Summary: Directors Albert and Allen Hughes and screenwriter Tyger Williams were barely into their twenties when they sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with this fatalistic, unflinching vision of life and death on the streets of Watts, Los Angeles, in the 1990s. There, in the shadow of the riots of 1965 and 1992, young Caine is growing up under the influence of his ruthless,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A self-centered New York City publicist suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope. Now it's a real-time race against the clock as [he] must outwit a psychotic sniper in a frantic scramble from phone booth to freedom"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Livesey, Margot
Summary: "One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy's life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LIVSummary: A down on his luck detective travels from the tough streets of Brooklyn, to the hot jazz clubs of New Orleans, and finally to voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ANGRagnar Jónasson
Summary: Siglufjördur : an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland where no one locks their doors--accessible only via a small mountain tunnel.Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavík--with a past that he's unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RAGSummary: The story follows a young mother who, when on a day trip with her husband and son, commits a startling act of violence and, to her horror, has no idea why. The event launches an inverted and utterly surprising crime thriller whose driving force is not the 'who' or the 'what,' but the 'why.' When an investigator finds himself obsessed with uncovering the woman's buried motive, together they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SINCoben, Harlan
Summary: Marc Seidman awakens to find himself in an ICU, hooked up to an IV, his head swathed in bandages. Twelve days earlier, he had an enviable life as a successful surgeon, living in a peaceful suburban neighborhood with his beautiful wife and a baby he adored. Now he lies in a hospital bed, shot by an unseen assailant. His wife has been killed, and his six-month-old daughter, Tara, has vanished....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COBGriffin, James J.
Summary: "Texas Ranger Lieutenant Luke Caldwell is at home with his family, having just recovered from near-fatal wounds he received during his last assignment. He expects to be assigned to rejoin his former Ranger company. But Major John B. Jones, Commander of the Frontier Battalion, has other plans. He orders Luke to go undercover, one man against the hordes of outlaws plaguing the vast Presidio...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRISummary: "The comic book industry comes together to support the survivors and honor those killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016. Writers and artists from across the globe have created exclusive new material expressing their sorrow, compassion, frustration, and hope, all inspired by the tragic events. In doing so, they celebrate the victims, survivors, and their families...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LOVKnoll, Jessica
Summary: "The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is convinced her missing friend was targeted by the man papers refer to as the All-American Sex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books 2023
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Summary: "From a brilliant new voice in crime fiction comes Welcome to the Game, a gripping thriller that races through Motor City at heart-stopping pace as a getaway driver and a local mobster swerve to avoid danger at every turn. Craig Henderson screeches onto the scene with this fast-paced debut starring ex-rally driver Spencer Burnham. Having moved his family from England to Detroit and opened a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENSmith, B. J. (Brad J.)
Summary: The hunter becomes the hunted: Carl Burns pursues the ruthless gang who targeted him in this fast-paced, suspenseful thriller. Happily ensconced at River Road Farm and planning to start their own maple syrup business, life is good for Carl Burns and his partner Frances, who also stars in her own TV show. But, unwittingly, Frances's TV exposure has attracted unwelcome attention. Targeted by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISummary: American History X: "Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists in Los Angeles, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA AMECoben, Harlan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audiobooks 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COBKane, Andrea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KANWilson, Christopher P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: In the unfamiliar Appalachian backwoods, a weekend of male bonding for four inexperienced campers turns into a gut-wrenching fight for survival. .
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DELSummary: The third installment follows Detective Harry Ambrose as he begins a routine investigation of a tragic car accident on the outskirts of Dorchester, in upstate New York. Ambrose uncovers a hidden crime that pulls him into the most dangerous and disturbing case of his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SINCameron, Julie
Summary: "A successful artist with a doting husband, Isabel Dryland knows she should be grateful for her happy life. It's a complete reversal from the one she led before, when normalcy seemed out of reach, after a violent assault she cannot remember left her shattered and scarred. Even though the memory was lost, the nagging feeling that she was damaged goods and the lingering effects of her injuries...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarlet 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMLewis, Susan
Summary: Linked by one irrevocable act of violence, Archie Colbrook and Claudia Winters' lives intertwine. Claudia can't overlook what Archie did to her family, but is forgiveness the only way to truly move on?
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEWMina, Denise.
Summary: Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Mark Lynch ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she's known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Lynch's trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells. When the investigation leads to a privileged Scottish lawyer who's expecting to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINUnger, Lisa
Summary: "Instead of presents this Christmas, a true crime podcaster is opening up a cold case... Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the young owner of a thriving business, The Next Chapter Bookshop, despite her tragic childhood and now needing to care for her infirm father. When Harley Granger, a failed novelist turned true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop in the days before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC UNGSager, Riley
Summary: Emerging as the lone survivor of a serial killer's massacre a decade earlier, Quincy Carpenter struggles to ignore traumatic memories and move on as one of a group of other survivors who look to her for answers when one of them is found dead in a suspicious suicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SAGBeck, Jamie
Summary: Claire McKenna knows about loss. The bullet wound that ended her promising professional tennis career drove her to make a quiet life for herself working with fabric samples, chatting with her book group, and spending time with her parents in her sleepy coastal Connecticut hometown. There was a boyfriend who dumped her to pursue her adventurous childhood friend. Claire's business has hit a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019