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221) The poacher's son
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
viii, 324 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Desperate and alone, game warden Mike Bowditch strikes up an uneasy alliance with a retired warden pilot, and together the two men journey deep into the Maine wilderness in search of a runaway fugitive--Mike's father. But the only way for Mike to save his father is to find the real killer--which could mean putting everyone he loves in the line of fire.
222) Head count
Publisher
Shout! Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A gun is pointed to Kat's head. It's his gun... or at least it was after he escaped a chain gang and stole it. Luckily for him, it's not fully loaded. But how many bullets are left? He can't quite remember. And now, with an unknown assailant pulling the trigger, Kat is forced to recall exactly what happened to each bullet. As the empty rounds click away, memories of wild animal attacks and run-ins with an impulsive police officer, a down-to-earth...
223) On the run
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Ben, who aspires to be a police officer, struggles to do the right thing when his parents suddenly take him and his little sister "on vacation," and he learns they took a large amount of money that was mistakenly deposited in their bank account.
224) The apostle
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sonny is a preacher whose honest conviction won him the respect of his town until one day he commits a crime of passion.
225) Classe tous risques
Series
Criterion collection volume 434
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, former gang boss Abel Davos sneaks back into Paris, along with his children and appointed guardian, Eric Stark. Beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a journey through the postwar Parisian underworld that is both throat grabbing and soul searching. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope.
226) She done him wrong
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (65 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Set in the 1890s, West plays a brash barroom entertainer with a soft spot for men in trouble, especially the mission director, young Cary Grant. She unknowingly gets caught up in a murder, as well as a white slavery ring, and sets about clearing things up as only Mae can. In between rescues she manages to perform some of her heated, hip-swinging classics including a steamy belting of 'Frankie and Johnnie'."
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Description
Clara Falkenberg, once Germany's most eligible and lauded heiress, earned the nickname “the Iron Fräulein” during World War II for her role operating her family's ironworks empire. It's been nearly two years since the war ended and she's left with nothing but a false identification card and a series of burning questions about her family's past. With nowhere else to run to, she decides to return home and take refuge with her dear friend, Elisa....
229) The mountain shadow
Author
Series
Shantaram volume 2
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
873 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Description
The sequel to Shantaram continues Australian fugitive Lin's search for love and faith in a Bombay that has come under the rule of a new generation of mafia dons and where Lin becomes trapped by his married soulmate and an increasingly violent mission.
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A woman with a secret past returns to the wilds of her youth to face the most dangerous man she's ever met: her father. Helena's seemingly ordinary life hides a dangerous truth: her estranged father is the infamous Marsh King, the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. When he escapes from prison, Helena is forced to confront her past, and--knowing that he will hunt for her--find the strength to outmaneuver the man who...
231) Days of heaven
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the early twentieth century, a fugitive from the slums of Chicago becomes pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby in the wheatfields of Texas.
232) Mercy road
Author
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"After committing an impulsive, vicious crime while searching for his missing daughter, a frantic father goes on the run from law enforcement and soon begins receiving chilling calls from an unknown entity claiming to know her whereabouts. As he faithfully follows the callerb2(Bs increasingly unhinged instructions, he is driven perilously close to the edge of sanity while discovering exactly how far he is willing to go to save his child"--
233) Carlos
Series
Criterion collection volume 582
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (339 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
An epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - also known as Carlos the Jackal. One of the twentieth century's most wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to violent left-wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"December 15, 1965, Alabama, the fateful night that triggers an avalanche of events that turn newly engaged couple Melvin and Bernadette into fugitives. A pitstop in the wrong part of town ends with blood on their hands. Suspecting that cops are already following them, Melvin realizes the only way they'll survive is if they flee the country. Bernadette, who's hiding a secret from her fiance, reluctantly agrees. With a persistent FBI agent on their...
Author
Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 648 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. The explosive first long work by "the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long...
237) One false move
Series
Criterion collection volume 1187
Formats
Description
A small-town police chief concealing an explosive secret. A pair of ruthless drug dealers leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. And an enigmatic woman caught in the middle.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
After suffering a blow to the head and awakening next to a dead body, intrepid private eye Stephanie Plum finds herself at the top of the Trenton police's suspect list, being shot at by mysterious masked thugs, and searching for a missing ice cream vendor.
239) El último narco
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B Mexico
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :b illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"México, febrero de 2014: Los titulares de prensa informan sobre la captura del Chapo. ¿Quién hizo la última jugada? El zar de las drogas fue el segundo fugitivo más buscado en el mundo, después de Osama Bin Laden. Lo fue desde que se escapó de prisión en 2001, luego de sobornar guardias para que lo condujeran afuera en un carrito de lavandería. El cártel del Chapo mueve miles de toneladas de cocaína, marihuana y heroína hacia Estados...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (426 min.) : sd., b&w or col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
[Human desire] A Korean War veteran comes back to his job as a railroad engineer, and becomes entangled with a violent co-worker and the man's alluring wife in a web of deception, suspicion, and murder .
[Pushover] A cop, staking out the apartment of a bank robber's girlfriend, makes a move on her to get information. But he makes the mistake of really falling for her, testing his loyalties with deadly results.
[The brothers Rico] A businessman and...
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