Summary: The story of a botched bank robbery that occurred August 22, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York and turned into a bizarre hostage situation lasting all day. The lead robber wishes to obtain funding for a sex-change operation for his gay lover.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DOGSummary: Three separate stories about love in Puerto Rico: a man accidentally reveals his brother's extra-marital affair to his sister-in-law when he mistakes her grief over the death of her grandmother for distress about the infidelity. The next story revolves around a man whose love for a bus driver drives him to take her and the bus passengers hostage until she consents to marriage. In the final...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MALLopez, Ben.
Summary: This extraordinary book reads like a thriller - but for those involved in the stories within, the drama and the tension are all too real. In the high-stakes world of hostage negotiations, every call is a matter of life and death.Ben Lopez spends his life traveling the world, working for governments, law enforcement agencies, multinational corporations and private clients, Ben is an expert K&R...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 362.88 LOPPicoult, Jodi
Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center a women's reproductive health services clinic its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICEason, Lynette
Summary: "FBI special agent Julianna Jameson is a top-notch negotiator who has never lost a hostage. Surely she can manage to take care of her much younger sister, Dottie, who showed up unannounced to live with Julianna while she finished her senior year of high school.A former sniper with the 75th Ranger Regiment, Clay Fox left the army after a tragic incident that he can't get past. Now he's working...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EASPayne, Thymaya
Summary: Using audio recordings and found footage, depicts the capture of the crew of the Danish-owned merchant ship, the CEC Future, who were held hostage for two months by Somali pirates in 2008.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STOGrisham, John
Summary: What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRISummary: New York Metropolitan Transit Authority train dispatcher Walter Garber's day is turned upside down when he must face-off against Ryder, the criminal mind that has hijacked the passengers of subway train, Pelham 1-2-3. Ryder is the leader of a highly-armed gang of four, including a henchman who used to work for the MTA. NYPD Hostage Negotiator Detective Camonetti initially takes charge of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Taking 2009Brown, Sandra
Summary: While following a story TV reporter Tiel McCoy learns why two young runaways fear a wealthy father more than the FBI, and why she must defend them at all costs.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROBrown, Sandra
Summary: TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving through New Mexico when she hears over the radio that Sabra Dendy, the pregnant 17-year-old daughter of multimillionaire Russell Dendy, has been kidnapped. When Tiel stops at a gas station, an armed couple robs the cashier and the female burglar goes into labor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROHenderson, Dee.
Summary: FBI agent Dave Richman from Danger in the Shadows is back -- and about to meet Kate O'Malley. A hostage negotiator in Chicago, Kate is a legend on the force, willing to walk into any situation. Dave is a Christian, but Kate isn't. Their relationship is going to be a challenge.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HENDEHerron, Mick.
Summary: Jaime is trying to find his lover, Miro, who is missing together with a huge sum of money intended for reconstruction work in Iraq. Those outside the nursery school where he has taken hostages would like Jaime silenced.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Constable 2008
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Summary: Police Lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara found her caling at an early age, when a violently unstable man brokie into her family's home, trapping and terrorizing them for hours. Now she's Savannah's top hostage negotiator, who puts her life on the line every day to defuse powder-keg situations. Sometimes those skills cme in handy at home when Phoebe deals with her agoraphobic mother, still traumatized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBPicoult, Jodi
Summary: "In late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts into a center of a women's reproductive health services clinic and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PICDeaver, Jeffery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEABlack, Lisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BLACooper, Susan Rogers
Summary: When sheriff Milt Kovaks arrests Darrell Blanton for murder, Darnell's mother, Eunice, storms an inn where detective Kovaks' wife is hosting a bachelorette party and threatens to kill a partygoer every ten minutes until her son is released.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Pub Ltd 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOFox, Candice
Summary: "Following their daughter's mysterious disappearance, Ryan and Elsie Delaney have taken the LAPD forensic lab hostage, and have given law enforcement an ultimatum: Find their daughter, Tilly, or they will destroy all the evidence they can find to other cold cases. Detective Charlie Hoskins has been undercover in a deadly motorcycle gang for five years. With his cover blown, he has no choice but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FOXHenderson, Dee.
Summary: Chicago hostage negotiator Kate O'Malley meets FBI agent Dave Richman while she's talking a bank gunman into releasing hostages. Impressed by her professionalism and attracted to her personally, Dave starts courting Kate, only to discover that she's not a Christian, a major stumbling block for him. He's also about to find out that falling in love with a hostage negotiator is one thing, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2005
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Summary: It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross has been called out to catch someone who's robbing his church's poor box. That mission behind him, Alex returns home to celebrate with Bree, Nana, and his children. The tree decorating is barely underway before his phone rings again, a horrific hostage situation is quickly spiraling out of control. Away from his own family on the most precious of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATRobards, Karen
Summary: Twas the night before Christmas, and dozens of rich, influential hostages are trapped inside a sprawling lakefront mansion in New Orleans. The perp? Detective Reed Ware, model cop turned outlaw. After receiving a panicked call from Hollis "Holly" Bayard, a teenage street tough with a penchant for amateur sleuthing who stumbles upon the scene of a drug-deal-turned- murder, Ware finds his and his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROBKing, David
Summary: "The definitive account of the bizarre hostage drama that gave rise to the term "Stockholm Syndrome." On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked into the main branch of Sveriges Kreditbank, a prominentbank in central Stockholm. He ripped out a submachine gun, fired it into the ceiling, and shouted, "The party starts!" This was the beginning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 KINPicoult, Jodi
Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center a women's reproductive health services clinic its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Picoult 2018García Márquez, Gabriel
Summary: This astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women - all journalists but one - by the Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1996