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2) Escape
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Chicago's #1 detective, Billy Harney, takes on a billionaire crime boss in this follow-on to James Patterson's highly acclaimed, multi-million selling Black Book. As Chicago's special-ops leader Detective Billy Harney knows well, money is not the only valuable currency. The billionaire he's investigating is down to his last twenty million. But he's also being held in jail. For now"--
3) Outfoxed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter spends as much time as he can working on his true passion, the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs. Lately, Andy has been especially involved in a county prison program where inmates help train dogs the Tara Foundation has rescued to make them more adoptable, benefiting both the dogs and the prisoners. One of the prisoners Andy has been working with is Brian Atkins, who has 18 months left on a 5-year...
Author
Series
Aloysius Archer volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job -- and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within...
5) The one man
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it. Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence...
Author
Series
A Descendants novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost, the teenaged children of Disney's most evil villains search for a dragon's eye--the key to true darkness and the villains' only hope of escape.
Author
Series
Jake Brigance volume 4
Language
English
Description
"'Homecoming' takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's ... stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
10) Incarceron
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
442 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
Author
Language
English
Description
""In all ways a great novel, a nonstop pleasure brimming with charm, personal wisdom, and philosophic insight. This book more than fulfills the promise of Towles' stylish debut, Rules of Civility." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility--a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
Author
Series
The Indian Lake trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
457 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted serial killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
228 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father works asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
During a stopover on an island in the East Indies on his voyage to London, wealthy American merchant Gavin Elliott rescues beautiful widow Alexandra Warren, kidnapped by pirates, from a slave auction.
Author
Publisher
Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
Physical Desc
552 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Working to overthrow Queen Levana, a fugitive Cinder and her companions search for Rapunzel-like hacker Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood and received orders from Levana to foil Cinder's efforts.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 p.
Language
English
Description
Tom Fuller-a scrupulously honest fellow, a person of extraordinary physical strength, and owner of a savage horse, Rusty, that he alone was able to tame-is generally regarded as a half-wit. He has been summarily fired from every job he has ever had and even comes to regard himself as a failure. He makes one more try when he is hired on as a blacksmith's assistant by Boston Charlie. Finally here is a job that Tom can perform successfully, and his spirit...
19) Runner
Author
Series
Sam Dryden volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into him on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she's running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goal--to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the eleven year old, for as long as she can remember, has been kept...
Author
Series
The quilt chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Description
Three women within the prison system--Jane, a prisoner; Mamie, a prison matron; and Ellen, a prison warden's wife--develop an unexpected friendship, face struggles with staying faithful, and deal with romantic entanglements.