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1) 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...
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Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
Description
Explores the colorful history of piracy and smuggling, including the Golden Age of buccaneers, Prohibition-era rumrunners, and endangered wildlife kidnapping. Pirates and Smugglers is a swashbuckling introduction to the highwaymen and women of the seas-from the cruel Cilician pirates who terrorized the Mediterranean more than 2,000 years ago to the well-organized and ruthless modern-day buccaneers who target supertankers on the South China Sea-and...
3) Trackers
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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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Publisher
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.
6) Wrecker
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When fifteen-year-old Valdez Jones VIII, a.k.a. Wrecker, unwittingly becomes entangled with a group of smugglers and grave robbers, he must deep dive into their shady dealings in order to escape their twisted net.
7) 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...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captainfacing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer, as well as the playful come-ons of a cheeky blonde, making a series of compromises that stretch his morality, and his marriage, farther than he'll admit.
Series
Criterion collection volume 889
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Morgan is an honest charter-boat captain who is facing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer, as well as the playful come-ons of a cheeky blonde, making a series of compromises that stretch his morality, and his marriage, farther than he2ll admit.
11) Tell me no lies
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
763 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
12) Frozen river
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Ray, a white woman and Lila, a Mohawk are both single mothers, both earning minimum wage and facing desperate circumstances, are drawn by the lure of fast money into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. New York State Trooper Finnerty ultimately brings the two to justice....
13) The candy mafia
Author
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.
Author
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.
15) 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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To Have and Have Not is one of Hemingway's most entertaining novels. This realistic adventure tale and subtle portrait of an unlikely love affair demonstrates "Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions as the tough allow themselves"--Jkt.
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Series
Joe Wilderness novels volume 1
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
418 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1963, freelance private investigator Joe Wilderness, a former MI6 agent and black market con artist, agrees to one last Berlin scam, which involves smuggling people, and brings his World War II gang of accomplices together once again.
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...
19) Hard boiled
Series
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (247 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tequila is a die-hard cop, hell-bent on bringing down the gun smugglers responsible for his partner's death. To avenge his partner's murder, Tequila joins forces with a rebel cop, and then the body count soars.
20) Black diamond
Author
Series
Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
297 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
In the wake of attacks on local Asian vendors and an increase in black-market ingredients that threaten the Dordogne's lucrative truffle trade, Chief of Police Bruno finds the case taking a personal turn when one of his hunting partners, a former high-profile intelligence agent, is murdered.
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