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- Solo: A Star Wars story [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Ehrenreich, Alden; Harrelson, Woody; Clarke, Emilia; Suotamo, Joonas;
- Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Joonas Suotamo.Director, Ron Howard.Blu-ray.OFRB rating: PG.During an adventure into a dark criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future copilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebellion.
- Subjects: Action.; Fantasy.; Action / Adventure.; Sci-Fi.;
- © 2018., Buena Vista,
- A death in Berlin / by Scarrow, Simon,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references.Berlin. May 1940. As Hitler prepares to invade western Europe, there is bloodshed closer to home. CI Horst Schenke is an investigator with the Kripo unit. Powerless against the consequences of the war, he fights to keep criminals off his patch. But with doubts growing about his loyalty to the Nazi regime, he is walking a tightrope. If his relationship with a Jewish woman is exposed, a dreadful fate awaits. Berlin's gangsters run their crime rings with impunity. Decadent senior Nazis protect them. Schenke is different. He won't turn a blind eye when innocents are caught in the crossfire between warring gangs. But dangerous enemies know everything about him. They will do whatever it takes to bend him to their will ...
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Novels.; Germany. Kriminalpolizei; Corruption; Gangsters; Nazis; Organized crime; World War, 1939-1945;
- Solo [videorecording] : a star wars story / by Clarke, Emilia,1986-actor.; Ehrenreich, Alden,1989-actor.; Harrelson, Woody,actor.; Howard, Ron,1954-film director.; Suotamo, Joonas,actor.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.; Lucasfilm, Ltd.,production company.; Walt Disney Company,production company.; Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm),production company.;
- Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Joonas Suotamo.During an adventure into a dark criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future copilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebellion.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for sequences of sci-fi action/violence.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
- Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Chewbacca (Fictitious character); Solo, Han (Fictitious character); Calrissian, Lando (Fictitious character); Criminals; Space warfare; Interplanetary voyages;
- For private home use only.
- The last million : Europe's displaced persons from World War to Cold War / by Nasaw, David,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and desperate foreigners, and attempted to repatriate them to Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and the USSR. But after exhaustive efforts, there remained over a million displaced persons who either refused to go home or, in the case of many, had no home to which to return. They would spend the next three to five years in displaced persons camps, divided by nationalities, temporary homelands in exile, with their own police forces, churches, schools, newspapers, and medical facilities. The international community couldn't agree on the fate of the Last Million, and after a year of fruitless debate and inaction, an International Refugee Organization was created to resettle them in lands suffering from labor shortages. But no nations were willing to accept the 200,000 to 250,000 Jewish men, women, and children who remained trapped in Germany. In 1948, the United States, among the last countries to accept anyone for resettlement, finally passed a Displaced Persons Bill - but as Cold War fears supplanted memories of WWII atrocities, the bill only granted visas to those who were reliably anti-communist, including thousands of former Nazi collaborators, Waffen-SS members, and war criminals, while barring the Jews who were suspected of being Communist sympathizers or agents because they had been recent residents of Soviet-dominated Poland. Only after the passage of the controversial UN resolution for the partition of Palestine and Israel's declaration of independence were the remaining Jewish survivors finally able to leave their displaced persons camps in Germany."--
- Subjects: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.; International Refugee Organization.; World War, 1939-1945; Refugees; Refugees; Jewish refugees; Political refugees; Jews; Humanitarianism; World War, 1939-1945;
- The lady from Burma / by Montclair, Allison,author.;
- "Murder once again stalks the proprietors of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau in the surprisingly dangerous landscape of post-World War II London."--
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Dating services; Murder; Suspects (Criminal investigation); Women-owned business enterprises;
- How to find your way in the dark / by Miller, Derek B.,1970-author.;
- "A coming-of-age story set during the rising tide of World War II, How to Find Your Way in the Dark follows Sheldon Horowitz from his humble start in a cabin in rural Massachusetts, through the trauma of his father's murder and the murky experience of assimilation in Hartford, Connecticut, to the birth of stand-up comedy in the Catskills-all while he and his friends are beset by anti-Semitic neighbors, employers, and criminals"--
- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Parents; Murder; Revenge; Jews; Stand-up comedy; World War, 1939-1945;
- NCIS, Naval Criminal Investigation Service. [videorecording] / by Alexander, Sasha,1975-; Bellisario, Donald P.; Harmon, Mark,1951-; Holly, Lauren.; Weatherly, Michael.; Paramount Pictures Corporation.;
- Disc 1. Kill Ari, part 1 -- Kill Ari, part 2 -- Mind games -- Silver war.Disc 2. Switch -- The voyeur's web -- Honor code -- Under covers.Disc 3. Frame-up -- Probie -- Model behavior -- Boxed in.Disc 4. Deception -- Light sleeper -- Head case -- Family secret.Disc 5. Ravenous -- Bait -- Iced -- Untouchable.Disc 6. Bloodbath -- Jeopardy -- Hiatus, part 1 -- Hiatus, part 2.Mark Harmon, Lauren Holly, Sasha Alexander, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum, Sean Murray.A team of special agents, operating outside the military chain of command, must investigate any crime with pieces of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.
