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81) Way of the gun
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[[2010] 2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane.
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"True crime podcaster Trinity Scott is chasing breakout success, and her brand-new serial may get her there. Her subject is Clayton Jay Pelley. More than two decades ago, the respected family man and guidance counselor confessed to the brutal murder of teenage student Leena Rai. In a series of exclusive interviews from prison, Clayton discloses to Trinity the truth about what happened that night beneath Devil's Bridge. Clayton says he didn't do it....
Author
Series
Maggy Thorsen mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Severn House Publishers LTD
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The choice of an antique silver coffee urn as the final resting place for elderly Celeste Bouchard's ashes might seem a cruel joke. After all, the wealthy boutique owner was taken ill and died while daughter Hannah was off having lattes at Uncommon Grounds. But Maggy Thorsen, the coffeehouse's owner, has more pressing things on her mind: a jail break and subsequent shoot-out has forced her main squeeze, Sheriff Jake Pavlik, to take refuge with her....
87) Kallocain
Author
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
This classic Swedish novel envisioned a future of drab terror. Seen through the eyes of idealistic scientist Leo Kall, Kallocains depiction of a totalitarian world state is a montage of what novelist Karin Boye had seen or sensed in 1930s Russia and Germany. Its central idea grew from the rumors of truth drugs that ensured the subservience of every citizen to the state.
Author
Series
Shan Tao Yun mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The Chinese minister of tourism has been assassinated on the slope of Everest. Shan, a former investigator from Beijing, must solve the mystery of the assassination to save the accused man, the only person who can help his imprisoned son.
Author
Series
Hank Fallon series volume 4
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The warden of the new federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S. Marshal Hank Fallon, when his family is taken hostage by escaped prisoners, must get down and dirty like the men he is pursuing to save his wife and baby daughter.
90) Upstate
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The story of a young couple in love and their struggle to maintain a relationship while the young man is incarcerated for a horrendous crime. In their letters beginning in 1990, Natasha and Antonio look back at their courtship against the landscape of their beloved Harlem.
91) Stormfront
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"No one thought much about the storm. Experienced local weatherman Wally Wellman thought there might be trouble but even he couldn't predict the natural disaster that was about to lay siege to the quiet suburb of Sheridan, Michigan. Sheridan police officer Mike Stuart must try to keep the town safe but here is something deadly lurking in Sheridan. A pair of escaped convicts have been stranded in town. But they don't plan on laying low. As the death...
Author
Series
Publisher
Barnes and Noble Classics
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Edmund Dantès, betrayed by his enemies and unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after fourteen years of imprisonment in the Château d'If and embarks on a carefully crafted plot to seek his revenge.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 20
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Police detective Dave Robicheaux faces off with the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in the twentieth installment of the Dave Robicheaux series. Sadistic serial killer Asa Surette avoids the death penalty for murders he committed while capital punishment was banned. But when Robicheaux's daughter Alafair writes a series of articles implicating Surrette in other murders which could get him death, he decides to escape prison and make her pay....
94) El lado oscuro
Author
Publisher
Gran Travesía
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
"Nathan es Blanco y Negro. Su madre era una Bruja Blanca. Su padre, el Brujo Negro más temido de todos los tiempos"--Page 2 of cover.
In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Hector Lewis told his daughter that she had a nothing face, it was just another bit of tossed-off cruelty from a man who specialized in harsh words and harsher deeds. But twenty years later, Heloise considers it a blessing to be a person who knows how to avoid attention. In the comfortable suburb where she lives, she's just a mom, the youngish widow with a forgettable job who somehow never misses a soccer game or a school play. In the state capital,...
96) Half of paradise
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Meet Avery Broussard, the last in a line of once-substantial land owners whose weakness for alcohol lands him in prison; J.P. Winfield, a dirt-poor singer who makes it to the top of hillbilly music only to be destroyed by drug addiction; and Toussaint Boudreaux, a black longshoreman who is set up for a crime he didn't commit. How the three men struggle to escape the bondage that links them makes for a tale of atmosphere and suspense in Burke's first...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From the blood he spilled during the Civil War to his beloved wife, who died in childbirth, and his daughters, who were taken by the flu, ex-Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe thought he had seen enough death for a lifetime. With an infant son and a heart full of pain, Wolfe is rejoining the Rangers as part of the Frontier Battalion. But first, his captain needs him to escort Charlie Langdon to trial. The two shared history as both lawmen and soldiers, and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky comes a new translation of the first great prison memoir: Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. In 1849 Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for his participation in a utopian socialist discussion group. The account he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, was the first...
99) Caught
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney, locked up on charges of marijuana possession, has escaped his cell and sprinted to the highway. There, he's picked up by his sister's friend and taken to a strip bar, where he survives his first night on the run. Evading the cops isn't his only objective. Slaney also wants to track down his old partner, Hearn, and get back into the drug business. As Slaney makes his fugitive journey across Canada, he adopts numerous...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Sandy has no idea that tonight her life will be forever changed. As a late autumn sky darkens over the Adirondack mountains ... the mood in the Tremont house is already charged with tension ... But when her husband Ben, a wilderness guide, arrives home, the troubled atmosphere immediately lightens ... Nearby, two desperate men on the run make their way through the fading light ... After nearly two decades as prison cellmates, they have become a deadly...
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