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21) The attorney
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
Song Woo-seok has no clients, connections, nor college degree, but his eye for business and appetite for money make him the most successful lawyer in town. But at the peak of his success, a local teenager is falsely accused of a crime, then beaten and tortured while waiting in jail. Shocked by these conditions, Song takes the case no one else will, and changes the course of his life.
Author
Language
English
Description
"War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely. Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars, to outrageous abuses of power, to wars on normalcy, decency, and truth. In the name of fighting terrorism, our government has done things every bit as shameful...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
More than a decade ago, Mira fled her segregated hometown of Kipsen, leaving behind her best friend, the white Celine, and Woodsman Plantation - rumored to be haunted by the spirits of slaves. Now, Mira is back in Kipsen for Celine's wedding weekend at that same plantation. Mira hopes to reconnect with her old friends, especially Jesse, the boy she secretly loved. Woodsman remains a monument to its racist history and the darkest elements of the plantation's...
24) The Hanoi Hilton
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For most combat soldiers, Vietnam was a battlefield war of guns and grenades. But for thousands of American combatants, the battlefield was a dark, vermin-infested cell in a prison compound like Hoa Lo, or what the POWs called the Hanoi Hilton. Captured Navy pilot Lt. Commander Williamson knows his only defense against torture, disease and despair is an indomitable will.
25) Tabloid
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the late 1970s, Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney became a tabloid staple when she kidnapped her former beau, a Mormon missionary, and tied him to a bed to 'deprogram' his religious beliefs-by having nonstop sex with him. Director Errol Morris follows the salacious adventures of this beauty queen with an IQ of 168 whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams led her across the globe, into jail and onto the front page.
26) Government bullies: how everyday Americans are being harassed, abused, and imprisoned by the Feds
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxix, 280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The U.S. Senator from Kentucky defends his assertion that the government is out of control and running amok through thousands of regulations that serve as a source of unconstitutional abuse of the good, honest, tax-paying citizens of America.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The raw, uplifting, and unforgettable memoir from the CEO and president of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence chronicling her personal battle against abuse, violence, and even a murder attempt. Ruth M. Glenn wasn't surprised the first time her husband beat her. She was hurt and disappointed but after a childhood in a broken and violent home, she was not surprised. After all, this was just the way things were, right? It was only after...
28) Ghost fleet
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Thai
Description
"Thai activists risk their lives on remote Indonesian islands to find justice and freedom for enslaved fishermen who feed the world's appetite for seafood. Bangkok-based Patima Tungpuchayakul has committed her life to helping these "lost" men return home. Facing illness, death threats, and corruption, Patima's fearless determination for justice inspire the world."--Container
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the controversial digital photographs from Abu Ghraib, in a collaborative account of Iraq's occupation that reveals how it is being experienced by both guards and prisoners.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Limousine driver Micah Donovan prides himself on his discretion. Regardless of what transpires in the back of his car every night, he keeps his eyes on the road and his heart so far away that he can no longer reach it. But something's different tonight in Las Vegas. The driver's wealthy client, Austin Savlodar, is the malicious son of an imprisoned gangster. During their journey through the neon streets, Micah overhears Savlodar forcing himself upon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Flame Tree Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen year-old Emily's acute dissociative disorder causes her to be institutionalised - again - at Greyfriars Reformatory For Girls. Caught in the crossfire between brutal Principal Quick and cruel bully Saffron Chassay, Emily befriends fellow outcast Victoria. When the terrifying apparition of the mysterious 'Grey Girl' begins scaring the inmates to death, Emily's disorder may be the one thing that can save her."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It started as photographs taken by soldiers of the abuse and torture prisoners were suffering in Abu Ghraib prison, and turned into a media frenzy full of scandal and cover-ups. One of the most notorious moments in recent U.S. military history.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, a group of intellectually disabled men, all from Texas, lived in a tired old schoolhouse. Every morning, well before dawn, they were bussed to a processing plant to eviscerate turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. From 1974 until 2009, the men lived in near servitude, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse -- until state social workers, local journalists,...
37) Lady in a cage
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013, 1964.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rich widow is trapped in her private elevator, nine feet from the floor, for ten terrifying hours. Unable to escape, her situation becomes desperate when the emergency alarm attracts a drunken derelict and his boozy prostitute friend, both bent on robbery.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read "Liberty,...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
xiii, 176 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Author Wolf shows that there are ten classic steps would-be dictators always take when they wish to close down an open society, and shows how each of those ten steps is underway in the United States today. Our Constitution was built to protect civil liberties and develop a careful system of checks and balances which protect our freedom from tyranny. Wolf argues that the escalation of executive power has eroded these core values and systems, limiting...
40) Nanking
Publisher
Thinkfilm, LLC
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the Westerners' letters and diaries.
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