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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Reba Lafferty, spoiled as a child with priviledges, gets out of jail for embezzlement at the age of 32. Her father is finally there for her and wants her to stay straight at home, so he hires someone to watch her. It seems like easy money, until one of Reba's old crowd comes circling around.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"She seeks the truth. He seeks revenge. Charlotte wants to start fresh. She wants to forget her past, forget prison and, most of all, forget Sean. While she's haunted by the crime that put her in prison all those years ago, it's also the one memory she can't face. Until, one day, Sean tracks her down. Amy Lloyd, the internationally bestselling and award-winning author of The Innocent Wife, returns with a chilling portrait of a woman trying to be good,...
64) Buffalo '66
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A C.I.A. agent brings his wife home to meet his absurdly dysfunctional family. Only he's not really in the C.I.A., and his "wife" is actually a young tap dancer he just kidnapped to impress his ridiculous and unloving parents. In reality, his whole life is an empty lie. He's fresh out of prison and now on a deadly mission to hunt down and kill the Buffalo Bills kicker whose botched field goal--he believes--ruined his life.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Corrections in Ink is an electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey-from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom-emerging with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced. An elite, competitive figure skater growing up, Keri Blakinger poured herself into the sport, even competing at nationals. But when her skating partnership ended abruptly, her world shattered. With all the intensity...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
Después de diez años en prisión, Driver (Dwayne Johnson) se ha centrado en una cosa -- La caza de las personas responsables del brutal asesinato de su hermano. Ahora un hombre libre con un propósito aterrador, se establece para encontrar y matar a todos los de su lista. Pero sobre sus talones hay dos hombres que harán cualquier cosa para detenerlo -- un veterano policía (Billy Bob Thornton) y un sicario (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) que encuentran...
67) Ghost country
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"What Paige Campbell saw when she opened a door into seventy years from now scared the hell out of her. She and her Tangent colleagues brought their terrible discovery to the President - and were met with a hail of automatic gunfire after leaving the White House. Only Paige survived. Fearing a terrifying personal destiny revealed to him from the other side of the Breach, Travis Chase abandoned Tangent . . . and Paige Campbell. Now he must rescue her...
68) Ransom
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is relased after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a small upstate New York town, two 11-year-old girls from opposite sides of the tracks are convicted of murdering an infant and sentenced to juvenile detention facilities. But when a toddler goes missing seven years later, Detective Nancy Porter begins to suspect recently released Ronnie and Alice. As the investigation deepens, Porter may discover that the truth can hide the most shocking secrets of all. Diane Lane and Common co-star in this grim,...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle as they find themselves drawn back to Boston. Struggling to overcome their violent upbringing, their fierce love for each other keeps them in the fight.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details and the paper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt was tried before...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
Pub. Date
c1979
Language
English
Description
Harvard, the New Deal, the Holocaust, World War II, Watergate, two prison terms, and a giant conglomerate - Walter Starbuck, who tries to live by the Sermon on the Mount, experiences them all. Shall the meek inherit the earth? Perhaps on a short-term basis.
73) Hole in my life
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.
74) Traceless
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the killing of her best friend, Emily Wallace returns to her hometown when she discovers that Clint Austin, the man convicted of the crime with her testimony, has been released from prison.
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend-whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort-and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father--a man she hoped would stay behind bars for the rest of his life-Lou immediately...
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Bruno Johnson, a tough Los Angeles street cop, member of the elite violent crime task force, feared by the bad guys, admired by the good, finds his life derailed when a personal tragedy forces him to break the law. Now he's an ex-con and his life on parole is not going well. He is hassled by the police at every opportunity and to make matters even more difficult, his former partner, Robby Wicks, now a high-ranking detective, bullies him into helping...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she'd grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklyn--before it gentrified. But not long after her conviction, she took the name Carlotta and began to live as a woman, an embrace of selfhood that prison authorities rejected, keeping Carlotta trapped in an all-male cell block, abused by both inmates and guards, and often placed...
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