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Language
English
Description
Journalist Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin -- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin -- to the veins of people across the United States. Communities where heroin had never been seen before -- from Charlotte, North Carolina and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Rebecca didn't know love was possible until she met Paul, a successful, charismatic, married man with a past as dark as her own. Their pain drew them together with an irresistible magnetism; they sensed that they were each other's ideal (and perhaps only) match. But twenty years later, Paul and Rebecca are drowning as the damage and secrets that ignited their love begin to consume their marriage. Paul is cheating on Rebecca, and his affair gets messy...
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A shipment of a narcotic more dangerous than opium is about to be distributed across the country by a corrupt pharmaceutical company. In the face of foreign and domestic enemies, can Wong Fei Hung stop the spread of this dangerous narcotic and save lives in time?
Language
English
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Description
A dark comedy about greed, vanity, sex, immortality, life--and death. Madeline and Helen, rivals for the affections of Ernest, are both desperate to restore their youthful beauty, believing it is the only way to attract him. But while the potion each one purchases from a mysterious woman has the power to keep them beautiful, they find there is a down side to being immortal.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"From the early cave dwellers who first stumbled upon psychedelic mushrooms to the over 6000-year old tradition of opium cultivation in the East to a modern pharmaceutical industry with over 24,000 drugs on the market, drugs have played a role in our lives since well before recorded human history ... [This program] will journey through the millennia and look in on the greatest civilizations in human history to discover if drugs helped these societies...
10) Skarlet
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"MAD MEN MEETS THE WIRE IN THIS GRIPPING TRUE-CRIME MEMOIR BY A FORMER AGENT AT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS IN 1960s NEW YORK Before Nixon famously declared a "war on drugs, " there was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. New York City in the mid-1960s: The war in Vietnam was on the nation's tongue--but so is something else. Clandestine and chaotic, but equally ruthless, the agents of the Bureau were feared by the Mafia, dealers, pimps, prostitutes--anyone...
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