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Series
Fox film noir volume 5
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Determined to unravel a crime, FBI Inspector Briggs sends his best agent undercover to penetrate the inner circle of the notorious Stiles gang. Everything goes according to plan, until an informant inside the police department tips off Stiles.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
10 CDs (11 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Arlyne Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the daughter of a Jewish mobster who ran an auto sales business as a front. From a young age she idolized Virginia Hill, the girlfriend of gangster Bugsy Siegel, and aspired to what she saw as a glamorous and exciting life. After a brief marriage to a furrier named Norman Brickman, she achieved her goal and then some, inserting herself into the lives of dozens of wiseguys, Italian mobsters...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"The little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work captured--and influenced--a critical moment in American history. Ernest Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and 60s: Martin Luther King Jr. riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till's uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at his nephew's killer. But from his position at the heart of the cultural revolution, Withers was simultaneously...
25) The informer
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ex-convict working undercover as an informer goes back to prison to try to infiltrate the mob.
Author
Formats
Description
"Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade. After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children--until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to...
27) Geiger
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"The landline rings as Agneta is waving off her grandchildren. Just one word comes out of the receiver: 'Geiger'. For decades, Agneta has always known that this moment would come, but she is shaken. She knows what it means. Retrieving her weapon from its hiding place, she attaches the silencer and creeps up behind her husband before pressing the barrel to his temple. Then she squeezes the trigger and disappears--leaving behind her wallet and keys....
28) Hard fire
Author
Series
A Jon Reznick Thriller volume Book 10
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hrs., 27 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jon Reznick is not a man to cross. A brutally effective black-ops veteran, Reznick has a history of taking the law into his own hands. So when a group of masked men murders his closest friend, he swears to exact vengeance. The now-deceased Bill Eastland had been Reznick's last living tie to his father, leaving him devastated ... and furious. Whether or not the FBI approves, he swears to hunt down whoever issued the hit on his friend. With the help...
29) Servants
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects, including the clergy. This film follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose seminary is under increasing pressure by the Party to mold its students into satisfactory citizens. With the school on the brink of dissolution, and its head priest a target for blackmail, Michal and Juraj will have to choose between collaborating with the government...
30) The informer
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the early days of the newly independent Irish Free State, a member of a revolutionary organization informs authorities on another member of the organization who killed the police chief during a raid.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Inspector Hannah Laing and crime matriarch Dubravka Mimica are two mothers on opposite sides of the law. Both lost their sons in season one -- Hannah's son fell in love with Bianca Mimica and fled overseas while Dubravka's son is missing, presumed dead. While Dubravka seeks revenge, Hannah must finish the job her son started and expose the Mimica gang.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xv, 244 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.
Description
This work is a narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror. In December 2009, a group of the CIA's top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking...
33) Drug war
Publisher
Beijing Hairun Pictures Co
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD video (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Manufacturing just 50 grams of meth in China will earn you a death sentence. Timmy Choi just got caught making tons. Now he's in the custody of Captain Zhang, and has one chance to avoid execution - turn informant and help the cops bring down the powerful cartel he's been cooking for. Over the next 72 sleepless hours, the sting spins out of control, the line between duty and recklessness is blurred, and it becomes unclear who actually has the upper...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 504 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After her unprecedented victory over billionaire Arthur Frobisher, Patty Hewes has the legal world at her feet. Just as she is pondering her next move, Daniel Purcell, a man from Patty's past, throws her into a new legal challenge. What starts as a domestic murder case escalates into the highest reaches of government as Patty unearths a vast conspiracy. Ellen, at the same time, is on a mission to take Patty down. She's agreed to act as an informant...
36) The departed
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (151 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In South Boston, the Massachusetts State Police are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (437 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully₂s pursuit of the truth continues with a search for their long-lost son, William. However, they are not the only ones looking for him; dark forces gather, and the very fate of the world could be at stake. One thing is certain: secrets will be revealed; and the truth may finally be within reach.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (1124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As the second season begins, the X-files have been shut down and Mulder and Scully are separated. Scully finds herself teaching classes at the FBI Academy, while Mulder is assigned to surveillance duty. With Agent Alex Krycek as his new partner, and the mysterious X as his new source of information, Mulder struggles to keep his search for the truth alive. But ironically it is Scully who experiences the close encounter Mulder has longed for, taking...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
304 pages 304 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she’s running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a shadow group most refer to as 'The Saucer People'; a space-age, evangelist cult who believe their compound...
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