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x, 412 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Documents the story of an aspiring U.S. Army Ranger who inexplicably participated in an armed robbery hours before being deployed to Iraq, investigating the influence of the young man's superior and the Ranger indoctrination program.
Alex Blum was a good kid with one goal in life: endure a brutally difficult selection program, become a U.S. Army Ranger, and fight terrorists for his country. In the first hours of his final leave before deployment...
82) Point break
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Young FBI agent Johnny Utah goes undercover at the suggestion of his partner to learn if a group of wild surfers is actually a gang of bank robbers. He soon comes under the dangerous spell of the surfers' charismatic leader, Bodhi, a mystical mastermind who'll do absolutely anything for a thrill -- and expects his followers to do the same.
83) The bank job
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A small-time crook takes on a bank heist when an old friend offers him an inside track to the vault. Along with his hastily assembled team of low-rung criminals, Terry finds himself in deep. The group becomes the target of ruthless mobsters, the police, government officials at the highest level, and even the royal family. Based on the true story of a British princess and a sex scandal.
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420 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dell's quest to find grace and peace on the prairie of Saskatchewan.
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309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Recounts the thrilling life of Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous bank robbery of all time -- the Northfield raid -- which led to a two-week chase ending with the bloody final shootout on the Watonwan River.
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1 videodisc (double-sided) (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Thomas Crown is a rich, well-educated Boston businessman. He's very good at what he does, but business is apparently no longer enough of a challenge for him--he's bored to within an inch of his life. So Crown has adopted an interesting hobby--he robs banks. He robs banks with such intricate, elaborate, Rube Goldberg-esque plans that it is impossible to trace anything back to him. His sole pleasure in life is getting away with it all. Needless to say,...
88) Cartas cruzadas
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pages cm
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Español
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After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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So it turns out Jon and Suzie aren't alone. Other people around the world, like them, freeze time when they climax. A self-appointed group wants to regulate and control them through fear and intimidation. Jon and Suzie are falling in love and want their freak flags to fly, but if they're going to fight back they can't do it alone.
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story of a botched bank robbery that occurred August 22, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York and turned into a bizarre hostage situation lasting all day. The lead robber wishes to obtain funding for a sex-change operation for his gay lover.
91) The Dog
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Drafthouse Films volume no. 23
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
In 1972, John Wojtowicz attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank to pay for his male lover's sex change operation. Three years later Al Pacino portrayed his crime in Dog day afternoon. We gain a historic perspective on New York's gay liberation movement, in which Wojtowicz played an active role. In later footage, he remains a subversive force, backed by the unconditional love of his mother Terry, whose wit and charm infuse the film. How and why the bank robbery...
92) Stockholm
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Based on the absurd but true bank heist and hostage crisis that coined the term 'Stockholm Syndrome'. Stockholm focuses on the relationship developed between a bank teller and her captor, an unhinged US outlaw, as they try to escape together."--Amazon.
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Based on audaciously true events. In 1959 Bucharest, five high-ranking Jewish members of the Communist party staged a bank heist that baffled the repressive regime and left the public in an uproar. Their motives were never known. Having been captured, arrested, and sentenced to death, the unusual gang of so-called criminals is given one last punishment before facing the execution squad: reenact the heist for the benefit of a Communist propaganda film....
94) Good time
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld in an increasingly desperate, and dangerous attempt to get his brother out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night Constantine finds himself on a mad descent into violence and mayhem as he races against the clock to save his brother and himself, knowing their lives hang in the balance.
95) Honest thief
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wanting to lead an honest life, a notorious bank robber turns himself in, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents.
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