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Devil's Rock novels volume 1
Language
English
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There are bad boys and then there are the men of Devil's Rock ...Some men come with a built-in warning label. Knox Callaghan is one of them. Danger radiates from every lean, muscled inch of him, and his deep blue eyes seem to see right through to Briar Davis's most secret fantasies. But there's one major problem: Briar is a nurse volunteering at the local prison, and Knox is an inmate who should be off-limits in every way. Knox feels it too-a shocking...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Born in a rural Mexico region where girls are disguised as boys to avoid the attentions of traffickers, Ladydi dreams of a better life before moving to Mexico City, where she falls in love and ends up in a prison with other women who share her experiences.
67) Barker House
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Olive Kitteridge meets The Mars Room in this powerfully unsentimental work of fiction--a portrait of nine lives behind the concrete walls of a New Hampshire jail. David Moloney's Barker House follows the story of nine unforgettable New Hampshire correctional officers over the course of one year on the job. While veteran guards get by on what they consider survival strategies--including sadistic power-mongering and obsessive voyeurism--two rookies,...
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English
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Deemed unrepentant by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he lives in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold.
A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is...
71) The do-right
Author
Series
Delpha Wade and Tom Phelan novels volume 1
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Now, after fourteen years in prison nobody's rushing to hire a parolee. But persistence and smarts land her a secretarial job with with an ex-roughneck turned private eye.
72) The world house
Author
Series
World house volume 1
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In some rooms, forests grow. In others, animals and objects come to life. Elsewhere, secrets and treasures wait for the brave and foolhardy. And at the very top of the house, a prisoner sits behind a locked door waiting for a key to turn. The day that happens, the world will end.
Author
Series
World house volume 1
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A motley band of explorers, treasure hunters, and thrill seekers unite to track down a deadly beast after it escapes from its prison within the World House.
Author
Series
Tears of Artamon volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Releasing five dragon-demons called Drakhouls in his efforts to seize control of an ancient empire, a man discovers that his hold over the empire is crumbling as a rival nation searches for a true innocent capable of banishing the dragon-demons.
Author
Series
Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When a gang member disappears during a huge heist, a violent criminal with a penchant for boiling policemen's heads escapes prison, and an American researcher is found dead in Gosling's department store, three detectives must put their heads together to solve these cases.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Former "It Girl" Janie Jenkins is sly, stunning, and fresh out of prison. Ten years ago, at the height of her fame, she was incarcerated for the murder of her mother, a high-society beauty known for her good works and rich husbands. Now, released on a technicality, Janie makes herself over and goes undercover, determined to chase down the one lead she has on her mother's killer. The only problem? Janie doesn't know if she's the killer she's looking...
77) Dirty white boys
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Publishing
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A chase across the Southwest by an Oklahoma highway patrol officer, going after three vicious criminals who escaped from prison. By the author of Point of Impact
78) Kid Rodelo
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1966-]
Language
English
Description
Joe Harbin hadn't killed a man for a fortune in gold just to sit in prison and let Rodelo find it.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley....
80) Way of the gun
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Even at seventeen, Carson Ryan knows enough about cow herding to realize the crew he's with is about the worst ever. Then gunshots ring across the range. Suspecting an Indian attack, Ryan gallops straight into a U.S. Army raid. The outfit he's with is nothing but a bunch of murdering cattle rustlers and the law thinks he's one of them. Tied up, thrown in jail, and tried by a hanging court, he can only escape or die trying.
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