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California Los Angeles Criminal behavior Criminal investigation Criminal investigation California Los Angeles Drama Criminal psychology California Los Angeles Drama Lesbians California Los Angeles Drama Los Angeles (Calif.) Drama Murder Investigation Policía California Los Ángeles Teatro United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation DramaSummary: The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GAR1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GAR
Summary: The biggest cases demand the best cops, so when a little girl goes missing or a Homeland Security official takes a long drive off a short cliff or a '90s serial killer revives his career in the 21st century, the LAPD knows to call Brenda Johnson and her crack team from the Priority Homicide Division.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A tough, CIA-trained detective with Southern charm has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. With her offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a force to reckon with.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLOSummary: "The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXIHahn, Emanuel
Summary: "A successful self-published project, now in a new and expanded trade package, Koreatown Dreaming offers readers an intimate look into the lives of shopkeepers and small business owners in Los Angeles Koreatown. A touching homage to Korean immigrants everywhere, this book will resonate with the growing audience of people interested in Korean culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 HAHSummary: Sean Archer is a tough and rugged FBI Agent. He is still grieving for his dead son, Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is now his sworn enemy and happens to be the very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. Archer corners Castor. Their fight knocks Troy out cold. Archer finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FACSummary: Mick St. John is a private investigator 'living' in Los Angeles. Mick's bride turned him into a vampire on the couple's wedding night fifty-five years earlier. In the present day, he struggles with his love for a mortal woman, his dealings with other vampires and other criminal elements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOOSummary: A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Cutthroat defense attorney Sebastian Stark has made a career out of bending the rules, manipulating the system, humiliating prosecutors and getting ruthless criminals off the hook. But, with the blood of an innocent woman on his hands, Stark has a change of heart and takes a job with the Los Angeles District Attorney's high-profile crime unit, leading a promising but inexperienced team of young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHAHambly, Barbara
Summary: "1924. After six months in Hollywood, young British widow Emma Blackstone has come to love her new employer, glamourous movie-star Kitty Flint--even if her late husband's sister is one of the worst actresses she's ever seen. Looking after Kitty and her three adorable Pekinese dogs isn't work academically-minded Emma dreamed of, but Kitty rescued her when she was all alone in the world. Now, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: His picture is on magazine covers, his name in lights. Ex-con artist and gangster Dan Quigley is "doing all right in this movie racket," a big man in Hollywood. But if his criminal past resurfaces, he could end up in the big house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LADSummary: The powerful crime drama featuring some of television's favorite characters continues for another gripping season of cases as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAJSummary: Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson has an offbeat personality, uses a tough-as-nails approach, and has a track record as one of the country's leading investigators. For the Atlanta transplant heading up the Priority Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, her position on this elite detective squad, which handles high-profile cases of a sensitive nature, is a tenuous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLOSummary: O2 is an ex-con who is trying to go straight. His life takes a deadly turn when his son gets kidnapped in a carjacking and held for ransom by a ruthless druglord. With a street-smart hustler as his partner and his shady cousin along for the ride, O2 races through the violent streets of Los Angeles in a desperate attempt to outsmart rival gangs and save his son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAIKadrey, Richard.
Summary: "Sandman Slim investigates Death's death in this hip, propulsive urban fantasy through a phantasmagoric LA rife with murder, mayhem, and magic. James Stark has met his share of demons and angels, on earth and beyond. Now, he's come face to face with the one entity few care to meet: Death. Someone has tried to kill Death--ripping the heart right out of him--or rather the body he's inhabiting....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KADSummary: "At work, L.A. Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a woman in charge. Got a suspect to grill, a case to crack, a murderer about to walk? Call Brenda in and watch the fireworks. But at home ... well, that's another story ... As a cop, Brenda takes on everytihing from a corpse that comes COD to a serial killer to Sharon Raydor, an internal affairs officer as tough as she is. As a civilian, Brenda...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLOSummary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUGSherman, Casey
Summary: "Hollywood starlet Lana Turner was one Tinseltown's most recognizable faces in the 1940s and 50s. But, when the Academy Award-winning actress began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato-a thug for west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen-all the lights and glamor of Hollywood did not brighten the darkness of her personal life. Johnny's intense jealousy over Lana ruled their relationship from the get-go and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: With Vince's star expected to rise even higher in the Hollywood firmament as a result of his starring role in a potential blockbuster titled "Aquaman," Eric, Drama, Turtle and Ari must find a way to keep stroking their golden goose while making sound decisions for a long-lasting career in a world of fleeting fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ENTOrlean, Susan
Summary: Susan Orlean re-opens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to the beloved institution of libraries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio 2018