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"November, 2001: in the wake of 9/11, Paris is living in a state of heightened fear, with constant bomb alerts and heightened ethnic tension. For Aimée Leduc, November is bittersweet: the anniversary of her father's death and her daughter's third birthday fall on the same day. A gathering for family and friends is disrupted when a bomb goes off at the police laboratory-and Boris Viard, the partner of Aimée's friend Michou, is found unconscious at...
Author
Series
Gregor Reinhardt novels volume 4
Language
English
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"It's the final days of the Great War and four years of grinding conflict has warped more than one man's mind. When a secret meeting of top brass is called someone sets off a bomb that kills all the attendees. It looks for sure that one of the men in Gregor Reinhardt's company is the culprit. But since that man killed himself, the General is looking for someone else to share the blame. Reinhardt must prove his trooper innocent if he hopes to avoid...
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Series
Camel Club novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
A bomb detonates in the White House immediately after the British Prime Minister departs from the State Dinner. Oliver Stone, who witnesses the event, believes the Prime Minister and the President were the targets of a terrorist plot. MI-5 agent Mary Chapman is assigned to assist the Stone and his Camel Club with the investigation, which reveals that the bombing may have actually been botched and is part of a darker, deadlier conspiracy.
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Language
English
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In 1956 New York City, Marion Brooks, one of the famous Radio City Rockettes, is unwittingly drawn into the police search for the "Big Apple Bomber" and may be forced to sacrifice everything she's worked for, as well as the people she loves most, to catch this elusive criminal.
7) Killer cop
Publisher
Rarovideo
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
One cop is determined to find the people behind the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan.
8) Long mile home: Boston under attack, the city's courageous recovery, and the epic hunt for justice
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Language
English
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In the tradition of 102 Minutes and Columbine, the definitive book on the Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers, written by reporters from The Boston Globe and published to coincide with the first anniversary of the tragedy.
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Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the careers available in the field of explosive detection/defusing, discussing the necessary education, training, and on-the-job duties.
10) The April dead
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Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Chief Detective Inspector Harry McCoy follows the scarce clues to search for the perpetrators of a bombing campaign in Glasgow and its surrounding towns in a strike for independence in April 1974, as well as a missing American sailor from the base at Holy Loch.
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Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Details the events surrounding the 1995 terrorist bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, as well as the investigation and trial of those responsible for the blast.
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 9
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When bombs explode at the Islamic Cooperation Council's headquarters in Oslo, detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is on the case in the ninth and penultimate installment of the award-winning series from Norway's bestselling crime writer Anne Holt--"the godmother of Norwegian crime fiction" (Jo Nesbo). On an early April afternoon, a bomb goes off in the Islamic Cooperation Council's offices in Oslo, killing twenty-three people. The Police and Security Service...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
439 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Combining groundbreaking investigative research with a shocking and true conspiracy story, investigative journalists Andrew Gumbel and Roger Charles puncture the myth about what happened on April 19, 1995 at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. "Oklahoma City" reveals that more players were involved in the plot than simply Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fact-based film about Gerry Conlon, a young Irish punk who is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist bombing. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. There, his father shows his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and clear his father's name.
15) Ted K
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of Ted Kaczynksi's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as The Unabomber.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[=2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For some 25 years, Frontline producer Ken Dornstein has been haunted by the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a terrorist act that killed 270 people, including his older brother David. Now, Dornstein sets out to find the men responsible, hunting for clues to the identities and whereabouts of the suspects in the ruins and chaos of post-Qaddafi Libya in this rare, real-life spy thriller.
19) Richard Jewell
Publisher
Warner Bros Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The world is first introduced to Richard Jewell as the security guard who reports finding the device at the 1996 Atlanta bombing, his report making him a hero whose swift actions save countless lives. But within days, the law enforcement wannabe becomes the FBI's number one suspect, vilified by press and public alike, and his life ripped apart. Reaching out to independent, anti-establishment attorney Watson Bryant, Jewell staunchly professes his innocence....
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
359 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On July 27, 1996, a hapless former cop turned hypervigilant security guard named Richard Jewell spotted a suspicious bag in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, the town square of the 1996 Summer Games. Inside was a bomb, the largest of its kind in FBI and ATF history. Minutes later, the bomb detonated amid a crowd of fifty thousand people. But thanks to Jewell, it only wounded 111 and killed two, not the untold scores who would have otherwise died....
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