Summary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSSummary: Story of a doctor touring Morocco with his wife and child who accidentally becomes involved in an anarchist plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat in London.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MANRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "Marcus Ryker has spent his entire career studying killers. One thing he knows for sure: a peace summit is the ultimate stage for an assassination. President Andrew Clarke is determined to announce his historic peace plan from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But when senior American officials who support the plan begin violently dying, Clarke orders Ryker and his team of CIA operatives to hunt...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROSSummary: After the battle with Itona, the students of Class 3-E settle back into a normal routine. Well, normal for a class filled with would-be assassins! As the weather turns warm, the class can₂t afford to laze about, and up their training under the guidance of Karasuma. But with the semester already half over, the government decides to send a new teacher to take over their training. Are his methods...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME ASSSummary: At Kunugigaoka Junior High School, Assassination Classroom class 3-E is the lowest of the low. With abysmal test scores and no future prospects, they've been given up on and hidden away from the main campus at the top of a deserted mountain. But when a super-powered tentacled creature with a thirst for destruction becomes their new teacher, they've got a brand new assignment to get them...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME ASSHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOPSummary: One year after the violent attack on the Pickett family, Joe and Marybeth try to pick up the pieces and move forward together. Joe journeys deep into the forest on the mysterious Bermuda Mountain in search of a lost hunter and makes a grim discovery. Meanwhile, Marybeth throws herself into her legal work in an effort to forget the loss her family suffered. This three-disc DVD collection...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Frank Guidry knows too much about the crime of the century: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Within hours of JFK's murder, everyone with ties to New Orleans' mob boss Carlos Marcello is turning up dead. Guidry was in Dallas on an errand for the boss less than two weeks before the president was shot. He hits the road to Las Vegas, to see an old associate who might help him vanish....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Berney 2018Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEBerry, Steve
Summary: "Luke Daniels is in London, between assignments with the Magellan Billet, when he receives a frantic call from an old friend. Jillian Stein is in trouble. She made a mistake and now her life may be in danger. She needs Luke's help. Immediately. Racing to Belgium, Luke quickly finds that she was right. A shadow team of highly trained operatives is there on the hunt. Intervening, he finds himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBox, C. J.
Summary: When the governor of Wyoming gives Joe Pickett the thankless task of taking a tech baron on an elk hunting trip, Joe reluctantly treks into the wilderness with his high-profile charge. But as they venture into the woods, a man-hunter is hot on their heels, driven by a desire for revenge. Finding himself without a weapon, a horse, or a way to communicate, Joe must rely on his wits and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOXBox, C. J.
Summary: "When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind. One survivor of the grizzly's rampage tells a bizarre story, but just as Joe begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, he is brought home by an emergency on his own turf. Someone has targeted a prominent local judge, shooting at him from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOXCaroll, Robin
Summary: "Elise Carmichael is a court sign language interpreter who reads lips all the time. As a widow with a young son who is deaf, lip reading is simply second nature, until the day she reads the lips of someone on the phone discussing an attempt to be made on a senator's life--a senator who just happens to be her mother-in-law. Before she can decide what she needs to do, she receives the information...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CARCarter, Ally
Summary: Grace Blakely believed that finding the truth about her mother's murder would finally give her peace, but now she knows that it is only the beginning of the secrets that will dominate her life--and make her a target on Embassy Row in Adria.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Carter 2016Coleman, Reed Farrel
Summary: All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jen, is about to marry a Dallas real estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. Those concerns get put on the back burner when a major Boston crime...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLLawson, Michael
Summary: Following an assassination attempt that wounds the president and kills the president's closest friend, General Andy Banks, the Secretary of Homeland Security, who had warned the Secret Service about the attack, initiates an investigation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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Summary: "The 3-E students discover that Koro Sensei's greatest weakness might be a common substance. Will they be able to use it to assassinate him while he helps Meg, formerly of the varsity swim team, with her greatest weakness? The next assassination attempt, implemented by Terasaka, is more elaborate but endangers his fellow students. Can he save them without saving his target? Then, the top class...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2015
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2 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ASSTaylor, Brad
Summary: "Pike Logan must stop a deranged fanatic bent on igniting an international conflagration in this explosive, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer, Brad Taylor"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TAYSummary: Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer returns to L.A. when it becomes clear that the only four people who know he is still alive are being targeted for assassination. The killings coincide with the signing of an anti-terrorism treaty with Russia, leading Jack to suspect a line between the assassinations, the treaty, and a group of Russian terrorists. But as the terror unfolds,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWESummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: When Finn Wallace, the head of London's most powerful crime family, is assassinated, no one knows who ordered the hit. With rivals everywhere, Finn's impulsive son Sean takes over and puts a stop to all criminal business in London until his father's killer is found. As the city is torn apart by the power struggles of the international gangs that control it, Sean finds the only person he can...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The killer class is back but this time they've got magic. In this brand new spin-off series, follow the chibis of class 3-E as they learn swordsmanship and sorcery at Kunugigaoka Magic School. Their mission? Defeat the evil Demon King Koro Sensei and face the trials and perils of their magical school.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME KORBox, C. J.
Summary: Assisting an investigation into a fatal grizzly attack that is not what it seems, Joe Pickett becomes embroiled in the case of a prominent judge's wife by a would-be assassin who was shooting from a confoundingly long distance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020