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The dead we honor / by Johnstone, William W.,author.; Johnstone, J. A.,author.;
Welcome to Maverick, Iowa. Once a thriving farm community, the peaceful little town is now a bristling hotbed of drugs, crime, and homelessness. Thanks to the misguided policies of a new state governor, the floodgates have been opened to a devastating and very unwelcome wave of newcomers, grifters, fentanyl dealers, thieves, and roving gangs of smash-and-grabbers--and one powerful billionaire who's buying up the farmland. Lifelong residents watch helplessly as their beloved Main Street becomes a bloody battleground in a divided America. This is more than a culture war; it's a hostile takeover. Returning home for the first time since Afghanistan, war veteran Bryan Branch barely recognizes his old stomping ground. Back in the day, he was the town hellraiser--until the military gave him a sense of purpose and appreciation for our hard-fought freedoms. Now those freedoms are under attack--and this time, it's personal. As the violence and destruction of Maverick spirals out of control, Bryan enlists the help of his army buddies, a group of veterans who call themselves "The Night Warriors." They're armed and ready to clean up the town. But their enemies are armed, too--and ready to blow the whole country straight to hell.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Rural crimes; Small cities; Veterans;
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Ghosts of the orphanage : a story of mysterious deaths, a conspiracy of silence, and a search for justice / by Kenneally, Christine,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A shocking expose of the dark, secret history of Catholic orphanages--the violence, abuse, and even murder that took place within their walls--and a call to hold the powerful to account. More than 5 million Americans passed through orphanages in the 20th century alone. At its peak in the 1930s, the American orphanage system included more than 1,600 institutions, partly supported with public funding but usually run by religious orders, including the Catholic Church. Ghosts of the Orphanage is the result of seven years of investigation, and what Christine Keneally found was shocking, yet hiding in plain sight. Terrible things, abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths have happened in orphanages for many years. The survivors have been telling their stories for a long time, but no one has been listening. People are too often unwilling to accept their stories. And their options for recourse have been limited by the years it has taken many survivors to process their trauma, tell their stories, and pursue legal action. Centering her story on St. Joseph's, a Catholic orphanage in Vermont, Keneally investigates and shares the stories of survivors. She has fought to expose the truth and hold the powerful--many of them Catholic priests and nuns--to account. And it is working. As these stories have come to light, the laws in Vermont have been forced to change, including the statute of limitations on prosecuting them. Told with human compassion, novelistic detail, and a powerful sense of purpose, Ghosts of the Orphanage is not only a gripping story but a reckoning. It is proof that real evil lurks at the edges of our society, and that, if we have the courage, we can bring it into the light and defeat it"--
Subjects: True crime stories.; Catholic Church; Child abuse; Orphanages;
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The Departed [videorecording]. by Dicaprio, Leonardo; Nicholson, Jack; Damon, Matt; Wahlberg, Mark; Farmiga, Vera; Sheen, Martin; Baldwin, Alec;
Leonardo Dicaprio, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Vera Farmiga, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin.Director, Martin Scorsese.DVD.CHVRS rating: 18A.Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Boston State Police department and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made and the moles find out their enemy's identities.
