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21) Stand up and die
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Series
Language
English
Description
Each of the Jackals has his own path to follow: Former Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch is trying to protect a young Comanche from scalphunters. Retired cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan is dodging bullets in a prison breakout planned by the notorious Benteen brothers. And bounty hunter Jed Breen is bringing in one of the bank-robbing Kruger twins, while the other one's out for his blood. Three Jackals. Three roads to justice. But when their paths cross near...
22) Desperate girls
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Defense attorney Brynn Holloran is right at home among cops, criminals, and tough-as-nails prosecutors. With her sharp wit and pointed words, she has a tendency to intimidate, and she likes it that way. She's a force to be reckoned with in the courtroom, but in her personal life, she's a mess. When a vicious murderer she once helped prosecute resurfaces and starts a killing spree to wipeout those who put him behind bars, one thing becomes clear:...
23) Kingdom come
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"Like a murderous plague, a band of cutthroats and criminals, led by prison escapees from New Mexico, rages through West Texas. They're slaughtering everyone in their path: men, women and children. They struck at Saragosa. Now they've taken over the town of Boracho. The Dallas newspapers call them the Kingdom Come Gang. In Chugwater, Wyoming, Duff [MacCallister] calls them his enemy. Because one of their victims was family. Riding to Texas, Duff gathers...
25) Cold snap
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
After an early spring thaw on the Alaskan coast, Anchorage police discover a gruesome new piece of evidence in their search for a serial killer: a dismembered human foot. In Kincaid Park, a man is arrested for attacking a female jogger. Investigators believe they have finally captured the sadistic serial killer. But one deputy is sure they have the wrong man. In the remote northern town of Deadhorse, Alaska, Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter escorts...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At age 70, Forrest Tucker infamously made his escape from the tough San Quentin prison. Once he had gained his freedom, he embarked on a new set of heists that left investigators scratching their heads and the public fascinated by the story. This true story details Tucker's life which includes a detective wrapped up in the case, and a female who takes a liking to Tucker despite the criminal path he's on.
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Language
English
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Description
"Sandy Tremont has always tried to give her family everything. But as the sky darkens over the Adirondacks and the threat of a heavy snowfall looms, an escaped murderer with the power to take it all away draws close. In her isolated home in the shadowy woods, Sandy prepares dinner after a fight with her daughter, Ivy. Upstairs, the fifteen-year-old--smart, brave, and with every reason to be angry tonight--keeps her distance from her mother. Sandy's...
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Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
As both a prisoner and an undercover operative, US Marshal Hank Fallon has faced down some of the most vicious, terrifying, cold-blooded thieves and murderers in the West. Now, Hank is finally free and he's got no intention of setting foot inside a jail ever again. But the new federal prison being constructed in Leavenworth, Kansas, needs a warden and Hank is the right man for the job. But keeping these lawless hornets in their nest is no easy feat....
29) Life or death
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Language
English
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Description
"Why would a man serving a long prison sentence escape the day before he's due to be released? Audie was sentenced to ten years for a Texas robbery in which four people died, including two members of his own gang. Seven million dollars have never been recovered from the robbery, and everybody believes Audie knows where the money is. For a decade Audie has been beaten, stabbed, and threatened by inmates and guards, all desperate to know the secret....
30) Prudence
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Language
English
Description
"On a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family's rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier, headed for the darkened skies over Europe. Awaiting him at the Pines are those he's about to leave behind: his hovering, well-meaning mother; the distant father to whom he's been a continual disappointment; the Indian caretaker who is more of a father to him than his own; and Billy, the childhood...
31) Day of reckoning
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Language
English
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Description
"When Duff MacCallister is awakened by his neighbor's daughter, he knows that something is very wrong. But he isn't prepared for what he finds when he follows her home: smoldering buildings, a neighbor and his wife brutally slaughtered. This sixteen-year-old survivor could not save her parents. Now, Duff is going after the killers--and his only companions are his longtime 'special' friend and the headstrong girl who refuses to be left behind. Duff...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town--burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been...
33) Shooting iron
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English
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"One of the deadliest, crime-infested towns in Colorado Territory, Devil's Gulch needed more than a sheriff. They needed a gunslinger. So they pinned a badge on hardcase lawman John Holt. As the town's new sheriff, John Holt achieved the impossible: He drove the devil out of Devil's Gulch. Corrupt, cutthroat rancher Joe Mullen--who ruled the land with an iron fist--is finally behind bars, all thanks to Sheriff Holt. But the tables are turned when...
34) Outfoxed
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 14
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 25 cm.
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...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
xi, 243 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust-one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape"--
It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolph (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he knows he must escape. Even if death is more likely. Rudi has learned the terrible secret hidden...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
This Cowboy of Mine: Kirby Regan just quit her career in Washington, D.C., so she could move back to Wyoming and buy her family's ranch. But hiking the Tetons after dark during a snowstorm goes beyond being adventurous, especially when Kirby's boss warns her that an escaped convict is at large. Sheltering in a cave seems the safest option to ride out the blizzard--until Kirby realizes it's already occupied by a ruggedly handsome cowboy. Like the mustangs...
Author
Publisher
Vision
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First U.S. oversize mass market edition.
Physical Desc
670 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"When John Puller's older brother Robert inexplicably escapes from the military's most secure prison, where he's being held for national security crimes, Puller finds himself part of an investigation to hunt down his own brother. As he digs more deeply into the case, Puller discovers troubling details about his brother's conviction and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come out"-- author's web site.
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Series
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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Description
A dangerous criminal has escaped from prison and is headed in the direction of New Brighton, where teenager Hamid Abdi is babysitting his twin cousins, but he is not worried until the twins tell him that a man dressed as a clown has been coming into their bedroom--and when the electricity goes out Hamid is pulled into their living nightmare.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp, and one day, a Turkish officer approaches Jones with a...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Berkley hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the...