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"Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black. She felt their eyes, all those executioners… Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a...
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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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"Hannah has abandoned everything-her trajectory as a law student, her childhood home and caring for her ill mother-for the chance to work with the Innocence Project, a prestigious coalition of investigators who fight to free wrongly convicted prisoners. Hannah's ambitions are set on the program's highest-stakes case in years: a convicted rapist and murderer on death row. She'll do anything-whatever it takes-to work on this case. Because Hannah has...
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Sixteen year old John Cole wants to grow up on his grandfather's ranch and live his life freely. When his grandfather dies, John suffers. He takes off for Mexico, but instead of escape and renewal, he finds a blood price to be paid.
5) Stillwater
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SDS
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[2021]
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English
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An American oil-rig worker goes to Marseilles, France, to save his daughter, who is imprisoned for a murder she claims she did not commit.
A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
6) Stillwater
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Universal
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[2021]
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English
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An American oil-rig worker goes to Marseilles, France, to save his daughter, who is imprisoned for a murder she claims she did not commit.
A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
7) Infidel
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Cloudburst Entertainment
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[2020]
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English
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After an American journalist is kidnapped while attending a religious conference in the Middle East and is accused of espionage, his wife decides to find him and bring him home.
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Buena Vista Home Entertaiment/Touchstone Home Entertainment
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[2016]
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English
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James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
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Code name Verity volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
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In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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