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Freelance bodyguard Lemmer goes against his first rule--don't get involved--when a wealthy farmer asks for his help smuggling a pair of rare black rhinos out of Zimbabwe, where they're murdered for their horns. Before he knows it, he's in a small airplane, zipping across the border, an airsickness bag in his hand and a military grade shotgun at his feet. But trouble finds Lemmer on a deserted road in Zimbabwe that night.
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Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sir Alec Guinness as Henry Holland, a meek clerk, devises an ingenious plan to rob a fortune in gold bullion from his own bank. But their ingenious idea to melt the gold into souvenir Eiffel Towers and smuggle them to France turns their perfect crime into a disastrous caper and unexpected surprises.
3) Artemis
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"Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling...
4) Sea fog
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Upon learning that his decaying fishing trawler, the Junjin, is about to be sold, Captain Kang looks to make one final score by smuggling illegal immigrants from China to South Korea. After arriving at the agreed upon pickup point, a violent storm forces the Junjin to stall in open waters. As tension and unrest spread, Kang and his five-man crew find themselves pitted against their desperate passengers--all while an ominous fog envelops the ship and...
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Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
283 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Growing up in a city where candy is illegal and sugar is scandalous, 12-year-old detective Nelle Faulker takes the case of a candy gangster's missing teddy bear before her client's own disappearance leads Nelle to a shady underworld of sweets smuggling, back-alley deals and storefront firebombs.
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Series
The Brixton Brothers volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Description
As soon as twelve-year-old Steve Brixton opens a detective office in his backyard, he and his best friend Dana are caught up in a tangle of cases, from breaking up a ring of piratical smugglers, to recovering a stolen surfboard, to tracking down a fifth-grader's missing gym shorts.
9) Rebelwing
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Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Description
At New Columbia Preparatory Academy in a near-future Washington, D.C., black market smuggler Prudence Wu and friends Anabel, Alex, and Cat become key players in a conflict with the United Continental Confederacy.
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 10
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
173 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Joe Hardy is kidnapped by a gang of jewel smugglers as a warning for the Hardy Boys' father to stay away from their operation.
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (5 hrs., 30 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jamaican Inn: An Irish orphan girl goes to live with an uncle who is discovered to be involved in a group of smuggling highwaymen ravaging the area.
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage.
The 39 steps: Character Richard Hanney stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Easy virtue: A woman goes through a divorce and...
13) Rio
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (96 min.) : blu-ray, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Blu, a macaw who does not fly, discovers he is one of the last of his species, he sets out a journey to Rio to find Jewel, the only other bird like him, meeting a host of crazy characters along the way.
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Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 22 cm
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"...It wasnt surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglerscoyotesand migrants could say how or why theyd gotten there. And only through Taylors obsession did another curious...
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Ra the mighty volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Ra, the pharoah's pampered cat, and his scarab beetle sidekick, Khepri, investigate when crown prince Dedi disappears from the palace of one of Pharoah's wives in ancient Egypt.
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Matthew Hawkwood novels volume 3
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Matthew Hawkwood, ex-soldier turned Bow Street Runner, goes undercover to hunt down smugglers and traitors at the height of the Napoleonic Wars.
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FBI K-9 volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Diamonds are no one's best friend when the jewels in question are smuggled conflict gems. Meg Jennings and her Labrador, Hawk, have undertaken many search-and-rescue missions, but this case has an unusual twist. A Philadelphia syndicate is importing diamonds from war-torn African nations and selling them with fake certificates to Stateside dealers. Agent Finn Pierce of the Organized Crime Program is embedded with the syndicate, but being caught with...
18) Grigris
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Despite a paralyzed leg, Grigris, 25 year old, dreams of being a dancer. A challenge. But his dreams are dashed when his uncle falls critically ill. To save him, Grigris resolves to work for petrol traffickers.
19) Desierto
Publisher
Universal PIctures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous US-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there's nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.
20) Words on fire
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In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the soldiers invade the farm Audra is the only one who escapes and, unsure of what has happened to her parents, she embarks on a dangerous journey, carrying the smuggled Lithuanian books that fuel the growing resistance movement, unsure of who...
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