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Prince of Broadway [videorecording] by Adu, Prince.act; Baker, Sean,1971-; Daniels, Lee,1959-; Dean, Darrren.aus; Karagulian, Karren.act; Elephant Eye Films.; Flat Iron Film Company.;
Director, Sean Baker.Prince Adu, Karren Karagulian, Aiden Noesi, Keyali Mayaga.Lucky, an illegal immigrant from Ghana, makes ends meet by soliciting shoppers on the street with knock-off brand merchandise. Levon, an Armenian-Lebanese immigrant, operates an illegal storefront for counterfeit goods. Lucky's world is suddenly turned upside down when a woman appears, insisting her toddler is his son. While Lucky copes with his new domestic dilemma, Levon struggles to save a marriage that is falling apart.Not rated.DVD, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital.11 Film Festival Awards including Los Angeles Film Festival Best Dramatic Feature.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Man-woman relationships; Noncitizens; Product counterfeiting;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Counterfeit [large print] : a novel / by Chen, Kirstin,1981-author.(CARDINAL)403773;
Ava Wong, a strait-laced Chinese American lawyer, and Winnie Fang, her former college roommate from mainland China, who dropped out under mysterious circumstances, join forces in an ingenious counterfeit operation selling replica luxury handbags.
Subjects: Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Chinese American women; Product counterfeiting; Handbags; Women-owned business enterprises;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Air time / by Ryan, Hank Phillippi,author.(CARDINAL)562189;
Star television reporter Charlotte McNally is stunned when, while struggling to recover her lost luggage at the airport, she discovers high-flying fraud in the glamorous world of high fashion. As she peels back the dark layers of the big-money scheme, Charlotte decides the bad guys aren't the only ones who can pull off an undercover identity.<p>Wired with hidden cameras and dressed to deceive, Charlie infiltrates the top secret ateliers of haute couture, then cons her way behind closed doors into the suburban hot spots funneling millions to unscrupulous conspirators. <p>With her news director pressuring her for the story - and her handsome new boyfriendpressuring her for attention - Charlotte is hot on the trail of deception, forgery, and murder. Someone Charlie loves and trusts may be hiding a secret past. As the danger intensifies, Charlie must decide what is real and what is counterfeit: her very life depends on it.<p>From award-winning investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan, <i>Air Time</i> reveals what can happen when a savvy journalist becomes a killer's target.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Women television journalists; Product counterfeiting; Investigative reporting; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Dangerous doses : how counterfeiters are contaminating America's drug supply / by Eban, Katherine.(CARDINAL)469402;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-417) and index.A victim of success -- Flamingos in Missouri -- The public candy bowl -- Medicine in the laundry room -- The cheshire cat -- Man's garbage -- A cold chain gets hot -- Stealing time -- My son is not a no one -- Streams become one -- The license shrine -- A do or die cause -- A bad lot -- Rats in the state -- Crazy money -- A special price -- The guitar story -- The counterfeiter's lair -- They know we know -- Mr. Arias goes to Washington -- The ultimate box case -- Where hyperbole meets reality.Stolen, compromised, and counterfeit medicine increasingly makes its way into a poorly regulated distribution system-where it may reach unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on its effectiveness. Investigative medical reporter Eban's exploration of America's secret ring of drug counterfeiters takes us to Florida, where a team of investigators follows the trail of medicine stolen in a seemingly minor break-in as it funnels into a sprawling national network of drug polluters. Their pursuit stretches from a strip joint in South Miami to the halls of Congress as they battle entrenched political interests and uncover an increasing threat to America's health.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Pharmaceutical policy; Drug adulteration.; Drugs; Product counterfeiting.; Medication.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Comic relief / by Abdo, Kenny,1986-(CARDINAL)606539; Doucet, Bob,illustrator.(CARDINAL)374761;
Impressed by his first case, Principal Links asks fourth-grade detective Jon Gummyshoes to find out who is selling fake comic books to the students, but Jon is not going to like where his investigation leads him.590LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Comic books, strips, etc.; Elementary schools; Friendship; Product counterfeiting; Schools; Friendships.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Air time : a Charlotte McNally novel / by Ryan, Hank Phillippi.(CARDINAL)562189; Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)(CARDINAL)376993;
