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1) Hit and run
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For years now Keller's had places to go and people to kill.
But enough is enough. Just one more job-paid in advance-and he's going to retire. Waiting in Des Moines for the client's go-ahead, Keller's picking out stamps for his collection at a shop in Urbandale when somebody guns down the charismatic governor of Ohio. Back at his motel, Keller sees the killer's face broadcast on TV. A face he's seen quite often. Every morning. In the mirror.
Keller...
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Jane Whitefield, having given up her career of helping people who are in trouble disappear, agrees to take on one last case in order to help her husband's mentor, a famous plastic surgeon who is wanted for murder, and it is then that she discovers the Face-Changers, a group that is using her name and reputation to destroy lives.
3) At all costs
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Jake and Carolyn Brighton have been on the run for fourteen years when the FBI discovers that they are wanted for murdering their friends and causing an ecological disaster; Jake and Carolyn must decide whether to keep running from the law, or to turn themselves in for the sake of their son, Travis.
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"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 in vain. The mayor...
5) Unwind
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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Three teens embark upon a cross-country journey in order to escape from a society that salvages body parts from children ages thirteen to eighteen.
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"Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Now she is nearly eighteen and tired of living in secrecy. Under the name Melanie Denison, she has spent the last fifteen years in small-town West Virginia as part of the Witness Protection...
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Author Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller Sleeping Beauty, a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in his sister's case -- unaware that pieces of this complex puzzle of violence, unknown even to the author, are about to be revealed.
Six years earlier,
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When the family of a reluctant bank robber is victimized by a gangland assault, Benny Mongrel, an ex-con and night watchman, keeps quiet to avoid exposing his own troubled past but is drawn into the bank robber's backlash against a corrupt Afrikaner cop.
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A man flees to Mexico from West Texas after shooting a sheriff in a dispute over a horse and finds himself pursued by manhunters. Inspired by the story of Gregorio Cortez, a Mexican fugitive who was tracked for ten days and hundreds of miles before being captured in 1901.
10) Fay Grim
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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When the CIA asks Fay to travel to Paris to retrieve notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband, her mission turns into a sprawling con-game in a world of international espionage. Sequel to Henry Fool.
12) Wyoming outlaw
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Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Our heroes come to the aid of a modern-day Robin Hood, Will Parker, who's taking refuge in the mountains of Wyoming. Hotheaded Will is thrown in jail for violating the local game laws. Busting out, Parker scurries to the hills, hotly pursued by the Mesquiteers and the law. Running against time, the threesome try to capture the corrupt politician Balsinger who's responsible for the recession and save Will from the gun-happy policemen and townspeople....
13) A perfect world
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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In Texas, an escaped convict takes a young boy hostage and they form a bond, while being chased by a Texas Ranger, the FBI and local lawmen.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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She's left her dead husband -- and within forty-eight hours Tanya Dubois is a fugitive. It's almost impossible to live off the grid today, but Tanya-once-Amelia-now-Debra and Blue, a bartender, have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret ... can she outrun her past?
16) Halt's peril
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(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.
17) Lethal
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Honor Gillette discovers Lee Coburn, the man responsible for killing seven men the night before, lying in her front yard and is forced to comply with the armed stranger, who tells Honor that she and her daughter, Emily, are in danger due to something of great value that her late husband, a police officer, has hidden.
18) Perfect
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Since Celestine, eighteen, was declared a public menace, she has been on the run with Carrick, the one person she can trust, but she has a secret that may save all of those branded Flawed.
19) Torpedo juice
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The drinks are on Sunshine State historian/spree killer Serge A. Storms, who's decided it's high time he got married. So he's motoring down to the Florida Keys -- the ultimate end of the line -- in search of Ms. Right . . .and finding his doped-up basket case bud Coleman along the way. But for Serge, 'getting hitched' doesn't necessarily mean 'settling down' -- not when South Florida is crawling with slimeballs, swindlers, unrepentant jerks, and annoying...
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Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"An urgent bulletin from an all-too-believable near future where a smart young woman who questions the new world order is accused of being a terrorist -- an intense, unputdownable read by the author of The Girls Taking place over the course of 48 hours in 2024, This Little Light draws readers into a universe of born-again Christians and celebrity worship where abortion is once again illegal and both religion and surveillance run amok. Heroine Rory...
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