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Dallas, Eve (Fictitious character) Fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction Judicial error Fiction Large type books New York (N.Y.) Fiction Police corruption Fiction Police corruption New York (State) New York Fiction Police New York (State) New York Fiction Private investigators Fiction Women detectives New York (State) New York FictionSummary: On an island adjacent to the Bronx sits one of America's most notorious jail systems, known for much of the past century as a place of inmate-on-inmate cruelty. But violence has decreased by 90 percent at Rikers since 1999. This MSNBC documentary examines Rikers then and now, spotlighting the measures that have reduced conflict among a population of 15,000 offenders. New York City Department of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Elmo Hope Ensemble
Contents: One for Joe -- Ecstasy -- Three silver quarters -- A night in Tunisia -- Trippin' -- It shouldn't happen to a dream -- Kevin -- Monique -- Groovin' high.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fresh Sound Records 1963
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HOPSaadiq, Raphael
Contents: Sinners prayer (4:34) -- So ready (4:19) -- This world is drunk (4:24) -- Something keeps calling (featuring Rob Bacon) (4:45) -- Kings fall (2:46) -- I'm feeling love (3:04) -- My walk (2:16) -- Belongs to God (feat. Reverend E. Baker) (2:05) -- Dottie interlude (0:07) -- Glory to the veins (feat. Ernest Turner) (2:05) -- Rikers Island (3:39) -- Rikers Island redux (feat. Daniel J. Watts)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SAARobb, J. D.
Summary: When a monster named Isaac McQueen--taken down by Eve back in her uniform days--escapes from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Robb 2011Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ROBMosley, Walter
Summary: After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOSRobb, J. D.
Summary: When a monster named Isaac McQueen, taken down by homicide cop Eve Dallas back in her uniform days, escapes from Rikers Island, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROBRossi, Veronica
Summary: After regaining consciousness from a seemingly fatal accident, eighteen-year-old U.S. Army Ranger Gideon Blake discovers that he is War, one the legendary Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and together with Conquest, Famine, and Death, must save humanity from an ancient evil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ROSMosley, Walter
Summary: Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSPava, Sergio de la
Summary: "From the author of the acclaimed, PEN/Bingham Prize-winning A Naked Singularity; a shockingly hilarious novel that tackles, with equal aplomb, both America's most popular sport and its criminal justice system. From Paterson, New Jersey to Rikers Island to the streets of New York City, Sergio De La Pava's Lost Empress introduces readers to a cast of characters unlike any other in modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAVSmith, Michael F.
Summary: In a hurricane-ravaged Mississippi of the near future, a man who elects to remain behind when most people have fled the area is brutally attacked by two hitchhikers who steal his supplies, a crime that prompts him to pursue justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The importance of guidance programs for prisoners can’t be overstressed—they help society as well as the individual reentering it. Following young people who have been discharged from Rikers Island Academy, this program focuses on the payoffs that come from educational and counseling services for those behind bars. A lively peer-to-peer class setting is featured, while the process of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Robb, J.D.
Summary: The new novel from the #1 New York Times -bestselling author, which takes readers deeper into the mind of Eve Dallas than ever before. The number-one New York Times -bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take her all the way to the city that gave her her name-and plunge her into the nightmares of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2011
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Rivera, Andrea
Summary: "This title focuses on lake and river habitats and gives information related to science, technology, art, and math concepts. The title is complete with colorful photographs, simple text, and a database for added activities." -- Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.6 RIVMosley, Walter
Summary: Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island. A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. Broken by the brutality he suffered and committed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mullholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOSBausum, Ann
Summary: How did two youths-one raised in an all-black community in the deep South, the other brought up with only whites in the Midwest-become partners for freedom during the civil rights movement of the 1960s? Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.09 BauWeis, Margaret.
Summary: "In a world where magic is intrinsic to the fabric of everyday life, two kingdoms, centuries-long enemies, have long sought a powerful magical weapon that will win them lasting dominance. But neither realm is ready when they are both attacked by the Bottom-Dwellers, a bitter people whose own land was destroyed, and who now live only to take vengeance on those they blame for a wretched life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013