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Executions and executioners Executions and executioners Drama Executions and executioners Fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Fiction French England London Fiction Large type books London (England) History 18th century Fiction Lookalikes Fiction Vigilantes FictionSummary: "An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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Summary: London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women. There she meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Accused of the brutal murder of his artist mistress Artemisia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RAYDickens, Charles
Summary: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1981
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: Hangman Oscar Stone is a master executioner, who prides himself on his careful and exacting work, until a sudden moment of realization and devastating truth forces him to come to terms with himself and his profession.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTLevy, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1973
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Summary: The classic novel about the French Revolution and its effect upon the lives of several individuals, both French and English.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICDickens, Charles
Summary: The classic novel about the French Revolution and its effect upon the lives of several individuals, both French and English.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 130 FIC DICSummary: Arrested for fatally beating an elderly widow, Barbara Graham at first goads the police, refusing to answer their questions. But when an alleged accomplice turns state's evidence, Graham insists that she is innocent. Condemned by the press and the public, Graham is found guilty of murder and sentenced to die in the gas chamber. With her execution date getting near, Graham desperately attempts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ISummary: Kaliyappan struggles with the guilt and implications of the executions he obediently carries out. His son rejects his father's way of life. After Kaliyappan is told to prepare for another hanging, a traveler's story changes their destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SHAGarrett, LaMonica
Summary: A prison warden sees a series of executions put a strain on her marriage, career, and convictions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLEKevorkian, Jack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 KEVMelville, Herman
Summary: Billy Budd, a handsome and innocent sailor, is admired by all except for the jealous master-at-arms who plots to frame the young man for treason with tragic results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MELSummary: Provocative and chilling true story of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., the son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert who consulted with prisons across the country to make capital punishment more humane. When Leuchter is called in as a high-profile expert in a sensationalistic Canadian trial, his ego, bravado and absurd testimony reaches nation media prominence. Ironically, what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Floor Productions 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MRBerg, Scott W.
Summary: Placing a seminal moment in American history in the larger context of the Civil War, this account revisits the little-known Dakota War of 1862, an uprising on the Minnesota frontier which resulted in the forced relocation of the Dakota and the hanging ofthirty-eight Dakota warriors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W ESTGlyndebourne Chorus
Summary: Opera revolving around the fatal tensions that develop between a young sailor, the malevolent master-at-arms, and the captain aboard a British man o' war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2011
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BILKava, Alex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KAVTodd, Charles.
Summary: Seven years after sending Ben Shaw to the gallows for the brutal murders of elderly women, Inspector Ian Rutledge is approached by Shaw's widow, who claims that her husband had been innocent, and sets out to uncover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Albert Pierrepoint joins the family business and becomes the most feared and respected executioner in Britain. Living a split life as a master hangman, loyal husband and grocery delivery man, Albert became the most feared executioner in Britain, famed for his craftsmanship in hanging over 450 people. Once praised and demonized for his role in the Nazi war trials, he must ultimately face a fate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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Dehe, Astrid
Summary: "A gripping and beautifully imagined work of literary fiction that explores history, memory, and the traumatic legacy of the Holocaust, in the English-language debut of a highly acclaimed German writing duo In May 1962, twenty-two men gathered in Jerusalem to decide by lot who would be Eichmann's executioner. These men had guarded the former Nazi SS lieutenant colonel during his imprisonment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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Summary: Managing the wrath of victim families when the murderers responsible for several deaths are released on a technicality, Lieutenant Cam Richter faces the difficult task of stopping a vigilante after the first of the released murderers is killed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS DEUHaohui, Zhou
Summary: "An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach. A wild thriller and deadly game of cat-and-mouse from one of China's most popular authors. For fans of Jo Nesbo, Se7en, and Hong Kong police cinema. The brutal murder of respected police officer Sergeant Zheng Haoming sends shockwaves through Chengdu, a modern metropolis in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Haohui 2018Humphreys, C. C. (Chris C.)
Summary: It is 1536 and the expert swordsman Jean Rombaud has been brought over from France by Henry VIII to behead his wife, Anne Boleyn. But on the eve of her execution Rombaud swears a vow to the ill-fated queen - to bury her six-fingered hand, symbol of her rumoured witchery, at a sacred crossroads. Yet in a Europe ravaged by religious war, the hand of this infamous Protestant icon is so powerful a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023