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Author
Series
Darkest minds novels volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
488 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Sixteen-year-old Ruby breaks out of a government-run 'rehabilitation camp' for teens who acquired dangerous powers after surviving a virus that wiped out most American children"--
2) The escape
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When John Puller's older brother Robert inexplicably escapes from the military's most secure prison, where he's being held for national security crimes, Puller finds himself part of an investigation to hunt down his own brother. As he digs more deeply into the case, Puller discovers troubling details about his brother's conviction and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come out." --
3) The brethren
Author
Language
English
Description
A group of former judges who are serving time at a minimum security prison put together a mail scam that is earning them a large amount of money, but when they attempt to scam a powerful political official, they find their operation, and their lives, in danger.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Little Dorrit", originally serialized between 1855 and 1857, satirizes the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. This popular novel introduces a rich and memorable array of characters trying to navigate an often hostile capital symbolised by the Marshalsea gaol, where Dickens' own father had been imprisoned. This is a scathing social and political satire within a heart-warming story of love and devotion...Based on the world-famous...
Author
Series
Bride trilogy (Mary Jo Putney) volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having made his fortune in the China seas, Gavin Elliott is on his way to London to establish himself in society, but his plans take a detour when he risks his life to save an English widow, Alexandra Warren, who is being sold as a slave by pirates.
6) Escape
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling detective Billy Harney of The Black Book is chasing down a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist while a young girl's life hangs in the balance. As Chicago PD's special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the only valuable currency. The filthy rich man he's investigating is down to his last twenty million. He's also being held in jail. For now. Billy's unit is called in when an escape...
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Language
English
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"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 by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett...
8) Incarceron
Author
Series
Incarceron volume Book 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Incarceron, a vast intelligent city-prison sealed off from the outside world and hidden from everybody except the Warden, two young people, Cynthia, the Warden's daughter who is trying to esacape an arranged marriage, and Finn, a young prisoner who cannot remember his childhood, join forces to attempt to escape.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Earl Swagger novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
491 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Earl Swagger enlists help from his friends as he attempts to reclaim a small Mississippi town from a group of brutal, gun-toting, Klan-type thugs. A searing follow-up to the best-selling thriller Hot Springs.
Author
Language
English
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"There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men's maximum-security prison: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information. 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary's most notorious and dangerous inmates. And...
Author
Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A decade after the execution of Tsar Nicholas Romanov and his family, the Soviet state offers Pekkala, the Tsar's former right-hand man who is now a prisoner living a harsh existence, a chance to win his freedom in exchange for catching the Romanovs' killers and locating the royal child that is rumored to have survived the execution.
13) Throne of glass
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king's champion. Her name is Celaena Sardothien. The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will protect her. But something evil dwells in the castle of...
14) The skull mantra
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
403 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a headless corpse is discovered on a Tibetan mountainside, former police inspector Shan Tao Yun is released from prison with an ultimatum; solve the case or other prisoners will be punished, but when Shan Tao Yun discovers the political ramifications of the case, he encounters resistance from the police and government.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in Harlem, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them. Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet she sees him through a three-month stint at Riker's Island, their bond growing tighter. Kiki, now settled in the East Village after a youth that took her to...
Author
Series
Terra Ignota volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away. The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours...
17) Maximum security
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011, c2005
Physical Desc
302 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In order to contact his parent, an illegal weapons dealer, CHERUB comes up with a plan to break the son out of his maximum security prison, but the plan is complicated and will require all their collective skills. Cherub agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on mission to spy on terrorists nd international drug dealers. Cherub...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
" 'Homecoming' takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...
Author
Series
Clifton Chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Mightier than the Sword opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the MV Buckingham's maiden voyage across the Atlantic - but how many passengers lose their lives?
When Harry Clifton visits his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as the new president of English PEN, and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who's imprisoned in Siberia. Babakov's crime? Writing a book called Uncle...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 9
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Vince Paulo held his best friend's daughter, McKenna, bleeding in his arms as she uttered the name of her murderer and ex-boyfriend, Jamal. That was minutes before a blast made everything go black for Vince--forever. Now Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck has been called in to save Jamal from the death penalty.
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