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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Inmate manipulation is a slow and subtle game. It's a game that leaves many correctional staff without a job and possibly in prison. Understanding how the game works is essential to surviving a career in corrections. This book will take you down a path that will highlight how an inmate chooses their target, how the game is employed, and most importantly, how staff can defend themselves. The game of inmate manipulation has evolved and the strategies...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Ben Matlock is a Harvard-educated, fiery Southerner who charges $100,000 a case to brilliantly defend his clients by finding the real killer. Includes 22 episodes such as: The Mother; The Personal Trainer; The Man of the Year; The Arsonist; The Accident; The Celebrity; and many more.
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English
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Waking up in Paris with no memory of who she is, a young woman discovers that she is the identical twin of a rogue spy and, to stay alive, must team up with a very grouchy, very sexy, very secret agent to unravel a deadly conspiracy and clear her sister's name.
She wakes up in Paris with no memory, a hot guy standing over her saying "Run, Alex!" and people trying to kill her. He tells her that she is the identical twin of a rogue spy. And to stay...
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Martini Club volume 1
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English
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"Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she's living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement. But when a body turns up in Maggie's driveway, she knows it's a message from former foes who haven't forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends -- all retirees from...
5) Iris
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The Minnesota Marshalls volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Iris Marshall loves her job as an official for the European League of (American) Football. So, why did she say yes to being a courier that one time for the CIA? Not sure, but now, she's in an international thriller that has her on the run from a killer. And wose, the person she's running with is arrogant, bossy, wide-receiver Hudson Bly. Hudson's football days are nearly over. So yes, he agreed to be a patriot, do his part for the USA and courier...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The film tells an inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the US Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. The feature will premiere in 2018 in line with Justice Ginsburg's 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court.
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Apollo murders volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1973 Israel, as the Yom Kippur War erupts and a state-of-the-art Soviet MiG fighter makes an unexpected landing, NASA Flight Controller and former U.S. test pilot Kaz Zemeckis is drawn into a high-stakes game of spies, lies and secrets that hold the key to Cold War air and space supremacy.
9) The takedown
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An undercover CIA agent is sent home to investigate her sister's criminal fiance but the last thing she expects is to fall in love with his bodyguard along the way in this sexy romantic comedy. It's been a long time since Sydney Swift has gone home. An unrelentingly successful CIA field officer, she has spent the last five years pretending to be someone - anyone - other than herself. But this year, the festive season is coming with some added surprises....
10) The Edge
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Series
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English
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"The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America's dirtiest secrets--can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative Jenny Sikwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall’s triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America’s public schools completed the final leg of an heroic journey to end legal segregation. For 20 years, during wartime and the Depression, Marshall had traveled hundreds of thousands of miles through the Jim Crow South of the United States, fighting segregation case by case, establishing precedent after precedent,...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood memories dimmed by loss, she has left behind her home, her family, and her first love in pursuit of intellectual fulfillment. When she finally lands a job as a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, the work is everything she dreamed, and while she feels a budding attraction to one of the engineers, she can't get distracted. Not...
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Series
Marcus Ryker novels volume 5
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English
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"The world's most wanted terrorist is dead. Marcus Ryker recommended the strike himself. The intelligence was rock-solid. But what if it was wrong? Abu Nakba--the man responsible for lethal attacks in Washington, D.C., London, and Jerusalem--is finally dead. Marcus Ryker has been tasked with hunting down and destroying what's left of the terror group Kairos. But before Ryker can mobilize his team of CIA operatives with their new assignment, a disturbing...
14) Traitors gate
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, when the Queen attends the State Opening of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armory as they transport the Crown Jewels across London. For decades, the elite squad at Scotland Yard have been in charge of the operation. And for decades, it's run like clockwork. But this year, everything is about to change....
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Pub. Date
©2007-08
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English
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"A haunting portrait of an isolated and complex man, savagely reviled by much of the black community, not entirely comfortable in white society, internally wounded by his passage from a broken family and rural poverty in Georgia to elite educational institutions and finally to the pinnacle of judicial power."--Back cover
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"This work provides an essential national-level look at an intriguing and impactful form of Indigenous resistance. It describes, in great detail, the continuing assaults made on Native peoples and tribal sovereignty in the United States during the twenty-first century, and it sketches the visions of the future that Indians at the BIA and in Indian Country have been crafting for themselves"--
17) Cold pursuit
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Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
Description
"Former FBI profiler River Ryland suffers from PTSD after a serial killer case gone horribly wrong and has opened up a private investigation firm with Tony, her former colleague. Their first job is a cold case, but when the past comes back to haunt them, there's a killer on the loose with River in their sights, set on finishing the job they started"--
18) Whispers at dusk
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Series
Blackbird trilogy (Heather Graham) volume 1
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English
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"When darkness falls, there's nowhere to hide. Four bodies have been discovered along Europe's riverbanks, placed with care--and completely drained of blood. Pinpricks on their throats indicate a slender murder weapon, but DNA found in the wounds suggests something far more sinister. Tasked with investigating, the FBI recruits Agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter to Blackbird, an international offshoot of the Krewe of Hunters. If you want to catch...
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Amy Cornwall novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Agent Amy Cornwall excels at working from the shadows, until a botched field operation reveals dark dealings between her bosses and an informant. And a hidden plot by a terrorist genius that could kill thousands of Americans. Among them: her husband and daughter. She has to go dark. The Division wants to erase her. And they know every detail about her identity, her history, and her family. Agent Cornwall's countdown has begun.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Azzedine Downes moves between cultures, places, and time in this wryly comedic, at times mysterious, and always curious memoir of a lifelong nomad.The best strategy was to drink tea, smile, and enjoy the frustration of not knowing where the story leads. If time is endless, why rush to the point of a story? Now an international leader in the fight for animal welfare, Azzedine began his career as a volunteer teacher and later was appointed to leadership...
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