Summary: A retired safecracker thought his criminal past was behind him for good, but when his witless son-in-law fails to repay a ruthless loan shark, violent threats force him to take on one last job to protect his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DEBHiss Golden Messenger (Musical group)
Contents: Balthazar's song -- No lord is free -- Bad debt -- O little light -- Straw man red sun river gold -- Far bright star -- The serpent is kind (compared to man) -- Call him daylight -- Jesus shot me in the head -- Super blue (two days clean) -- Roll river roll -- Drum.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Paradise of Bachelors 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HISSummary: Music from the soundtrack of the film by Stephanie Black. Set in Jamaica, the film is a case study of how contemporary free trade policies and global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Trade Organization affect the economies of developing nations.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuff Gong International 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC LIFSummary: The story begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel and Stephan about their former colleague David. All three have been venerated for decades by Israel because of the secret mission that they embarked on for their country back in 1965-1966, when the trio tracked down Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel, the feared Surgeon of Birkenau, in East Berlin. At great risk,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEBCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DEBSummary: Recognizing that students may have hazy notions about the consequences of over-spending, this program provides practical information about credit card use, credit reports, credit problems, and managing debt. Viewers learn how to build a credit history and raise a low credit score-and why this is important. Taking a look at a sample credit card statement, the video explains the various fees,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Jamaica became an independent country from Great Britain in 1962. It is the land of sea, sand and sun ... but it is also a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries. Effectively portrays the relationship between Jamaican poverty and the practices of international lending agencies while driving home the devasting consequences of globalization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIFSummary: Student loans. Medical bills. Mortgages. The national deficit. Debt touches so many parts of American life, from the individual citizen to the United States as a whole. A complex issue, debt can be alternately beneficial, such as when building credit, or it can do irreparable damage to a person's credit score, housing prospects, lifestyle, and more. The articles collected in this volume trace...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Magazine, Call number: NY Times Headlines 332.7 Personal 2020Clancy, Tom
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1994
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLAAtwood, Margaret
Summary: Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt, exploring debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 ATWGoodkind, Terry.
Summary: The story of young Abby's struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zeld Zorander, the most important man alive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Fantasy 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOO ST #0.5Bach, David.
Summary: GOODBYE DEBT--HELLO FREEDOM! Most of us grew up with the idea that there is good debt and there is bad debt. Good debts are generally considered to be debts you incur to buy things that can go up in value--like a home or college education. Bad debts are things like credit card balances, where you borrowed money to buy things that depreciate or go down in value, like most consumer goods. ...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2010
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Hightower, Lynn S.
Summary: Detective Sonora Blair finds herself involved in a bizarre case after a retired cop hands her a list of suspects in a recent home invasion that left an entire family dead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGClancy, Tom
Summary: A Japanese financier seeks revenge on the United States for the death of his parents during World War II, devising a scheme which threatens to plunge the world into another world war. Jack Ryan, the president's national security advisor, is given the task of stopping him. By the author of Clear and Present Danger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLASummary: Should American money be issued as a public utility instead of as credit? In this program Hazel Henderson explores monetary restructuring with Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth about Our Money. Brown’s premise is that because dollars are no longer backed by gold they are actually being loaned as freshly-created money, a practice she finds deceptive and destabilizing. Using...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Graeber, David.
Summary: "Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems--to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 GRAWendig, Chuck
Summary: In the aftermath of the destruction of the second Death Star and the defeat of the Emperor and Darth Vader, Han Solo and Chewbacca set out to liberate the Wookiee's homeworld of Kashyyyk. Meanwhile, Norra Wexley and her band of Imperial hunters pursue the Empire's remaining leadership across the galaxy, bringing them to justice. Wexley abandons her official mission when she receives news that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2016
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Wendig 2016Trudeau, Kevin.
Summary: Kevin Trudeau blows the lid off the banking and credit card industries, exposing the greatest rip off of our citizens in this nation's history, then offers solutions to your debt problems while at the same time keeping more money in your pocket and using credit to build your wealth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Equity Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 TRUSummary: For decades, experts have hailed microcredit as the paramount solution to global poverty. But there is a lesser-known version of that story in which Grameen Bank founder Mohammad Yunus and other promoters of miniaturized finance appear to serve mostly their own interests. Bringing to light a range of potentially unethical practices and policies, this program explores the microcredit system that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Blohm, Craig E.
Summary: Presents information and advice for teens about how to budget and use money wisely, covering credit and debit cards and loans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 332.3 BLOSummary: Indentured servitude, however dehumanizing, played a role in the colonization and development of early America. But its 21st-century incarnation, the practice of debt bondage, contributes virtually nothing to the common good of southern Asia. This program examines the plight of workers in India's rural areas, exposing the conditions in which they toil to pay off staggering personal debts. More...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Kelly, Erin Skye
Summary: Erin Skye Kelly wrote Get the Hell Out of Debt after her own struggle to become consumer-debt free. She was tired of listening to middle-aged men in suits tell her to consolidate and refinance her debt when all that seemed to happen was she'd end up in more of it while they profited from it. When Kelly figured out the two most important tools to money management--and started achieving massive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2021
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Summary: While browsing the Vatican libraries, Harvard professor Cal Donovan uncovers a secret that could bankrupt the Catholic church. Unearthing evidence of a 200-year-old loan which the Vatican owes to a Jewish bank, Cal deduces that, with centuries of interest behind it, the sum now amounts to a crippling 25 billion Euros. With the future of the Vatican at stake, Pope Celestine asks Cal to intercede...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cooper 2019Summary: When gambling debt and an expensive courtship place working-class brothers in a financial bind, a rich uncle offers them an out in exchange for committing murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CASRamsey, Dave.
Summary: "Ramsey offers a bold, no-nonsense approach to money matters, providing not only the how-to but also a grounded and uplifting hope for getting out of debt and achieving total financial health. Ramsey debunks the many myths of money (exposing the dangers of cash advance, rent-to-own, debt consolidation) and attacks the illusions and downright deceptions of the American dream, which encourages...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2013