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Catch and kill : lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators / by Farrow, Ronan,1987-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family. All the while, Farrow and his producer faced a degree of resistance they could not explain -- until now. And a trail of clues revealed corruption and cover-ups from Hollywood to Washington and beyond. This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse. And it's the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement. Both a spy thriller and a meticulous work of investigative journalism, Catch and Kill breaks devastating new stories about the rampant abuse of power and sheds far-reaching light on investigations that shook our culture. --Publisher's description.
Subjects: Farrow, Ronan, 1987-; Lauer, Matt, 1957-; Weinstein, Harvey, 1952-; Sex crimes; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion picture producers and directors; Sex customs; Sex discrimination in employment.; Sexual harassment of women.; Women;
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Stuart Woods' golden hour [sound recording] / by Battles, Brett,author.; Roberts, Tony,1939-narrator.; Woods, Stuart,creator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Tony Roberts."Former CIA operative Teddy Fay returns for another exciting adventure in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling series"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Barrington, Stone (Fictitious character); Fay, Teddy (Fictitious character); United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Assassination; Assassins; Fans (Persons); Film festivals; Intelligence officers; Journalism and motion pictures; Revenge;
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No escape : the true story of China's genocide of the Uyghurs / by Turkel, Nury,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare China's repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. In recent years, the People's Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million Uyghurs, placing them in what it calls "reeducation camps," facilities most of the world identifies as concentration camps. There, the genocide and enslavement of the Uyghur people are ongoing. The tactics employed are reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution, but the results are far more insidious because of the technology used, most of it stolen from Silicon Valley. In the words of Turkel, "Communist China has created an open prison-like environment through the most intrusive surveillance state that the world has ever known while committing genocide and enslaving the Uyghurs on the world's watch." As a human rights attorney and Uyghur activist who now serves on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, Turkel tells his personal story to help explain the urgency and scope of the Uyghur crisis. Born in 1970 in a reeducation camp, he was lucky enough to survive and eventually make his way to the US, where he became the first Uyghur to receive an American law degree. Since then, he has worked as a prominent lawyer, activist, and spokesperson for his people and advocated strong policy responses from the liberal democracies to address atrocity crimes against his people. The Uyghur crisis is turning into the greatest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century, a systematic cleansing of an entire race of people in the millions. Part Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, No Escape shares Turkel's personal story while drawing back the curtain on the historically unprecedented and increasing threat from China."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Turkel, Nury.; Ethnic conflict; Internment camp inmates; Uighur (Turkic people); Uighur (Turkic people); Uighur (Turkic people);
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Poppet / by Hayder, Mo.;
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Caffery is called in when the staff at a mental hospital realize that a recently released patient is connected to a series of unexplained episodes of self-harm among the ward's patients.; Caffery, Jack (Fictitious character); Psychiatric hospital patients; Mentally ill; Police;
© c2013., HarperCollins,
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Becoming abolitionists : police, protests, and the pursuit of freedom / by Purnell, Derecka,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day. Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these "solutions" do not match the problem: the police cannot be reformed. In Becoming Abolitionists, Purnell draws from her experiences as a lawyer, writer, and organizer initially skeptical about police abolition. She saw too much sexual violence and buried too many friends to consider getting rid of police in her hometown of St. Louis, let alone the nation. But the police were a placebo. Calling them felt like something, and something feels like everything when the other option seems like nothing. Purnell details how multi-racial social movements rooted in rebellion, risk-taking, and revolutionary love pushed her and a generation of activists toward abolition. The book travels across geography and time, and offers lessons that activists have learned from Ferguson to South Africa, from Reconstruction to contemporary protests against police shootings. Here, Purnell argues that police can not be reformed and invites readers to envision new systems that work to address the root causes of violence. Becoming Abolitionists shows that abolition is not solely about getting rid of police, but a commitment to create and support different answers to the problem of harm in society, and, most excitingly, an opportunity to reduce and eliminate harm in the first place"--Amazon.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Criminal justice, Administration of; Discrimination in law enforcement; Police administration; Police and mass media; Police brutality; Police misconduct; Police; Police; Police-community relations; Racism;
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Breakneck [sound recording (CD)] / by Spindler, Erica,1957-; King, Lorelei.;
Read by Lorelei King.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Lundgren, Kitt (Fictitious character); Riggio, Mary Catherine (M.C.) (Fictitious character); Women detectives; Teenagers; Serial murders; Computer crimes; Audiobooks.;
© p2009., Macmillan Audio,
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The dictator's wife / by Berry, Freya,1991-author.;
"The beautiful, enigmatic wife of a feared dictator stands trial for her late husband's crimes against the people. The world will finally know the truth. But whose?"--Publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Legal fiction (Literature); Political fiction.; Novels.; Abuse of administrative power; Dictators; Spouses of heads of state; Trials (Political crimes and offenses); Truthfulness and falsehood; Widows; Wives; Women;
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Sinners of Starlight City : a novel / by Scott, Anika,author.;
"From the author of the international bestseller The German Heiress, a gripping historical drama about a woman determined to avenge for the crimes against her family, set at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.); Cousins; Depressions; Exhibitions; Mafia; Revenge;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Inspector Gadget. by WildBrain (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by WildBrain in 2015.Inspector Gadget is the world's first bionic policeman. Our bumbling detective is equipped with an incredible array of gadgets to help him in his never-ending battles against crime and corruption.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Education films.; Television.; Characters and characteristics in motion pictures.;
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Inspector Gadget: S1. by Goshtasbpour, Pedram,film director.; Stamp, Phillip,film director.; Gordon, William,film director.; Doran, Cory,actor.; McGrath, Derek,actor.; Sherry, Ivan,actor.; Roach, Martin,actor.; McCord, Scott,actor.; Strong, Tara,actor.; WildBrain (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Cory Doran, Derek McGrath, Ivan Sherry, Martin Roach, Scott McCord, Tara StrongOriginally produced by WildBrain in 2015.Inspector Gadget is the world's first bionic policeman. Our bumbling detective is equipped with an incredible array of gadgets to help him in his never-ending battles against crime and corruption.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Education films.; Television.;
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