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62) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth."--Container.
63) Get hard
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A millionaire is pegged for fraud and sentanced to time in prison. He turns to a criminal friend to help prepare him to go.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Winner of the Edgar Award: The riveting account of an audacious fraud scheme that stretched from a Mafia hangout on the Lower East Side to the Vatican. With a round, open face and a penchant for tall tales, Matteo de Lorenzo resembled everyone's kindly uncle. But Uncle Marty, as he was known throughout the Genovese crime family, was one of the New York mob's top earners throughout the 1960s and '70s, the mastermind of a billion-dollar trade in stolen...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Nobody's Girl? As far as Faith Latimore was concerned, that was the way she wanted to stay! Why, then, did Lady Sunny seem so determined to throw her together with Harry Holson? Drop-dead gorgeous he might be, but he was also a liar. The trouble was, until she could expose Harry's dirty double-dealings over a hotel construction, Faith was going to have to put up with his company -- and the fact that he obviously found her very attractive, too!
Author
Publisher
Twelve, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this tell-all exposé, a former senior strategist for the National Rifle Association reveals the corrupt behavior of its chief executive Wayne LaPierre and gives a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of one of the most powerful political lobbying organizations in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
p 2005
Language
English
Description
Thomas Bolden grew up on the streets, his childhood a blur of fragmented memories. But now he's managed to put his past behind him, find the woman he wants to share his life with, and carve out a successful career on Wall Street. Until, in the blink of an eye, his world is turned upside down. A bizarre kidnapping sends him fleeing for his life, his face everywhere on the TV news, and a violent, shadowy organization is framing him for crimes he did...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. The two uncover illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, Salinger and Whitman's investigation takes them around the world. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Exposing the forces responsible for the loss of trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, massive foreclosures and the disappearance of retirement funds, Plunder: The Crime of Our Time investigates the unregulated fraud and theft that led to the market's collapse in fall 2008. Filmmaker Danny Schechter, Emmy Award-winning former ABC News and CNN producer, explores the epidemic of subprime mortgages, predatory lending, insurance scams, and high-risk...
Author
Language
English
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Description
No One Would Listen is now going paperback. This is the story of Harry Markopolos, the whistleblower who discovered that crimes against investors were being committed by Bernie Madoff, who’s Ponzi Scheme would ultimately become the biggest and longest-running financial investment fraud in history. Madoff's impact, both financially on individuals and institutions, continues to send shockwaves across the financial system and represents a major failure...
73) Kickback
Author
Series
A Spenser novel volume Book 43
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts,...
74) The appeal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.
Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately...
Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"December 2016. [the author] and former Moscow bureau chief, quietly meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele in a London pub to discuss President-elect Donald Trump's Russia connections. A month later, Steele's now-famous dossier sparks what may be the biggest scandal of the modern era. The names of the Americans involved are well-known--Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, George Papadopoulos, Carter Page--but here [the author] also shines...
Author
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The absence of medical licensing laws in most states during the years following the American Civil War made it possible for unscrupulous individuals to exploit the weak over- sight and unregulated state issuance of school charters. Diploma Mill traces the rise and spectacular fall of Dr. John Buchanan -- educator, author, and criminal -- and the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania (EMC) over the course of its three decades' existence. Founded...
Author
Series
Inspector Van In novels volume 3
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Behind the glamorous facade of elite Belgian society lies a seedy world unseen by the public eye--but nothing stays hidden forever Inspector Pieter Van In is begrudgingly finishing up a healthy lunch when he hears the news: While restoring their farmhouse, the Vermasts have found a skeleton in the backyard. Van In, who happens to be married to the deputy public prosecutor, is determined to solve the case in double-quick time and squeeze in one last...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A shocking account of how Harvey Weinstein rose to become one of the most iconic figures in the world of movies, how he used that position to feed his monstrous sexual appetites, and how it all came crashing down, from the author who has covered the Hollywood power game for the New Yorker for three decades. Twenty years ago, Ken Auletta wrote one of the iconic New Yorker profiles for which he is famous, of the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, then...
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