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"After spending five years in a New York state reformatory serving an unjust sentence, all Hazel wants to do is secure a job so she can begin clearing her name. Assisting dentist Gilbert Watts offers her that chance-and more. But can her hopes for the future ever expunge the shame of her past?"--
82) Blood ties
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2014
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1 videodisc (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Brooklyn, 1970--Chris is released from prison. Reluctantly waiting for him on the outside is his younger brother Frank, a cop with an aspiring future. After trying to stay on the straight path without any success, Chris inevitably descends back into a life of crime and puts Frank in a tough predicament. Does he cover for his brother and salvage the only family he has? Or does he do the right thing and risk destroying everything, and everyone, he...
83) To win her heart
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Having served his sentence for the unintentional crime that derailed all his youthful plans, Levi Grant is starting over in Spencer, Texas. They need a blacksmith, a trade he learned at his father's knee. He needs a place where no one knows him. But small towns have no secrets...Eden Spencer has sworn off men to devote her time to her lending library. When a mountain-sized stranger asks to borrow a book, Eden steels herself against the attraction...
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2022.
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307 pages ; 22 cm
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"From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters--Freddie Montgomery from The Book of Evidence--as he is released from prison. A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sportscar--also borrowed--onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the...
85) Sundance
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A gripping historical novel of love and vengeance starring Harry Longbaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid. Legend has it that bank robber Harry Longbaugh and his partner Robert Parker were killed in a shootout in Bolivia. That was the supposed end of the Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy. "Sundance" tells a different story. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Longbaugh is very much alive, though serving in a Wyoming prison under an alias. When...
86) The chance
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Thunder Point novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2014
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"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...
87) Overkill
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2022.
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"Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn't seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for years--not since their volatile marriage imploded--so he's shocked to receive a life-altering call about her. Rebecca has been placed on life support after a violent assault, and he--despite their divorce--has medical power-of-attorney. Zach is asked to make an impossible choice: keep her on life support or take her off of it. Buckling under the weight of the...
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2021.
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282 pages ; 23 cm
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Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies during a long, dangerous career with the infamous Dirty Dozen. They were the most storied crew of criminals in the galaxy-- until their untimely and gruesome demise. Decades later, Maya and her team of broken outlaws must get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission, and to rescue a missing comrade. The highly evolved AI of the galaxy have their own agenda....
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Neog volume 2
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Zuma's Ghost has won the Boarding Games for the second straight year. The crew has come together to form an unstoppable team. But now their commander and Master Chief are both retiring. Which means Jenks is getting promoted, a new commander is joining them, and a fresh-faced spacer is arriving to shake up their perfect dynamics. Spacer Chae Ho-ki is working NeoG service after a plea deal commutes his ore-mining sentence. Both the crew and Chae are...
91) The best revenge
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Alan Gregory novels volume 11
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Convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, Tom Clone spends thirteen years in prison until new evidence reveals his innocence, and psychologist Alan Gregory is called in to ease his return to life beyond prison.
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2014
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1 videodisc (approximately 116 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Russell Baz leads a dead-end life- he works a meaningless steel mill job all day, and cares for his terminally ill father at night. When Russell's brother Rodney returns home from Iraq, he is lured into one of the Northeast's most ruthless crime rings and mysteriously disappears. When the police fail to solve the case, Russell puts his life at risk in order to seek justice for his brother.
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2022.
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After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter's life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn't closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the...
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Plain Heathen Mischief ups the existential ante, as Joel King, a defrocked Baptist minister, finds life even more bedeviling once he's served six months for a career-ending crime he might not even have committed. Now his incommunicado wife wants a divorce, the teenage vixen of his disgrace is suing him for a cool $5 million, a fresh start in Montana offers no hope for ex-cons of any religious persuasion, and the refuge provided by his sister turns...
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[2022]
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle as they find themselves drawn back to Boston. Struggling to overcome their violent upbringing, their fierce love for each other keeps them in the fight.
96) Adopt a highway
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2019.
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could...
97) Hole in my life
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The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.
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Give-a-Damn Jones, an itinerant typographer, arrives in the small Montana town of Box Elder. The town is rife with tensions related to a convict's efforts to prove his innocence, a cattleman's demand for respect, a snooping editor, and a feud between a dentist and a blacksmith. Jones keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time-- but this time, he may be the hero that this town needs.
99) The exonerated
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[2006]
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The undeniable power of the true stories of six exonerated survivors of death row will engage your emotion, incite your passion, and envelope you in their search for the lost pieces of dignity and the lives that were interrupted. The Exonerated began its journey over the summer of 2000, when authors Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen traveled across the United States, interviewing 40 of the (then) 89 former death row prisoners. They went as far south as...
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Based on the experiences of real-life kidnapping victim Sally Horner and her captor, whose story shocked the nation and inspired Vladimir Nabokov to write his controversial and iconic Lolita, Rust & Stardust is a heart-pounding audiobook by award-winning author T. Greenwood, who at last gives a voice to Sally herself.
Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that 52 year-old...
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