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What would you do if you found a million dollars? When Joey Coyle did, he was a twenty-eight-year-old drug-dependent, unemployed longshoreman living with his ailing mother in a tight-knit neighborhood in Philadelphia. While cruising the streets just blocks from his home, fate took a turn worthy of a Hollywood caper when he found $1.2 million in unmarked bills-casino money that had fallen off an armored truck. It was virtually untraceable. Coyle? Not...
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Series
Badge of honor volume 8
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English
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Just as with his remarkable military novels, millions of readers have been captured by the rich characters and vivid realism of W. E. B. Griffin’s police dramas. “Griffin has the knack,” writes The Philadelphia Inquirer. He “sets his novel before you in short, fierce, stop-for-nothing scenes. Before you know it, you’ve gobbled it up.”
Now, in Final Justice, Detective...
Now, in Final Justice, Detective...
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 7
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English
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A brutal crime...A group of urban terrorists...An investigation of dirty cops...The leads in these supposedly unconnected cases have become tangled in some very ugly—and dangerous—knots. Now Special Operations detective Matt Payne and his colleagues find themselves fearing not only for their jobs, but also for their very lives...
Publisher
Distributed by Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the streets of North Philadelphia, the lives of strangers intersect. Tells four stories about people who overcome the obstacles in their daily lives while they face such concerns as poverty, drugs, and the human connection.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Edition
St. Martin's Press pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
277 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates the gruesome details and horrifying events that transpired in a Philadelphia basement and profiles mass-murderer Gary Heidnik.
10) Invincible
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
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1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vince Papale is a down-on-his-luck substitute teacher in Philadelphia who, at the age of 30, was out of work, abandoned by his wife, and biding time as a part-time bartender when he decides to answer an open call for tryouts on the Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team in 1976. Going with his gut instinct, new coach Dick Vermeil rewards Papale's diligent efforts with a place on the team.
11) The vigilantes
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 10
Language
English
Description
Investigating a string of murders targeting criminals in Philadelphia, homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne becomes alarmed when unrelated vigilante groups begin taking credit for the hits, which become increasingly violent and high-profile.
12) The doll maker
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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"Detectives Byrne and Balzano return to the streets of Philadelphia to put an end to a macabre succession of murdered children. A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. There she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance in a week's time. Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in an abandoned house, posed on painted swings....
13) The last witness
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English
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Investigating rumors about a new partnership between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob, Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne struggles to dismantle an increasingly violent operation involving Russian sex slaves and kidnapped foster teens.
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]-
Physical Desc
videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this workplace comedy from writer/executive producer/star Quinta Brunson and executive producers Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker, a group of teachers is brought together in a Philadelphia public school, because they love teaching. Though outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do even if they don't love the school district's less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Kate is a successful and single businesswoman who has long put her career ahead of a personal life. At 37, she's finally determined to have a child on her own. Unable to get pregnant, a driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. After learning that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode. She reads childcare books, baby-proofs the apartment and researches top pre-schools. But, Kate's...
16) The traffickers
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Series
Badge of honor volume 9
Language
English
Description
Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it--and that hunch leads him far from the City of Brotherly...
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English
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It's 1949 and South Philadelphia bursts with opportunity during the post-war boom. The Palazzini Cab Company & Western Union Telegraph Office, owned and operated by Dominic Palazzini and his three sons, is flourishing: business is good, they're surrounded by sympathetic wives and daughters-in-law, with grandchildren on the way. But a decades-long feud that split Dominic and his brother Mike and their once-close families sets the stage for a rematch....
18) Legal tender
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English
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When her boyfriend announces he is dissolving their legal practice for a partnership with another woman, lawyer Bennie Rosato is shocked. Nothing like the shock she gets when police arrive to say the boyfriend is dead and they think she killed him.
19) Revolver
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Three generations torn apart--by bullets fired fifty years ago...Philadelphia, 1965: Two street cops--one black, one white--are gunned down in a corner bar. One of the fallen officers, Stan Walczak, leaves behind a 12-year-old boy, Jimmy. Philadelphia,1995: Homicide detective Jim Walczak learns that his father's alleged killer, Terrill Lee Stanton, has been sprung from prison. Jim stalks the ex-con, hoping to finally learn the truth. Philadelphia,...
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Series
Ladies of liberty volume 1
Language
English
Description
Born into affluence, Mia Stanley is a winsome socialite with a knack for matchmaking. She's also a writer for Godey's Lady's Book magazine, much to the disdain of her family--and their society friends. A proper young lady of her social standing isn't meant to labor in such a way, but Mia has always had a way with words... When her writing draws her into the world of downtrodden seamen's wives on Philadelphia's docks, Mia uncovers a scheme that puts...
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