Subjects: Drama.; Academy Award Winners.; Drama.; Crime.;
© 2007., Warner Bros.,
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Not my home / by Johnstone, William W.,author.; Johnstone, J. A.,author.;
"The sudden arrival of big-city elites in small-town America triggers a violent wave of protests--and a possible civil war--in this explosive thriller from the bestselling authors of Down the Dark Streets. This is ... NOT MY HOME They came from the cities. Wealthy professionals fleeing the crime-ridden northern blue states for the peace and tranquility of small-town life. The good people of Springerville, South Carolina, welcome them with open arms. Until ... Almost overnight, they take over the Springerville. They snatch up the real estate. Turn old-fashioned stores into fancy boutiques. Transform the schools. And bring crime and corruption with them. Now one of these invaders--a predatory media mogul from New York--is running for mayor and plans to turn Springerville into a sprawling urban enclave ... just like the ones the northerners left behind ... NOT ON YOUR LIFE Not if Gus Fuller can stop it. A former army sergeant and lifelong townie, Gus runs the old luncheonette his grandfather built--and plans to give the media mogul a run for his money. Everyone in Springerville loves Gus, and he has no problem winning the mayoral race. But when the mogul falsely accuses him of rigging the election, all hell breaks loose. Busloads of angry mobs roll into town. Rioting, looting, burning ... Main Street is a war zone. So Gus and his army buddies are dusting off their uniforms--and taking a stand ... It's time to fight back. It's time to fight hard. It's time to take back our home."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Corruption; Small cities;
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The chaos kind / by Eisler, Barry,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she's determined to put one of America's most powerful financiers, Andrew Schrader, in prison forever for his crimes against children. But Schrader has videos implicating some of the most powerful members of the US national security state. To eliminate Diaz, the powers that be bring in a contractor: Marvin Manus, an implacable assassin whose skills have been forged in intelligence, the military, and the hardest prisons. Enter former Marine sniper Dox and black-ops veteran Daniel Larison with an unusual assignment: not to kill Diaz, but to keep her alive. A lot of players are determined to acquire the videos and the blackmail power they represent. But with Seattle sex-crimes detective Livia Lone, "natural causes" killer John Rain, and ex-Mossad honey-trap specialist Delilah, the good guys might just have a chance. They're not going to play by anyone else's rules. They're not going to play by any rules at all. They want a different kind of fight. The chaos kind."--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Rain, John (Fictitious character); Women detectives; Assassins;
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The lake of lost girls : a novel. by Greene, Katherine.;
It's 1998, and female students are going missing at Southern State University in North Carolina, but freshman Jessica Fadley, once a bright and responsible student, is going through her own struggles. Just as her life seems to be careening dangerously out of control, she suddenly disappears. Twenty-four years later, Jessica's sister Lindsey is desperately searching for answers and uses the momentum of a new chart-topping true crime podcast that focuses on cold cases to guide her own investigation. Soon, interest reaches fever pitch when the bodies of the long-missing women begin turning up at a local lake, which leads Lindsey down a disturbing road of discovery. In the present, one sister searches to untangle a complicated web of lies. In the past, the other descends ever deeper into a darkness that will lead to her ultimate fate. This propulsive and chilling suspense is a sharp examination of sisterhood and the culture of true crime.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Family Life / Siblings; FICTION / Multiple Timelines; FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense;
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Get Smart [videorecording (DVD)] / by Rock(Wrestler); Arkin, Alan.; Astle, Tom J.; Brooks, Mel,1926-; Caan, James.; Carell, Steve,1963-; Crews, Terry,1968-; Ember, Matt.; Ewing, Michael.; Gartner, Alex.; Hathaway, Anne,1982-; Henry, Buck.; Koechner, David,1962-; Lazar, Andrew.; Murray, Bill,1950 Sept. 21-; Oka, Masi.; Roven, Charles.; Segal, Peter.; Stamp, Terence.; Torrence, Nate.; Warburton, Patrick.; Mad Chance (Firm); Mosaic Media Group (Firm); Road Rebel (Firm); Village Roadshow Pictures.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Director of photography, Dean Semler ; editor, Richard Pearson ; music, Trevor Rabin.Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp, Terry Crews, David Koechner, James Caan, Bill Murray, Patrick Warburton, Masi Oka, Nate Torrence.Agent 86 is the bungling secret agent Maxwell Smart. He works for CONTROL. They are on a mission to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS. Smart has along side with him the competent and beautiful Agent 99. The headquarters of the U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents are compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his analyst Maxwell Smart, who has dreamed of working in the field with superstar Agent 23. Smart will do whatever it takes to thwart the latest plot for world domination by KAOS.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Agents provocateurs; Comedy films.; Espionage; Feature films.; Implements, utensils, etc.; Man-woman relationships;
