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"Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know. It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster care. But now that she's survived into adulthood--with a loving husband, a steady job, and a beautiful baby boy named Alex--she thought that turmoil was behind her. Until one Tuesday evening when she goes to pick up Alex from childcare only to discover he's been removed by Social Services....
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Riktor doesn't like the way the policeman storms into his home without even knocking. He doesn't like the arrogant way he walks around the house, taking note of its contents. The policeman doesn't bother to explain why he's there, and Riktor is too afraid to ask. He knows he's guilty of a terrible crime and he's sure the policeman has found him out. But when the policeman finally does confront him, Riktor freezes. The man is arresting him for something...
Author
Series
John Hayes novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
John Byrne, a retired army doctor, has been working in the overnight ER of a Washington D.C. hospital, trying to outrun his past. This past includes service in a disgraced Special Ops Command Squad accused of committing an atrocious massacre. Thomas Hayes, the squad's leader who has been in hiding, reaches out to Byrne to enlist his help with a series of heists that will either prove their innocence - or culminate in a catastrophic terrorist attack....
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"At age sixteen, Brian Banks was a happy, popular high school junior -- and a nationally recruited All-American Football player, ranked eleventh in the nation as a linebacker. But before his seventeenth birthday, he was in jail, awaiting trial on charges of a heinous sexual assault he did not commit. As a young black man accused of rape, he faced almost certain conviction. Despite being innocent, Brian took a plea and was sentenced as an adult to...
7) Maggie's man
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Series
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English
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When shy and reserved Maggie Ferringer was called for jury duty she never expected to be kidnapped by an escaped convict. But when Cain Cannon disguised as a prison guard pulls a gun she has no choice but to be taken hostage. Cain claims that he's innocent of killing his girlfriend six years ago and now he wants revenge on the people who put him behind bars. Soon Maggie becomes more than just a hostage to Cain. As they slowly begin to share the secrets...
8) No way out
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress.
9) Amsterdam
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Language
English
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Description
In the 1930s, three friends--a doctor, a nurse, and a lawyer--reunite and seek to uncover a political conspiracy following the mysterious murder of a retired U.S. general.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fugitive, falsely accused of murder, is aided by a schoolteacher and a Supreme Court nominee in George Stevens' serio-comic look at law and justice in America.
11) Gang related
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Corrupt detectives Rodriguez and Divinci, having framed an innocent man for the murder of an undercover DEA agent, will find their lives unravelling when their activities come under the scrutiny of DEA investigator Richard Simms." -- back of container.
12) Mad dogs
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Pub
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Signed hardcover edition; first edition.
Physical Desc
578 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
14) The ex: a novel
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Language
English
Description
After agreeing to defend her ex-fiancé when he is arrested for a triple homicide, top criminal lawyer, Olivia Randall begins to have doubts as the evidence mounts against him.
15) Phantom lady
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Language
English
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An unhappily married man spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home to find his wife strangled and to be arrested for her murder. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (secretly in love with him) doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Will she be able to...
16) The wrong man
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Description
The first Hitchcock film based on a true story. A nightclub musician is falsely accused of a robbery, an accusation that ruins his life.
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016, 1971.
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful Gothic suspense tale of a man wrongly accused of murder, who is committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. While imprisoned, he makes a series of incredible escapes to methodically wreak vengeance on those responsible for putting him there.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xiv, 302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Relocating to New York after finishing design school, Boyet Hernandez embarks on a promising career only to be wrongly accused of terrorist ties and locked up indefinitely in a tiny cell where he frantically prepares for a trial.
19) Code of honor
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Series
Language
English
Description
As President of the United States, Jack Ryan has faced many challenges, but none have been as personal as this and never has he been this helpless in the face of evil in the latest entry in Tom Clancy's series. Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Loyola University. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he's been...
Series
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackson County Jail: A young woman traveling cross country finds herself stranded in a remote town after two psychotic hitchhikers steal her car. She seeks refuge in a local bar and is thrown overnight in jail where things only get worse. Caged heat: Traditional sex-and-violence formula of babes behind bars, gratuitous nudity and a corrupt prison system transformed into rebel burst of girl power!
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