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62) Desierto
Publisher
Universal PIctures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous US-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there's nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 2015, several years before migrant caravans were making headlines, Levi Vonk, a young anthropologist and journalist, went to Mexico to live and work with migrants, in defiance of the conservative politics of his Southern hometown. There he made a friend who would change the course of his life-and quite possibly the course of Mexican history along with it. Axel Kirschner was a lifelong New Yorker, all Queens hustle and bravado, having been brought...
64) The coming storm
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The art of deception: When the handsome Adam Haines shows up at Kirby Fairchild's ancestral home looking for a quiet place to paint, she's more than skeptical. Yet the attraction she feels for him builds, whether she wants it to or not. But when Adam begins to act suspiciously, Kirby must uncover his real purpose at her father's home before it's too late. Otherwise Kirby might be in danger--of falling hard for a stranger who is even more practiced...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The timely, powerful memoir of a man unjustly charged with a crime for helping his relatives, refugees from Syria. For trying to save his in-laws, who were fleeing certain death in Syria, Stéphan Pélissier was threatened with fifteen years in prison by the Greek justice system, which accused him of human smuggling. His crime? Having gone to search for the parents, brother, and sister of his wife, Zéna, in Greece rather than leaving them to undertake...
67) Midnight express
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
This film is based on a true story. William Hayes, a naive young American vacationing with his girlfriend in Istanbul, Turkey, tries to smuggle a couple of kilos of hash out of the country. He is caught, thrown into a Turkish prison, and subsequently raped, tortured, and forced into the brutality that defines the inmates' constant struggle for survival. There are other foreigners there, many for smuggling, and word is that the only way out of the...
68) Perilous waters
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
FBI dive instructor Jessie Madison's survival skills are stretched to breaking point when she is plunged into danger in this exhilarating thriller -- the first in a pulsating new series. Jessie Madison escaped to the Bahamas when she made a terrifying discovery at home and a bad decision got her dismissed from the FBI training program. Three months later, Jessie is ready to return to Virginia to pick up the pieces of her shattered life -- until she...
69) Julia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Born to great wealth, the fiercely independent Julia devotes her life to political causes, fighting fascism in the 1930's. While traveling in Europe, the playwright Lillian Hellman, a friend of Julia's, is swept into a dangerous world, smuggling money across hostile borders. DVD format.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 14
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1990, c1935
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Despite attempts against their lives, Frank and Joe accept a case involving the most powerful man in a small town in Georgia and an allegation of piracy and smuggling.
Author
Series
Kindom trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jun Ironway--hacker, con artist, and occasional thief--has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for life: proof that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems. And someone is sure to pay handsomely for anything that could break their hold. Of course, anything valuable is...
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