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1) Oliver Twist
Author
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
"When a young orphan runs away to London, he falls in with a group of pickpockets and thieves. Oliver Twist (1838), is one of Charles Dickens' most highly regarded works, and is a pioneering work of social realism. An unvarnished portrayal of crime and poverty in Victorian England, this is an essential classic of literature" -- Page [4] cover.
2) Taken
Author
Language
English
Description
"Years after being abducted as a teenager and being forced to assist a crime family, Shannon contacts private investigator Matthew Dane for help, desperate for resolution to the mysteries and pain of her past and hoping for the freedom to begin a new life"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can't outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1390L
Language
English
Description
Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant...
Author
Series
Complete Ripley novels volume 4
Publisher
Lippincott & Crowell
Pub. Date
©1980
Edition
Norton ed.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely pair is drawn into the seamy underworld of Berlin and a shocking kidnapping."-- Back cover
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy Baker walks away from her high-flying legal career when she successfully defends yet another heinous criminal. Lucy is making future plans with her fianč, Jonathan St. Clair and getting acquainted with her neighbors, including the handsome, exasperating one next door, Wylie Wilson. But when FBI special agents confront Lucy with shocking revelations about her fiance's secret double life, everything about her husband-to-be is cast in suspicion....
Author
Series
Masterminds volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment, and they must find a way to prove it to the rest of the world." --
10) The Impossibly
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
When a hit man takes a sabbatical to focus on love, his bosses aren't happy in an award-winning debut novel that earns comparison to Paul Auster and Kafka. When the anonymous narrator botches an assignment from the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life becomes a participant in his punishment. In the end, he is called out of retirement for a final assignment: to seek and identify his own assassin.
12) Payback
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Fighting for survival after being separated into pairs in the aftermath of a betrayal, the Project Osiris clones search for notorious mob boss Gus Alabaster while tracking down Eli's elusive DNA donor alongside a surprising new ally.
13) Driven
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"A PERFECT PIECE OF NOIR FICTION" NEW YORK TIMES * NAMED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST & ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Drive is full of sly humor, poetic details and plenty of rude violence...The novel is a terrific ride." Los Angeles Times
I drive. That's what I do. All I do.
Originally written in 2005, Drive by James Sallis is the inspiration for the iconic 2011 film starring Ryan Gosling in the role of the man known only as 'Driver', a Hollywood...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina's bravery and cunning will keep her alive. Transformed by the horrors he witnessed from Omaha...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Terry Rand, cut free from his family after his older brother, Collie, went on a senseless killing spree, returns home to piece together the day his brother turned rabid, delving into a blood history that reveals the Rand family tree is rotten to the roots, and the secrets his ancestors buried are now coming furious and vengeful to the surface.
Author
Series
Baroque cycle volume 3
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 892 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tis done. The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend...
18) Powder burn
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"U.S. Deputy Marshal Will Tanner earned his badge the old-fashioned way. He shot the bad guys, saved the good guys, and won the fear and respect of everyone in between. That's how legends are born. But when he visits a friend at his ranch--and swaps lead with a trigger-happy horse thief--Will earns the wrath of the deadliest, lowlife killers west of the Mississippi. This is how legends die... Turns out the horse thief is a desperate ex-convict fresh...
Author
Series
Heartland memories volume 4
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
20) The killing shot
Author
Language
English
Description
Boggs is unparalleled in evoking the gritty reality of the Old West —The Shootist
Johnny D. Boggs is one of America's great Western writers—mixing adventure and realism with a torrid storytelling style all his own. In 1880's Arizona Territory, a good man goes bad—but for the best of all reasons. . .
He's Got One Chance To Live. . .And A Hundred Ways To Die
Deputy U.S. Marshal Reilly McGilvern is hauling criminals...
Johnny D. Boggs is one of America's great Western writers—mixing adventure and realism with a torrid storytelling style all his own. In 1880's Arizona Territory, a good man goes bad—but for the best of all reasons. . .
He's Got One Chance To Live. . .And A Hundred Ways To Die
Deputy U.S. Marshal Reilly McGilvern is hauling criminals...