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1) Lazarus man
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into rubble and the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. Anthony Carter, whose miraculous survival transforms him into a man with a message and a sense of mission. Felix Pearl, whose photography and film work that day provokes a sharp sense of personal destiny. Royal Davis, owner of a failing Harlem funeral home, whose desperate trolling for potential 'customers' triggers...
2) Lush life
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
455 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lush Life is a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to hardship, it's residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. When a cocky young hipster is shot to death by a street kid from the "other" lower east side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city in this brilliant and kaleidiscopic portrait of the "new" New York.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Back in the bad old days, when Billy Graves worked for an anti-crime unit in the South Bronx known as the Wild Geese, the NYPD branded him as a cowboy. Now forty, he has somehow survived and become a sergeant in Manhattan Night Watch. Mostly, his team of detectives conducts a series of holding actions--and after years in police purgatory, Billy is content simply to do his job. But soon after he gets a 4:00 a.m. call about the fatal knifing of a man...
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 400 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This fascinating book, edited by seasoned Times crime-beat veteran Kevin Flynn, captures the full sweep of the newspaper's reporting on the subject. It examines issues like incarceration, organized crime, and vice (from the Attica Correctional Facility riot to the powerful Medellín Cartel) as well as the infamous crimes that riveted the world...With 70 photographs as well as reproductions of front-page stories, here are the noteworthy crime articles...
6) Ransom
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy executive's son is kidnapped, he takes matters into his own hands in an effort to rescue the boy.
7) The night of
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 524 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
9) Freedomland
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a housing project cop who's respected for keeping the peace and being fair with the residents, Lorenzo Council stumbles onto the case of an apparent carjacking and child abduction one night that throws the projects into turmoil. But there's something strange in the details Brenda Martin slowly brings to light regarding her abductor and her missing child. The criminal investigation into the alleged kidnapping ignites long-simmering racial tension...
10) Child 44
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1953 Soviet Russia, secret police agent Leo Demidov loses status, power, and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa, as a traitor. Exiled from Moscow to a grim provincial outpost, Leo and Raisa join forces with General Mikhail Nesterov to track down a serial killer who preys on young boys. Their quest for justice threatens a system-wide cover-up by Leo's psychopathic rival Vasili, who insists there is no crime in paradise.
11) Shaft
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To stop a racist killer, Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous drug lords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
