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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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John Grisham delivers a classic legal thriller--with a twist. In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished...
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When her new husband artist takes is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising comfort in a longtime friendship, only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned.
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But...
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It begins with an astonishing request from a thirteen-year-old prospective client. Allegra Gardner's sister Fiona was murdered six years ago. It seemed like an open-and-shut case: the accused, Lonnie Stall, was seen fleeing the scene; his blood was on Fiona and her blood was on him; most damningly, Lonnie Stall pleaded guilty.
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English
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Wrongly accused of murdering her husband and children, an innocent woman endures 10 years in prison before a technicality prompts a new trial that she prepares for by retreating to a small tropical island to gather information that she hopes will lead to her exoneration. By the best-selling author of the Sisterhood series.
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Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Falsely accused of murdering three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas, eighteen-year-old Echols, deemed the "ringleader" of the West Memphis Three, was sentenced to death. Then in August 2011 the WMT were released. In these pages, Echols describes the terrors he experienced every day and his outrage toward the American justice system, and offers a firsthand account of living on Death Row in heartbreaking, agonizing detail.
6) Saving Emma
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Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his own home in this propulsive and perfectly-plotted thriller from "one of our best crime writers at the top of his game" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author). When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric...
7) Wrong alibi
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English
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Sentenced to life in prison for a murder she did not commit, eighteen-year-old Evelyn escapes and works under an alias at a wilderness camp, where her chance at revenge is complicated by a former employer's mysterious connections.
8) Low pressure
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English
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Bellamy Lyston was only twelve years old when her older sister, Susan, was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime scene along with her memory of what really happened during the day's most devastating moments. Now, eighteen years later, Bellamy has written a sensational, bestselling novel based on Susan's murder. Because the book was inspired by the tragic event that still pains...
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Ever since her best friend Molly was murdered fifteen years before, Blair Butler has returned to her small hometown in the Pocono mountains as seldom as possible. Now she has been summoned home to see her terminally ill sister one last time--only for Celeste to make a shocking deathbed confession. Is it really true that the wrong man has spent fifteen years in jail for a crime he didn't commit? Having promised her dying sister that she would do her...
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Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Sheryl Scarborough continues the adventures of teen amateur sleuth and aspiring forensic scientist Erin Blake in To Right the Wrongs, the sequel to To Catch a Killer. Erin Blake has one goal for summer vacation: leave behind her reputation as the girl whose mom was murdered, and just be normal girl enjoying her first real romance. Unfortunately or maybe fortunately for a mystery fanatic her hot new boyfriend has an unsolved murder in his own past....
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls....In each girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be...
12) The Hurricane
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The true-life story of boxing champion Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter. Rubin Carter's life is tragically interrupted when he is wrongfully accused of murdering three people. His inspirational struggle for justice eventually leads to his freedom.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Intriguing...A gripping legal-thriller mystery...This is a story that profoundly elevates good-cause advocacy to greater heights-to where innocent lives are saved." --USA TodayPublishers Weekly -- Most Anticipated Books of Fall "A crisply written page turner." -- NPR A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice systemDuring the last two decades, more than two thousand American...
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