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"In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been...
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Alexander Hawke thrillers volume 2
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Atria Books
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[2004]
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge.
“A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable...
“A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable...
85) Bitter pill
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Sisterhood series volume 32
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English
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After Myra receives a worrying letter from a childhood friend, the Sisterhood sets out to bring down a team of unscrupulous doctors pushing destructive natural remedies.
86) Wretched
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Never after novel volume 3
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2022.
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English
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"From international bestselling author, Emily McIntire, comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining ofThe Wizard of Oz. A woman can be great, and terrible too. Evelina Westerly has always been the bad guy. As the brains, brawn, and botanist behind her family's drug empire, she's her father's ruthless secret weapon. With her days divided between perfecting her greenhouse, seeking revenge for her sister's murder, and putting a gun...
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2016.
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In a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization—the Regional Office—and its coterie of super-powered female assassins protects the globe from annihilation. At its helm, the mysterious Oyemi and her oracles seek out new recruits and root out evil plots. Then a prophecy suggests that someone from inside might bring about its downfall. And now, the Regional Office is under attack. Recruited by a defector from within, Rose is a young...
88) The kept
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After her husband and four of her children are brutally murdered in the winter of 1897, midwife Elspeth Howell, along with her surviving son, twelve-year-old Caleb, takes on the frozen wilderness to find the men responsible for shattering their family.
91) Dead of night
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Doc Ford novels volume 12
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[2005]
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English
93) Without mercy
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 13
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English
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When detective superintendent Hannah Bernstein is murdered, grief-stricken intelligence operatives Sean Dillon, Blake, and Ferguson set out to catch the killer, unaware that their efforts will have a life-changing impact.
94) Silver canyon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Matt Brennon finds the old man as he lays dying near a spring, his body riddled with bullets. The old man leaves his ranch to Brennon, telling him never to sell, never to give up. For the first time in his life he really wants to kill, wants it so much his hands shake. Before the battle is over, Brennon gets the chance to do just that. Falsely accused of murder, he is forced to run from the law while harassing his enemies at the same time. When...
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2022.
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Suzuki is an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. To get answers and his revenge, Suzuki abandons his law-abiding lifestyle and takes a low-level job with a front company operated by the crime gang Maiden, who are responsible for his wife's death. Before long, Suzuki finds himself caught up in a network of quirky and highly effective assassins: The Cicada is a knife expert. The Pusher nudges people into oncoming traffic. The Whale whispers bleak...
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MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
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Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man and giant Pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasihuman species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. While their reluctant prophet, Jimmy--Crake's one-time friend--recovers from a debilitating...
97) Return to sender
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At seventeen, Rosalind Townsend finds herself pregnant and alone. Her father, deeply religious yet cruel, throws her out of the house. Nick Pemberton, her baby's father and the man she naively hoped to marry, rejects her. Yet even at the lowest point in her life, Rosalind vows to succeed on her own terms, and to give her son, Will, all the love and happiness she's been denied.
98) The rebel heir
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The Spare Heirs volume 2
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English
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"Lady Evangeline Green is living a lie. To please her family, she masquerades as the perfect debutant--until she meets the wickedly charming Lord Crosby. With him, there are no rules. She's finally free to do as she desires--but freedom comes with a price, and Lord Crosby is not what he seems"--Page 4 of cover.
99) Alibi: a novel
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From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes Joseph Kanon's riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice.
Winner of the Hammett Prize
It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when he falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish woman scarred
100) Hellfire Canyon
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[2007]
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English
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A federal trooper, bent on revenge, infiltrates a serial murderer's gang in Branson, Missouri, who has been terrorizing the local population, in hopes of killing the murderer.
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