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21) Triple 9
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plot to murder a police officer in order to pull off a heist.
Author
Series
Sophie Brinkman trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013
Formats
Description
[When Sophie Brinkmann meets Hector Guzman, her life is perfectly uneventful. She's a nurse and a single mother, living with her son in a sleepy Stockholm suburb. She likes Guzman's quiet charm and easy smile; she likes the way he welcomes her into his family. She quickly learns, though, that his smooth fa©ʹade masks something much more sinister, he's the head of an international crime ring that is at war with a rival organization. Before she...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Informed by his father that he was created to cause misery, Fuminori is educated to invoke as much destruction and unhappiness as possible and lives a hedonist life without repercussions before starting to question his father's mandates.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (6hr.,40min.,54sec.))
Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Why impeachment is the only remedy for the dangers posed by President Trump, as explained by celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal.
No one is above the law. This belief is as American as freedom of speech and turkey on Thanksgiving-held sacred by Democrats and Republicans alike. But as celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal argues...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
448 pages cm
Description
"Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump. Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner draw on many sources, including key House leaders, to expose the politicking, playcalling, and strategies debated backstage and to explain the Democrats' successes and apparent public...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
208 pages
Description
Liselle Belmont is having a dinner party. It seems a strange occasion?her husband, Winn, has lost his bid for the state legislature?but what better way to thank key supporters than a feast? Liselle was never sure about her husband becoming a politician, never sure about the limelight, never sure about the life of fundraising and stump speeches. Then an FBI agent calls to warn her that Winn might be facing corruption charges. An avalanche of questions...
27) War on everyone
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Terry and Bob are two crooked cops who frame and blackmail criminals all over town. Looking for the ultimate pay-off, they try to extort a strip club manager and his eccentric, junkie boss, but get more than they bargained for when their hair-brained scheme uncovers a bigger, darker secret.
Author
Publisher
Trine Day LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 417 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm
Description
Exposes vastly under-explored topics compared to other media reports and books on Jeffrey Epstein. How did Jeffrey Epstein manage to evade justice for decades? Who enabled him and why? Why were legal officials told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence" and to back off during his first arrest in the mid-2000s? Volume 2 of One Nation Under Blackmail examines the rise of Jeffrey Epstein and his closest associates, such as Leslie Wexner and Ghislaine...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency.
Author
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...
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Description
Peter Schweizer says that, in a quarter-century as an investigative journalist, this is the scariest investigation he has ever conducted. That the Chinese government seeks to infiltrate American institutions is hardly surprising. What is wholly new, however, are the number of American elites who are eager to help the Chinese dictatorship in its quest for global hegemony. Presidential families, Silicon Valley gurus, Wall Street high rollers, Ivy League...
32) Canary
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 25 cm
Description
After being arrested, Sarie Holland becomes a confidential informant at the mercy of a desperate detective looking for a career making bust and targeted by crooked cops and killers.
Author
Series
Michael Kelly mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Receiving a lucrative anonymous offer to track down an escaped criminal, private investigator Michael Kelly unwinds the past of the fugitive's wife, who harbors deeply complicated and dangerous reasons for standing by her husband.
34) The glass shield
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The first African American assigned to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department uncovers a corrupt and racist precinct.
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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"When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden's campaign. The dirty secrets contained in Hunter's laptop almost derailed his father's presidential campaign and ignited one of the greatest media coverups in American history....
Series
Samuel Fuller collection volume 3
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 64 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Fuller provided the story for this daring drama about a corrupt newspaper publisher who uses wartime security as an excuse to promote his personal agenda, which includes murder."--Container.
38) Mandabi
Series
Criterion collection volume 1065
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
After jobless Ibrahima Dieng receives a money order for 25,000 francs from a nephew who works in Paris, news of his windfall quickly spreads among his neighbors, who flock to him for loans even as he finds his attempts to cash the order stymied in a maze of bureaucracy, and new troubles rain down on his head. An adaptation of a novella by the director himself is a bitterly ironic depiction of a society scarred by colonialism and plagued by corruption,...
40) The negotiator
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.
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