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Private Investigator Regan Reilly is back in another "fun, delightful, and entertaining mystery, enhanced by quirky endearing characters" (WashingtonTimes.com). PI Regan Reilly and her husband Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, are in Los Angeles where Jack is attending a business conference. After the meeting they plan to vacation in California so Regan can show Jack her old haunts and introduce him to friends who didn't make it to their wedding....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After two deputy sheriffs lose their jobs because of poor arrest records, they pursue an escaped convict to try and win back their badges. But nabbing the convict won't be half as dangerous as facing the ruthless sheriff who is tracking their every move.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Description
An exposé of the Varsity Blues scandal reveals how an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer preyed on the desperation of wealthy, upper class, insecure parents who sought to have their children admitted to elite colleges to maintain their own social status.
64) 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.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty...
68) Crisis
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new non-addictive painkiller to market....
Author
Series
Ty Hauck novels volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author Andrew Gross, about a whitewater rafting guide who investigates a suspicious death and uncovers a multinational conspiracy"--
Author
Series
Stuff mysteries volume 2
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When Reverend Preston Cashdollar and his traveling tent revival come to town, James and Skip reinvent themselves as Holy Rollers. But when they see that the revival has a dark side of greed, corruption, and murder, they'll need to run like the devil.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders at the big Wall Street banks expose this institutionalized injustice and go to war to fix it.
72) Comedy of power
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After locking up an embezzling CEO, Jeanne pushes the limits of her power even further and winds up in a dangerous game of threats and intimidation.
Author
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,...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
agosto de 2022.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Cuando la minera canadiense Inuit Mining Corporation descubre uno de los yacimientos de litio más grandes del mundo en una pequeña localidad de Sonora, Ana Ochoa y otros pobladores serán presionados para vender sus tierras a precios irrisorios. Con la complicidad de autoridades locales y la participación del narcotráfico, los empresarios canadienses harán todo lo que sea necesario para conseguir el control del llamado oro blanco. Este brutal...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
340 p. ;
Description
"A shocking and engrossing exposae of the US meat industry, the devastating failures of the country's food system, and the growing disappointment of alternative meat producers claiming to revolutionize the future of food by the head of Forbes's Food, Drink, and Agriculture division, Chloe Sorvino"--
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (347 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This Corporate America-skewering comedy about a self-loathing management consultant from a top tier firm who is never above using any means, or anyone, necessary to get his way with and for his clients.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 224 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Based on confidential information?including top secret documents from inside the Vatican, and actual transcripts of Pope Francis?s admonishments to the papal court about the lack of financial oversight and responsibility?Merchants in the Temple illustrates all the undercover work conducted by the Pope since his election and shows the reader who his real enemies are. It reveals the instruments Francis is using to reform the Vatican and rid it, once...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
596 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In Crisis of Conscience, Tom Mueller traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases drawn from the worlds of healthcare and other businesses, Wall Street, and Washington. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than two hundred whistleblowers and the trailblazing lawyers who arm them for battle--plus politicians, intelligence analysts, government watchdogs, cognitive scientists, and other experts--Mueller anatomizes what inspires...
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