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1) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"An orphan living on the dangerous London streets, Oliver has no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape" -- Amazon.com
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The greatest superpower of all isn't to be part spider, part man, or to cast magic spells, the greatest power is the power to create. Daniel has that power. Daniel's secret abilities, like being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind or to recreate himself in any shape he chooses, have helped him survive. But Daniel doesn't have a normal life. He is the protector of the earth, the Alien Hunter, with a mission beyond what anyone could...
Author
Language
English
Description
Years after discovering her father's predatory double life, successful photographer Naomi Bowes struggles to hide her painful past from her fellow residents in a community thousands of miles away, a situation that introduces her to a new relationship and forces her to confront her demons.
In freeing the woman trapped in the root cellar, Naomi Bowes revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes, made him infamous... and discovered she can't...
6) Taken
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Years after being abducted as a teenager and being forced to assist a crime family, Shannon contacts private investigator Matthew Dane for help, desperate for resolution to the mysteries and pain of her past and hoping for the freedom to begin a new life"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jack Ryan, Jr's race to stop an international criminal conspiracy is intertwined with the fate of an old friend... The CIA's deepest secrets are being given away for a larger agenda that will undermine the entire Western intelligence community. Director of National Intelligence Mary Pat Foley wants it stopped but doesn't know who, how or why. Jack Ryan, Jr., is dispatched to Poland on a different mission. The clues are thin, and the sketchy trail...
9) Legend
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
10) Midnight sun
Author
Series
Blood on Snow volume 2
Language
English
Description
Blood on Snow Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo's biggest crime lord: The Fisherman. Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect. Hiding out in a shepherd's cabin in the wilderness, all that stands between him and his fate are Lea, a bereaved mother, and her son, Knut. But while Lea provides him with a rifle and Knut brings essential...
11) Blaze
Author
Language
English
Description
Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., nicknamed Blaze, is a mentally retarded giant of a man living in a decrepit old house. Blaze's best--and only--friend's name is George, and George is a bad influence. It is George who goads Blaze into kidnapping the baby and holding it for a million dollar ransom. As a pitch-black sequence of events unfolds, the true sickness of Blaze's condition comes into focus through painful flashbacks of abuse.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
The men wear masks. Their guns are drawn on the bank manager. She nervously recites the alarm code, and the tumblers within the huge vault fall. The timing and execution are brilliant. It could be the perfect heist. But as the huge sum of cash is stolen, so too is one man's heart -- and that man is the Prince of Thieves.
13) The identity man
Author
Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
When a job spins out of control and a man gets killed, smalltime criminal Shannon goes on the run, receives an enigmatic text message, is captured and taken to a laboratory where he's given a new face, a new name, and a new life, courtesy of the mysterious "identity man," and finds work as a carpenter. Just as Shannon feels within sight of redemption, all hell breaks loose. It seems that lots of crooked people--including cops, politicians, and gangsters--want...
14) The godfather
Author
Language
English
Description
A Searing novel of the Mafia underworld, this book introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones - and became the definitive novel of the virle, violent subculture that remains steeped in intrigue, in controversy, and in our collective consciousness. More than thirty years ago, a classic was born. A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction,...
15) Better Off Dead
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher!
Digging graves had not been part of my plans when I woke up that morning.
Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman...
Digging graves had not been part of my plans when I woke up that morning.
Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman...
16) Leopard's hunt
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Gorya Amurov might be known as his family's peacekeeper, but the leopard inside him wants nothing more than to claw to the surface and unleash hell. Maya Averina has spent years hunting the criminals who destroyed her life, and she always takes down her prey. But with her body burning up and her mind distracted by her first heat, an ambush catches her by surprise. Now she's trapped, an unmated female shifter about to be sold off to the highest bidder....
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
℗2015
Language
English
Description
Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered his wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong: the daughter got away. Now she is nearly eighteen and tired of living in secrecy, the last fifteen years in the Witness Protection Program. Precautions must be taken at every turn, because Ramsey Miller was never caught and might still be looking for his daughter. Taking matters into her own hands, she returns to her hometown in hopes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Perplexing, unfathomable, and perhaps unimportant, the cases Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes take on will test their limits, even as Detective Ulf Varg struggles to contain his feelings for colleague Anna Bengsdotter.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his most autobiographical novel to date, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grieving the death of his daughter while battling earthly and supernatural outlaws.
Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honour her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that...
Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honour her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chicago's Ferraro crime family will do anything to protect one of their own in this thrilling entry in the
Shadow Riders series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. Nicoletta Gomez was a terrified teenager when Taviano Ferraro and his brother saved her life. Ever since, she's
been trying to rise above what was done to her, molding herself into a survivor under the protective eyes of the Ferraro
family. All the while, she's been...
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