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Men of the sisterhood volume 4
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Driving along an isolated country road with Cyrus, the hound dog in tow, Joe glimpses movement in the woods bordering the road. Joe pulls over to investigate, and Cyrus bolts out the door and leads him to three children clustered together-- bedraggled, silent, and scared out of their wits. As soon as he has brought the children to safety, Espinosa meets with Charles, Abner, Jack, Dennis, Harry and the rest of the crew to hear a shocking story that...
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Charles Ferguson, Invisible Hands is the first feature documentary to expose child labor and trafficking within the supply chains of the world's biggest companies. Filmed in six countries, including India, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Ghana, it is a harrowing account of children as young as six years old making the products we use every day. Invisible Hands marks the directorial debut of journalist Shraysi Tandon....
3) Siddharth
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Mehendra is a chain-wallah, eking out a living fixing zippers on the streets of New Delhi. To ease his financial woes, he sends his twelve-year-old Siddharth to work in a distant factory. When the boy doesn't come home for the Diwali holiday, Mehendra and his wife Suman slowly begin to suspect that he was kidnapped by child traffickers.
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2019.
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288 pages ; 23 cm.
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When a jogger discovers the brutalized body of a young girl along a park trail, the ever cranky and relentless, Detective Joe Burgess catches the case. With the body lacking head and hands, Burgess and his team face complex challenges as they follow a confusing trail leading to human traffickers exploiting children coming to America as asylum seekers. As Joe and his team race the clock to identify the dead girl in time to save other victims, Joe's...
5) Traffick
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[2015]
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505 pages ; 19 cm
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Five teenagers struggle to find their way out of prostitution.
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"On the outskirts of the red-light area in Bihar, India, Heera is living on borrowed time until the day her father decides to sell her into the sex trade to repay his loans. It is, as she's been told, the fate of all women in Girls Bazaar to end up there. But what if she can learn to fight back against 'fate'? When a local hostel owner presents her with the opportunity to practice kung fu, Heera begins to learn that her body isn't an object to be...
7) Tell no lies
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"Something mysterious is killing the wildlife in the mountains just south of Tucson. When a college intern turned activist sets out to collect her own evidence, she, too, ends up dead. Local law enforcement is slow to get involved. That's when the mobile FBI unit goes undercover to infiltrate the town and its copper refinery in search of possible leads. Quinn and Costa find themselves scouring the desolate landscape, which keeps revealing clues to...
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Is based on an incredible true story, and shines a light on even the darkest of places. After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy's sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free himself from a fate worse than death.
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