Richard Price
2) Lazarus man
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
555 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into rubble and the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. Anthony Carter, whose miraculous survival transforms him into a man with a message and a sense of mission. Felix Pearl, whose photography and film work that day provokes a sharp sense of personal destiny. Royal Davis, owner of a failing Harlem funeral home, whose desperate trolling for potential "customers" triggers...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Back in the run-and-gun days of the mid-1990s, when a young Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an aggressive anti-crime unit known as the Wild Geese, he made headlines by accidentally shooting a ten-year-old boy while struggling with an angel-dusted berserker on a crowded street. Branded as a loose cannon by his higher-ups, Billy spent years enduring one dead-end posting after another. Now in his early forties, he has somehow survived...
4) Child 44
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1953 Soviet Russia, secret police agent Leo Demidov loses status, power, and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa, as a traitor. Exiled from Moscow to a grim provincial outpost, Leo and Raisa join forces with General Mikhail Nesterov to track down a serial killer who preys on young boys. Their quest for justice threatens a system-wide cover-up by Leo's psychopathic rival Vasili, who insists there is no crime in paradise.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The Color of Money" is a decades-later sequel to "The Hustler." 25 years on, Fast Eddie is now a nattily dressed, silver-haired liquor salesman working the Midwest in his white Cadillac. His neat mustache and smiling deviltry are also employed in his other profession--stake horse to up and coming pool hustlers. One night he sees a kid playing who is so good that Eddie's laboriously buried memories are stirred. Vincent and his girlfriend Carmen have...
6) Shaft
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a single sprawling drug investigation in Baltimore, against the backdrop of the mayor's reelection campaign. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, where easy distinctions between good and evil are challenged at every turn.
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 500 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the rise of the porn industry that began in New York City in 1971-1972, driven by the gradual legalization of porn and a politically motivated effort to "clean up" Times Square. Over the course of eight episodes, viewers will get an up-close look at a gritty world of sex, crime, high times and sudden violence, as the porn business begins its climb to legitimacy, cultural permanence, and billion-dollar profitability
"Traces the evolution...
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (627 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Spike Lee is one of the most acclaimed and controversial directors of all time. Now five of his most provocative, thought-provoking films are available in one collection. From the breakout hit dramedy "Do the right thing" to the gritty, urban "Clockers," Lee peels away life's layers, exposing the ironies, brutalities, rhythms and prejudices of the naked city in this powerful collector's set. Clockers: a film about the violent world of drug dealing...