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"The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series. This heart-stopping novel, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White -- veteran of two wars, trained killer, protective of her anonymity -- when she is drawn back into the world of menace she has been desperate to leave behind. A reluctant ex-spy...
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xv, 446 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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The investigative journalist draws on insider interviews to expose the role of international corruption and organized crime on the political arenas of today's world.
Burgis, an investigative journalist, draws on insider interviews to expose the role of international corruption and organized crime on the political arenas of today's world. He exposes how this global kleptocracy is corrupting the world around us. In weaving together four stories that...
3) Cop land
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls "Cop Land", a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big-city police officers Freddy's long admired. But when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he must take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
4) Desert star
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English
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LAPD detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to hunt the killer who is Bosch's white whale --a man responsible for the murder of an entire family. A year has passed since LAPD detective Renee Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. Yet, after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving the Late Show to rebuild...
5) Secret empires: how the American political class hides corruption and enriches family and friends
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318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash comes an explosive new political expose! In many parts of the world, the children of powerful political figures go into business and profit handsomely, not necessarily because they are good at it, but because people want to curry favor with their influential parents. This is a relatively new phenomenon in the U.S.; but for relatives of some prominent political families, we may already be talking...
6) Yōjimbō
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Criterion collection volume 52
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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日本語
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A wandering Samurai-for-hire eventually finds a dramatic solution to the problems of a town with two warring clans.
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"India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire-but a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly...
9) The red book
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Black book thriller volume 2
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English
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For Detective Billy Harney is the newest member of Chicago PD's elite Special Operations Section (SOS). When a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harney's instincts run deep. As a population hungry for justice threatens to riot, he realizes that the three known victims are hardly the only ones. Asking questions about who's to blame, Harney finds the easy answers prove to be the wrong...
10) El príncipe
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Bestseller) volume 1146
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477 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Español
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"El agente del CNI Javier Morey recibe la misión de infiltrarse como inspector en la comisaría del barrio ceutí del Príncipe para investigar la posible colaboración de policías corruptos locales con los terroristas de la yihad islámica. Allí se verá obligado a enfrentarse y a trabajar con el subinspector Fran Peyón, el mayor sospechoso, un hombre que reina en la zona con unos métodos poco ortodoxos, protegiendo a delincuentes y tratando...
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Terminal list volume 1
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584 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team"--
On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece's entire Navy SEAL team was killed in a catastrophic ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not...
12) Give unto others
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"What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It's a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give unto Others, Donna Leon's splendid thirty-first installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series. Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti's mother, so he feels obliged to at least look into the matter privately,...
13) The big lie
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Jack Swyteck novel volume 16
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348 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent -- with each revelation more explosive than the next. The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote will not occupy the Oval Office. President Malcolm MacLeod,...
14) Serpico
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Adaptation of the true story of a young New York police officer refuses to extort money from criminals as the other officers do. His fellow police officers turn against him when he seeks to expose the situation during a grand jury investigation.
15) Detroit
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1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Amidst the chaos of the Detroit Rebellion, with the city under curfew and as the Michigan National Guard patrolled the streets, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel.
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sean Casey is just another idealistic assistant D.A. until his prosecution of a cop-killing drug lord catapults him into the center of New York's tempestuous political arena. Vowing to follow the clues wherever they lead, the young D.A. embarks on a search for the truth that will force him to question his faith in the law, his loyalty to loved ones, and his place in a system where justice is the ultimate con.
17) Crier's war
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Crier's war volume 1
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429 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
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English
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In the aftermath of a war where Automae took over the kingdom of Rabu and bent humanity to their will, Ayla takes a job as a servant in the house of the sovereign for one purpose: to get revenge for her family's death by killing his daughter. Lady Crier, the heiress, was Made to be a perfect ruler of the kingdom, but she no longer knows if that is what she wants once she discovers some of her father's cruel secrets. Between this betrayal, and a betrothed...
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