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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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US Marshals novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
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"A desperate murderer and a downed plane turn a routine prison transfer into a hunt through the rugged Pacific Northwest for US Marshals Madison James and Jonas Quinn"--
6) Dimiter
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As state security in 1970s Albania tortures a prisoner named Dimiter, known as the American "agent from hell," the staff at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital becomes enmeshed in a series of unexplainable deaths--until events explode in a surprising climax.
7) Whisper
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Whisper (Noni) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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A girl known as Jane Doe who has the power to change reality has been held in a secret government facility for more than two years, but everything changes when she gets a new handler, the mysterious but kind Landon Ward.
8) Skyhunter
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Skyhunter duology volume 1
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
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The Karensa Federation has conquered a dozen countries, leaving Mara as one of the last free nations in the world. Refugees flee to its borders to escape a fate worse than death, transformation into mutant war beasts known as Ghosts, creatures the Federation then sends to attack Mara. The legendary Strikers, Mara's elite fighting force, are trained to stop these monsters. But as the number of Ghosts grows and Karensa closes in, defeat seems inevitable....
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Darkest minds novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
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"Sixteen-year-old Ruby breaks out of a government-run 'rehabilitation camp' for teens who acquired dangerous powers after surviving a virus that wiped out most American children"--
10) Crazy house
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Crazy House volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row.
12) The iron king
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Iron fey. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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When her half-brother is kidnapped, Meghan Chase, who has recently learned that she is the daughter of the summer faery king, must journey into a strange world she never imagined to face an unknown enemy and save those she loves.
13) Upstate
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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In jail after being charged with his father's murder, seventeen-year-old Antonio finds his love with sixteen-year-old Natasha tested and engages in a ten-year correspondence with her from behind bars.
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As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
15) Exact revenge
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2005
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354 p. ; 24 cm.
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His career and reputation irrevocably derailed when he is framed and convicted for murder, attorney and political candidate Raymond White methodically plots his escape and revenge throughout the course of an eighteen-year imprisonment.
16) Throne of glass
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
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790L
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After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
17) The escape
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John Puller novels volume 3
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"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." --
18) Love, Jacaranda
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As a foster kid, Jacaranda has learned the hard way that the less she talks about her mother and why she's in jail, the better. But when a video of Jacaranda singing goes viral, a mysterious benefactor offers her a life-changing opportunity: a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school for performing arts, and she eagerly accepts. Pouring her heart out to her sponsor despite having never met them, Jackie (to her new friends) tries to navigate this...
19) Ash princess
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Ash princess novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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437 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Held captive by the brutal Kaiser since age six when she witnessed her mother's murder, Theodosia, called Ash Princess, is now sixteen and prepared to reclaim the throne by any means necessary.
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