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Saving Sam : the true story of an American's disappearance in Syria and his family's extraordinary fight to bring him home / by Goodwin, Sam,1989-author.;
"What would you do if your son suddenly disappeared in Syria, and you had no idea what had happened to him? Would you contact the FBI? The State Department? Pray? Would you Google "What to do if your son disappears in Syria"? When the unthinkable happened, the answer, in the case of Ann Goodwin and her husband Tag, was: all of the above. Their 30-year-old son Sam, who was attempting to become one of the few people in history to travel to every single country on the planet, vanished in a supposed safe-zone run by the Kurds on the Turkish border. At first, they didn't even realize he had been abducted: maybe the phone reception had gone down, they told themselves, as had happened plenty of times before when Sam was in an off-the-beaten-path place. Just wait, he'll call back soon. But Sam never did call back, and over the coming days, the horror of their situation quickly bore down on the Goodwins, a devout Catholic family of seven living a middle-class suburban lifestyle in St. Louis, Missouri. Frustrated and increasingly terrified, the Goodwins came to realize that they couldn't rely on their government to save Sam. They were going to have to do it themselves. This is the extraordinary story of Sam's abduction by the Syrian regime, who threatened to hand him over to ISIS for beheading if he did not confess to being a CIA spy. It's also the story of a Midwestern American family who transformed themselves into their own detective agency, building up a network of journalists, hostage negotiators, Middle East experts, Russian diplomats, Vatican envoys, and shady mercenaries, until eventually -- by nothing short of a miracle -- they found a secret backdoor into the heart of the Syrian intelligence service itself. Through multiple first-person narrators, Saving Sam recounts an inspiring and unforgettable saga that includes a travel journey to every country in the world, famous celebrities, heads of state, high-stakes diplomacy and critical life lessons around curiosity, uncertainty, prayer and what it ultimately means to be free. In a genuine, straightforward and sometimes humorous style, Sam draws on his experience as a hostage to demonstrate how we can all turn our own adversities into assets, whether it be in our personal, professional or spiritual lives"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Goodwin, Sam, 1989-; Goodwin, Sam, 1989-; Prisoners; Prisoners; Travelers;
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The Marriott cell : an epic journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to freedom / by Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel,author.; Shaben, Carol,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The revealing, widely anticipated story by the internationally award-winning journalist is as riveting as a political thriller: it opens an astonishing window onto the closed world of geo-political power brokering as he takes us behind his headline-generating seizure and 438-day imprisonment in Cairo's notorious Scorpion Prison with leading terrorists; through the love story that made front-page news; to the profoundly personal drama of one man's fight for freedom, supported by Canadians across the country and media world-wide. With a foreword by international human rights lawyer, Amal Clooney. On the night of December 29, 2013, the Egyptian government's anti-terror forces led a dramatic raid on the Marriott Hotel, seizing Fahmy, Canadian-Egyptian bureau chief for the independent English Al Jazeera, and two fellow journalists in what quickly became an international cause célèbre condemned as a travesty of justice. Inside the maximum-security Scorpion Prison, Fahmy found himself with some of the most hardened Al Qaeda and ISIS extremists and Muslim Brotherhood leaders: always intrepid, he never stopped being a journalist, courageously taking advantage of his unexpected proximity to "interview" them and gain insight into their goals, into the feuds between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE on the one hand, and Qatar and its allies, including Turkey, on the other, and surfacing shocking details of torture inside military camps. Thrown into the toxic mix is the complex geo-political power brokering of our Western governments also, which left three men, wrongly convicted of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood and "fabricating news," struggling in a terrifying web he describes as "Global McCarthyism" and a war on journalism. Threaded through it all is an inspiring love story, as Fahmy's fiancée, Marwa, used every means at her disposal to fight for his release and his health, even to risking her own freedom smuggling cell phones and messages in and out of prison."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel; Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel.; False arrest; False imprisonment; Journalists; Journalists; Prisons;
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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;
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Incorrigible [videorecording] : a film about Velma Demerson / by Lee, Karin,1960-film director.; McIntyre Media,film distributor.;
Gemini award winning filmmaker Karin Lee tells the heartbreaking and poignant story of Velma Demerson who was arrested under the Ontario Female Refuges Act (1897-1964) and incarcerated for falling in love with a Chinese man in 1938 at the age of 18 in Toronto, Canada. Pregnant and without legal counsel, Velma was sentenced to one year in prison where she was tortured by the prison's eugenicist doctor who attempted to abort her child. 60 years later Velma attempted to sue the Ontario provincial government for wrongful incarceration. She and paralegal activist Harry Kopyto worked to solve the puzzle of how to sue the government for a case which was past the limitation period. Velma was finally vindicated and won her case in 2003 at the age of 83. This is the story of an ordinary young woman who did nothing wrong, except to fall in love with a man of a different race. It is a story of how institutional racism ruined the lives of two young people in love and destroyed the possibility of their having a happy and healthy family. Most important, it is the inspirational story of a woman who fought back for decades to get justice and won. Velma never stopped trying to get justice for all the women arrested under the Female Refuges Act, and actively lobbied the government, until her death in 2019, to apologize to all women who were wrongly incarcerated. The message in this film to these women and their families is that "they did nothing wrong and it's not their fault."E.DVD.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Historical films.; Demerson, Velma, 1920-2019.; Interracial dating; Race discrimination; Racism; Women prisoners;
