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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"--
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck volume 9
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Vince Paulo held his best friend's daughter, McKenna, bleeding in his arms as she uttered the name of her murderer and ex-boyfriend, Jamal. That was minutes before a blast made everything go black for Vince--forever. Now Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck has been called in to save Jamal from the death penalty.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
26 sound discs (32 hours.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The novel "Little Dorrit", published originally between 1855 and 1857, is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtor's prisons-in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned. Most of Dickens'...
5) Commitments
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
408p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
Available as an eBook for the first time, New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky's classic novel, Commitments, about the ties that bind and the love that remains.
Sabrina Stone is struggling to be a good mother and to do what's best for her young, handicapped son. When she meets investigative reporter Derek McGill, who's doing a feature story about special-needs children, Sabrina is immediately struck by his tenderness toward Nicky...and...
6) The escape
Author
Series
US Marshals volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A desperate murderer and a downed plane turn a routine prison transfer into a hunt through the rugged Pacific Northwest for US Marshals Madison James and Jonas Quinn"--
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
238 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In their final adventure, the four Musketeers plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.
Author
Series
Darkest minds volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When Ruby awoke on her tenth birthday, something about her has changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Then she was sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." Now at age sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.
9) 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...
10) One good deed
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...
11) The retribution
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan volume 7
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
World-class crime writer Val McDermid has sold millions of copies of her books worldwide. In The Retribution, clinical psychologist Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan face a terrifying reality: serial killer Jacko Vance has escaped imprisonment-and appears hellbent on revenge against those who put him behind bars.
12) 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.
14) Rope burn
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. JAILHOUSE TERROR.
Those Jensen boys, Ace and Chance, find themselves on the wrong side of the law-and the raw end of justice-inside the meanest, dirtiest prison in the Arizona territory ...
WELCOME TO THE CHAIN GANG ...
When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jailmates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters,...
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
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
513 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The first thing you should know about me is that my name is not Carter Blake.
When Caleb Wardell, the infamous 'Chicago Sniper', escapes from death row two weeks before his execution, the FBI calls on the services of Carter Blake, a man with certain specialized talents whose skills lie in finding those who don't want to be found. A man to whom Wardell is no stranger.
Along with Elaine Banner, an ambitious special agent juggling life as a single...
17) Crazy house
Author
Series
Crazy House volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row.
18) Throne of glass
Author
Series
Throne of glass volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
19) Do not pass go
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Released from prison after serving eighteen years for manslaughter, Jodi McCarty finds her efforts to track down a friend and move on with the woman she loves challenged by the insular values of their rural West Virginia community.