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"Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who's never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared...
82) Those Calloways
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Presents a story about a man whose private dream of establishing a bird sanctuary interferes with commercial development of a hunting resort. Shows the conflict that arises when he takes the law into his own hands. Designed to motivate students to assess their own feelings of responsibility to the environment and to other people.
83) Into the fire
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2020.
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English
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"Former assassin Evan Smoak is using his deadly skills to assist Max Merriweather, a guy down on his luck, whose cousin's murder has brought him to the attention of an Armenian street gang involved in a money-laundering scheme. It seems like an easy enough task for the Nowhere Man, but as soon as he eliminates one threat, a more powerful one appears, and getting to the top of the pyramid requires courage, wit, creativity, and a lot of specialty weapons....
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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It is 1885, and a crippling drought threatens to ruin the McBride family. Their land is parched, their cattle starving. When the rain finally comes, it is a miracle that renews their hope for survival. But returning home from an afternoon swimming at a remote waterhole filled by the downpour, fourteen-year-old Tommy and sixteen-year-old Billy meet with a shocking tragedy.
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Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Abby Hamilton's older brother moonlights as a superhero, but she has no interest in following in his footsteps--until a "supervillain" called Iron Phantom saves her life and warns her that not everyone in the "hero" world is who they seem to be. Now, Abby's the one who'll need to leap into action and save the day.
86) Super
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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"When sad-sack loser Frank, a short-order cook, sees his ex-addict wife willingly snatched away by a seductive drug dealer, he finds himself bereft and unable to cope. But he decides to fight back under the guise of a do-it-yourself superhero called Crimson Bolt. With a red handmade suit, a wrench, a crazed sidekick named Boltie, and absolutely nothing in the way of superpowers, Crimson Bolt beats his way through the mean streets of crime in hopes...
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Nexus archives volume 3
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Tortured by the dreams of the misdeeds of his next targets, Horatio Hellpop, a.k.a. Nexus, undergoes a radical treatment to have an implant placed in his brain to block the dreams, but the cure may prove to be worse than the disease.
88) Death wish
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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When his wife and daughter are violently attacked, Dr. Paul Kersey hunts down his family's assailants to deliver justice. Fury and fate collide in this intense action-thriller.
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"With Pop possessed and wreaking havoc as Bee Pop, Koichi must push his Quirk to the limits to try to save her. The pressure is on, because if Pop won't fulfill the duplicitous Number 6's plans, this evil villain is more than willing to sacrifice her. The chaos downtown has also drawn the attention of Endeavor, the fiery number two hero, and his scorched-earth methods of dealing with trouble make no distinction between villain and vigilante!"--Back...
91) Amor y furia
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Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
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Es el día de San Valentín del año 1976 y el pueblo de Odessa, Texas, está en la cúspide de un boom petrolero. En medio del campo petrolífero, pocos minutos antes del amanecer, Glory Ramírez, de catorce años, logra sacar fuerzas para escapar de su agresor. Atraviesa el campo entre alambres de púas, restos de tuberías rotas y matojos de mezquite hasta llegar a la puerta de Mary Rose Whitehead, cuya vida se ve irremediablemente trastocada no...
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The nightmare in Naruhata continues as Koichi goes toe-to-toe with Number 6, who has transformed into a horrific predator bent on ending the Crawler's life! When the situation gets a little too hot to handle, Koichi realizes this may be a job for real heroes. Until they arrive, though, the battle is up to him--with an assist from Knuckleduster! But the evil looming behind Number 6 is still spurring on the vengeful villain, who has yet to unleash...
93) Rock bottom
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"Isabelle "Izzy" Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project--a café that will be the cornerstone of a market village. Izzy knows just where to get the project off the ground: her old college classmate, Zoe Danfield, now vice president of a huge construction corporation. But buildings and bridges have been collapsing all over the world, causing hundreds of deaths, and Zoe suspects her firm's inferior foundation materials are the cause. Zoe...
94) Indigo
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she's become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become a murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos. Children are being murdered in New York, and Nora is determined to make it stop, even if that...
95) The brave one
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
New York City radio host Erica Bain is working and living a wonderful life. One night she and her fiancé, David, are brutally attacked. David is killed and Erica is almost beaten to death. Erica is traumatized and in order to cope and work past the tragic event, Erica becomes someone else. She buys a gun and begins to roam the streets at night looking to take her revenge on the men who were responsible for the attack. Late one night, Erica is in...
99) NYPD red 2
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price.
100) The kill clause
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Series
Tim Rackley novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Seeking justice after his daughter's murderer is released on a technicality, U.S. deputy marshal Tim Rackley encounters a group of streetwise vigilantes who have had similar experiences and who tempt Rackley to compromise his personal ethics.
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