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Pub. Date
[2017]
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"On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten Island sidewalk after a police officer put him in what has been described as an illegal chokehold during an arrest for selling bootleg cigarettes. The final moments of Garner's life were captured on video and seen by millions. His agonized last words, 'I can't breathe,' became a rallying cry for the nascent Black Lives Matter protest movement. A grand jury ultimately...
5822) See Spot run
Pub. Date
[c2007], p2001
Description
Gordon, an offbeat mailman, never met a dog he couldn't handle. That is until he offers to watch a neighbors young son, James. Together, Gordon and James befriend an FBI crime-fighting superdog, "Agent 11" (whom they name "Spot"), who is hiding from the mob.
5825) Max Payne
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Max Payne works in the cold-case unit at the police department. He becomes obsessed with finding the killer who brutally murdered his wife and infant daughter. Max becomes hell-bent on revenge and is determined to track down those responsible for the murder of his family. Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world.
5826) 24: Season 8
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Twenty-four hours of an agent's attempt to stop a terrorist plot while caught up in a conflict between government agencies.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Demolition Man: When master villain Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) emerges from decades in CryoPrison, he finds a serene society of 2032 ready for the taking. To stop him, officials turn to a cop (Sylvester Stallone) doing time in Cryo because of an earlier run-in with Phoenix. And when he thaws out, the action heats up! Sandra Bullock co-stars in Demolition Man (Side A), "the most entertaining futuristic action film since the original Terminator".
Stallone...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Homicide, the celebrated true crime-book from the creator of HBO's The Wire, is reenvisioned in this first volume of a gritty, cinematic graphic novel duology. In 1988, journalist David Simon was given unprecedented access to the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit. Over the next twelve months, he shadowed detectives as they took on a slew of killings in a city where killings were common. Only the most heinous cases stood out-chief amongst...
Author
Series
Surrogates volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"In a dark downtown alley in Central Georgia Metropolis, a juvenile prank goes too far and a homeless man is killed. When the ensuing investigation reveals that the attackers aren't who they appeared to be, justice depends on the testimony of a single witness -- a street snitch with a history of providing information to a uniformed cop named Harvey Greer. Harvey is placed on special assignment to track down the informant, but others have their own...
5831) Ripper Street: Season 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Haunted by the failure to catch London's most evil killer, Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid now heads up the notorious H Division, the toughest police district in the East End. Reid and his men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law, always fearing the Ripper is coming back for another reign of terror.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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"A leading intellect in America presents a powerful, thought-provoking analysis of deeper meaning behind the string of deaths of unarmed citizens like Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray--providing important insights on the intersection of race and class in America today"--
"Unarmed citizens shot by police. Drinking water turned to poison. Mass incarcerations. We've heard the individual stories. Now a leading public intellectual and acclaimed...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Detective and mystery stories. If the Fire Bug's true purpose is to make the government hand over one hundred thousand pounds, why does he seem so reluctant to apply the necessary pressure? Why does he content himself with burning down a single warehouse, when he could set an entire riverside wharf ablaze? And why firebomb a single sloop, when it would have been just as easy to destroy the whole fleet? In order to answer these questions, Inspector...
5834) Miami Vice
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Detectives Ricardo Tubbs and Sonny Crockett investigate the murders of two federal agents and find themselves pulled into the world of drug trafficking.
5835) Die Hard : 4-Film Collection: Die Hard; Die Hard 2; Die Hard With A Vengeance; Live Free or Die Hard
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"The cop they can't stop. This incredible Die Hard collection features four of the most explosively entertaining action movies in Hollywood history. Bruce Willis stars as John McClane, the tough-as-nails cop with a wry sense of humor and a nose for deadly dilemmas, from the top of an L.A. skyscraper to the streets of New York City. Wrong place. Wrong time. Right man. Yippe Ki Yay!"--Container.
5836) FACE OFF CD
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Tortured and left for dead at sixteen, Evelyn Talbot turned her personal nightmare into her life's work - studying psychopathy at some of the world's most vicious serieal killers. Now a leading psychiatrist at Hanover House in a small Alaskan town, she tries to believe the past will never come back to haunt her.
5837) The hitcher
Description
Grace and Jim hit the road in their 1970 Oldsmobile 442, en route to spring break. Their pleasure trip soon turns into a walking nightmare after encountering the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder (The Hitcher). The initial encounters with Ryder are increasingly tense for Grace and Jim, and they bravely fight back when he ambushes them. But they are truly blindsided when he implicates them in a horrific slaying and continues to shadow them. The open...
5839) Young Shadow
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Young Shadow usually protects sci-fi Bolt City by making deliveries for the food bank and rescuing pets. But one night, he discovers the Sludge Team, a conspiracy composed of a CEO of a chemical plant, trust-fund punks, and suspicious cops. To stop their evil plan, Young Shadow must don a couple of batons, knee pads, and a small black mask, and team up with Spiral Scratch - another benevolent protector in the fight - and metal-clad nuns. Drawn in...
5840) Foyle's war : Set 4
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Invasion: As the first American GIs arrive to build an airbase near Hastings, the murder of a barmaid further strains already-tense relations between the locals and the Yanks.
Bad blood: A top-secret experiment in biological warfare goes horribly wrong, complicating a murder investigation and threatening the life of Foyle's faithful driver, Sam.
Bleak midwinter: The death of a young munitions worker and the murder of Paul Milner's wife seem linked,...
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