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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife," a second-class citizen who was hired as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Switzerland. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to her apartment, and she performed menial duties for the CIA. Despite battling sexism at all levels of the agency, Mendez's talent for espionage was clear, and she soon took on bigger and more significant...
Author
Series
Murder Inc volume 3
Publisher
Dark Horse Books, a divison of Dark Horse Comics LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Discover a world in which the five families of organized crime never lost their stranglehold on the United States. Now, half the country is a smorgasbord of sex and sin ruled by loyalty and “family values” and the rest of the world looks on in awe, rage, or jealousy. Join us as newly “made” Valentine Gallo and Jagger Rose rise through the ranks of the notorious Bonavese family. No spoilers, but Jagger has already proven herself one of the...
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Language
English
Description
"The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist who works with children and adolescents in Vermont. Betsy's boyfriend Frankie works in a mysterious branch of cryptocurrency and, seemingly out of nowhere, proposes that they move to Las Vegas together. Betsy and Crissy must navigate how to go about their newfound physical proximity to one another and their...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class. We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) companies prey on desperate Americans struggling to make ends meet. When factories...
7) Road house
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A legendary bouncer comes to Jasper, Missouri, for a special purpose: to restore order at the notorious Double Deuce bar. In one spectacular fight after another, Dalton rids the bar of thugs and henchmen. But when he runs afoul of a ruthless crime boss, the stage is set for a blistering showdown that'll leave only one man standing!
Author
Series
Emma Griffin mystery volume 16
Publisher
[A.J. Rivers]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After witnessing many tragedies throughout her life. And solving cases that appeared unsolvable. FBI Agent Emma Griffin learned the importance of following her instincts and questioning everything she sees. When Bellamy brings a case that involves a sorority sister from Bellamy's past. Emma finds herself thrown into a case involving a possible mysterious illness. An illness that took the life of a young woman. To others, the mystery seems to have...
Author
Series
Emma Griffin FBI mystery volume 17
Publisher
[A.J. Rivers]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After facing many misfortunes throughout her life. FBI Agent Emma Griffin has opted to make work her main priority. And although much time has passed, there are still certain cases that continue to haunt her. Such as the case of Lakyn Monroe. Emma has grown semi-accustomed to some of the fanfare that occurs during an investigation. However, it is a new situation for her when she is asked to be a consultant on set for a TV series based on a case from...
10) District noir
Author
Publisher
Pandasaurus Games
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"At the head of the city's largest criminal organizations, men and women fight to control territories and gain support, trying every means possible to grow their influence. Control of the District Noir, a central and highly contested area, remains the major issue that will make all the difference in dominating the city."--Container.
11) Brooklyn
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away, Brooklyn remembers the events that shaped her into the cold, calculating creature she became. Brooklyn learned the art of hustling from her parents who used the church to get money. Idolizing her father and despising her mother, Brooklyn's determined to be the type of woman who makes her own...
12) Cat fight
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Felix lives a life of high fashion and indulgence. Sure, he steals to get it, but he gets it on his own, nonetheless. When a mysterious character by the name of Schrodinger threatens Felix’s only surviving family member in an attempt to recruit him into a crime syndicate, Felix is sent on a globe-trotting game of cat and mouse in a heightened world of colorful criminal masterminds.
13) Cape Rage
Author
Series
Danny Barrett volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The FBI has a hundred undercover agents who can work in the city, but Danny Barrett is the one they call when they need someone to investigate crimes in the wilderness. This case is a particularly difficult one. For more than a century the Danby family have ruled as kings in their corner of the Pacific Northwest. The Feds were mostly willing to look the other way while the family smuggled everything from liquor to cigarettes across the border, but...
14) The Waltham murders: one woman's pursuit to expose the truth behind a murder and a national tragedy
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"In September 2011, Erik Weissman and two friends were murdered in a brutal triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts. The case went unsolved for months and then years, with no discernible leads. Erik’s friend Susan Zalkind, an investigative journalist, needed closure and knew that finding it would be up to her. As Susan began digging, and as the Boston Marathon bombing exposed startling new leads, the case led her down a tangled and sometimes dangerous...
Author
Publisher
Knox Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Pete Forcelli was a highly respected federal agent in New York City, where he made an impact on violent crime by successfully targeting some of the city’s most violent street gangs by using federal racketeering and continuing criminal enterprise statutes in conjunction with federal prosecutors. In early 2007, he was promoted to a supervisory position in Phoenix and quickly discovered that federal prosecutors were not charging criminals for violating...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1208
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ripped from the headlines of the turbulent era between the Great War and the Great Depression, this dynamic, nostalgia-tinged crime drama balances tommy-gun action with epic historical sweep. Legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart star as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect, first in a foxhole on the front lines of World War I, then in Manhattan's Prohibition-era underworld. Directed by Hollywood master Raoul Walsh...
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