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"A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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The mayor of a large U.S. city has thrown open the doors of the Police Academy to a new generation of recruits: anybody who wants to join. The men, women and borderline cases who dedicate their lives to protecting the public from people very much like themselves. These recruits even have the bad guys laughing.
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Alex Cross novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Two killers compete with each other for who can commit the most murders. One lives in Los Angeles and specializes in dismembering his victims, the other operates in the Carolinas, his specialty being college girls. By the author of Along Came a Spider.
''As two serial killers terrorize different regions of America, the FBI begins to suspect that the two are competing with each other, and Washington, D.C., police detective Alex Cross embarks on a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
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Alex Cross novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities.Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive...
6) Blood orchid
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Holly Barker novels volume 3
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English
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“Savvy, sexy”* police chief Holly Barker gets introduced to the cutthroat world of Florida real estate in this New York Times bestselling thriller from Stuart Woods.
Blood Orchid: the name of Ed Shine’s favorite flower—and his latest real-estate venture. New to town, the dapper developer makes the acquaintance of Holly, her father Ham, and her wily Doberman, Daisy. It’s just as Holly’s trying to...
Blood Orchid: the name of Ed Shine’s favorite flower—and his latest real-estate venture. New to town, the dapper developer makes the acquaintance of Holly, her father Ham, and her wily Doberman, Daisy. It’s just as Holly’s trying to...
7) Stone cold
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Stone is a quiet chief of police in a cold, gray, seaside town. When a serial killer strikes, this tough cop is in the thick of it. Add his girlfriend, an ex-wife and a sexy defense attorney, and things really heat up.
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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A rage in Harlem (1991, 108 min.): When Imabelle hits Harlem with a trunk load of stolen gold, she's on the run and looking for a place to hide.
Malevolent (2002, 95 min.): A maverick cop under routine investigation for a job-related shooting finds himself being set up as the prime suspect in a killing spree.
The glass shield (1994, 110 min.): An ambitious rookie cop and his station's only female deputy realize that an innocent man has been jailed...
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Alex Cross novels volume 24
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English
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Shots ring out in the early morning hours in the suburbs of Washington, DC. When the smoke clears, a prominent police official lies dead, leaving the city's police force scrambling for answers. Under pressure from the mayor, Alex Cross steps into the leadership vacuum to crack the case. But before Cross can make any headway, a brutal crime wave sweeps across the region. The deadly scenes share only one common thread -- the victims are all criminals....
10) Double cross
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Alex Cross novels volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Rejoining the police force in the wake of a series of elaborate murders in Washington, D.C., detective Alex Cross finds himself working to outmaneuver the killer's penchant for inducing hysteria with increasingly sensational killings.
11) Suspect
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Struggling to reclaim his career after the devastating murder of his partner eight months earlier, LAPD cop Max Kent is teamed with a traumatized military canine named Maggie who assists Max in an effort to track down his late partner's killer.
12) Iron orchid
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Holly Barker novels volume 5
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English
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Discovering that ex-CIA tech wizard and political assassin Teddy Fay is still alive, agent Holly Barker joins an elite task force assigned to track him and becomes suspicious in the wake of a series of insider tricks.
When his plane exploded off the coast of Maine, authorities thought they had seen the last of Teddy Faythe ex-CIA tech wizard who kills his political targets for sport. But now theyve found irrefutable evidence that he is alive and...
13) The force
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English
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All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. He is the "King of Manhattan North," a highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the real leader of "Da Force." Malone and his crew are the smartest, the toughest, the quickest, the bravest, and the baddest -- an elite special unit given carte blanche to fight gangs, drugs, and guns. Every day and every night for the eighteen years he's spent on the "Job," Malone has served on the front lines, witnessing...
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"A missing woman, a shocking pregnancy, a dash of international intrigue, and a bottle or two of good Bergerac: it's another case for Bruno, Chief of Police. When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in Bruno's usually idyllic Dordogne village of St. Denis, the worried hostess is quick to call on Bruno for help. Monica Felder is nowhere to be found, and her husband, a retired British major, is unreachable. And not long...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In The naked gun, from the files of Police squad, an inept cop stops a plot to assasinate Queen Elizabeth at a baseball game in the United States.
In The naked gun 2 1/2, an inept cop stops a devious plan to destroy the environment.
In The naked gun 33 1/3, the final insult, Lt. Frank Drebin crashes the Academy Award ceremony to stop a terrorist plot.
Wrongfully accused is a parody of many adventure movies, including the Fugitive, Mission: Impossible,...
16) On the chase
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Rocky Mountain K9 Unit volume 2
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English
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Taking on a new identity as Grace, a dog kennel worker, after witnessing a horrifying crime, Kaylee tries to avoid the attention of K-9 Officer Hugh Murdoch until a snipers bullet brings them together as they both, with targets on their backs, fight to stay alive.
17) Brick mansions
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Damien is an undercover cop determined to bring down Tremaine, the crime lord who murdered his father. Tremaine rules the violent criminal compound known as 'Brick Mansions', but he's thwarted at every turn by a heroic ex-convict named Lino. Their paths never should have crossed, but when Tremaine kidnaps Lino's girlfriend, Damien and Lino become unlikely allies, and must work together to stop Tremaine's sinister plot to devastate the entire city....
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Alex Cross novels volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross must solve two serial murder cases at once: one involving vampires and one involving the diabolical Mastermind.
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Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 20
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English
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Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"It's summer in the Dordogne. The heirs of a Perigordian sheep farmer learn that they have been disinherited, and their father's estate sold to an insurance company in return for a policy that will place him in a five-star retirement home for the rest of his life. But the farmer never gets his life of luxury--he dies before moving in. Was it a natural death? Was there foul play? Bruno begins the investigation that leads him to several shadowy insurance...
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