- Subjects: United States. Naval Criminal Investigative Service; Criminal investigation; Detective and mystery television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
- © c2011., Paramount Pictures,
- The godmother : murder, vengeance, and the bloody struggle of mafia women / by Nadeau, Barbie Latza,author.;
- "The untold stories of the women who have risen to prominence and notoriety in Italy's mafia-many more ruthless than the fathers and husbands they replaced-and the octogenarian murderer who decades ago blazed a bloody trail for them to follow. In 1955 in a public market outside Naples, Italy, a pregnant teenage widow named Assunta "Pupetta" Maresca encounters the man she believes to be her husband's killer. Minutes later, police find the man dead, riddled with an astonishing 29 bullets. Pupetta is arrested and convicted for his death. "I killed for love," she declares in court, "and I'd do it again!" It is the middle of the twentieth century. Italy is impoverished after the war. Criminal organization are springing up where governments fail their citizens. Women are considered adjunct to the growth of the criminal class; they are mothers who train sons in the primacy of blood feuds, or they are daughters and sisters who deliver messages for imprisoned male relatives. But Pupetta changes that. She is heralded "Lady Camorra," and in prison she takes on legendary stature, with films and TV shows produced to capitalize on her outlaw image. The crime and even the killing does not stop there for Pupetta, and though she is arguably the first mafia godmother, she is not the worst. Some of the women who follow in her footsteps will meet terrible fates; others will lead their clans. But if CNN correspondent and Daily Beast Rome bureau chief makes one thing clear in The Godmother, it's that as women seize ever more control of Italy's criminal underworld, they are proving themselves more vicious, cunning and cutthroat than the men they replace."--
- Subjects: True crime stories.; Mafia; Women and the mafia;
- Sisters in resistance : how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis / by Mazzeo, Tilar J.,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."In 1944, the war had reached its climax in continental Europe. News of secret diaries kept by Italy's former Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano, had permeated public consciousness. What wasn't reported, however, was how three women-a Fascist's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite-risked their lives to ensure the diaries would reach the Allied forces, who would use the papers as key evidence against the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials. Just a year earlier, Edda Mussolini, Benito Mussolini's daughter, had given Hitler and her father an ultimatum: release her husband, Galeazzo Ciano, from prison, or risk her leaking her husband's journals to the press. Knowing the diaries will expose Nazi lies and create a foundation for a criminal war crimes prosecution, Hitler and Mussolini vow to do everything in their power to see the diaries destroyed-even if it means liquidating Mussolini's daughter. To do this, they ordered Hilde Beetz, a German spy, to seduce Ciano in prison in order to learn the diaries' location. As the seducer becomes the seduced, however, Hilde shifts her loyalties and becomes a double agent, joining forces with Edda to save Ciano from execution. When this fails, Edda flees to Switzerland with Hilde's daring assistance to keep Ciano's final wish: to see the diaries published for use by the Allies. When the head of United States' intelligence, Alan Dulles, learns of Edda's escape, he sends in socialite Frances De Chollet, an "accidental" spy, assigned by chance to a mission that would change her life. Her task is to find Edda, gain her trust, and, crucially, hand the diaries over to the Americans. Against all expectations, what develops is a rich and humanizing friendship between the two women. One step ahead of the Gestapo agents who are hunting Edda, together they succeed in preserving one of the most important historic documents of the Second World War. Drawing from in-depth research and first-person interviews with people who witnessed parts of this true story, Mazzeo gives readers a riveting look into this little-known moment in cultural history and shows how, without Edda, Hilde, and Frances's involvement, certain convictions would never have been possible at Nuremberg. Sisters in Resistance is a powerful look at women's intelligence work during WWII, a moving story of unlikely wartime friendships, and an inspirational investigation into three people who, navigated the place where truth, loyalty, justice, and betrayal collide"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Ciano, Edda Mussolini, Contessa.; Ciano, Galeazzo, conte, 1903-1944; Ciano, Galeazzo, conte, 1903-1944.; Purwin, Hilde, 1919-2010.; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel. Reichssicherheitshauptamt. Amt VI.; Espionage, German; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
- The Russian / by Coes, Ben,author.;
- "As the brutal Russian mafia becomes the most powerful and deadly criminal enterprise in the U.S., it's up to covert operative Rob Tacoma to fight back ... Ruthless, clever, and unbelievably violent, the Russian mafia has rapidly taken over the criminal underworld in the U.S. and law enforcement has been unable to stem the tide. When a powerful Russian mob family declares war by publicly executing two high-profile American politicians, the messageis unmistakable-opposition will be met with overwhelming deadly force. With no other viable options, the President creates a clandestine assassinations team to find and eliminate the unreachable men running this deadly criminal operation.--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Intelligence officers; Secret service; Assassins; Russian American criminals; Organized crime; Murder;
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