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The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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[2014]
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1 DVD-video (approximately 125 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
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Tobey Marshall, a mechanic who moonlights as an underground race-car driver, strives to take the top prize in America's most prominent street race in order to have his revenge against the ambitious ex-NASCAR champ who had him framed and sent to prison.
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Rogues and remarkable women volume 1
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"When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune-and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child-until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. Especially when Patience discovers his...
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[2021]
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xv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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This "anthology of poetry and personal stories [centers on] the voices of those directly impacted by the incarceration of young people in the United States. Compiled by Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, [the] collection includes first-hand accounts from both the young people charged and incarcerated in the adult criminal legal system and from the community at large: the mothers, the loved ones, the correctional staff, public defenders, prosecutors,...
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"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--
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The novel "Little Dorrit", published originally between 1855 and 1857, is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtor's prisons-in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned. Most of Dickens'...
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"New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Lisa Scottoline revolutionized crime fiction when she introduced her all-female law firm of Rosato & Associates, thrilling readers with her twisty, fast-paced plots and capturing their hearts with her cast of strong yet totally relatable female characters. Fans have been clamoring for more stories with the characters they've come to know and love, so Bennie Rosato, Mary DiNunzio, Judy Carrier,...
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2020.
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287 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"Lieutenant Ed Preston is returning to his cavalry fort after being on leave when he is mistaken for a bank robber. He is arrested, placed on trial and sent to prison to serve years of hard labor for a crime he did not commit..."--Back cover.
11) Contempt
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2020
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202 pages ; 23 cm
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After spending five years in jail for a murder he didn't commit, lawyer Thane Banning takes a case to defend a former inmate from the same DA who put him behind bars. The last time he played by the rules, he landed on death row. This time he's staking it all--his marriage, his reputation, and even his life-on the outcome of the impending case.
12) Lockout
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2012
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
14) Imprisoned
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[2020]
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Dylan Burke attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal, with his true love, Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him when he learns the new local prison warden has not forgiven him for an old crime.
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"After spending five years in a New York state reformatory serving an unjust sentence, all Hazel wants to do is secure a job so she can begin clearing her name. Assisting dentist Gilbert Watts offers her that chance-and more. But can her hopes for the future ever expunge the shame of her past?"--
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In Dee Henderson's "Betrayed," Janelle Roberts is free after serving six years of a twenty-year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. But a murderer is still at large. In Dani Pettrey's "Deadly Isle," Tennyson Kent is trapped by a storm surge on the isolated island of her childhood, and is shocked when the idyllic community becomes the hunting ground of a murderer. In Lynette Easons's "Code of Ethics," Detective Isaac Martinez survives a gunshot...
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[2019]
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Sam 'Shooter' Green is a legendary outlaw, whose notorious reputation far exceeds his actual deeds. He never set out to be an outlaw but is caught up in a stagecoach heist that ends in a fatal shooting. Framed for murder, Sam sees no other choice but to take off with the stolen money, but Virgil Earp tracks him, shoots him and brings him to justice. Thirty years later, he has one thing on his mind: To break out and meet the daughter he never knew....
18) Life after death
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c2012
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399 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
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A West Memphis Three member's account of his eighteen-year death row incarceration discusses the justice system flaws that led to his conviction, the abuses he suffered in prison, and the trio's vindication in 2011.
19) Gasoline alley
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[2022]
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jimmy Jayne, a reformed ex-con, is the prime suspect who will stop at nothing to prove his innocence. Homicide detectives Freeman and Vargas are close on his tail as Jimmy takes on his own investigation risking his life in the dark underbelly of Los Angeles.
20) Incarceron
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2010
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
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442 p. ; 22 cm.
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To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
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