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61) Better off dead
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"Jack Reacher is back in the brand-new, page-turning thriller from acclaimed #1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. Reacher isn't one to back down from a fight. And when a shadowy crew raises the stakes, he won't hesitate to teach them a lesson: When you pick a fight with Reacher, you're better off dead"--
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English
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After being released from prison, a young man whose life was destroyed after a liaison with an underage girl agrees to help a university sociologist with his research on homelessness and recidivism among six offenders and the two form an unlikely friendship, until events from the professor's past come to light and cause the young man to question everything he knows.
64) Halt's peril
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Series
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 9
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Tennyson, the false prophet of the Outsider cult, has escaped and Halt is determined to stop him before he crosses the border into Araluen, but Genovesan assassins put Will and Halt's extraordinary archery skills to the test.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Amateur sleuth Paula Holliday, owner of a small landscaping business, is shocked to learn her friend Caroline is really Monica Jane Weithorn, a prison escappe the media dubbed the Fugitive Mom years earlier, and she uncovers more secrets when Caroline's husband hires her to find out who turned his wife in to authorities.
66) Jack Maggs
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English
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Jack Maggs, a boy who was deported to Australia for thieving, returns to London in 1837 as a grown man and inveigles his way into a wealthy household where he becomes acquainted with an author who is fascinated by mesmerism and the criminal mind.
67) Get hard
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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A millionaire is pegged for fraud and sentanced to time in prison. He turns to a criminal friend to help prepare him to go.
68) Oliver!
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1968
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English
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A screen adaptation of Lionel Bart's stage musical, "Oliver!" the story of a young orphan who flees a life of workhouse servitude and arrives in London where he is swept up by the Artful Dodger and Fagin who run a crime school for boys.
69) Gangster
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001
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English
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Angelo Vestieri runs from his past and his father, and seeks out a second family--a family of criminals who preside over early-twentieth-century New York. His rise from soldier to boss leads him into betrayals, and to an abandoned boy who needs a parent as well as protection.
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Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Vlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish village where the locals fall under his spell. One woman, Fidelma McBride, becomes so enamored that she begs him for a child. All that world is shattered when Vlad is arrested, and his identity as a war criminal is revealed. Fidelma, disgraced, flees to England and seeks work among the other migrants displaced by wars and persecution. But it is not until she confronts...
71) Nim at sea
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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After her sea lion is kidnapped by a cruise ship and her new writer friend leaves without an explanation, Nim, a young girl who lives with her father and animal friends on a remote island, sets out to reunite her family and winds up in New York City.
72) The Devil's code
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English
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Kidd, an artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal, teams up with his sometime partner/sometime lover LuEllen to find out what really happened to Jack Morrison, a colleague who was supposedly killed by a jittery security guard while raiding a company's files.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories. Thirty years ago, a house was inhabited by a man and his young son. One day the man traveled to London, was recognized as a criminal, and shot himself. What ever happened to the boy?
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Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a new, electrifying stand-alone thriller set in Oslo in the 1970s: the story of an unusually complicated contract killer--the perfectly sympathetic antihero--that is, as well, an edgy, almost lyrical meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder. He works for Oslo's...
75) The power of Six
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Lorien legacies volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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John Smith--who is Number Four--teams up with Number Six and learns more about the fate of his home planet, Lorien, after it was attacked by the Mogadorians, and tries to reconcile the stress of knowing that the fates of Lorien and Earth are tied to his success.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados.
In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells her a cautionary tale of the one-armed sister, and what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. Now Lala lives on the beach with her husband,...
77) Jimmy the Kid
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English
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Taking cues from a pulp novel, Dortmunder arranges a kidnapping Kelp has a plan, and John Dortmunder knows that means trouble. His friend Kelp is a jinx, and his schemes, no matter how well intentioned, tend to spiral quickly out of control. But this one, Kelp swears, is airtight. He read it in a book. In county lock-up for a traffic charge, Kelp came across a library of trashy novels by an author named Richard Stark. The hero is a thief named...
78) Sleepless city
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Nick Ryan novel volume 1
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English
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"Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk about him at all. He doesn't wear a uniform, but he is the most powerful cop in New York. Nick Ryan can find a criminal who's vanished. Or he can make a key witness disappear. He has cars, safe houses, money, and weapons hidden all over the city. He's the mayor's private cop, the fixer, the first call when the men and women who protect and serve are in trouble...
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Holland family saga volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron's only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted...
80) The getaway
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Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1994
Language
English
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When master criminal Doc McCoy is forced to do time in a Mexican jail, his wife Carol visits a powerful crime boss in hopes of enlisting his assistance in an escape. Once free, Doc and Carol take off with the loot from a botched robbery and find themselves on the run from the law, an angry partner, and a hit squad.
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