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The final deception / by Graham, Heather,author.;
"How do you confront a threat that is hiding in plain sight? FBI agent Craig Frasier and psychologist Kieran Finnegan hunt an escaped serial killer in the latest explosive thriller in the New York Confidential series. It was one of Kieran's most chilling cases: her assessment of a murderer known as the Fireman. There was no doubt that the man needed to be locked away. Now Craig is called to a gruesome crime scene that matches the killer's methods, and news breaks that the Fireman has escaped prison. Amid a citywide manhunt, Kieran and Craig need to untangle a web of deceit, privilege and greed. They suspect that those closest to the killer have been drawn into his evil, or else someone is using another man's madness and cruelty to disguise their crimes. When their investigation brings the danger right to the doorstep of Finnegan's Pub, Kieran and Craig will have to be smarter and bolder than ever before, because this time it's personal, and they have everything to lose"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Women psychologists; Government investigators; Murder; Serial murderers; Escaped prisoners;
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Behind the iron / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
"Hank Fallon knows what it's like to rot behind bars. To wallow in the filth of a rat-infested cell. To smell the pent-up rage of cutthroat killers and thieves. Fallon earned his freedom the hard way. He saved the lives of four guards, got released early, and became a detective. Then he went undercover, infiltrated a prison gang plotting to bust out--and barely made it out alive. Now they're sending him back. Behind the iron. Straight to hell... This time, it's the ninth circle known as Missouri State Penitentiary. His mission: get inside the infirmary, look for a pregnant inmate named Jess Harper, and find out where her bank-robbing boyfriend hid the stolen cash. Problem is: a rebellion is brewing among the prisoners. Their rage is burning out of control. An all-out savage riot is about to explode. And Fallon's head is on the chopping block."--
Subjects: Western fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Detective and mystery fiction.; Missouri State Penitentiary; Undercover operations; Bank robberies; Prisons;
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Orange is the new black. [videorecording] / by Brooks, Danielle,actor.; Kerman, Piper.Orange is the new black.Videorecording.; Kohan, Jenji,screenwriter,television producer.; Manning, Taryn,actor.; Mulgrew, Kate,1955-; Prepon, Laura,1980-; Schilling, Taylor,1984-; Trim, Michael,television director.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm);
Taylor Schilling, Danielle Brooks, Taryn Manning, Kate Mulgrew, Laura Prepon.Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen, 5.1 Dolby digital.
Subjects: Federal Correctional Institution (Danbury, Conn.); Female friendship; Reformatories for women; Television comedies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Women prisoners;
© c2014., Lions Gate Entertainment ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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The girl who beat ISIS : Farida's story / by Khalaf, Farida,author.; Hoffman, Andrea C.,author.; Bulloch, Jamie,translator.;
In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in northern Iraq. Then her village was attacked and swiftly taken by ISIS fighters, and her whole world changed. This is the story of what happened to Farida after she was captured: the beatings, the rapes, and the markets where ISIS sold their female prisoners like cattle.
Subjects: Khalaf, Farida; IS (Organization); Yezidi women; Yezidis; Terrorism; Abduction; Escaped prisoners of war;
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The immortal King Rao : a novel / by Vara, Vauhini,1982-author.;
"Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao--literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had a visionary idea: the personal computer known as the Coconut. His wife, Margie, was an artist with a marketing genius. Together they created a new world order, led by a corporate-run government. Athena's future is now in the hands of its Shareholders--unless she can rejoin the Exes, a resistance group sustaining tech-free lifestyles on low-lying islands. Lyrical, satirical, and profound, The Immortal King Rao obliterates genre to confront the digital age. This gripping, brilliant debut poses an urgent question: can anyone--peasant laborers, convention-destroying entrepreneurs, radical anarchists, social-media followers--ever get free?"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Satirical literature.; Novels.; Biotechnology; Climatic changes; Fathers and daughters; Government, Resistance to; High technology industries; Involuntary memory; Memory; Technology and civilization; Women prisoners;
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The next three days [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by RZA(Rapper); Atias, Moran.; Banks, Elizabeth,1974-; Buie, Michael.; Crowe, Russell,1964-; Delbosc, Olivier.; Dennehy, Brian.; Haggis, Paul.; Neeson, Liam.; Nozik, Remy.; Wilde, Olivia.; High 61 Films.; Lions Gate Home Entertainment.; Lionsgate (Firm); Maple Pictures.;
Music by Danny Elfman ; edited by Jo Francis ; director of photography, Stéphane Fontaine.Brian Dennehy, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, RZA, Liam Neeson, Russell Crowe, Michael Buie, Moran Atias, Remy Nozik.Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.BLURAY.
Subjects: Escapes; Feature films.; Judicial error; Man-woman relationships; Married people; Murder; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Women prisoners;
© c2011., Lions Gate Entertainment ; Distributed by Maple Pictures,
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