Wilkie, Curtis

Summary: "The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK chapter responsible for a brutal civil rights-era killing. By early 1966, the civil rights work of Vernon Dahmer, head of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP and a dedicated advocate for voter registration, was well-known in Mississippi. This put him in the crosshairs of the White Knights, one of the most...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 WIL

McCabe, Andrew (Andrew George)

Summary: "On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President Donald Trump celebrated on Twitter: 'Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI--A great day for Democracy.' In [this...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 MCC

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCABE MCC

Grann, David

Summary: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 976 GRA

Kitfield, James

Summary: "When U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of 2014, it signaled the end of the longest conflict in the nation's history. Yet we are still at war--no longer with other states, but with a host of new enemies, from nihilistic terrorists and narco-traffickers to transnational criminal cartels, lone wolf assassins, and modern-day pirates. Standing against these foes is a tight-knit...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 KIT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 KIT

Price, David H.

Summary: "When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and government agencies and corporations use computers to monitor our private lives. David H. Price pulls back the curtain to reveal how the FBI and other government agencies have always functioned as the secret...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pluto Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.44 PRI

Patterson, James

Summary: FBI agent John O'Hara and Special Agent Sarah Brubaker hunt an ingenious pair of serial killers whose victims all have one chilling thing in common--they're newlyweds.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2013

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Friend, Stephen

Summary: A suspended special agent explains his decision to turn whistleblower and expose FBI politicization and abuse against conservative America. Stephen Friend had his dream job as an FBI special agent. After nearly a decade of combating violent crime, human trafficking, and child predators, he was reassigned to the FBI's unprecedented investigation of the political unrest at the United States...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEND, STEPHEN FRI

Lichtblau, Eric.

Summary: "The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.1 LIC

Gage, Beverly

Summary: "A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOOVER, J. EDGAR GAG

Summary: On March 8, 1971, eight ordinary citizens broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, a town just outside of Philadelphia, took hundreds of secret files, and shared them with the public. In doing so, they uncovered the FBI's vast and illegal regime of spying and intimidation of Americans exercising their First Amendment rights. Despite conducting one of the most thorough investigations in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NIN

Weiss, Murray.

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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.32 WEI

Hogan, Lawrence J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amlex 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 HOG

Grann, David

Summary: "This essential book introduces young readers to the Reign of Terror against the Osage people--one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021

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Grann, David

Summary: Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018

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Grann, David

Summary: Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur Grann

Elnoury, Tamer

Summary: It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELNOURY, TAMER ELN

Grann, David

Summary: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. David Grann revisits a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 976 GRA

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Coulter, Catherine

Summary: "When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian's parents were murdered. Fourteen years later, Kirra is an attorney in Porte Franklyn, Virginia, and her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why. Emma Hunt, a piano prodigy and the granddaughter of powerful crime boss Mason Lord, was only six years old when she was abducted. Then, Emma was saved by her adoptive father. Now a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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Freeh, Louis J.

Summary: A former head of the FBI describes his appointment to the Bureau, efforts to overcome under-funding and outdated technical resources, and determination to reform the FBI while protecting its freedom from political interference.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 FRE

Felt, W. Mark

Summary: This account of Mark Felt's FBI career, from the end of the great American crime wave through World War II, the culture wars of the 1960s, and his conviction for his role in penetrating the Weather Underground, provides a historical and personal context to the "Deep Throat" chapter of his life. It also provides Felt's personal recollections of the Watergate scandal, which he wrote in 1982 and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FELT, W. MARK FEL

Neggers, Carla

Summary: The murder of a federal prosecutor with an art forgery in his hotel room draws FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan and HIT, their small, elite Boston-based team, into a high-stakes hunt for an assassin who has killed before and will kill again. The high-stakes hunt draws on Emma's expertise in art crimes and her past as a novice with a convent specializing in art conservation, on Colin's...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NEG

Walder, Tracy

Summary: "A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WALDER WAL