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Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After serving six years for harboring a fugitive Marie is released and finds work as a live-in nanny for the daughter of her childhood best friend, Ellen, with whom she has a rocky, competitive relationship. Ellen is married to a French author, whose book Marie read repeatedly while in prison. Benoît and Marie kick off an affair and decide to run away to Paris together with Caitlin.
2) The broker
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
John Grisham, delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not...
4) Waist deep
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A recently paroled convict tries to turn his life around but is forced back to the streets after his son is kidnapped by a drug lord.
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Language
English
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"Ali Reynolds's personal life is in turmoil when two separate men show up on the scene-a serial killer and a former employee of her husband's who has just been released from a sixteen-year prison sentence for murdering his girlfriend. With lives hanging in the balance, Ali must thread the needle between good and evil in this heart-pounding and sharply written thriller from J.A. Jance, the "grand master of the genre" (The Providence Journal)"--
8) Smoke screen
Author
Language
English
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A gripping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock. One father was murdered, and another convicted of his death. All because their children fell in love.
11) Faster
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A veteran cop and an egocentric hit man, are on the trail of an ex-con who is determined to avenge the death of his brother that occurred during a bank robbery years ago.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
You're Not Looking for a Job, You're Looking for a Person, this is the central theme from Get Beyond Your Troubled Past, a book that shows the background challenged person how to get the right job and build a future. Have you been in prison, rehab, or an abusive relationship? This unique step-by-step guide will walk you through the process of getting back into the workforce. The Modern Job Search is not for the person with a troubled past. Social...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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 drafty...
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Language
English
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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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A story of brotherhood, true love, family, and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe is the tale of an adolescent boy on the cusp of discovering the man he will be. Powerful and kinetic, Trent Dalton's debut is sure to be one of the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novels you will experience.
16) Gathering dark
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A convicted killer. A gifted thief. A vicious ganglord. A disillusioned cop. Together they're a missing girl's only hope. Dr. Blair Harbour, once a wealthy, respected pediatric surgeon, is now an ex-con down on her luck. She's determined to keep her nose clean and win back custody of her son. But when her former cellmate begs for help to find her missing daughter, Blair is compelled to put her new-found freedom on the line. Detective Jessica Sanchez...
19) The last juror
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A convicted rapist and murderer returns to Ford County, Mississippi, seeking revenge on the jurors who dared convict him.
20) Rust & stardust
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
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 Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he's an FBI agent who can have her arrested in a minute, unless she does as he says. This chilling novel traces the next two harrowing years as Frank mentally and physically...
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