Search:

Results 11 to 20 of 58 | « previous |

Jump : my secret journey from the streets to the boardroom / by Miller, Larry(Larry G.),author.; Lacy, Laila,author.;
In 'Jump', one of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nikes Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company to a $4B global apparel juggernaut, tells the remarkable story of his rise from gangland violence to the pinnacles of international business. #OwnVoices.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Miller, Larry (Larry G.); Nike (Firm); Portland Trail Blazers (Basketball team); African American businesspeople; African American executives; Businesspeople; Executives; Juvenile delinquents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Policing Black lives : state violence in Canada from slavery to the present / by Maynard, Robyn,1987-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Policing Black Bodies is a timely and much-needed exposure of historical and contemporary practices of state-sanctioned violence against Black lives in Canada. This groundbreaking work dispels many prevailing myths that cast Canada as a land of benevolence and racial equality, and uncovers long-standing state practices that have restricted Black freedom. A first of its kind, Policing Black Bodies creates a framework that makes legible how anti-Blackness has influenced the construction of Canada's carceral landscape, including the development and application of numerous criminal law enforcement and border regulation practices. The book traces the historical and contemporary mobilization of anti-Blackness spanning from slavery, 19th and 20th century segregation practices, and the application of early drug and prostitution laws through to the modern era. Maynard makes visible the ongoing legacy of a demonized and devalued Blackness that is manifest today as racial profiling by police, immigration agents and social services, the over-representation of Black communities in jails and prisons, anti-Black immigration detention and deportation practices, the over-representation of Black youth in state care, the school-to-prison pipeline and gross economic inequality. Following the dictums of the Black Lives Matter movement, Policing Black Bodies adopts an intersectional lens that explores the realities of those whose lives and experiences have historically been marginalized, stigmatized, and made invisible. In addressing how state practices have impacted Black lives, the book brings from margin to centre an analysis of gender, class, sexuality, (dis)ability, citizenship and criminalization. Beyond exploring systemic racial injustice, Policing Black Bodies pushes the limits of the Black radical imagination: it delves into liberatory Black futures and urges the necessity of transformative alternatives."--
Subjects: Blacks; Blacks; Race discrimination;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Get the gringo [videorecording] / by Davey, Bruce,film producer.; Gibson, Mel,actor,screenwriter,film producer.; Grunberg, Adrian,film director,screenwriter.; Norris, Dean,actor.; Perskie, Stacy,screenwriter,film producer.; Stormare, Peter,actor.; Alliance Films,film distributor.; Icon Productions,production company.;
Music, Antonio Pinto ; editor, Steven Rosenblum ; production designer, Bernardo Trujillo ; director of photography, Benoit Debie.Mel Gibson, Peter Stormare, Dean Norris.A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for strong bloody violence, pervasive language, some drug use and sexual material.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Criminals; Fugitives from justice; Gangsters; Prisons;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The nightingale [videorecording] / by Claflin, Sam,1986-actor.; Kent, Jennifer(Film director),film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Franciosi, Aisling,1993-actor.; Ganambarr, Baykali,actor.; Herriman, Damon,1970-actor.; Sheasby, Michael,actor.; Mongrel Media,film distributor.;
Damon Herriman, Sam Claflin, Aisling Franciosi, Michael Sheasby, Baykali Ganambarr.Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Revenge; Irish; Rape; Women prisoners; Aboriginal Australians;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Big lies in a small town / by Chamberlain, Diane,1950-author.;
"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration, but desperate to leave prison, she accepts. What she finds under the layers of grime is a painting that tells the story of madness, violence, and a conspiracy of small town secrets. North Carolina, 1940: Anna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina. Alone in the world and desperate for work, she accepts. But what she doesn't expect is to find herself immersed in a town where prejudices run deep, where people are hiding secrets behind closed doors, and where the price of being different might just end in murder. What happened to Anna Dale? Are the clues hidden in the decrepit mural? Can Morgan overcome her own demons to discover what exists beneath the layers of lies?"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Artists; Mural painting and decoration; Prejudices;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
unAPI