© c2008., Warner Home Video,
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The dry [videorecording] / by Bana, Eric,actor,film producer.; Baroo, Eddie,1968-actor.; Bettencourt, Bebe,actor.; Blake, Julia,1936-actor.; Connolly, Robert,1967-film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Corlett, Sam,actor.; Cripps, Harry,screenwriter.; Frecheville, James,actor.; Frederiksen, Daniel,actor.; Hutensky, Steve,film producer.; Klocek, Joe,actor.; Lim, Renee,actor.; Matterson, Jodi,film producer.; Nable, Matt,actor.; O'Donnell, Keir,actor.; O'Reilly, Genevieve,1977-actor.; Papandrea, Bruna,1971-film producer.; Polson, John,1965-actor.; Scott-Mitchell, Claude,actor.; Spence, Bruce,actor.; Tapsell, Miranda,actor.; Taylor, Jeremy Lindsay,actor.; Zappa, William,1948-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Harper, Jane(Jane Elizabeth).Dry.; Arenamedia (Firm),production company.; Film Victoria,presenter.; IFC Films,publisher.; Made Up Stories (Firm),production company.; Pick Up Truck Pictures,production company.; RLJ Entertainment,film distributor.; Screen Australia,presenter.;
Director of photography, Stefan Duscio ; editors, Nick Meyers, Alexandre de Franceschi ; music, Peter Raeburn.Eric Bana, Genevieve O'Reilly, Keir O'Donnell, John Polson, Julia Blake, Bruce Spence, William Zappa, Matt Nable, James Frecheville, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Joe Klocek, Bebe Bettencourt, Claude Scott-Mitchell, Sam Corlett, Miranda Tapsell, Daniel Frederiksen, Eddie Baroo, Renee Lim.For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it may have something to do with the town's more recent tragedies. Separated by oceans of time, it would appear that these crimes are still connected.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for violence and language throughout.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Detective and mystery films.; Feature films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Best friends; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Droughts; Homecoming; Homicide investigation; Murder; Secrecy; Truthfulness and falsehood;
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Curse of Salem / by Hooper, Kay,author.;
"The small town of Salem has been quiet for months--or so Bishop and his elite Special Crimes Unit believe. But then Hollis Templeton and Diana Hayes receive a warning in Diana's eerie "gray time"--a space between the world of the living and the realm of the dead--that a twisted killer is stalking Salem, bent on destroying in the most bloody and horrifying way possible the five families that founded the town. The stakes are high, especially for new friends Nellie Cavendish and Finn Deverell, both members of the Five, and this time Bishop and his wife, Miranda, will lead the team to hunt down a vicious killer and uncover an ancient dark curse haunting Salem"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Paranormal fiction.; Bishop, Noah (Fictitious character); United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Government investigators; Murder; Satanism;
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Criminal minds. [videorecording] / by Davis, Jeff,1975-creator.; Gibson, Thomas,1962-actor.; Mantegna, Joe,actor.; Cook, A. J.,1978-actor.; Gubler, Matthew Gray,1980-actor.; Moore, Shemar,1970-actor.; Hewitt, Jennifer Love,1979-actor.; Vangsness, Kirsten,1972-actor.; ABC Studios,production company.; CBS Studios Inc.,production company.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; CBS DVD (Firm),publisher.;
Thomas Gibson, Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, A. J. Cook, Rachel Nichols.To solve the most twisted crimes, the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) explores the darkest places--inside the depths of Criminal Minds. Seasoned undercover, FBI Agent Kate Callahan joins the elite team led by Supervisory Special Agent Aaron Hotchner as they pursue a serial killer who hacks his victims beyond all recognition. Experienced profiler David Rossi is dogged by mysterious woman from his past, while Dr. Spencer Reid grapples with the death of a mentor.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; FBI Academy. Behavioral Science Unit; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Criminal behavior; Criminal investigation; Criminal profilers;
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