"When savvy TV reporter Charlotte McNally enters the glamorous world of high fashion, she soon discovers that when the purses are fake--the danger is real. And no one can be trusted! Now Charlotte can't tell the real from the fake as she goes undercover to bring the couture counterfeiters to justice--and in her struggle to answer an all-important, life-changing question from a certain handsome professor.... The one thing Charlotte knows for sure is that the wrong choice could be the last decision she ever makes!"--p. [4] of cover.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Investigative reporting; Man-woman relationships; McNally, Charlotte (Fictitious character); Product counterfeiting; Women television journalists;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Prince of Broadway [videorecording] / by Baker, Sean,1971-screenwriter,director.; Adu, Prince,actor.; Karagulian, Karren,actor.; Noesi, Aiden,actor.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)348269; Elephant Eye Films,production company.;
This is a Blu-ray disc which can only be played on Blu-ray disc players and will not play on standard DVD players.Closed captions.Prince Adu, Karren Karagulian, Aiden Noesi, Keyali Mayaga, Kat Sanchez, Victoria Tate.The lives of two immigrants converge in New York's wholesale fashion district as they try to make ends meet selling counterfeit merchandise.MPAA rating: Not rated.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Illegal immigration; Immigrants; Product counterfeiting; Man-woman relationships; Noncitizens; Illegal immigration;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Illicit [videorecording] : the dark trade / by Fitzwilliam, Helen.producer,screenwriter,director.; Bredar, John B.,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)537261; Coyote, Peter,narrator. (CARDINAL)348484; Naím, Moisés.Illicit.ant.; National Geographic Society (U.S.)(CARDINAL)140388; National Geographic Television & Film.(CARDINAL)273629;
Goods to sell -- Hidden networks -- What they want -- Poised to move -- Constrained by borders -- The Naples mafia -- Bottom rung -- Corruption that kills -- Perpetrator's accountability.Editor, Emmanuel Mairesse.Narrator, Peter Coyote.Examines shadowy web of illicit trade that has resulted from globalization, the Internet, and electronic banking. Discusses how lucrative international criminal networks thrive while causing rampant political corruption and the subversion of governments, as well as threatening the world economy. Looks at the consequences of consumer demand for cheap black market counterfeit goods, from knock-off handbags to bootlegged compact discs to fake pharmaceuticals.TV parental guidelines rating: Not rated; Canadian home video rating: Pending.DVD; region 1; NTSC.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Transnational crime.; Product counterfeiting.; Crime and globalization.; Globalization; Globalization; Money laundering.; Drug traffic.; Illegal arms transfers.; Intellectual property infringement.; Noncitizens;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The cat sitter's pajamas : a Dixie Hemingway mystery / by Clement, Blaize.(CARDINAL)347826;
Dixie Hemingway, no relation to you-know-who, accepts a job taking care of famous linebacker Cupcake Trillin's cats, Elvis and Lucy, while he's away. But what seems like an easy job turns scary when Dixie finds a celebrity fashion model in Cupcake's house. The woman refuses to leave AND she also claims to be Cupcake's wife. But Dixie has met Cupcake's wife, and this woman certainly isn't her. Soon, Dixie is spun into the world of counterfeit high fashion. When a valuable list of fake merchandise sellers goes missing, the criminals go after Dixie. Once again, what started as a simple cat-sitting job has turned into a mess that only Dixie can solve.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Cats; Celebrities; Hemingway, Dixie (Fictitious character); Hemingway, Dixie (Fictitious character); Pet sitting; Product counterfeiting; Women Detective and mystery stories; Women detectives;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 21
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Counterfeit [sound recording] : a novel / by Chen, Kirstin,1981-author.(CARDINAL)403773; Ho, Catherine,narrator.;
Read by Catherine Ho.Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this faȧde, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava's enigmatic college roommate from Mainland China, who abruptly dropped out under mysterious circumstances. Now, twenty years later, Winnie is looking to reconnect with her old friend. But the shy, awkward girl Ava once knew has been replaced with a confident woman of the world, dripping in luxury goods, including a coveted Birkin in classic orange. The secret to her success? Winnie has developed an ingenious counterfeit scheme that involves importing near-exact replicas of luxury handbags and now she needs someone with a U.S. passport to help manage her business, someone who₂d never be suspected of wrongdoing, someone like Ava. But when their spectacular success is threatened and Winnie vanishes once again, Ava is left to face the consequences.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Audiobooks.; Counterfeits and counterfeiting; Product conterfeiting; International trade; Female friendship; Handbags; Luxuries; Women-owned business enterprises; Chinese American women; Counterfeiters;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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