, the trio seems destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes were part of a cosmic plan until empathetic graduate student...
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In his inimitable New York voice, Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the Mafia-characters like John Gotti, Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (named for his weapon of choice), and Jimmy "the Clam" Eppolito-interwoven with the remarkable true-crime saga of the good rat himself, Burt Kaplan of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the star witness in the recent trial of two NYPD...
17) Buffaloed
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 videodisc (circa 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A teenage girl is obsessed with making enough cash to get out of Buffalo. When the acceptance letter to her dream school arrives, she must hustle to find a job that will pay for tuition. But after getting scammed by a debt collector she works for, Peg decides to cheat the system like it cheated her.
Pub. Date
2023
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2 videodiscs (ca. 320 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The Apostle (1997): Robert Duvall is Sonny, a gifted preacher loved by his community. When Sonny loses control and commits a crime of passion, he is forced to run from the law. Hiding out in the small town of Bayou Boutte, he sets out on a new mission: redemption. At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991): Martin and Hazel Quarrier are missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Can the interaction of these characters...
20) The Ravine
Pub. Date
2022
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1 videodisc (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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When an unspeakable crime rocks a peaceful community, a family is left to wonder if they overlooked the murderer among them or if there might be more to the story. Inspired by true events, this haunting thriller.
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