Wolf at the table : a novel / by Rapp, Adam,author.;
"As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century. As the siblings leave home and fan across the country, each pursues a shard of the American dream. Myra serves as a prison nurse while raising her son, Ronan. Her middle sisters, Lexy and Fiona, find themselves on opposite sides of class and power. Alec, once an altar boy, is banished from the house and drifts into oblivion. As he becomes an increasingly alienated loner, his mother begins to receive postcards full of ominous portent. What they reveal, and what they require, will shatter a family and lead to devastating reckoning"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Conflict of generations; Families; Intergenerational relations; Mental illness; Serial murderers; Siblings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The burning : a novel / by Kellerman, Jonathan,author.; Kellerman, Jesse,author.;
"A raging wildfire. A massive blackout. A wealthy man shot to death in his palatial hilltop home. For Clay Edison, it's all in a day's work. As a deputy coroner, caring for the dead, he speaks for those who cannot speak for themselves. He prides himself on an unflinching commitment to the truth. Even when it gets him into trouble. Then, while working the murder scene, Clay is horrified to discover a link to his brother, Luke. Horrified. But not surprised. Luke is fresh out of prison and struggling to stay on the straight and narrow. And now he's gone AWOL. The race is on for Clay to find him before anyone else can. Confronted with Luke's legacy of violence, Clay is forced to reckon with his own suspicions, resentments, and loyalties. Is his brother a killer? Or could he be the victim in all of this, too? This is Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman at their most affecting and page-turning--a harrowing collision of family, revenge, and murder"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Brothers; Coroners; Revenge;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
unAPI

The rabbit hunter / by Kepler, Lars,author.; Smith, Neil(Neil Andrew),translator.; translation of:Kepler, Lars.Kaninjägaren.English.;
A stranger wearing a mask stands in the shadow of a garden. He's watching his first victim through the window. He will kill him slowly, make it last - play him a nursery rhyme - make him pay. There's only one person the police can turn to - ex-Detective Joona Linna - but he's serving time in a high-security prison. So they offer him a chance to secure his freedom: help Superintendent Saga Bauer track down the vicious killer known as the Rabbit Hunter, before he strikes again. Soon another three victims have been murdered and Stockholm is in the grip of terror. Joona Linna must catch a disturbed predator, whose trail of destruction leads back to one horrific night of violence - with consequences more terrifying than anyone could have imagined ...
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Linna, Joona; Stalkers; Prisoners; Police; Serial murderers; Serial murder investigation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Big lies in a small town [sound recording] / by Chamberlain, Diane,1950-author.; Bennett, Susan,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Susan Bennett."From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration, but desperate to leave prison, she accepts. What she finds under the layers of grime is a painting that tells the story of madness, violence, and a conspiracy of small town secrets. North Carolina, 1940: Anna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina. Alone in the world and desperate for work, she accepts. But what she doesn't expect is to find herself immersed in a town where prejudices run deep, where people are hiding secrets behind closed doors, and where the price of being different might just end in murder. What happened to Anna Dale? Are the clues hidden in the decrepit mural? Can Morgan overcome her own demons to discover what exists beneath the layers of lies?"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Artists; Mural painting and decoration; Prejudices;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Gotti [videorecording] / by Connolly, Kevin,1974-film director.; DeMeo, William,1969-actor.; Dobbs, Lem,screenwriter.; Emmett, Randall,film producer.; Fiore, Marc,film producer.; Froch, Michael,film producer.; Furla, George,film producer.; Keach, Stacy,actor.; Lofranco, Spencer,actor.; Mulkey, Chris,actor.; Preston, Kelly,actor.; Rossi, Leo,1947-screenwriter,actor.; Taylor-Vince, Pruitt,1960-actor.; Travolta, John,1954-actor.; Walson, Edward,film producer.; Emmett/Furla Oasis Films,production company.; Fiore Films (Firm),production company.; Fyzz Faclity (Firm),production company.; JTP Films (Firm),production company.; MoviePass Ventures (Firm),production company.; Riversdale Films (Firm),production company.; Sunrider Productions (Firm),production company.; Vertical Entertainment (Firm),production company,distributor.; Videoville Showtime.;
Music, Armando Christian Perez, Jorge Gomez ; editor, Jim Flynn ; director of photography, Michael Barrett.John Travolta, Spencer Lofranco, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Stacy Keach, Chris Mulkey, William Demeo, Leo Rossi, Kelly Preston.Follows infamous crime boss John Gotti's rise to become the 'Teflon Don' of the Gambino Crime Family in New York City. Spanning three decades and recounted by his son John Jr., it examines Gotti's tumultuous life as he and his wife attempt to hold the family together amongst tragedy and multiple prison sentences.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for strong violence and pervasive language.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Crime films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Biographical films.; Gotti, John A.; Gotti, John; Crime; Italian American families; Mafia; Fathers and sons; Mafiosi; Organized crime;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Results 11 to 20 of 58 | « previous |