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1) The intruder
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Louis lives an isolated existence on the French-Swiss border. When an ailing heart leads him to visit Geneva to pay for a replacement on the black market, he travels to his former home where he searches for his lost son.
2) Antiviral
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a man who sells viruses both legally and over the black market injects himself with one that kills a celebrity, he tries to discover a way to get rid of the virus before it also kills him.
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Dr. Nikhil 'Nic' Joshi had it all-marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife, Jen, discovered a black market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed. Two years after the tragedy, Nic is a cruise ship doctor who spends his days treating seasickness and sunburn and his nights in a boozy haze. On one of those blurry evenings on deck, Nic meets a woman who makes...
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Her name means "miracle" in Sanskrit: Kimaya was the first baby to survive after several miscarriages, and grew up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai's Pali Hill, surrounded by love and privilege. But at eleven years old, she develops a rare illness that requires her to be confined to a germ-free ivory tower in her home. Rahul Savant shows up to wash Kimi's windows, and as years pass he becomes her eyes to the outside world, and she becomes his inspiration...
5) Painted lady
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 198 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maggie Sheridan is a semi-retired, former '60s rock singer. She seems resigned to a life lived on a crumbling country estate, ruminating about her past. Everything changes when a botched robbery leaves her friend Sir Charles Stafford dead and one of his prized pantings missing. Determined to retrieve the masterpiece and find the killer, Maggie plunges into the dark underworld of the art trade. Posing as a wealthy Polish countess, she sets off on a...
6) Raylan
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Series
Raylan Givens thrillers volume 3
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When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he will warn the man, "If I have to pull my gun I'll shoot to kill." Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows there's big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked in a bathtub himself, Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. It turns out...
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Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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It never occurs to Trevor that dishy blondes don't usually sell jazz records door-to-door. He orders a set of Bix Beiderbecke LPs but receives the wrong items. While trying to locate the missing music, he and his girlfriend, Jill, stumble upon black market goods in a church basement, secret meetings in a parking lot. They find corruption at the highest levels. Helping them out are a couple of friends, an overzealous police officer, an elderly snoop,...
8) Luzzu
Publisher
Kino Lorber
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A hardworking Maltese fisherman, Jesmark is faced with an agonizing choice. He can repair his leaky luzzu – a traditional, multicolored wooden fishing boat – in the hopes of eking out a meager living at sea for his wife and newborn son, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Or he can decommission it in exchange for an EU payout and cast his lot with a sinister black-market operation that is decimating the Mediterranean fish population...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
496 pages 24 cm.
Description
A group of American patriots, all former military, are looking for a way to get their number one choice, Senator Ben Corn, elected president. Corn is a telegenic, perfect candidate-yet harbors secrets that threaten him. The group's goal is to implement their own foreign policy and fundamentally restructure American society. Essential to this scheme is Greta Webb, a sophisticated and beautiful CIA agent who is an expert on how global dark money flows,...
10) Pu-239
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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While working at a nuclear power plant, Timofey is exposed to a deadly dose of radiation while trying to avert a plant disaster. Instead of rewarding Timofey for his efforts, the plant treats him as a scapegoat, offering no compensation to him or his family. Desperate to provide security for his wife and son, Timofey steals a small amount of PU-239 - weapons-grade- plutonium - and heads to Moscow to sell it on the black market. Timofey struggles to...
11) Invictus
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"A group of time-traveling teens races through history to try to stop time and the multiverse from unraveling"--
Farway Gaius McCarthy is the son of a time traveler from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in ancient Rome. His very existence defies the laws of nature. All he's ever wanted was to explore history for himself, but after failing his entrance exam into the government program, Far will have to settle for a position on the black market: captaining...
12) Copper Beach
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Series
Dark legacy volume 1
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"Contemporary novel with paranormal elements; first novel of the The Dark Legacy series"--
A rare book. An ancient code. Abby's psychic talents have made her an expert in books of the paranormal-- and now an old alchemical text known as The Key has reappeared on the black market. Convinced that she needs an investigator who can also be a body guard, she hires Sam. Passion flares immediately between them, yet neither entirely trust the other. Both...
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anythingdrugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisonsfree of the governments watchful eye. It wasnt long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyonenot just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackerscould...
15) The good German
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes place in the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, where U.S. Army war correspondent Jake Geismar becomes involved with Lena Brandt, a former lover whose missing husband is the object of a manhunt led by both the American and Russian armies. Intrigue mounts as Jake tries to uncover the secrets Lena may be hiding in her desperation to get herself and her husband out of Berlin. Tully is an American soldier working in the U.S. Army motor pool who is assigned...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
386 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the street corners of inner city America and across the border as Mexico's powerful cartels battle to control the drug trade. Guns and drugs aren't often connected in our heated discussions of gun control-but they should be. In Ioan Grillo's groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, he shows us this connection by following the market for...
18) Stop them dead
Author
Series
Roy Grace novels volume 19
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
455 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
In the dead of night, a farmer hears a suspicious noise. It's everyone's worst nightmare: a break-in. When he confronts the intruders, he has no idea that just minutes later he will be left lying in a pool of blood. But the chilling truth lies not in the act itself, but what the perpetrators were willing to kill for. At the scene of the crime, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace senses something amiss. This is no mere botched robbery; it's the tip...
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