Summary: O2 is an ex-con who is trying to go straight. His life takes a deadly turn when his son gets kidnapped in a carjacking and held for ransom by a ruthless druglord. With a street-smart hustler as his partner and his shady cousin along for the ride, O2 races through the violent streets of Los Angeles in a desperate attempt to outsmart rival gangs and save his son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAISummary: After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they're locked inside with no normal little girl.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HORROR ABICipin, Atrem
Summary: When a young Jewish couple is kidnapped for ransom, it puts their tightly-knit community in jeopardy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TESSummary: Morris and Val Price, a middle class couple, win a luxury car in a raffle. The media makes them front page news and this captures the attention of some criminals who kidnap their teenage daughter and hold her for ransom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SEESummary: Follows the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother, Gail, to convince his billionaire grandfather to pay the ransom. When Getty Sr. refuses, Gail attempts to sway him as her son's captors become increasingly volatile and brutal. With her son's life in the balance, Gail and Getty Sr.'s adviser become unlikely allies in the race against...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AlCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALLSummary: Avery's sister has been kidnapped and ransomed for $2,000,000. Desperate, he and his buddies abduct a retired mob boss to try to force him to use his contacts to find the girl.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SUIAttal, Yvan
Summary: After a wealthy industrialist is kidnapped, he deteriorates physically and emotionally as he is mistreated and the unsavory details of his private life become public.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2011
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RAPBrodesser-Akner, Taffy
Summary: "In 1983, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse for wear, and the family begins the hard work of trying to move on with their lives and resume their prized places in the saga of the American dream, coming to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEGrippando, James
Summary: "Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIGrippando, James
Summary: Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublsihers 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRISummary: A handful of dedicated young soldiers must rise to the challenge of intergalactic warfare with a species of terrifying alien insects that threaten to eliminate the human race.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007