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21) The hollow ones
Author
Series
Blackwood tapes volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rookie FBI agent Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she's forced to turn her gun on her partner, Walt Leppo, a decorated FBI agent who becomes suddenly, inexplicably violent while apprehending a rampaging murderer. The shooting, justified by self-defense, shakes the young FBI agent to her core. Devastated, Odessa is placed on desk leave pending a full investigation. But what most troubles Odessa isn't the tragedy itself--it's the shadowy presence...
22) Sweet country
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighboring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards. But Sam's relationship with the cruel and ill-tempered Harry quickly deteriorates, culminating in a violent shootout in which Sam kills Harry in self-defense.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cheryl Glickman believes in romances that span centuries and a soul that migrates between babies. She works at a women's self-defense nonprofit and lives alone. When her bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter, Clee, can move into her house for a while, Cheryl's eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee -- the selfish, cruel blond bombshell -- who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly leads her to the love of a lifetime....
Author
Series
Lost lords of London volume 2
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Eight years ago, Lady Lila March retreated to the safe shadows of her family's estate after a devastating tragedy. Weary of being a whisper of her former self, she is determined to brave the dangers of the outside world again. No man is better equipped to train her in the art of defense than the Savage Gentleman, East London's undefeated street fighter. Hugh Savage reigns as king--of the underworld. Physically invulnerable, emotionally battered,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's promoted to detective, his fascination with the missing, gray-eyed...
Author
Publisher
Pitchstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the author's decades of experience teaching everyday people how to defend themselves and on a rational approach to the scientific data, The Gift of Violence provides the average person with the knowledge they need to reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim of violence -- and to survive a violent encounter"--
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"On Black Friday 2012, four African-American teenagers stopped at a gas station to buy gum and cigarettes. One of them, Jordan Davis, argued with Michael Dunn, a white man parked beside them, over the volume of music playing in their car. The altercation turned to tragedy when Dunn fired 10 bullets at the unarmed boys, killing Davis almost instantly. 3 1/2 minutes, ten bullets explores the danger and subjectivity of Florida's Stand Your Ground self-defense...
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