Hesse, Monica
Summary: In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESSummary: Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller explores the inner workings of the global underworld's most dangerous black markets. In each episode, she journeys inside a different black market from drugs to guns to tiger parts to meet the players, learn the business, and unearth the geopolitical circumstances and context that create the world's multitrillion-dollar shadow economy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TRAGrisham, John
Summary: A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Grisham 2017Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction GriSummary: A hardworking Maltese fisherman, struggling to provide for his family amidst strict regulations imposed on his traditional family business by the European Union, enters Malta's fishing underworld.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUZGrisham, John
Summary: A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRINewman, Jay Hartley
Summary: "A group of American patriots, all former military, are looking for a way to get their number one choice, Senator Ben Corn, elected president. Corn is a telegenic, perfect candidate--yet harbors secrets that threaten him. The group's goal is to implement their own foreign policy and fundamentally restructure American society. Essential to this scheme is Greta Webb, a sophisticated and beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NEWKot, Ales.
Summary: "The clock is ticking ... There is a secret black market in New York It is hidden in plain sight-- in our streets, trains, and restaurants. Those who know how to navigate it exchange secrets of extraordinary nature. But when the secret in circulation is a biological weapon derived from Vine Technology, the gloves are off-- and the most extraordinary agents are released to stop the disaster...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Valiant Entertainment LLC 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 DEASummary: A pulp fiction writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna at the invitation of a friend who has offered him a job. Once there, he discovers that a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market and his friend has recently died in a mysterious traffic accident. As he begins to unravel the story behind his friend's death, he finds himself entangled in the black market, the police, and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY THISummary: Louis lives an isolated existence on the French-Swiss border. When an ailing heart leads him to visit Geneva to pay for a replacement on the black market, he travels to his former home where he searches for his lost son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INTChatsworth, Elizabeth
Summary: "In a steam-powered world, Miss Constance Haltwhistle is the last in a line of blue-blooded rogues. Selling firearms under her alias, the "Brass Queen," she has kept her baronial estate's coffers full. But when US spy J. F. Trusdale saves her from assassins, she's pulled into a search for a scientist with an invisibility serum. As royal foes create an invisible army to start a global war,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ChatsworthBolam, James
Summary: After jazz lover Trevor Chaplin orders some records and receives the wrong shipment, he and his English teacher girlfriend search for the missing items and stumble upon a black market operation in a church basement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BEIHay, Alex
Summary: "Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYBindschatel, Kimberli A.
Summary: For animals, there's nothing she won't do. Armed with a shiny new U.S. Wildlife Service badge, Poppy McVie's on a mission to save all critters, great and small. That is, if she can keep her nose out of trouble, her sass in check, and her wild red hair pinned under that damn mountie hat. Plucked from training, she's sent undercover to Costa Rica to infiltrate a wildlife trafficking ring....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turning Leaf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BINGrisham, John
Summary: After being laid off from her teaching position, Mercer Mann is approached by a mysterious woman with a generous offer to go undercover and infiltrate bookstore owner Bruce Cable's life to learn his secrets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIPodolski, Gregg
Summary: An action-packed debut from Gregg Podolski, The Recruiter is a thrilling and unique adventure through the European underworld. When bad guys need good help, they call Rick Carter. He's a criminal recruiter, searching for contract killers, cyber hackers, gun smugglers, and any other assorted villains-for-hire a European crime boss might need. But, when the family he left behind in New Jersey is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Schaeffer, Rebecca
Summary: With her best friend, Kovit's, life in danger, Nita is determined to take down the black market once and for all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCHBilton, Nick
Summary: From New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BILSchaeffer, Rebecca
Summary: With her self-healing ability widely known, Nita's only chance for survival is to become too feared to be targeted again, starting with killing her betrayer, Fabricio.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCHSchlosser, Eric.
Summary: Reports on America's "shadow" economy of illegal drugs, pornography, and illegal migrant workers, arguing that these underground industries continue to grow with government intervention.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 SCHSummary: After a nuclear power plant worker in Russia is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation, officials initiate a cover-up, refusing to help him, so he steals some plutonium to sell on the black market to support his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2008
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER PUDev, Sonali
Summary: Dr. Nikhil 'Nic' Joshi had it all-marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife, Jen, discovered a black market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed. Two years after the tragedy, Nic is a cruise ship doctor who spends his days treating seasickness and sunburn and his nights in a boozy haze. On one of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVHesse, Monica.
Summary: "In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Summary: On the planet Brink, calcium is cash. The element's scarcity led the world's government to declare it the official currency. In the decades since, the governments of other colonized worlds have suppressed shipments of calcium in order to maintain favorable exchange rates, while Brink's Commerce Board has struggled to negotiate importation quotas to keep the population alive and growing. Taryn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLLSchaeffer, Rebecca.
Summary: Nita's mother hunts monsters and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she is sold on the black market in his place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018