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"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...
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2021.
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"A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father Buddy Lee...
3) The broker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
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John Grisham delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not...
4) True blue
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Fresh out of prison, disgraced ex-cop Mason "Mace" Perry, along with the help of her police chief sister, aids Roy Kingman, a lawyer trying to track down the killer of one of his law partners, all while a U.S. attorney looks for any reason to put Mace back behind bars.
A former Washington D.C. police cop out to prove herself and a young lawyer from aprestigious law firm meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm. As they...
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Over the course of one year, a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted by its most annoying customer.
A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve...
6) The upside
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2019]
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English
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When a recently paroled ex-convict is hired to care for a quadriplegic man, they become friends and give each other a new perspective on life.
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St. Martin's Press
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2014.
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English
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"Toni Murphy was eighteen when she and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted of the murder of her younger sister. Now she is thirty-four and back in her hometown, working every day to forge and adjust to a new life on the outside. She's doing everything in her power to avoid violating her parole and going back to prison. But nothing is making that easy—not Ryan, who is convinced he can figure out the truth; not her mother, who clearly doubts...
9) La mission
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Screen Media Films
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2010.
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English
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After a reformed ex-convict trying to keep his life in order discovers that his son is gay, he orders his son out of the house and a neighbor tries to help him repair the relationship.
11) Deception Cove
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Neah Bay novels volume 1
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Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Former US Marine Jess Winslow reenters civilian life a new widow, with little more to her name than a falling-down house, a medical discharge for PTSD, and a loyal dog named Lucy. The only thing she actually cares about is that dog, a black-and-white pit bull mix who helps her cope with the devastating memories of her time in Afghanistan. After fifteen years -- nearly half his life -- in state prison, Mason Burke owns one set of clothes, a wallet,...
12) Lone Jack trail
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
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2020.
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English
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Former Marine-turned-sheriff's deputy Jess Winslow and ex-con Mason Burke find themselves on opposite sides of the law when Jess investigates the suspicious death of a local celebrity in Deception Cove, Washington, and the evidence points to Mason's guilt.
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