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Author
Publisher
Alfaguara/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"Un niño es testigo de un violento enfrentamiento en una carretera perdida en el departamento del Cauca, en Colombia. Ese mismo día alguien limpia las huellas del desastre para que no quede el menor rastro. nadie en el pueblo más cercano dice haber oído nada, y sin embargo, una denuncia anónima pone en marcha una peligrosa investigación que desemboca en el universo oscuro de las iglesias cristianas que hoy están presentes en toda América Latina....
Author
Series
Mags and Baxter mysteries volume 1
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Description
With the ruins of her high-powered Wall Street job now far in the rearview mirror of her rented silver Camaro, thirty-two-year-old Mags Rogers arrives at her great-aunt Jeep's sprawling Wings Ranch to reassemble her life. In the passenger seat, with his suspicious nose to a cracked window, is Mags's beloved wirehaired dachshund, the urbane Baxter. Mags was named for her great-aunt, Magdalena--though everyone calls the spry octogenarian rancher Jeep....
43) Body and soul
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charley has become the middleweight champion of the world by winning a "fixed" fight. In his devious climb to the top, Charley has become hard and arrogant, and has estranged both his mother and the girl he loves.
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Description
"Illustrious analytical chemist Richard Evershed and science writer Nicola Temple explain the scientific tools and techniques that have revealed the century's biggest food fraud scams. They explore the arms race between scientists and adulterators as better techniques for detection spur more creative and sophisticated means of adulteration, and review the up-and-coming techniques and devices that will help the industry and consumers fight food fraud...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity words that their babies died. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 sheet of stickers.
Description
The students from Pokémon School can't wait to play Pokémon Base with the famous sports star Oluolu and his partner, Snorlax, but when Team Rocket tries to get in on the game, the play turns foul.
48) Among thieves
Author
Series
James Beck novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Olivia Sanchez--smart, driven, and beautiful--started at the bottom and worked her way up the ranks of a brokerage firm only to be unjustly, brutally fired, then blackballed. With no place else to go, she turns to her cousin, Manny Guzman, ex-con and ex-gang leader, for help. Manny's first instinct is to hit back. Hard. But his partner, James Beck knows that out in the real world, things aren't done that way. Beck, with a tight group of three other...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
371 pages.
Description
"For almost twenty years now, the NFL has been simultaneously an athletic, financial, and cultural powerhouse-and a league that can't seem to go more than a few weeks without stumbling into a scandal. Whether it's about domestic violence, performance-enhancing drugs, racism, or head trauma, the NFL always seems to be in some kind of trouble. Yet no matter the drama, the TV networks keep showing games, the revenue keeps going up, and the viewers keep...
Author
Series
Dez Limerick novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Desmond Aloysius Limerick ("Dez" to his friends and close personal enemies) is a man with a shadowy past, certain useful hard-won skills, and, if one digs deep enough, a reputation as a good man to have at your back. Now retired from his previous life, Dez is just a bloke with a winning smile, a bass guitar, and bullet wounds that paint a road map of past lives. Jaleh Swann, a business journalist hot on the trail of an auditor who was mugged and killed,...
52) Gray Mountain
Author
Description
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track -- until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 388 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Abuse and exploitation of workers is baked into the very foundations of the entertainment industry. To break the cycle and make change that sticks, it’s important to stop looking at headline-making stories as individual events. Instead, one must look closely at the bigger picture, to see how abusers are created, fed, rewarded, allowed to persist, and, with the right tools, how they can be excised. In Burn It Down, veteran reporter Maureen Ryan does...
55) Collective
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a group of Romanian investigative journalists as they uncover vast healthcare fraud and corruption in their country.
56) Naked greed
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 34
Description
Rescuing a prominent brewery owner from an attack by two rogue policemen, Stone Barrington is catapulted into the turbulent, high-stakes world of beer-making and distribution. In the ruthless corporate world, no good deed goes unpunished, and Stone soon finds himself the target of a ragtag group of criminal toughs who don't appreciate his interference in their dealings. From the isolated landscape of Maine to the white sand beaches of Key West, the...
57) Firebreak
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side....
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (351 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the Australian outback, a young internet journalist and his hacker brother investigate a deadly car accident that the government tries to keep quiet due to the connection of someone involved to a secret research project.
59) Cure
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Series
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"...New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she's been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up biotech companies caught in a zero sum game...."--Inside front cover.
60) Flywheel
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dishonest used car salesman turns his life around, after he is caught deceiving customers and must return their money.
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