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82) America's soul
Author
Series
Crave all, lose all novels volume 3
Crave all lose all novels volume 3
Love and a gangsta trilogy volume 3
Crave all lose all novels volume 3
Love and a gangsta trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Augustus Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Released from prison, Soul is still in love with his son's mother, America. He wants nothing more than for them to become a family and move on from his past. But America has become entangled in a rocky relationship with a new man, Kendall.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Lawyer and ex-convict Landon Reed, desperate to prove his worth, takes a high-profile murder case, but when his boss and other lawyers in the firm are murdered, Landon must find the killer before he become the next target.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ex-con Cody Bonner hits the streets of L.A. to find her twin sister Julie's killer. But is it a mission of justice, or a quest for vengeance?
Released from prison, Cody, the daughter of a famous movie star, returns to Los Angeles to solve her twin sister's murder--an investigation leading her to her mother's powerful agent and deeply enmeshing her in the life she left behind as a teenager.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Becoming Carmine Trentoni's hitman after emerging from prison, Wesley locates Pet and the two set up shop in Brooklyn, executing their assignments with finesse -- and occasionally, more explosives than are strictly called for. But Wesley isn't satisfied with his low-profile lot, and sets out to make a mark on the city that everyone will notice.
87) That night
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Toni Murphy was eighteen when she and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted of the murder of her younger sister. Now she is thirty-four and back in her hometown, working every day to forge and adjust to a new life on the outside. She's doing everything in her power to avoid violating her parole and going back to prison. But nothing is making that easy--not Ryan, who is convinced he can figure out the truth; not her mother, who clearly doubts...
Author
Series
Thunder Point novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
With its breathtaking vistas and down-to-earth people, Thunder Point is the perfect place for FBI agent Laine Carrington to recuperate from a gunshot wound and contemplate her future. The locals embraced Laine as one of their own after she risked her life to save a young girl from a dangerous cult. Knowing her wounds go beyond the physical, Laine hopes she'll fit in for a while and find her true self in a town that feels safe. She may even learn to...
90) Lady luck
Author
Series
Colorado mountain volume 3
Publisher
Forever / Hachette
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Determined to change her luck and her life, Lexie Barry, making good on a promise, picks up ex-convict Ty Walker from prison and, discovering that he was framed for a crime he didn't commit, tries to stop his plan for vengeance and help him become a better man.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known, and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two year-old Bobby Saraceno has passed for white his entire life. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has hidden the truth about his identity from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who has just returned home from prison a newly radicalized white supremacist. Bobby's disparate worlds crash...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For Henry and his 8-year-old son, Junior, days are measured in dollars and cents. Evicted from their trailer, they now call Henry's F-250 home. Today is Junior's birthday; tomorrow Henry has a job interview. To celebrate, they have a fast food dinner and spend the night at a cheap motel. But when Henry has a altercation in the parking lot and Junior falls ill with a fever, can they make it through to the day to come? -- adapted from back cover and...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Jillian Moorewood, the oldest child of a con man and an heiress, returns home after thirty-nine months in prison and discovers her scheming family ignored her go-legit-or-else ultimatum, and confronts them with demands to clean up their act while she attempts to get her own life in order.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Bestselling novelist Sara Medlar is skilled at sharing stories about other people, but she hoped the truth about her own family would never surface. Her home in Lachlan, Florida, is her refuge and she loves having her niece Kate and dear friend Jack Wyatt together under her roof. The Medlar Three, as they are known around town, have sworn off getting involved in any more murder investigations. When the sheriff unexpectedly leaves on vacation, Jack...
Author
Series
Devil's Rock novels volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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...
97) Life after life
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After spending most of their lives incarcerated, Harrison, Noel, and Chris are forced to reconcile their perception of themselves with a reality they are unprepared for. Each struggles to overcome personal demons and reconstruct their fractured lives. Grappling with day-to-day challenges and striving for success, they work to reconnect with family and provide for themselves for the first time in their adult lives.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, an imprint of Workman Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl -- a loner, dreamer, lover of music and words -- meets Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother in Austin, where Earl and Tina are quickly separated. Two days later, Earl is being questioned by the police about Tina's disappearance and the blood in the trunk of his car. But Earl can't remember what happened in Austin, and with little financial...
100) The good son
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the drug-fueled murder of his girlfriend, Belinda. Three years later, he's released to a world that refuses to let him move on. Belinda's mother, once Thea's good friend, galvanizes the community to rally against him to protest in her daughter's memory. The media paints Stefan as a symbol of white privilege and indifferent justice. Neighbors, employers, even some members of Thea's own family turn...
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