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1) Lord of war
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English
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. His relationship with his younger brother is somewhat volatile, he is married to a famous model, and he is relentlessly pursued...
2) M:i:III
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this pulse-racing, mind-bending action thriller, Ethan Hunt confronts the toughest villain he's ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience.
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Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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New York Times bestselling author J. F. Freedman delivers a catch-your-breath thriller about an unsuspecting birdwatcher who becomes a witness to a murder.
Cast out of academia due to an amorous indiscretion, Fritz Tullisretreats to his family's estate in southern Maryland. While photographing a rare whooping crane who's flown off course, he notices a plane land on his neighbor 's airstrip. Three men get off the plane, and Fritz sees...
Cast out of academia due to an amorous indiscretion, Fritz Tullisretreats to his family's estate in southern Maryland. While photographing a rare whooping crane who's flown off course, he notices a plane land on his neighbor 's airstrip. Three men get off the plane, and Fritz sees...
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Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Mark Lynch ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she's known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Lynch's trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells. When the investigation leads to a privileged Scottish lawyer who's expecting to be assassinated after a money laundering scheme goes bad, and a woman...
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Series
Indranan war volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Former gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to fill her rightful position in the palace. With her sisters and parents murdered, the Indranan empire is on the brink of war. Hail must quickly make alliances with nearby worlds if she has any hope of surviving her rule. When peace talks turn violent and Hail realizes she's been betrayed, she must rely on her old gunrunning ways to get out of trouble. With help from...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine...
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English
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"In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming -- the nearest town to America's first national monument, Devils Tower -- to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, a military-grade vehicle donated...
8) Run
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English
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The buyers find us. Establish their bona fides.
Then, and only then, we run.
Burdon Lane is a businessman living out the American Dream in a shiny suburb of Washington, D.C. His business card lists him as Executive VP of UniArms, Inc., a legitimate arms dealer that's a front for a gunrunning empire. His girlfriend thinks he's a salesman. His best friend thinks he's a role model. His boss thinks he's a good soldier.
This...
Then, and only then, we run.
Burdon Lane is a businessman living out the American Dream in a shiny suburb of Washington, D.C. His business card lists him as Executive VP of UniArms, Inc., a legitimate arms dealer that's a front for a gunrunning empire. His girlfriend thinks he's a salesman. His best friend thinks he's a role model. His boss thinks he's a good soldier.
This...
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A group of heroic figures spans the globe protecting democracy and freedom against terrorism. Learning that power-hungry North Korea dictator Kim Jong Il is out to destroy the world, the team recruits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover as a terrorist. With the help of Team America, Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer's hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world.
10) Valdez is coming
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English
Description
Touching on the themes of the popular FX series Justified featuring U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens, Valdez Is Coming is New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard's classic western tale of corruption, justice, and vengeance.
Forced to gun down an innocent man, part-time sheriff Roberto Valdez is nearly killed and run out of town when he seeks justice for the dead man's family. But the same townsfolk who laughed at Valdez's dark skin, mocked...
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 656 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Ride full-throttle with the Sons of Anarchy into the most intense, adrenaline charged season ever! Out of prison and back in business, SAMCRO faces a powerful new nemesis as they forge an unlikely alliance and head in a dangerous new direction. As a deadly internal power struggle rocks the club to its very core, Jax struggles with the legacy of his father and makes plans for the future of his family amid chaos, corruption, betrayal, and murder.
12) A delicate truth
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English
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Gibraltar, 2008. A counter-terrorist operation codenamed Wildlife is mounted on the British crown colony to abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. So delicate is the operation that even the Foreign Office Minister's secretary is not cleared for it. Cornwall, UK, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be - or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up?...
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 895 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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From creator Kurt Sutter, comes the adrenaline-charged Sons of Anarchy, featuring "creator's cut" episodes and kicking into high gear with its biggest, most explosive season ever! As SAMCRO's new president, Jax is surrounded by ruthless enemies and gut-wrenching betrayal. With Gemma fighting for control of the family and a bloodthirsty Clay out for revenge, Jax finds himself haunted by the sins of his past. Alliances are forged, friends are murdered,...
14) Jackie Brown
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English
Description
What do a sexy stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, an earnest federal agent, and a stoned-out beach bunny have in common? They're six players on the trail of a half million dollars in cash! But, who will end up getting played, and who will actually make the big score?
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (578 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
From the writer of The Shield and the producer of The Sopranos. This show takes you even deeper into the unexplored world of this outlaw Californian Motorcycle Club as its members struggle to balance family life and weapon-trafficking business.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
407 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
Description
The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine...
17) Cuba libre
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 25 cm
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English
Description
Before Grand Master Elmore Leonard earned his well-deserved reputation as "the best writer of crime fiction alive" (Newsweek), he penned some of the finest western fiction to ever appear in print. (The classics Hombre, Valdez is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma were just a few of his notable works.) With his extraordinary Cuba Libre, Leonard ingeniously combines all of his many talents and delivers a historical adventure/caper/western/noir like none other....
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 25 cm
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English
Description
USA Today best-selling author
Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are hardly on the fast track. While James works as a line cook at Cap'n Crab, Skip spends his days selling - or rather, attempting to sell - security systems to people who (a) have no money, and (b) have nothing they care to protect. James and Skip aren't upwardly mobile, but they're about to get literally mobile when James spends a surprise inheritance on a white box truck. An...
19) Liberty
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Series
Jake Grafton novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
Semi-retired Rear Admiral Jake Grafton finds himself in a race to avert disaster when a Russian spy informs him that a rogue general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islam terrorist group which plans to detonate them in the United States.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a Croatian village near the Serbian border, no one who survived will ever forget the night they waited for the weapons they needed to make a last-ditch fight against the advancing Serbs. The promised delivery never came, and the village was overrun. Eighteen years later, a body is unearthed from a field, and with it the identity of the arms dealer who betrayed them. Now the villagers can plot their revenge. For Harvey Gillott, now living in leafy...
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