Innes, Brian
Summary: Provides the history of torture, from its earliest uses right up to the present day, explaining the tools and techniques of torture, and also details the fight against torture through the work of international campaigners such as Amnesty International.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.6 INNSummary: This program focuses on General Stilicho, who, as guardian of the young Emperor Honorius, became the de facto commander-in-chief of the Roman armies in the West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Hale, Rebecca M.
Summary: After she finds a note from her late uncle instructing her to "follow the frogs," amid rumors of treasure and murder, Rebecca gets caught up in the chase, along with her two cats, her uncle's crazy friends, and his oldest enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALBolton, Guy
Summary: Jonathan Craine has left his old life in Hollywood behind him, content to live out his days on a farm in rural California with his teenage son. But when infamous mobster and Las Vegas founder Bugsy Siegel is killed at his home in Beverly Hills, Craine is forced to face his past once again. Summoned to Las Vegas to meet mob head Meyer Lansky, Craine is given the impossible task of finding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bolton 2018Rule, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 RULRule, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 RuleKallen, Stuart A.
Summary: "In 2019 the Anime Expo attracted over 115,000 people from all over the world to the Los Angeles Convention Center. The expo, which is the largest anime convention in North America, would not exist without Japanese comics called manga. While appealing to the masses, most mangaka work alone. They write the scripts for the stories and draw every panel themselves. Because manga are a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 741.2 KALRule, Ann.
Summary: Why would a man kill his lover's husband and then his wife, the woman who fought successfully to have him paroled from prison? Why would he risk arrest by kidnapping the child of another woman who adored him? Because they were worth more dead. Go deep inside the darkest crimes and the twisted minds of the most baffling killers and schemers with this collection of chilling cases from Ann Rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 RULPill, Maggie.
Summary: Lorilee Riley has eight cats and a home and yard in Florida to see to. That ought to be enough to keep a senior citizen busy, but when she finds a corpse in her flower bed, Lorilee wants to know who put it there. Later, the question becomes why the police aren't a hundred percent dedicated to finding out who killed Regina Dean. Once she figures out the problem with the official investigation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999
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Summary: Collects true crime stories about sociopaths who kill ruthlessly, including the tale of a sea captain who is tricked into marriage and cheated out of his fortune by the mother of his illegitimate children before being murdered by her and her brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.2 Rule,Rule, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press/Thomson/Gale 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 RULRule, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Star Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 RULHarper, Benjamin
Summary: In this humorous adaptation of the fairy tale, Mama Goat sets out to get pizza for little Mikey's birthday party, first warning her seven kids not to fall for Mr. Wolf's tricks--but Mr. Wolf is hungry, clever, and persistent, and when Mama returns and finds six of her babies gone, she sets out to make a citizen's arrest and put a stop to Mr. Wolf's villainy forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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Summary: Looks at different divisions of law enforcement on both the national and at the community level, discussing how they protect citizens, reduce crime, and serve their communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 363.2 HARHarper, Benjamin
Summary: In this humorous adaptation of a lesser-known Grimm fairy tale, Forest Ranger Dan finds a strange baby in a bird's nest and raises him along with his own baby daughter, Cassie; Birdy proves to have magic powers, and the cook at the Dark Woods Station (who is a witch, and makes really horrible food) wants to use him as an ingredient in her latest magic brew--so it is up to Birdy and Cassie to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE HARHarris, Duchess
Summary: Examines all aspects of capital punishment in the United States, and discusses the history behind the death penalty in the United States, plus varying opinions about the ethics of capital punishment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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Summary: "The Juvenile Justice System examines all aspects of juvenile justice in the United States. It discusses the history behind the US juvenile justice system and how juveniles are affected by the system. Features include a glossary, further readings, websites, source notes, and an index."--Google books
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 364.3 HARBoyce, Trudy Nan
Summary: A prequel to the Detective Sarah "Salt" Alt series recounts the story behind the case that earned Salt her promotion to homicide, describing her early career work as a beat cop in Atlanta's most at-risk housing project, where a cast of misfits and criminals have a profound impact on her later cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYBoyce, Trudy Nan
Summary: "A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the community--set in a city at its boiling point--from an author who's been in the trenches and seen it all. A senseless act of violence. During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College, a historically black women's institution, are assaulted by rifle fire from a passing vehicle. On her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M BOYSummary: A Meridian Production.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Gardner, Lisa
Summary: Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who's never stopped loving her, a brother who is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP MYSTERY GARMarillier, Juliet
Summary: Award-winning author Juliet Marillier's lavishly detailed Blackthorn & Grim series continues as a mysterious creature holds an enchanted and imperiled ancient Ireland in thrall. Disillusioned healer Blackthorn and her companion, Grim, have settled in Dalriada to wait out the seven years of Blackthorn's bond to her fey mentor, hoping to avoid any dire challenges. But trouble has a way of seeking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ROC 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARGardner, Lisa
Summary: A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun. D.D. Warren arrives on the scene and recognizes the woman - Evie Carter. Evie's father was killed in a shooting that was ruled an accident. But for D.D., two coincidental murders is too many. Flora Dane sees the murder of Conrad Carter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019