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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vowing to avenge the murder of her family, Maria, a young Polish resistance worker imprisoned in Auschwitz, plays chess in exchange for her life, and, in doing so, challenges the man who destroyed her family to one last game that will end in either failure or justice.
63) The sanctuary
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Serving time for murdering two abusive men, vigilante priest Danny Hansen must escape from prison after the woman he loves receives a threatening note and a box containing a bloody finger.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale inspired by the life of Lady Jane Gray's younger sister, Katherine, interweaves the tragic story of her imprisonment in the Tower of London with the fates of three other innocent political prisoners including Kate Plantagenet and boy princes Edward and Richard.
68) Black out
Author
Series
Lights novels volume 3
Publisher
G Street Chronicles
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Author
Series
Taboo novels volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Corrections officer Sierra Howell finds herself in a dangerous love triangle with her fiancé and a former Riker's Island inmate.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A terrible darkness has fallen upon Jacob Weisz's beloved Germany. The Nazi regime, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, has surged to power and now hold Germany by the throat. All non-Aryans, especially Jews like Jacob and his family, are treated like dogs. When tragedy strikes during one terrible night of violence, Jacob flees and joins rebel forces working to undermine the regime. But after a raid goes horribly wrong, Jacob finds himself in a...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
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,...
72) Immunity
Author
Series
Contagion duology volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Teens Thea, Coen, and Nova are rescued from a deadly planet, only to be taken prisoner on board a government ship and used as weapons in a sinister political plot.
73) Whisper
Author
Series
Whisper (Noni) volume 1
Publisher
KCP Loft
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A girl known as Jane Doe who has the power to change reality has been held in a secret government facility for more than two years, but everything changes when she gets a new handler, the mysterious but kind Landon Ward.
74) Desperate girls
Author
Series
Wolfe security volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Laura Griffin's Desperate Girls is a tightly wound, fast-paced thriller that examines intricate relationship dynamics in the wake of a killer's symbolic revenge spree"--
75) Outfoxed
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter spends as much time as he can working on his true passion, the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs. Lately, Andy has been especially involved in a county prison program where inmates help train dogs the Tara Foundation has rescued to make them more adoptable, benefiting both the dogs and the prisoners. One of the prisoners Andy has been working with is Brian Atkins, who has 18 months left on a 5-year...
76) Half bad
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
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.
78) Lightless
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A female engineer, Althea, fights for her life when her small spacecraft is invaded by two mysterious terrorists on a dark mission, one of whom is a revolutionary harboring deep secrets.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Visited by a high-powered attorney who has initiated a clemency petition on her behalf and who is also the mother of her victim, death-row inmate Noa is slowly persuaded to share the events surrounding the murder in spite of her reluctance to reveal the whole story or have her life extended.
80) Unstoppable
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In "Love With The Proper Stranger," FBI agent John Miller is on the trail of a notorious and seductive female serial killer; and in "Letters to Kelly," newly-freed prisoner Jax Winchester seeks to reclaim the girl he once loved.
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